{"id":76972,"date":"2026-04-09T11:29:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/09\/new-zealand-comedy-flight-conchords-reunion-sells-out"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:29:33","slug":"hit-new-zealand-comedy-duo-flight-of-the-conchords-reunion-gigs-sell-out-in-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76972","title":{"rendered":"Hit New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords reunion gigs sell out in minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement announce four shows at Wellington venue Meow Nui from next week \u2013 their first gigs since 2018<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s self-described \u201cfourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo-a cappella-rap-funk-comedy-folk duo\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/flight-of-the-conchords\">Flight of the Conchords<\/a> sold out their first shows in eight years in minutes this week, sparking a frenzy among fans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2022\/aug\/20\/bret-mckenzie-flight-of-the-conchords-interview-songs-without-jokes\">Bret McKenzie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2021\/aug\/21\/were-beating-this-together-jemaine-clement-on-covid-and-his-friend-taika-waititi\">Jemaine Clement<\/a> formed the musical comedy act in 1998, soaring to worldwide fame off the back of their HBO comedy series of the same name with tunes including Business Time and Hiphopopotamus vs Rhymenoceros.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/09\/new-zealand-comedy-flight-conchords-reunion-sells-out\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement announce four shows at Wellington venue Meow Nui from next week \u2013 their first gigs since 2018New Zealand\u2019s self-described \u201cfourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo-a cappella-rap-funk-comedy-folk duo\u201d Flight of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1802,71,3525,1636,238,425,509,56,520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-comedy","category-culture","category-flight-of-the-conchords","category-folk-music","category-media","category-music","category-netflix","category-new-zealand","category-television"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76973,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76972\/revisions\/76973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}