In 2012 he starred in the New Zealand black comedy Two Little Boys and then in 2013 he was cast in Jerusha Hess’s romantic comedy Austenland.
Most notably The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), the former of which won him an Academy Award for “Best Original Song” for the power ballad “Man or Muppet”. More recently, he joined the cast of The BFG, the Steven Spielberg adaptation of the Roald Dahl book, as the giant named Fleshlumpeater.īret has also been hard at work writing and acting for various television and film projects. Jemaine also wrote, produced and starred in a variety of projects including the acclaimed Vampire comedy film, What We Do In the Shadows, and People Places Things. He was cast as “Boris The Animal” in Men in Black 3 (2012). Jemaine lent his voice to the character Nigel the cockatoo in the Rio films (20). The Conchords would also see major success individually. This, along with the praise for the subsequent album releases (on Sub Pop Records) and the duo’s live show, was the comedic hat trick that catapulted Flight of the Conchords to international sensations. Over the next four years they made a TV pilot, a sitcom, released an EP ( The Distant Future) and a full length album (self-titled LP), toured North America, made a sandwich, filmed a second season of the sitcom, toured North America again, released a second album ( I Told You I Was Freaky), and went back to New Zealand.
The HBO executives liked their act and asked them to film a half hour performance for a stand-up comedy show called One Night Stand. Against tradition they left New Zealand’s summer to go to the northern hemisphere’s winter and were shocked by the snow when they stepped off the plane in t-shirts and jandles. In 2005, Bret and Jemaine received an invitation to perform at the Aspen Comedy Festival, in Colorado, USA. Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy-winning musical comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement.
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