Flight of the Conchords

A Sweet Roller-Skating Jam from Flight of the Conchords

There Goes the Neighborhood

Live: Fujiya & Miyagi School of Seven Bells at LPR

Fujiya & Miyagi/School of Seven Bells Le Poisson Rouge Tuesday, February 17 I swear I got this bizarre neural disorder where everything I hear lately sounds like Flight of the Conchords. Hot Chip... those Lonely Island boys... and now Fujiya & Miyagi, the English dudes with the Japanese name doi ... More >>

Flight of the Concords: Total Stud Muffins, Apparently

Chicks evidently love clueless, deadpan, schlubby guys. Which is good news for us all.

Strike the ’CHORDS

A funny flight without Bret and Jemaine

CLASS CLOWN

It’s Arj Barker’s show—no nerds allowed

INSIDE JOKE

A comedy festival that can laugh at itself

BIGGEST LOSER

Kevin Allison finds failure is funny

SURE SHOT

No one’s safe when Todd Barry’s on stage

Spring Guide: With Fantasies, Metric Learn A New System

No one’s safe when Todd Barry’s on stage

Eagle vs. Shark

No one’s safe when Todd Barry’s on stage

Saturday 05/03

No one’s safe when Todd Barry’s on stage

Wednesday 05/07

No one’s safe when Todd Barry’s on stage

QUIRK-A-RAMA

The Believer hosts a night of oddballs

FUNNY BUSINESS

Three days of the best sketch comedy

POP QUIZ

Are you a true Mirmaniac?

MR. WONDERFUL

Hang out with John Wesley Harding and his talented pals

FLIGHT OF THE SUGALUMPS

The Kings of New Zealand come back for round two

Live: Let's Go Yell Dopey Shit at Flight of the Conchords

Flight of the Conchords Radio City Music Hall Wednesday, April 15 Let us revel in these times, wherein two goofy-looking New Zealand dudes can sell out Radio City and take the stage in chintzy robot costumes to perform the song "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor," which ends prematurely when Bret ... More >>

Week in Review: Music About Being Young from the Perspective of People Who Are Middle-Aged

In the week we talked Charlie Gibson into saying our name, twice, we apparently made fun of the Hold Steady for being middle-aged, although that wasn't really exactly what we meant to say. Right wingers still really hate Janeane Garofalo, huh? Other interviews: Smog's Bill Callahan on his new Somet ... More >>

Emmy Nominees Include The Family Guy, Ernest Borgnine; Jon & Kate Snubbed

Emmy-nominated The Family Guy featuring Emmy-nominated Seth MacFarlane. For us the joy of the Emmy Nominations, announced this morning, is in the less-well-known categories. We see that there are only two shows, for instance, up for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction Program: Grandpa, Do You Know ... More >>

EASTERN BLOCK

It's cartoon-party time in Brooklyn

Today in Das Racist News: A Two-Minute Video Wherein They Pretend to Rap for Time Out New York

Listen, I'm mildly obsessed with these guys, I have a blog, this is what happens. So enjoy 1:50 of our heroes trying and failing to start rapping while The Warriors screens in the background. Shades of Flight of the Conchords, a prior obsession, so some nice symmetry here. After the jump, they exp ... More >>

STAND-UP COMEDIANS

Jokes for a good cause

Interview: Eugene Mirman on Asperger's Syndrome, Advice from Former Teachers, and the Mirman Weirdos

Comedian Eugene Mirman makes even the most productive person look unproductive. In the last several months, he's released his first self-help book The Will To Whatevs, reprised his role as "Eugene" during the second season of HBO's Flight of the Conchords, organized and hosted the second annual Eu ... More >>

Jared Hess Channels Adolescence, Poo Jokes, for Gentlemen Broncos

Comedian Eugene Mirman makes even the most productive person look unproductive. In the last several months, he's released his first self-help book The Will To Whatevs, reprised his role as "Eugene" during the second season of HBO's Flight of the Conchords, organized and hosted the second annual Eu ... More >>

Pirate Radio Gets a Tame U.S. Release, but We Still Love Rock 'n' Roll

Comedian Eugene Mirman makes even the most productive person look unproductive. In the last several months, he's released his first self-help book The Will To Whatevs, reprised his role as "Eugene" during the second season of HBO's Flight of the Conchords, organized and hosted the second annual Eu ... More >>

Eating With Kristen Schaal: Oyster Shooters, Monkey Brains, and the Tyranny of Onions

Lisa Whiteman/The Morning News​ Actress, writer, and comedienne Kristen Schaal is best known for her role as Mel, Flight of the Conchords's backpack-wearing, one-woman fan club. She's also played a switchboard operator on Mad Men, made numerous appearances as the Daily Show's Senior Women's I ... More >>

MOVE OVER, AMY POEHLER

Aziz Ansari is done playing second fiddle

Q&A: Aziz Ansari (Parks and Recreation), Trying Not to Be a Douche

​ Aziz Ansari is on his morning commute through the Hollywood Hills to his real serious day job -- NBC's Parks and Recreation, with Amy Poehler -- and is willing to be a trooper and get through this interview despite L.A. traffic and bad cell phone reception. You see, the in-demand comedian h ... More >>

Hot Chip And Free Energy Are Doing A Free Show At Highline Ballroom Friday Night

​Courtesy of MySpace, but of course. Free Energy are SOTC-approved party-starters ("The most fun I'll see a room have all week," Zach once averred, and that was CMJ week, and Hot Chip's imminent One Night Stand is reliably excellent "Flight of the Conchords but (kind of) serious" electro-pop. ... More >>

Kings of Convenience

​Courtesy of MySpace, but of course. Free Energy are SOTC-approved party-starters ("The most fun I'll see a room have all week," Zach once averred, and that was CMJ week, and Hot Chip's imminent One Night Stand is reliably excellent "Flight of the Conchords but (kind of) serious" electro-pop. ... More >>

BROOKLYN RULES

Help make this summer awesome

Eugene Mirman on Beef Navels, the Brooklyn Food Scene, and Babies in Bars

Eugene Mirman, with friend.​Eugene Mirman is a very funny man--so funny that this very publication dubbed him New York's best stand-up comedian in 2009. You've probably seen him on Flight of the Conchords or at Union Hall, where he hosts Tearing the Veil of Maya with Michael Showalter. Last ye ... More >>

Take Donald Glover, Aziz Ansari, and Das Racist's Joke Rap Seriously

A new generation of MCs grapple with how funny they're allowed to be

A-W-E-S-O-M-E

Dave Eggers takes the spelling-bee challenge

CUTIE PIE

Kristen Schaal makes us laugh

Todd Barry to Host First Annual Village Voice Web Awards

via @ToddBarry​We're super-psyched to announce that funnyman Todd Barry, who's appeared on Bored to Death, Flight of the Conchords, Letterman, Conan, Jimmy Kimmel, and a multitude of other impressive small and large screen vehicles (he was Wayne in The Wrestler!) is taking time from his busy s ... More >>

Live: Hall & Oates Do The Hits (And A Few Christmas Songs!) At Beacon Theatre

Gas up the yacht. Pics by Rob, more below.​Hall & Oates Beacon Theatre Sunday, December 5 Better Than: That part in (500) Days of Summer. Yeah, that's right. Chortle all you want, but this show started with "Maneater" (featuring a lengthy sax solo from an older, bespectacled gentleman in a p ... More >>

Warpaint Wallow Exuberantly

Plus: Hall & Oates do the hits and redeem 'Jingle Bell Rock'

List: Five Key Songs For Tonight's Flight Of The Conchords Sing-Along At Bell House

​If you desire relentlessly goofy, profoundly surreal live entertainment this fine Wednesday evening, might I suggest you follow your nose to the banks of the Gowanus Canal and avail yourself of, yes, the Bell House's Flight of the Conchords Sing-Along, which will focus on season one (no "Caro ... More >>

KNOCK OUT

The Gorgeous Ladies of Comedy want you

TO JAPAN, WITH LOVE

An all-Brooklyn benefit for disaster relief

A LAUGHING MATTER

Eugene Mirman has the formula for fun

Mahnahmahmeh: Muppets Reboot Can't Quite Get Its Act Together

Eugene Mirman has the formula for fun

Oddsmaking: Will Louis C.K. Or Lonely Island Overtake "Weird Al" And Win Best Comedy Album?

​Throughout the award's history, Grammy voters have tended to bestow Best Comedy Album upon trusted favorites: Bill Cosby closed out the 1960s with six straight victories; Richard Pryor took home three trophies in the '70s and two more in the '80s; and Peter Schickele opened the '90s with four ... More >>