Thursday night, Flight of the Conchords taught a sellout crowd at Cahn Auditorium how to tell it's business time, where and when to Rhyme-nocerous and how to woo a girl who's so pretty she could be "a part-time model."
The New Zealand folk-rock comedy band headlined this year's A&O Winter Speaker event, their first time preforming at a college. It also included NU sketch comedy group Mee-Ow, and NU alum and Flight of the Conchords star Kristen Schaal, Communication '00.
Mee-Ow opened the show with a sketch lampooning diversity - and the perils of stereotypes - and three improv games that included "The World's Worst Facebook Message."
Schaal, who plays Mel on the Conchords' HBO show, then took the stage and used her memories of NU to connect with the audience.
"If you go to a school as exceptional as NU, it's impossible to have a bad day," Schaal joked.
If you get run over by a car, "at least you can lay out on this prestigious campus," she said.
A performer in Mee-Ow and Griffin's Tale during her time at NU, Schaal described how the only sketch of hers to make it into a Mee-Ow show was "Cartwheels and Somersaults," while she and Flight of the Conchords duo Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement struggled to cartwheel and somersault across the stage.
She shared two plays she said were shaped by her time as a performance studies major at NU; "Anne Boelyn on Fire," where she wore a cape and assumed a faux-English accent, and "Lonely Fire," where she lamented over a lost love.
When the New Zealand folk-rock band then took the stage, MacKenzie and Clement balked at being called a comedy "duo."
"You have a one-man band - what happened at two?" Clement said. "We're a band, so I'm just going to introduce you to a band."
Between their songs, McKenzie and Clement "meandered" and touched upon a variety of obscure subjects, including the benefits of "imagining" children above adopting.
Clement announced that the Conchords were in the process of writing material for the second season of their HBO series and gave a preview of their newest song, "Told You I was Freaky."
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Baked McRonald
posted 3/07/08 @ 11:36 AM CST
Maybe A&O should make it so actual fans of the show can get tickets if they wait for three hours in the cold?
Maybe it's not the best idea to let students get four tickets per wildcard? Its great that Weinberg Sophomore is now interested in watching the show on HBO, but it is unfortunate that many people who already watch the show got cut out of getting tickets. (Continued…)
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