Flight of the Conchords

This is one of the funniest shows on television right now.  If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend dropping whatever you're doing and pulling up an episode on HBO On Demand.  If you don't have HBO, then I highly recommend you call your cable company, purchase an HBO/Showtime package, along with Digital Cable and then enjoy an episode On Demand.  If you don't have cable, or some cable analogue, then I highly recommend that you continue to enjoy your Barney Miller reruns and your 8-track players, and skip on to the next post.

Here's the premise.  A pair of New Zealand musicians, the only members of a "band" called Flight of the Conchords, come to America and try and make it big.  And it's likely they never will.  Their manager works for the New Zealand Consulate, and conducts band meetings in his office, on company time.  Bret and Jermaine, our two Kiwi musicians, are dull, a bit slow, and not terribly funny.  They're not very good musicians either.  But the magic happens because these two characters are played by Bret and Jermaine, members of a band called Flight of the Conchords; two very intelligent, funny comedians, who write viciously funny music...and play it well.  It's trodding in the territory blazed by "Seinfeld"...a show about nothing.  With musical interludes interspersed throughout.

It's dry comedy at its best.  And unless you still have posters of Abe Vigoda hanging in your rumpus room, you'll probably enjoy it.