BRET'S AN OSCAR WINNER!!!

[size=150:2b9nwjl2]Awards Soup: 10 Moments to Remember From a Long Season
By Steve Pond at TheWrap
Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:14pm EST

[...]

10. "
Man or Muppet"


The Best Original Song category is a conundrum. It's saddled with restrictive rules that are completely biased against even the best end-credits songs, and dependent on a scoring system and a body of voters so picky that only two songs made the cut this year. And when the Oscar show's producers made the decision not to perform those two songs on the show, I had to wonder if the category is even worth retaining.

And yet in the last 20 years, the song category has been responsible for Oscars going to Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Eminem, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Ryan Bingham – a roll call of smart choices and great songs.

This year, voters had the choice between a Latin music legend, Sergio Mendes, and half of the New Zealand music/comedy duo (and HBO series) the Flight of the Conchords – and they chose Bret McKenzie, the Conchord, for a song from "
The Muppets"
that was, for my money, the best and funniest musical moment in a film last year.

When I spoke to McKenzie on the red carpet, I asked him if winning an Oscar would completely mess up the Flight of the Conchords' lovable-loser persona – and immediately, he and "
Muppets"
director James Bobin came up with a brilliant solution: if they ever have the opportunity and the time to shoot a third season of "
Conchords,"
they'll simply set the Oscar on a table in the cramped apartment shared by McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, and never even attempt to explain why it's there.

gezyka wrote:I dunno what this says, but it's so very cute:



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My guess at the translation: :#squee#: :#excited#: :#excited2#: :#cheer#:

:#love3#:

Amily wrote:

When I spoke to McKenzie on the red carpet, I asked him if winning an Oscar would completely mess up the Flight of the Conchords' lovable-loser persona – and immediately, he and "
Muppets"
director James Bobin came up with a brilliant solution: if they ever have the opportunity and the time to shoot a third season of "
Conchords,"
they'll simply set the Oscar on a table in the cramped apartment shared by McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, and never even attempt to explain why it's there.

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I love this. :#lol#:

chrissycubana wrote:Here's what I've got (I'm a bit confused with one part of it, but got the general idea down - sorry;
my spanish is rusty :*( )

"
Because it deserves an entire page in my notebook!!

The day that Bret McKenzie won the Oscar for the best original song “Man or Muppet” (and it has been ignored by them [not sure about this bit] but the four geeks who know him are proud. He deserves it!)

The four geeks that know him…

*here in Spain, at least, we are the 4 geeks"




[I had to look up “frikis” on google translate;
it means “geeks” – hee!]

Amily wrote:Check this out! http://flightoftheconchords.co.nz/news/ :#love3#:

blondesnotbombs wrote:3 News has a video of [url=Bret arriving back in NZ with his Oscar][/url].

Bret McKenzie was so proud of a good luck picture sent to him in LA by his old Wellington school he was showing all the Americans he could.

"
It was so cool, I was showing everyone like 'Check out New Zealand! This is my old school!,"
a tired-sounding McKenzie said in Wellington yesterday.

The 65 pupils of Clifton Terrace Model School created a giant banner in McKenzie's honour, which they held out in the school playground and snapped photographs with.

They then emailed it to McKenzie in LA, wishing him good luck for the Oscar award he won on Monday night.

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[size=150:37qy1u9b]Oscar Winner Bret McKenzie Visits Koru Lounge
March 1, 2012 By The Flying Social Network

[...]

While travelling back to New Zealand Bret stopped by the Air New Zealand LA Koru lounge.

[size=150:3c79lykf]Matt Shane engineered the Oscar winning song “Man or Muppet”!

I know this is late, but I have a good excuse! I’ve come down with strep throat and have spent the better part of the past two days with a 103 fever almost unable to remember my own name. But enough about me… Matt Shane’s work with Bret McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords has yielded another award – this time an Oscar for “Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets”. Congratulations Matt!

[size=150:yk1lc8jd]Golden future for Bret McKenzie
By Amelia Wade and Isaac Davison
5:30 AM Tuesday Feb 28, 2012


Bret McKenzie has blown his Hollywood career wide open and should expect immediate rewards in the industry, say casting agents after the New Zealander claimed an Academy Award.

McKenzie yesterday picked up the best original song Oscar for his composition Man or Muppet, in The Muppets movie.

Asked backstage how a small country produced so many award-winning artists, the Wellington musician and comedic actor said: "
It's a great place to grow up. You can do whatever you want there. Whereas in America I think everyone's obsessed with their careers, in New Zealand you get to just live your dreams."


McKenzie already has a Grammy to his name, but Australian publicity mogul Max Markson said the 36-year-old's star was now brighter than ever.

"
The world is definitely his oyster. He's already a fantastic talent ... but for him professionally it's amazing. He'll definitely get more work out of this if he wants it.

"
What you've got here is someone who has got a fantastic ability to write a song and he's on the money popularity-wise and he's a young song-writer."


Winning an Oscar for Disney would make the company keen to hire McKenzie again, Mr Markson said. "
They use so much original music and now they'll be over the moon with him ... and so if he wants to do more writing, Disney already know who he is."


The French silent movie The Artist and Martin Scorsese's Hugo won five Oscars each. And Meryl Streep ended a 29-year drought to win the best actress award.

McKenzie, in a brief acceptance speech, spoke of watching The Muppets on TV as a child in New Zealand: "
I never thought I'd get to work with them."


He added: "
I was genuinely starstruck when I got to meet Kermit the Frog, but once you get to know him, he's just a normal frog. And like many of the stars here, he's a lot shorter in real life."


McKenzie broke into Hollywood in the television comedy Flight of the Conchords, the show he wrote and starred in with long-time collaborator Jemaine Clement.

He said, jokingly, that splitting from Clement appeared to have worked in his favour: "
It seems to have gone really well.

"
But I'm looking forward to writing with Jemaine in the future. Because I'll be able to pull out the Oscar card and say, 'We should play this chord ..."
'

McKenzie thanked his parents Peter McKenzie and Deirdre Tarrant for "
never telling me to get a real job"
.

His mother said from LA - where she was baby-sitting his children Vito and Leo - that the family were "
a bit overwhelmed ... we're all in speechless mode"
.

"
[Bret] rang and all he could say was, 'I can't believe it, Mum, I can't believe it.' The city is just madness. Everyone's famous, and then there's Bret. And now he's famous, so it's all good."


Ms Tarrant said she felt indescribably proud seeing her son collecting the golden statue.

McKenzie also thanked his wife, Hannah Clarke, who was in the audience.

The other NZ nominees, Daniel Barrett, R. Christopher White, Joe Letteri and Dan Lemmon from Weta Digital, missed out on the Best Visual Effects Oscar. They were nominated for their work on Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

[size=150:14dy3bj1]McKenzie prepared 'losing face' for Oscars cameras
By Isaac Davison
5:30 AM Wednesday Feb 29, 2012


Oscar winner Bret McKenzie was so convinced he would miss out on a golden statue that he practised a losing face for television, he revealed after his Academy Award triumph.

The Wellington musician and actor is still on a high after collecting the best original song Oscar for his work on The Muppets movie.

The Flight of the Conchords star said he had spent the post-awards evening celebrating with the Hollywood elite and other celebrities, including Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Charlene, Princess of Monaco.

"
It was a pretty amazing night. I've been here six or seven years, on and off, but [there's] nothing quite like partying with an Oscar in your hand,"
he told Radio New Zealand. McKenzie, 36, admitted that he was terrified about the awards ceremony in Los Angeles, and had struggled to sleep for the past month.

"
When they did actually call my name, I was strangely calm.

"
I spent two days practising [a speech] in the shower. I knew that if I didn't prepare something, it'd be a total mess."


He told media he had prepared a reaction if he was pipped to the prize by the other nominated song, Real in Rio from the animated feature Rio.

"
[For] the past 24 hours I really thought I wasn't going to get it so I was practising my face."


He joked that he would have either planted his face in his hands or mouthed a swear-word. McKenzie's close friend Taika Waititi famously pretended to be asleep at the 2005 Oscars when his nomination for best live action short film was called out.

In his typically dry tone, McKenzie said the award had already "
gone to his head"
and "
it would be very difficult from now on"
.

McKenzie's parents said their son had been inundated with phone calls for 24 hours from around the globe, and now he "
just wanted to eat lunch"
.

McKenzie has no immediate projects in the pipeline, and said he intended to simply return home to Wellington to relax.

But he felt the Oscar was likely to open doors to new roles.

"
I think I'll be able to take meetings more easily in Hollywood."

[size=150:3bjh2u3z]Muppet man Bret does us proud
5:30 AM Sunday Mar 4, 2012


Bret McKenzie's Academy Award win on Monday for best original song (Man or Muppet, from The Muppets film) played out as a perfect counterfoil to the grand triumphs of Peter Jackson and his team in 2004.

McKenzie's self-effacing onstage style was perfectly in tune with the shtick he developed with Jemaine Clement in "
New Zealand's fourth-best folk comedy duo"
Flight of the Conchords.

Not for him the tearful and overwrought speech in which he thanked everyone from his lawyer to the man who cleans his pool. Instead, stooping towards the too-low microphone (his failure to adjust it was a nice piece of theatre) he said he had been "
genuinely starstruck"
when he met Kermit the Frog, but added that "
he's just a normal frog"
.

His pronouncement that New Zealand was a country where you got to live your dreams won't have done this country's international image any harm, but the image most (and most deservedly) boosted is McKenzie's own. They say you've made it in Hollywood when people take your phone calls rather than having their secretary take a number;
Bret will be put straight through from now on.

McKenzie and Emmy-nominated Clement (who together won a Grammy in 2007 for best comedy album) have been pursuing different careers of late, though they are talking about a "
reunion tour"
and a movie ("
We just need a story"
). That would delight their legions of fans here, who knew and loved them when they were only the seventh-best folk comedy duo.

But in any event, they have done us, and themselves, proud. The world takes itself far too seriously far too much and it is a better place for a bit of Conchords' deadpan.

[size=200:3urg0mss]One giant leap
MICHELLE DUFF
Last updated 05:00 03/03/2012

Before he was winning an Oscar and taking America by storm, Bret McKenzie was a Wellington schoolboy who played the oboe, washed shop windows in Kelburn and busked in Cuba St.

That was before he played drums in The Blue Samanthas, had a raucous Fringe Festival play shut down by council and wore a velcro penis in public. Michelle Duff charts McKenzie's at times absurd – but always funny – path to success.

When Bret McKenzie leapt into the air on the Academy Awards red carpet, legs akimbo and arms flung to the side, it looked like a sweet move.

As photographers' flashes exploded, McKenzie's spontaneous leap of faith – with a stiff-looking Jane Seymour managing to squeeze half an emaciated elbow in the frame – mum Deirdre Tarrant wiped away a tear while watching the ceremony on TV while babysitting Bret's two young children in an LA hotel room and thought: "
What a lovely jete [a ballet leap]."


"
It's one of the trickiest steps of classical ballet,"
she explained this week in Wellington, where she is already back at work just two hours after stepping off a plane from supporting her son in Los Angeles.

"
I was quite proud that his sort of way of expressing himself out there in front of the world was through movement. I was really touched by that."


Because one of the many things the world may not know about Bret McKenzie is that before the 36-year-old was an Oscar-winning musician, an actor and a comedian, he was also a dancer. A classical dancer in fact, perfecting the steps in his mum's dance studio and in theatres around the world.

"
He could have been professional – he had that kind of ability,"
says Tarrant, a contemporary dance doyenne and director of Wellington's Footnote Dance Company.

But then, the oboe-playing, scriptwriting schoolboy had a lot of abilities – and no-one who knows him is really surprised that he ended up winning a top gong at Hollywood's swankiest showbiz extravaganza.

The musician-turned-celebrity won Best Original Song at the 84th Annual Academy Awards on Monday for his song Man or Muppet, one of the three tunes he penned during his role as the musical supervisor on The Muppets.

That's on top of the Emmy-nominated Flight of the Conchords series – and winning a Grammy Award for best comedy album in 2008.

Not that you can ever really predict your mate will win an Oscar, as fellow Wellington musician and Black Seeds lead singer Barnaby Weir points out. But you can sure as hell spot the talent.

"
I grew up in New Zealand watching The Muppets on TV: never dreamed I'd get to work with them. I was genuinely star struck when I finally met Kermit the frog, but once you get to know him he's just a normal frog, and like many stars here tonight he's a lot shorter in real life,"
McKenzie told the glitterati at the Oscars.

Speaking to reporters later he spoke about the pressure of writing a song for the legendary Muppets franchise.

"
A friend of mine said, when I got the job of working on the film, `You'll never write another Rainbow Connection [from 1979's The Muppet Movie]. And I said, `You're right.' And I didn't. Rainbow Connection didn't win an Oscar, but there's no doubt that their song is an absolutely timeless classic, and this song is nothing in comparison."


McKenzie was a huge Jim Henson fan, and when his dad returned from a trip to the US with new-fangled video recorder in the early 1980s one of the McKenzie clan's favourite movies was The Dark Crystal.

"
So my brother and I watched that movie at least twice a week for about five years. Definitely, Jim Henson influenced me. He's a huge inspiration and the other thing I love about the guy is he made children's films that I think he found funny. He was making them for adults. He didn't patronise the minds of children."


A tearful Tarrant could not have been prouder of her son when he referenced his home country in his Oscar speech.

"
I loved that he started the speech with `I grew up in New Zealand'. It was just such a proud moment when he made that connection, and also mentioned the Muppets and growing up with that influence. He was a Jim Henson nut."


McKenzie was born in Wellington in 1976, a younger brother to Justin and – eight years later – older brother to Jonny.

The three little boys from a musical family quickly became a fixture in the Wellington suburb of Kelburn, practising their instruments in the Botanical Gardens when mum had had enough of their racket and trotting the streets to Clifton Terrace Model School. Rather than being a training ground for actual models, Clifton Terrace is so named for being "
modelled"
on the classroom size and philosophy of smaller, country schools.

The years the McKenzies attended, the school and its close-knit community was a hive of artistic activity.

McKenzie's fellow classmates included actors Jeremy Randerson and Antonia Prebble (Outrageous Fortune), musician Age Pryor and promoter Lauren Whitney.

"
It was an incredible class that had nothing to do with me whatsoever,"
jokes Chris Arcus, Clifton Terrace senior school teacher from 1987 to 1989.

"
It was a school whose community took a great interest in it, and it just grew and grew."


Arcus remembers McKenzie as the kid who was into everything, whether it be cricket, acting, singing or dancing. And he wasn't averse to combining his interests, like the time he took centre stage in a school musical about cricket. "
I distinctly remember him bowling a cricket ball in this strobe light, as part of the production."


While Arcus thought it more likely McKenzie would go on to become a dancer, his main hobby at the time, he was sure the youngster would pursue something in the arts. This became more obvious when the 11-year-old began to compile his own portfolio of business investments.

"
He told me he was building a share portfolio because he wanted to make some money, but the arts didn't pay very much, so he would have to do something else on the side,"
Mr Arcus says.

"
I remember thinking, 'wow, how good is that'."


But this entrepreneurial streak was nothing new for McKenzie.

Taking a break from where he is helping to set up the Fringe Festival Performance Arcade space on Wellington's waterfront, McKenzie's older brother Justin, 39, says the young performer first took his busking act to Cuba St – as a 6-year-old.

"
He took himself to the Wellington streets to busk with a snare drum and a high hat when mum was teaching ... it is always interesting when your little brother gets given a drum kit – it's loud,"
he laughs.

"
I just remember him on the side of the street looking up at people with big doe eyes, and they would give him money all right. He played the oboe, the drums, the piano, the recorder, lots of instruments, and loved them all."


Later on, he created a job for himself as a window-washer at shops around Kelburn, wheeling around the winding streets on his BMX with the cleaning equipment lashed to the front. "
I'm pretty sure he sold that business to a friend – or was it Jonny?"
, Justin muses. "
He was very industrious."


That focus continued through to his high school years at Wellington College, where McKenzie won the Wellington regional heats of the Smokefree Rockquest with his band The Blue Samanthas, who played jazz and upbeat funk.

Joy Dunsheath, Wellington College's recently retired cultural adviser, says along with being a talented keyboardist and drum player the "
charismatic"
McKenzie was a great debater – mostly because of his ability to go off-topic.

"
He was very involved in almost everything, but I recall debating because while he didn't always have a prepared speech, he was one of those talented people who could fudge it incredibly well.

"
He scooped all the awards in the school in his last year, and he was a prefect – which in a large school like Wellington College is saying something."


Sipping his coffee in a Cuba St cafe, brother Justin remembers The Blue Samanthas – who would perfect their riffs in the McKenzies' lounge – sort of trailing to an end after Rockquest, before his brother joined The Black Seeds.

"
The judges said they were amazing but they weren't rock so they couldn't win, which I thought was funny."


So, the question on everyone's lips – what's it like to see a family member win an Oscar?

At Miramar's Roxy Theatre on Monday afternoon Justin watched with Jonny and dad Peter McKenzie – himself a part-time actor – as McKenzie thanked his wife, Hannah Clarke, who was at the Los Angeles ceremony, and children Vita, 2, and Leo, 1, "
for all their love and support"
.

He also thanked his parents for "
never telling me to get a real job"
.

Peter McKenzie laughed at his son's quip.

"
That's the truth, "
an elated Mr McKenzie said.

"
That is what I told him. I always said to him when he decided not to go to university ... after leaving Wellington College. I told him there would always be a bed for him at home. I told him to go out and chase his dream. He's done it."


Justin agrees the win is incredible, but says it won't change his brother at all.

"
It's really amazing, for him it's amazing. For us it's a lot of pride, but he's still Bret, you know. The biggest thing is I'm really proud of him with his kids and Hannah and that, he's really awesome."


Along with Jonny, Justin owns Wellington bar The Hawthorne Lounge. Before Flight of the Conchords hit the big time, McKenzie used to come in and play piano there, escaping any notice from the punters.

After the series aired in New Zealand, McKenzie played again to quite a different reception. A woman approached the bar and, in hushed tones, asked Jonny and Justin if that was the Bret McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords. "
No,"
they replied in unison. "
That's our brother."
EVEN back when Flight of the Conchords were beginning to make waves in the international comedy scene, hitting the big time in America seemed like an impossible dream.

"
The idea of us going to Hollywood is just so ridiculous,"
McKenzie said in 2002, when he and Jemaine Clement became the first Kiwi comedians asked to play at the 1400-seat 20th Century Fox theatre in the United States.

They had been spotted by a Fox talent scout performing their folk comedy show, strumming acoustic guitars and singing comic songs, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival two months earlier.

The Conchords were born after Clement and McKenzie met at Victoria University, both vaguely attempting to study subjects like music and English and theatre and film. They gave up, and by 1998 were flatting together in an old villa in Mt Victoria and performing in local productions, mainly comedy.

One of these was So, You're a Man. Imagine McKenzie, Clement, Taika Waititi (Boy), along with David Lawrence and Carey Smith strutting the Bats Theatre stage in flesh-coloured tights adorned with velcro penises, and you've got the crux of the show.

Supermodel Rachel Hunter got her start in a Trumpet icecream TV commercial – and one of Bret the actor's earliest and best-paying acting jobs was in a Fruju commercial.

McKenzie was later a founding member of popular Wellington reggae band The Black Seeds, playing keyboards. But he and Clement decided they wanted to learn the guitar and started writing songs.

They began playing at the Indigo Bar, caught the eyes of the world at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2002, and by 2003 were being described as "
this year's buzz comedy act"
in British newspaper The Guardian.

Around the same time they wrote a pilot for a comedy TV series and sent it to TVNZ – which (in)famously turned them down.

All the better for FOTC, who were forced to head overseas to find work – where their quirky talents were quickly recognised. At this point McKenzie had already achieved some measure of fame, albeit bizarrely, with his cult fleeting appearance in one scene in the Fellowship of the Ring. His three-second appearance as an elf spawned a cult following around the globe, and led to a speaking part in The Return of the King.

And as if he didn't have enough on his plate, in 2004 McKenzie released The Video Kid, a solo album which received a four-star review from The Dominion Post's arts editor Tom Cardy.

"
The Video Kid caused concerns that it was going to be a slightly self-indulgent 'side project', consisting of half-thought-out ideas. Instead, McKenzie has delivered a remarkably tight and mature work ... if this is more evidence of McKenzie's talent, he should be in the next New Year's Honours List,"
Cardy wrote.

In 2005, when FOTC landed a six-part BBC 2 radio series, McKenzie left The Black Seeds to focus on the comedy act. In the ensuing four years the duo went on to win a Sony UK Comedy Award, were declared the best alternative comedy act at the US Comedy Arts Festival, appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and filmed two hit comedy series for American cable network HBO.

While The Black Seeds were gutted to lose their keyboard player, their mate went overseas with their full support, frontman and friend Barnaby Weir says.

They were a tight group of friends, some who went back to Wellington College days, and had toured throughout New Zealand and Australia together – and they were all stoked to see McKenzie's star rise.

"
He's a talented guy. He's always been really dedicated to his music. His success is really from working his arse off for many years. He was in The Black Seeds playing keyboards for a number of years, for five or six years and he's a great keyboardist and drummer.

"
He's got a great sense of humour, always has. He was always in his plays or writing music for a show at Bats or in a show at Bats or working on a script. He's always had a lot on. He's a gem and he's done well,"
Weir says. "
We're all proud."


When FOTC decided they were going to America both McKenzie and Clement were incredibly driven, he says.

"
I remember that time well, and they were just action and focus and it was just, `We are going to do this.' We were really stoked for them, it was a good decision."


McKenzie winning an Oscar for his music is not unbelievable, considering his talent and how hard he has worked, Weir says.

"
If anyone could do it he could do it. The only way to do what he has done is to have that raw talent, and having the desire – not to be famous, but to create good work. He's never had that desire to be famous or to be the man. He just is the man and he's created good work time and time again over the years."


Director Rob Sarkies chuckles down the phone. "
Are you struggling to find someone who will tell you he's an arsehole? Because you won't find that person,"
he says.

"
I find it quite heartening really to see lovely people find success. There's a trend, really, for arseholes in Hollywood doing well, but Wellington proves it doesn't have to be that way."


Sarkies worked with McKenzie last year, directing him as one of the lead actors alongside Hamish Blake in feature film Two Little Boys. The comedy is co-written by Rob and his brother Duncan Sarkies, and based on the book by Duncan.

It was received to critical acclaim at the Berlin Film Festival last month, and will debut here later this year.

In it, McKenzie plays no-hoper Nige, who has to figure out how to cover up an accidental crime with the help of fellow Invercargill bogan and best mate Deano, played by Blake.

Filming took place in the remote Catlin Islands and Invercargill this time last year, so it's lucky McKenzie wasn't nominated for the Oscar then, Sarkies says. "
He would have had to have beamed himself in."


While there's no doubt it will be good for the movie to have McKenzie on board, that wasn't why he was asked, Sarkies says.

"
There was already a relationship there. I guess that's the way Wellington works, with a bunch of creative people who hang out together and in a way grew up together. Bret's just always been around."


And despite his success, McKenzie has stayed completely grounded, Sarkies says. Take the beginning of last year, when Sarkies rang him up to ask if he'd like the role of Nige.

"
His reaction was like I was giving him something, he was so delighted. I mean, he loved the script and thought it was funny – I think he had read a lot of American scripts and didn't like anything. It makes sense that he would love it because it contains Duncan's writing.

"
The thing is, it's fantastic because making these New Zealand films what you're looking for is a way of making them more international, without making them less Kiwi, and having Bret in it was a way of doing that."


There's no doubt McKenzie is fiercely proud of being a Kiwi. He still lives in Wellington, and calls New Zealand home.

But as much as he might eschew the trappings of fame, he's now got the physical proof it's there – in a whopping 3.8 kilogram golden statue, which puts him in a select group of New Zealanders alongside Sir Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Sir Richard Taylor and Anna Paquin.

And that statue is heavy, his mum says.

"
Unbelievably heavy. I never realised how heavy it was. You always see people lifting it above their heads ... obviously you get superhuman strength once you get one."


When the McKenzies were growing up and Tarrant was dancing internationally, she would often bring the kids along with her. They spent a lot of time backstage with their mum, travelling the world – something parents back home used to whisper about.

Now, she can happily say: I told you so.

"
It was an organisational nightmare, but it seems to have worked, anyway. All of those people who said that was no way to bring up children are going to have to eat their words now, aren't they."


- Fairfax NZ News

Jemaine Clement is worried about his bandmate’s new found power. During a chat this week, Clement revealed he has no doubt that his award winning partner Bret McKenzie will pull the Oscar card on him during Conchords practice which commences this week in their native New Zealand. “He would, yes. He would,” answered Jemaine, ” He was already like that because he’s had music lessons and I haven’t, He already pulled that on me. with an Oscar he’ll be unstoppable.”

If you win a Logie do you think it will compare to Bret’s Oscar? [Bret won an Oscar for best original song for "
Man or Muppet."
]

Yes. I will offer to him that he can keep the Logie at his house in the extremely small chance I win. He can keep it at his house and we’ll see if they can breed to make a Loscar! I don’t know if there’s too many shots of a Logie and an Oscar kissing, so I would like to get that.