Yeah, I do actually lose myself a little. You would go at a wall and just throw yourself off it in a real cool Flashdance move. Remember when we danced? And you used the whole geography of the room. Remember when Dave Chappelle had a birthday party and then Erykah Badu came and she DJ’d the whole party? I’ll observe people and I mimic their moves. I don’t do drugs, but a friend of mine said I was addicted to dancing. Yeah, you really let yourself go when you dance. Well, the old me - that would be the younger me - it would be just laughing and dancing. What do you consider a successful night out? Well, that, but also I just remember I always wanted to go to bed when we’re out, and you always were out until five, six, or seven in the morning. You’re saying that because we have online chats sometimes. He’s not a comedian, but when they told us that we wouldn’t meet him, that he didn’t meet people after shows, I was so relieved. Once I went backstage at a Leonard Cohen concert. You don’t always want to meet your heroes. I couldn’t concentrate on the words of the songs because I could see him, and he came to our party afterwards, but I was too shy to introduce myself. I could see him right in the middle with his long, silver hair. I haven’t met him, but he came to a gig that Bret and I did in Wellington, when he was filming The Hobbit down there. It’s Garry Shandling’s Show was one of my favorites. I used to watch a lot of British comedy like The Young Ones. I used to listen to a lot of his tapes before I knew about good music, because I grew up in a small town where there was only top 40. I don’t know if I had one, but there’s a few. Who was your favorite comedian growing up?
I can just lay there like a lizard on a rock in the sun, absorbing the vitamin D and replenishing my resources. That does seem like a good idea when I’m sick, to be where it’s sunny. Why don’t you hang out in L.A.? There are more people you love here. Then I’m just gonna hang out in New York, I think, for a while. Well, the day after tomorrow I’m coming to L.A.
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If I put my points into action, I could get one. I think I’m away from New Zealand half of the year. My only rests have been in the car between interviews.
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#FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS MEL MOVIE#
I’ve had a fever for the last few days, and I’ve been doing press for this movie in a feverish state. Okay, I’m gonna be honest because that’s the kind of interview this is. This might be the interview that ends it all.īut what a way to go! With your friends exposing you! My first question is, how are you? It’s gonna be like that scene in Magnolia where Tom Cruise has to face the fact that his mom’s dead and he’s a fraud. I understand you’re gonna go very in-depth with this interview. Schaal and Clement talk about making the movie, dancing, and whether Clement should quit acting. In the years since, Schaal has remained a fan of the guys (she is also their actual friend), so Vulture felt it would be perfect to have her interview Jemaine Clement about his new movie, What We Do in the Shadows, a comedy horror mockumentary he wrote and directed with fellow New Zealander Taika Waititi, which opens wide this weekend.
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It might be hard to believe, but it was nearly eight years ago when Kristen Schaal first played Mel, the stalker and only fan of the Flight of the Conchords, on the band’s now-classic HBO show.