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Certain Songs #456: Flight of The Conchords – “Robots”

February 19, 2016 by Jim Connelly

Flight oftheConchordsAlbum Album: Flight of The Conchords
Year: 2008

Dying is easy, comedy is hard. And musical comedy is even harder. That’s why there have been so few great musical comedy acts over the years.

In fact — outside of Weird Al, who transcends time and space — there seems to be only one group/troup/performer each decade who crank out at least an album’s worth of funny songss: The Fugs in the 1960s, National Lampoon in the 1970s, Spinal Tap in 1980s, Tenacious D in the 1990s and Flight of the Conchords in the 2000s.

Buoyed by an HBO show that showcased the deadpan smarts of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement — and featured Rhys Darby’s turn-for-the-ages as Murray (“present!”), their enthusiastically clueless manager and Kristin Schall’s stalkery fan, Mel — Flight of The Conchords turned Flight of the Conchords into instant cult heroes.

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From Japan, it’s the iPodBot!

September 5, 2006 by Jim Connelly

iPodBot How many times have you asked yourself, “if only my iPod docking station were a robot? And not just any robot, but a robot that will follow me around, playing all of my favorite iPod music?”

If you’re like me, the answer is “dozens, maybe even hundreds, of times.” Well, finally all of your hopes have been fulfilled and all of your prayers have been answered.

I’m going to call it the iPodBot, but its real name is the Miuro, and it is going to be your newest — and bestest — robot friend!

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