Topic: Rhys Darby

Digital UK launches drive

The article reports that Digital UK will launch a new advertising campaign for the digital switchover featuring its robot character Digit A1. Federer Stars in Nike TV ad Nike has enlisted the tennis star Roger Federer to star in a series of ...

Federer stars in Nike TV ad

The article reports that Nike Inc. has enlisted tennis player Roger Federer to appear in a series of television (TV) advertisements in Great Britain. Comedian Rhys Darby of the TV program "Flight of the Conchords" will play as Federer's fictional coach ...

Pirate Radio

Consider the circumstances, befitting a comedy, of Pirate Radio. Evidently, there was once a powerful segment of mid-'60s Britain that happened to be utterly tone-deaf. Who can truly say if such rollicking seaborne vessels included the likes of suavely dignified Quentin ...

Rhys Darby needs punchier pay-offs

Rhys Darby Underbelly ***. The hit sitcom Flight of the Conchords has made a star out of Kiwi Rhys Darby, who plays inept manager Murray but he has not deserted Holyrood for Hollywood yet. Darby's people did not want this show reviewed ...

Caricatures of themselves

New Zealand duos self-effacing humor make comedic heroes of folk music nobodies IF YOU GO: Ground control to HBOTouring the U.S. on the strength of the cult comedy Flight of the Conchords, which just finished its second season on HBO, Conchords ...

Flight of the Conchords

What happens to a novelty act if the novelty wears off? Not to say that Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie are in the same category as, say, the Monkees (for the Flight of the Conchords, the songs begot the show). Still,the ...

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What happens to a novelty act if the novelty wears off? Not to say that Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie are in the same category as, say, the Monkees (for the Flight of the Conchords, the songs begot the show). Still,the ...

Cleared for takeoff

What happens to a novelty act if the novelty wears off? Not to say that Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie are in the same category as, say, the Monkees (for the Flight of the Conchords, the songs begot the show). Still,the ...

Best DVDs of 2008

FILMS 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Artificial Eye, Cert 18) A riposte to moaning countrymen who think life was much better under communism, Cristian Mungu's Romanian drama follows a girl in trouble negotiating her way to an illegal abortionist's ...

Comedy

When Robin Williams showed up at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in November asking if he could perform, Harold team Bangs was about to take the stage. Emo Philips no longer has a pageboy haircut, but his New York return this winter ...