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Creativity often thrives when resources are slim, even when they’re merely imagined to be so. When Flight of the Conchords’ fictional manager Murray Hewitt (a.k.a. Ginger Balls) arranges a shoestring budget video shoot for their tune “The Humans are Dead,” the boys are somewhat reluctantly outfitted in aluminum foil-covered cardboard with flex-tube arms and “function buttons” that remind them of nipples.
“It doesn’t look like Daft Punk; we wanted ones like Daft Punk,” explains Jemaine.
You can’t always get what you want, as Jagger would say. A high end video camera would have been nice too. Alas, the only camera of any kind that Murray manages to scrounge up is the cell phone variety. Still, the supposed results are sublimely ridiculous, partly thanks to duo’s largely monotone delivery and Jemaine’s spot-on Stephen Hawking impression. The dated lyrics about a post-robotic uprising distant future score their share of belly laughs as well.
Binary solo!
May 15th @ Ellie Caulkin Opera House (DCPA)
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