Flight of the Conchords is a New Zealand-based comedy band composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007 on HBO, also called Flight of the Conchords. They used to refer to themselves as New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo, however now are the almost award-winning fourth-most-popular folk duo in New Zealand.