{"id":604070,"date":"2026-09-18T07:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604070\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:44:14","slug":"comedy-duo-flight-of-the-conchords-sell-out-in-3-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604070\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy duo Flight of the Conchords sell out in 3 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tickets went on sale at 1pm on Friday. The Auckland and Wellington dates sold out minutes later while just a handful of seats remained for the Christchurch show.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Flight of the Conchords<\/a> surprised the capital with five shows at Wellington\u2019s Meow Nui after an eight-year hiatus from live performances. They too sold out in minutes, sparking a frenzy among fans.<\/p>\n

The duo will perform at Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington on November 10 and 14, Christchurch\u2019s Wolfbrook Arena on November 12, and The Civic in Auckland on November 18 and 19.<\/p>\n

Fans who couldn\u2019t snatch up tickets fast enough replied to the duo\u2019s Instagram post about tickets going live: \u201cTickets went so fast, joined the queue at 1pm and they were gone before I made it in only minutes later. Devastated!!\u201d<\/p>\n

McKenzie and Clement formed the musical comedy act in 1998, soaring to worldwide fame off the back of their HBO comedy series of the same name with tunes including Business Time and Hiphopopotamus vs Rhymenoceros.<\/p>\n

While taking a break from performing together recently, Clement has kept busy writing on comedy horror TV shows Wellington Paranormal and What We Do In The Shadows. He most recently played Dr Garvin in the last two Avatar films.<\/p>\n

McKenzie won an Oscar for his songwriting on The Muppets. He released two solo albums, Songs Without Jokes in 2022 and Freak Out City in 2025, and has been touring New Zealand, Australia, the US and the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tickets went on sale at 1pm on Friday. The Auckland and Wellington dates sold out minutes later…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3682,258452,1871,156,70,78,19475,111,139,69,1118,3111,13311,223],"class_list":["post-604070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-comedy","tag-conchords","tag-duo","tag-entertainment","tag-flight","tag-in","tag-minutes","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-out","tag-sell","tag-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}