Flight of the Conchords Still Think They're Not So Popular. But Just Try Getting a Ticket Tonight.
New Zealands fourth most popular folk-parody duo? Talk about your one-way ticket to home box office gold. [Flight of the Conchords] spent their [first glorious season on HBO](http://www.hbo.com/conchords/) failing at music, love and life in general, with a little bit of help from New Yorks current reigning class of underground comedians like Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry and Aziz Ansari.
While, by my estimates, such a distinction would have helped them crack the number three, or possible even the coveted number two slot, theyve since downgraded themselves to formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo," having been knocked out of fourth place by their own cover band, the simile-embracing Like of the Conchords, a distinction that one would assume might make it a touch easier to score tickets to one of the bands upcoming Town Hall appearance tonight and tomorrow.
This, sadly, is not the caseone can only imagine the manner of hoops fans would have to go through to make it into a show by the top four. I read something about fire by Baptism on a message board somewhere. Scoring an interview with the band, it turns out, is even tougher. Well spare you the grim and gory details here, and simply say that we spent much of the past week listening to "The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room)" from the bands recently released self-titled LP, thinking about what might have been. In the meantime, were set to spend the next couple of months wandering the streets of Chinatown with Mel-like tenacity, hoping to score ourselves a cameo in Season Two.
Flight of the Conchords play May 6 & 7 at Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St. (betw. 6th Ave. & Bway), 212-997-1003; 8, $35.