

But this is no cynical greatest hits tour – indeed, they don’t even play their biggest hit, “Business Time” (“We’ve not practised it”), which is bit like Paul McCartney not playing “Hey Jude.” “It’s great to get the band back together,” deadpans Clement, gesturing at McKenzie. Bret McKenzieīoth Clement and McKenzie have enjoyed significant success since their HBO sitcom ended in 2009 – the former in films such as The BFG and directing What We Do in the Shadows, the latter in The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, and winning an Oscar for his soundtrack to The Muppets.


Now in their forties, they might look, in his words, “kinda dustier”, but their comedy is as reassuringly, beguilingly daft as it ever was.Ĭoming back and finishing the tour when I have two fully functioning hands. “We are older, we’ve aged and we’d like to apologise for that,” adds Clement.
