Flight Of The Conchords

Was pretty goddamn funny. It's in the genre of "quirky and ridiculous acoustic music comedy" a la Tenacious D, but without the self-consciousness, and the jokes in between are quite funny. It was also good to see Arj Barker, who was the funniest man in San Francisco back when I was doing comedy there, getting some HBO quality-comedy love.

I do sense that their main joke might get old eventually. They have a conversation which hides a crucial bit of information, then releases that bit as the punch line. For example, the one guy saying "I think my girlfriend was weirded out by you turning off the light," and the other guy saying "Yeah, maybe, and also that I used to date her for, like, six months." It's kind of what a lot of improv comics fall back on, adding something gratuitous that changes the whole scene. Eventually you're going to see that coming. But for now, funny. Plus, every premise gets old after a while (the Curb Your Enthusiasm preview snippet they showed last night had the EXACT same joke - a woman thinks Larry gets an erection because of her - from the premiere episode seven years ago). And since the show is WAY too weird for broadcast, it again shows why HBO is an oasis in a desert of quality television.