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In 2015, Clement voiced a "mind-reading fart" on an episode of the Adult Swim animated series Rick and Morty, where he performed the song "Goodbye Moonmen". Fellow Conchord member McKenzie appeared on the same list. Ĭlement also played the role of a prisoner in a Russian gulag in the 2014 film Muppets Most Wanted, a sequel to The Muppets (2011).Ĭlement was featured as one of 2008's "100 Sexiest People" in a special edition of the Australian magazine Who. Clement, with fellow Conchord member Bret McKenzie, guest starred as a pair of camp counselors in " Elementary School Musical", the season premiere of the 22nd season of The Simpsons, which aired on 26 September 2010. īesides his television work on Flight of the Conchords, Clement was a writer and cast member of the television shows Skitz and Tellylaughs in New Zealand. In 2000, he was given a Special Radio Awards Commendation for The Sunglass Store. In 1999, Clement was a Radio Awards Winner as writer for Trashed, for Channel Z, Wellington. The campaign ended in July 2006.Ĭlement has been involved in award-winning radio work. One of the long-running gags of Flight of the Conchords is the traditional rivalry between New Zealand and Australia and the differences between their accents.
On 5 February 2006, Outback Steakhouse began running a series of television commercials starring Clement during Super Bowl XL in which Clement pretends to be Australian and feigns an Australian accent. He also reprised his role as Nigel in Rio 2.Ĭlement has starred in television commercials internationally and provided voiceovers for many others in New Zealand. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2014. In 2012, Jemaine co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in a vampire mockumentary titled What We Do in the Shadows with Taika Waititi. In 2011, he voiced Nigel in Rio, and in 2012 he appeared as the primary antagonist Boris the Animal in Men in Black 3. In 2010, he voiced Jerry in Despicable Me and appeared in the film Dinner for Schmucks. Though Gentlemen Broncos was almost universally panned by critics, some singled out Clement's performance for praise. This role landed him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. Clement also has a role in American comedy Gentlemen Broncos, directed by Napoleon Dynamite 's Jared Hess. He was also the voice of Swayzak in the Toonami Shockwave game "Trapped in Hyperspace". He has worked with Stutter on two more movies to date: the low budget ghost comedy Diagnosis: Death and the drama Predicament, based on the book by late New Zealand novelist Ronald Hugh Morrieson. His debut was in the kung fu comedy Tongan Ninja, directed by New Zealander Jason Stutter.
Film and television Ĭlement has appeared in several feature films. In December 2009, the Conchords announced the show would not have a third season. Its first season ran from June to September 2007, and was renewed for a second season, which aired on HBO in the US from January to March 2009. After appearing in 2005 on HBO's One Night Stand, the Conchords were offered their own 12-part HBO series, Flight of the Conchords, which was based on their earlier BBC radio series of the same name. They appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, the Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show. In 2005 the Conchords produced Flight of the Conchords, a six-part comedy radio programme on BBC Radio 2. During his time in university, he also met Bret McKenzie, with whom he performed in Edinburgh, thus forming Flight of the Conchords.Ĭlement and McKenzie have toured internationally and released four CDs: Folk the World Tour in 2002, The Distant Future EP in 2007 (winner of 2008 Grammy for Best Comedy Album), Flight of the Conchords in 2008 and I Told You I Was Freaky in 2009. The duo received New Zealand's highest comedy honour, the Billy T Award. In 2004, the Humourbeasts toured New Zealand in a stage show titled The Untold Tales of Maui, a reworking of the traditional Maori legends of Māui. There he met Taika Waititi, with whom he went on to form So You're a Man and The Humourbeasts. After graduation, he moved to New Zealand's capital, Wellington, where he studied drama and film at Victoria University of Wellington.
He attended Makoura College in Masterton. Jemaine Clement was born on 10 January 1974 in Masterton, and was raised by his Māori mother in the Wairarapa region with his two brothers.
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