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Making an international hit TV comedy requires a surprising amount of hard work, and little in the way of pampering and fruit bowls, the Flight of the Conchords stars admit in a revealing documentary.
When the show's second series finally hits our screens next month, it will be prefaced by a documentary made by Bret McKenzie's long-term girlfriend, Hannah Clarke.
The fly-on-the wall programme, Flight of the Conchords: On Air, includes behind-the-scenes footage of the Conchords' lives in New York. McKenzie, 32, and Jemaine Clement, 35, also speak candidly about their road to fame.
Clement reveals an unexpected lifestyle at the hub of American entertainment.
"I thought I was going to be pampered with ... fruit bowls. A lazy person shouldn't be made to work as much as I have to," he says.
In keeping with one source of laughs on the show, the pair also reveal they are constantly quizzed about their accents when out and about in New York.
Says McKenzie: "Taxi drivers say, 'New Zealand, right, where they do the Harry Potter films, right?"'
As we wait patiently for the second series, US viewers settle down for the third episode tonight, in which (spoiler alert!) Bret and Jemaine are temporarily forced into prostitution.
Judging by reviews in the American media, the pair are set to repeat the success of the Grammy-winning first series with the second series nominated for four Emmy Awards.
