On my radar: Jemaine Clement’s cultural highlights

The comedian and actor on one of history’s worst films, a touching British drama and Australia’s answer to Thunderbirds

The comedian and actor Jemaine Clement was born in New Zealand and studied drama and film at Victoria University of Wellington. There, he met Bret McKenzie and together they created the comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, which later became a BBC radio series and, in 2007, an HBO TV series. Clement created another double act with Taika Waititi, the Humourbeasts, and won the New Zealand Billy T award for comedy in 1999. In 2007, he starred in Waititi’s film Eagle vs Shark, and in 2014 the pair co-directed and starred in the comedy horror mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, out now on DVD.