| Main cast : |
|---|
| Name |
Played by |
Description |
|---|
| Jemaine Clemaine |
Jemaine Clement |
Band member; plays bass among other things. Bret's roommate. He rarely smiles or laughs and typically over thinks even the most mundane situations. |
Bret McClegnie |
Bret McKenzie |
Band member; plays guitar and piano. Jemaine's roommate, always wearing "animal" has-been t-shirt. |
| Murray Hewitt |
Rhys Darby |
Murray is the band's manager. His day job is Deputy Cultural Attaché at the New Zealand consulate. He has few friends and an on-and-off relationship with his never-seen wife, Shelley. While he is passionate about the band and aspires to be a successful manager, he is largely incompetent in his well-meaning attempts at promoting the Conchords. |
| Mel |
Kristen Schaal |
Mel is the Conchords' lone fan and stalks them obsessively in pursuit of a romantic liaison despite the fact that she is married to Doug, her former college professor. In the episode "Bowie" she claims that she is a Junior Professor of Psychology. In "New Fans" it is implied that she has been through legal trouble for stalking. |
| Devjeet "Dave" Mohumbhai |
Arj Barker |
A friend of Bret and Jemaine who works at his family's pawn shop "Mohumbhai & Son" and dispenses off-kilter advice about women and life in America. He still lives with his parents, though tries to cover it up by pretending they are his crazy roommates who just think they are his parents. Bret and Jemaine overestimate Dave's pseudo-womanizing personality and often go to him for relationship advice. |
| Recurring characters : |
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| Name |
Played by |
Description |
Episodes |
|---|
| Greg |
Frank Wood |
Murray's assistant at the consulate. In the episode "The Actor", it was suggested that he is Murray's only friend besides Bret and Jemaine, though Murray has stated otherwise. |
101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 111, 112, 201, 203, 207, 209, 210 |
| Eugene |
Eugene Mirman |
Bret and Jemaine's landlord, who often interjects into conversations in which he is not welcome. He has appeared in several musical sequences, and appears to be proficient in several instruments including saxophone & steel drums. He is often seen involved in fixing the plumbing in the building and in Bret and Jemaine's apartment. |
101, 102, 103, 105, 108, 111, 112, 202, 206, 209, 210 |
| Doug |
David Costabile |
Mel's husband. When Doug appears in an episode it is usually because he is driving Mel to a band gig or stalking mission. In the episode "Bowie" it is revealed that he was previously the Senior Professor of Psychology at the university which Mel attended, but was fired and is now unemployed. It's implied in the episode "New Fans" that he and his family had a restraining order against Mel at one point before he married her, and he also had a problem with addiction at some point in the past. It is also implied in the same episode that Doug lost his job for starting a relationship with Mel, who at the time was one of his students. |
101, 102, 106, 109, 110, 201, 203, 207, 209, 210 |
| Coco |
Sutton Foster |
Bret's girlfriend for several episodes. Bret and Coco meet while working as part-time sign holders. They break up in the "Sally Returns" episode because it's clear that Bret still has feelings for Sally. |
102, 104, 105 |
| Sally |
Rachel Blanchard |
Bret's former girlfriend. She dates Jemaine briefly on two separate occasions, but eventually accepts a marriage proposal from a rich Australian in the episode "Sally Returns". |
101, 105 |
| John |
Lenny Venito |
A mugger who once mugged Bret and Jemaine but befriends Jemaine while they share a jail cell. It was later revealed that he once killed a monkey. He returned in the episode "Wingmen" when he and Jemaine mugged Bret in an attempt to make Bret look cool in front of a girl. |
103, 209 |
| Bryan |
Brian Sergent |
The laid back, uncouth Prime Minister of New Zealand. He is disengaged with the affairs of his country and prefers to occupy his time with pointless capers in the United States. He is fond of drinking and appears to be intellectually challenged. After watching the film Cars on his flight to the United States, he suggests that his country ought to have talking cars, like in the film. |
207, 208 |
| Other guest stars : |
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| Name |
Played by |
Description |
Episode |
|---|
| David Armstrong |
John Hodgman |
Manager of a greeting card company with which the Conchords sign a recording contract. |
106 |
| Sinjay |
Aziz Ansari |
A fruit vendor who discriminates against Bret and Jemaine because he mistakes them for Australians. |
107 |
| Ben |
Will Forte |
A semi-professional actor the band hires to speak with Murray about a record deal rejection. |
111 |
| Todd |
Todd Barry |
A bongo player who joins Bret and Jemaine as "The Third Conchord". Later he forms The Crazy Dogggz with Demetri. |
112 |
| Demetri |
Demetri Martin |
A keytar player who forms a new band with Bret. Later he forms The Crazy Dogggz with Todd. |
112 |
| Martin Clark |
Greg Proops |
President/CEO of an agency which hires Bret and Jemaine to write a jingle for a new, "women-only" toothpaste. |
201 |
| Jim |
Jim Gaffigan |
Murray's best friend. |
204 |
| Keitha |
Sarah Wynter |
An Australian with whom Jemaine falls in love and plans to elope, but tricks him and robs their apartment while he's waiting for her. |
205 |
| Brahbrah |
Kristen Wiig |
A woman with whom Jemaine and Bret both fall in love, she has a lazy eye and a missing epileptic dog called Charlie. |
206 |
| Karen |
Mary Lynn Rajskub |
An Art Garfunkel fanatic, she has a brief affair with Jemaine. |
207 |
| Elton John impersonator |
Patton Oswalt |
An Elton John impersonator who Bret and Jemaine meet while impersonating Simon & Garfunkel. |
207 |
| Paula |
Lucy Lawless |
A New Zealand tourism official and old friend of Bryan, the Prime Minister. |
208 |
| Cameo appearances : |
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| Name |
Played by |
Description |
Episode |
|---|
| Pawn Shop Patron |
Judah Friedlander |
A man that tries to pawn a cake to Dave. |
101 |
| Fruit Stand Patron |
Kevin Allison |
A man who is serviced before Jemaine and Bret, although he was behind them in line, at a fruit stand run by an anti-Australian man who mistakes the duo for Aussies. |
107 |
| Club Owner |
Kate Pierson |
A club owner that turns the band away from a scheduled gig due to their reputation for causing damage. |
109 |
| Club MC |
Daryl Hall |
The MC of the Tuesday World Music Jam at which the Conchords play. He introduces them as "Flute of the Commodores" and ushers them quickly off stage several bars into "Rock the Party". |
110 |
| Himself |
John Turturro |
In a scene that runs during the closing credits, Turturro plays himself playing a cop in a fictional Martin Scorsese movie, entitled “The Drycleaner”. |
111 |
| Australian Ambassador |
Alan Dale |
The Australian ambassador who makes fun of Murray and Jemaine. |
203 |
| Bouncer |
Randy Jones |
A nightclub bouncer who leads an all-male conga line. |
205 |
| Himself |
Art Garfunkel |
Saves Jemaine from a woman (Mary Lynn Rajskub) who makes him dress up like Art Garfunkel and have sex with her (aka "Garfunkeling" by Jemaine). |
207 |
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