The Actor

"The Actor" is the eleventh episode of the HBO comedy series Flight of the Conchords. This episode first aired in the United States on Sunday, August 26, 2007. Plot synopsis The boys play a gig in a club to just a handful of people. After the gig when Bret and Jemaine are at the bar, a "semi-professional" actor named Ben introduces himself. At first, he thinks they are a comedy act and that Bret and Jemaine are just playing characters from what he considers an "obscure, backwards country that no one knows anything about". But once Bret and Jemaine admit they are actually from New Zealand, he feels guilty and offers them his card expressing a wish to work with them in the future. At a post-show debriefing Murray gets depressed about the lack of success he has had promoting the band to record companies. Bret and Jemaine visit Ben at the dry cleaners where he works. They ask him to call Murray posing as a record company executive and let him down gently. Ben calls Murray posing as "Stefan Gucci" from Sony, but after Murray starts begging and crying, he breaks down and agrees to give the band a record deal. Murray and the boys go to dinner with "Stefan Gucci". Despite Jemaine's attempts to get them out of the mess, Murray and Bret agree to the two-million dollar deal that Ben offers them.