The Flight of the Conchords came out for their second Berkeley show with guitars set to stun. "San Francisco make some noise!" Bret McKenzie shouted to a pleased but slightly confused audience.

"The last audience told us to refer to you as Berkeley. Thanks … Berkeley?" Jemaine Clement added.

Berkeley was their last stop on a trans-America tour following the second season of HBO's "Flight of the Conchords." For this home stretch, comedian and "Conchords" cast member Arj Barker opened for the folk-comedy duo. Hailing from the Bay Area, Barker found his audience in his opening jokes about the pricey Bay Bridge, Michael Phelps' weed fiasco and tolerance for gay marriage. His set got the crowd raring to go for the flashy (well, flashy for the Conchords) opening song.

Resembling a poor man's version of Daft Punk, the guys came out in shiny silver jackets and cardboard robot heads, rocking the dance song "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor." Afterwards, McKenzie and Clement sat down and deconstructed the tune. "It's a metaphor about too many dicks on the dance floor," Clement explained. "The last part is a reflection on our mortality." But, he noted, not too many people get that-the last part is instrumental.

Stage banter is common for the pair's shows, especially because their appeal is their self-deprecating humor. Last year when they toured the states, they seemed a bit uncomfortable and nervous performing in big venues. Now, they're not afraid to throw back a few quips into the audience.

"Take off your shirt, Jemaine!" one fan screamed, but McKenzie set her straight. "You're thinking of a different show," he said. "'Thunder from Down Under.'" On their HBO show, the band both gets mistaken for being Australian and has an ongoing rivalry with/animosity for their Oceanic neighbors.

The Conchords often riffed off the energy from the crowd, closing their show with a slow version of "Sugalumps." Clement and McKenzie strutted to the lip of the stage, pelvises thrusting and posing for crotchshots. At one point, Clement played a toy drum set with his, er, sugalumps. One fan's camera got a little extra action when the pair started taking their own "portraits." No, seriously.

"I'd like to apologize to the lady in the front row for what I did to your face," Clement said later in the encore. "I wouldn't shove my sugalumps in your face on first meeting."

Most of the songs the Conchords played came from their last season, but in the beginning of their set, they debuted a new song in the style of Johnny Cash. Dressed in Americana shirts, the band looked the part as they crooned about an evil man whose name was the anagram of "Satan": Stana. "Santa" was already taken.

Perhaps the best illustration of the Conchords' maturation was their rendition of "Free Bird" in their encore. They solicited requests from the audience after coming back out with "Business Time," and McKenzie claimed to have heard "Free Bird" shouted out. And they went with it. Whether or not it was staged, you have to admit that "Free Bird" is a ballsy move for a band that thrives on awkward humor about falling in love with women with lazy eyes and about defending their rapping credentials. The song eventually devolved into a joke, with Clement questioning the validity of a woman falling in love with a bird. But the moment proved that the band could tackle a variety of musical genres and transform even a rock classic into a little bit of funny.

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