Waititi also collaborated with the musical comedians on several episodes of their short-lived HBO sitcom and re-teamed with Clement to produce two televisions series spun-off from What We Do in the Shadows, including the FX show of the same name and Wellington Paranormal, which follows two police officer characters from the original film.
A film that brought Taika Waititi closer to the American mainstream (pre-Thor: Ragnarok) is the 2014 vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, which he co-starred, co-wrote and co-directed with fellow Kiwi, Jemaine Clement, whom some may recognize as the other half of Flight of the Conchords, with Bret McKenzie.
He has been close with “New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk parody duo” since they were all part of the five-man comedy troupe known as So You’re a Man, which performed on stages throughout New Zealand and Australia in the mid-1990s.