Bret McKenzie

Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie, ONZM (born June 29, 1976) is a New Zealand comedian, actor, Academy Award-winning musician and producer, best known for being one half of the Grammy Award winning musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Jemaine Clement.

As music supervisor on the 2011's The Muppets, the native New Zealander wrote four original songs for the film, the first being "Life's a Happy Song." He states that his mandate for working on the film was to have zero sexual references, as well as making cuts such as Tex Richman calling Kermit a "mother frogger." He won his Academy Award for the song "Man or Muppet."

In an interview for the Los Angeles Times, McKenzie revealed he taught Chris Cooper how to rap, got in an argument with Miss Piggy in a recording session over how to sing a song, and that his daughter would ask him in the morning, "Off to work, Daddy? Muppets?," with her considering Kermit a friend of her father's. He considered the whole experience "awesome" and goes on to say, "When I was recording Kermit doing "Rainbow Connection," it was a strange "I've made it" moment. Working with the A-list.

McKenzie will later return to become a music supervisor for 2014's The Muppets 2.