From HuffingtonPost.com:
The “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television” tour trekked on this weekend, playing LA’s Gibson Amphitheater. Conan had a surprise for the packed crowd, inviting Jim Carrey on stage for what was actually a pretty touching rendition of Five For Fighting’s “Superman (It’s Not Easy).”
During a soundcheck for his “Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour” CoCo treated a select few to a performance of “Creep” by ‘Radiohead’:
From Gawker.com:
When Slash was booked to perform on last night’s Tonight Show, NBC surely didn’t think he would show up wearing an I’m with Coco pin. But, he did. Slash went on Leno’s show to proudly and somewhat brazenly show where his loyalties lay in the Late Night Wars.
As expected, Leno’s crew worked around the problem and did all they could do make sure that Slash’s pin didn’t get much camera time. In fact, it only made this brief cameo in the performance.
Conan O’Brien just tweeted confirming his upcoming US/Canadian tour!
As you can see, his site is being bogged down by a traffic spike, which will most likely continue throughout the day as word gets out, but click the image below and you will be taken to the ticketmaster page which will show you all the dates and allow you to purchase tickets right now!
Andy Richter filled in for Regis recently on his morning show and the whole conan debacle was brought up, so Andy gave his opinion.
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From The NewYorkTimes:
With his separation deal from NBC preventing Mr. O’Brien from appearing anywhere on television until after Sept. 1, the comedian’s representatives have for several weeks been formulating a plan to get him back in front of the public in a show that would have some elements of his television work combined with new stage elements.
After exploring the degree of interest with some locations, Mr. O’Brien’s team has received “enormous interest from all over,” said one of his representatives, who asked not to be identified because the plans are not yet ready to announce. “We’ve heard from the U.K., Scandinavia, Australia, Toronto, everywhere; it’s been incredible.”
They are saying that no dates are finalized yet, but that he will be performing in sizable venues. I’ll update with tour dates as soon as they are released.
(via @jesslynplague)
Looks like conan has been doing just fine since he was released from NBC a few weeks ago. We’ll see how Jay Leno’s show does when it comes back after the olympics but so far two vital people are planning on leaving his show: Kevin Eubanks (guitarist, co-host) and John Melendez (announcer).
Here is Conan living it up with some aquatic buddies:
