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Conan O’Brien Tour 2010 Dates announced :
 Hooray for Coco! Conan O’Brien may be unemployed due to NBC’s ridiculousness, but Coco fans, do not fear! Mr. O’Brien just may be coming to a city near you. Today tour dates for a comedic stage show are in full effect.
Conan O’Brien has been laying low as of late, but news was delivered today that a tour to see the ex-late night comedian live is official. The name of the tour is rather amusing and quite fitting. Br prepared for the “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television” tour.
Conan even took to Twitter to announce the news, saying, “Hey Internet: I’m headed to your town on a half-assed comedy & music tour. Go to for tix. I repeat: It’s half-assed.” I highly doubt that.
This is some fabulously exciting news for you Coco fans out there. Will YOU be dishing out some dough to see Conan O’Brien on tour? Tickets are on sale now and the tour schedule can be found here.
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Conan O'Brien Tour 2010: Dates, Locations, Ticket Information :
Conan O'Brien announced today he will tour the country with a comedy and music show, and the "Conan O'Brien Tour" will take place in 30 cities.
O'Brien tweeted the news, "Hey Internet: I'm headed to your town on a half-assed comedy & music tour. Go to http://TeamCoco.com for tix. I repeat: It's half-assed."
The TeamCoco Web site was overloaded for a period of time, but O'Brien later noted that tickets could be purchased at ticketmaster.
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Conan O'Brien Stage Show: Conan Heads To Theaters :
Without a TV show to do every night, Conan O'Brien is taking his act on the road.
The former host of "The Tonight Show" announced a 30-city theater tour on Thursday. Sidekick Andy Richter and the former "Tonight Show" band will join O'Brien for what he promises to be "a night of music, comedy, hugging and the occasional awkward silence."
The "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour" begins April 12 in Eugene, Ore., and concludes June 14 in Atlanta. It will visit theaters in at least 20 states and two Canadian provinces. Additional dates may be added.
O'Brien quipped: "It was either a massive 30-city tour or start helping out around the house."
 On the itinerary is New York's Radio City Music Hall, just steps from where O'Brien first gained fame hosting "Late Night," and the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, Calif., near the studio where he presided over "The Tonight Show" for eight months.
The tour also will make a stop at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, the annual festival that takes place June 10-13 in Tennessee. Aside from performing in the comedy tent, O'Brien will emcee the festival's largest music stage on June 11 and 12, the festival said.
O'Brien quit "The Tonight Show" in January instead of taking NBC's offer to move his start time back by a half-hour to make room for "Tonight Show" veteran Jay Leno's return to late night from a failed prime-time show. He hasn't announced any future television plans.
Leno now is back in his old "Tonight" slot, which he had bequeathed to O'Brien last June.
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Conan O'Brien Announces Comedy Tour Dates :
Conan O'Brien is bringing a "half-assed" live show to 30 cities around the continent, the funnyman announced Thursday, ending weeks of anticipation from fans still reeling from his 'Tonight Show' exit.
Bypassing the old-school press release, O'Brien went directly to Twitter to break the news of the aptly-dubbed 'Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour': "Hey Internet: I'm headed to your town on a half-assed comedy & music tour," he writes, adding, "I repeat: It's half-assed."
Eager Conanites can visit TeamCoco.com to view tour dates, which begin April 12 in Eugene, OR, and conclude June 14 in Atlanta. The tour is presented by American Express.
The June 1 date at Radio City Music Hall will mark a homecoming of sorts for O'Brien, as the famed venue is just steps away from 30 Rockefeller Plaza, his old home at 'Late Night.' For his Los Angeles stop on April 24, O'Brien will be performing at Universal Studios, where he taped 'The Tonight Show.'
Missing from the tour dates is Detroit, which should be a bummer to Sarah Killen, the Michigan native whom O'Brien solely follows on Twitter.
 There are no more details on what will actually be included in the live show, except music will obviously be involved and that Andy Richter will likely be there. The sidekick-turned-announcer spoke briefly about the rumored tour while co-hosting 'Live! With Regis and Kelly.'
Rumors of a live show first began after Conan was booted from the 'Tonight Show' in January in favor of its previous host, Jay Leno. The funnyman left the network with a multi-million dollar settlement that reportedly keeps him off TV airwaves until September.
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Conan O'Brien Announces 2010 Tour Dates :
Andy Richter and Max Weinberg 7 to Join Former Talk Show Host
Joining him on the road will be his talk-show sidekick, Andy Richter, as well as his former "Late Show" and "Tonight Show" band, the Max Weinberg 7 (though Weinberg himself has not been confirmed as being on the tour).
Conan O'Brien vs. NBC
In September 2009, talk show host Conan O'Brien officially took the reigns of the long-running "Tonight Show" on NBC. This plan had been in the works since previous host Jay Leno first announced his departure plans from show.
Seven months later, in a highly-publicized battle, O'Brien left the show when NBC decided to reinstate Leno as host. As part of the severance contract, O'Brien was prohibited from appearing on TV for six months.
But the exit contract said nothing about public appearances.
Conan O'Brien Takes to the Road
If the fans couldn't come to him, why not go to the fans?
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Conan O’Brien Joins Bonnaroo, Announces “Legally Prohibited” Tour :
CNBC may have stripped Conan O’Brien of his Tonight Show and contractually barred him from temporarily appearing on television, but the red-headed host has found another way to get in front of his legion of fans: Bonnaroo. O’Brien posted on his newborn Twitter page today to reveal he’s hitting the road. “Hey Internet: I’m headed to your town on a half-assed comedy & music tour,” he tweeted. One of the last stops on the trek is a June 11th performance at Bonnaroo, where Conan will entertain nearly 60,000 festival-goers in Manchester, Tennessee — a perfect venue to reprise his final-episode “Free Bird”.
O’Brien has already proven his ability to rock, so don’t be surprised if Conan picks up a guitar at some point and jams out with other ‘Roo artists like Jeff Beck, Weezer, Flaming Lips, Tenacious D and, if we’re really lucky, sing Alicia Keys’ part in “Empire State of Mind” during Jay-Z’s headlining set. In addition to performing at the fest’s Comedy Theatre, O’Brien will emcee Bonnaroo’s “What” stage on Friday and Saturday nights. Joining O’Brien at the fest will be Aziz Ansari (hopefully as Raaaaaaaandy), Margaret Cho, Greg Giraldo, Rob Huebel, Bo Burnham and Jeffrey Ross, who will “roast” Bonnaroo during his set.
O’Brien’s “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television” tour will kick off April 12th in Oregon and work its way across the country before concluding in Atlanta on June 14th.
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Coco a-Go-Go! Conan O’Brien Tour Starts April 12 2010 :
 Tickets, predictably, are going fast for the Coco tour. O'Brien just tweeted that more dates are being added in New York and Chicago.
"For that second show, I'll be doing all Liza Minnelli songs," O'Brien tweeted. Don't be surprised if other big cities like LA and Vegas get extra nights as well. O'Brien also asked fans to go directly to Ticketmaster.com since TeamCoco has been jammed with traffic. As for his official tweet announcing the tour? "Hey Internet: I'm headed to your town on a half-assed comedy & music tour. Go to http://TeamCoco.com for tix. I repeat: It's half-assed," he wrote.
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Conan O'Brien will begin his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour April 12 in Eugene, Oregon, working his way across the United States and Canada over the course of two months. O'Brien will hit at least 20 states and 30 cities between April 12 and June 14 -- including the famed Bonnaroo Music Festival. More dates are expected to be added in the coming weeks. Coco will tour with sidekick Andy Richter and members of his former "Tonight Show" band, offering up "a night of music, comedy, hugging, and the occasional awkward silence," promoters promise. “It was either a massive 30-city tour or start helping out around the house” O’Brien said in a statement provided to TheWrap by his publicist.
Jeff Ross, O'Brien's longtime producer on both "Tonight" and "Late Night," has been using his music promotion roots to help spearhead the organization of the travelling revue. He said there was a very good reason for taking The Coco Show on the road. "If we don't get Conan in front of an audience soon, there's gonna be real trouble," Ross told TVMoJoe. TheWrap first reported news of the tour last month. O'Brien is expected to make an official statement about the tour to his followers Thursday morning via his Twitter account.
Tickets will be available for purchase via O'Brien's new official website, TeamCoco.com, or via Ticketmaster. They'll range in price from as little as $34 to as much as $79 (though a few casino dates may be priced higher, while the usual VIP packges offered by promoters will run in the hundreds of dollars). American Express has signed on as corporate sponsor of the tour. TeamCoco.com will expand in the coming weeks to include more O'Brien-themed content. After spending the first few weeks touring the northwest -- Oregon, Washington, Vancouver, Alberta and San Francisco-- the Coco Express will hit Los Angeles April 24, with a date at the Gibson Ampitheater in Universal City -- mere feet away from his onetime "Tonight Show" home on the NBC-owned Universal lot. Up next: stops in San Diego and Phoenix, followed by a May 1 visit to the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. O'Brien then heads north again (Reno, San Jose, Sacremento) before cruising east (Boulder and Denver). The tour hits the south on May 13 (Dallas) and May 14 (Austin), headed back north Minneapolis (May 18), Chicago (May 19), Toronto (May 22) and Altantic City (May 30). The final east coast leg of the tour finds O'Brien returning to two of his home cities: New York on June 1 and Boston on June 4. And yes, while in the Big Apple, O'Brien will play Radio City Music Hall -- located right in the center of NBC's 30 Rock corporate headquarters. After dates in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., O'Brien hits the tents of Bonnaroo June 11 before wrapping the tour June 14 in Atlanta.
If all goes well, O'Brien might then leave the road and begin preparing for a new late-night talk show. Fox and O'Brien's camp are continuing to research the economic feasibilty of launching a new show on the network. Ross said he and other members of the O'Brien camp began discussing the concept of a tour while they were putting together their final week of shows at NBC in January. O'Brien got particularly pumped when he performed "Free Bird" with Will Ferrell on his final show. Along with O'Brien's manager, Gavin Polone, Ross asked the music and touring unit of William Morris Endeavor (where O'Brien is repped) to begin looking into whether venues would be interested in an O'Brien tour. According to Ross, there was more interest in the idea than anticipated. Once O'Brien's "Tonight" tenure wrapped, he and WME began actively shaping the event.
The massive tour, along with O'Brien's near-daily tweets, are allowing the former late-night host to keep up some of the massive momentum he got from his final weeks on the air at NBC. O'Brien's exit agreement with the Peacock doesn't allow him to perform on television, but doesn't keep him from appearing live. There had been talk about taking the revue overseas to the UK and pehaps other countries in Europe. For now, however, there's no plan to do so. One other note: Longtime Coco bandleader -- and E Street Band legend-- Max Weinberg isn't joining the tour.
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Conan O’Brien Biography (Brief) and Background Information :
Television talk show host, writer. Born Conan Christopher O’Brien, on April 18, 1963, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the third of six children. His father, Dr. Thomas O’Brien, is a noted epidemiologist, the head of microbiology at Peter Brigham Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School. His mother, Ruth Reardon O’Brien, was a partner at Ropes & Gray law firm outside Boston until her retirement in 1997. He has three brothers: Neal, an antique car collector, Luke, a lawyer, and Justin, a business consultant, and two sisters: Kate, a teacher, and Jane, a scriptwriter. Actor and comedian Denis Leary is a cousin.
 O’Brien attended Harvard University, where he majored in American History (BA 1985). He was elected as president of the revered parody magazine, The Harvard Lampoon twice (the only other person to hold that distinction was humorist Robert Benchley in 1912). After graduation, O’Brien moved to Los Angeles and began writing for Not Necessarily the News, a series on cable station HBO. He also performed with an improv group, The Groundlings.
From 1988-91 O’Brien wrote for the hit NBC comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live; the writing staff of the show won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in 1989. (Some of O’Brien’s more memorable sketches were the “The Girl Watchers,” first performed by Tom Hanks and Jon Lovitz, singing “Roxanne” in the elevator with Sting, and Mr. Short-Term Memory). O’Brien joined The Simpsons, the animated FOX series known for its hilarious, sharp writing, as a writer, then supervising producer, for their 1992-93 season. Of the episodes he wrote, he has said that his favorite is “Springfield Gets a Monorail.”
When late-night staple Johnny Carson announced he would retire 1992, both Jay Leno, who had been the permanent guest host, and David Letterman, whose own late-night show followed Carson’s, were considered as his successor. NBC chose Leno over Letterman, and Letterman left the network for CBS, where his new late-night show would go head-to-head with Leno’s. Countless personalities and comedians applied and auditioned for the coveted spot after The Tonight Show, and it was somewhat surprising when the unknown Conan O’Brien was introduced as the new host of Late Night. Tall (6-feet 4-inches) and a bit gangly, with no previous experience in front of the camera, NBC’s choice was questioned, critiqued, and ridiculed by some.
Despite initially struggling in the ratings (he was renewed at 13-week intervals until he proved himself), O’Brien persevered with his own style of off-center, self-effacing comedy, reminiscent of Letterman’s early days, when he was establishing himself as a favorite of college students and the Generation X crowd. After four years on the air, NBC finally gave O'Brien a lucrative five-year contract. In 2001, O'Brien formed his own television production company, Conaco, which shared in the production credits for ‘Late Night’.
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