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JamesG · 03-11-2010, 02:24 PM

A NIGHT OF MUSIC, COMEDY, HUGGING, and THE OCCASIONAL AWKWARD SILENCE

Eugene, OR
Hult Center For the Performing Arts
April 12

Vancouver, BC
Orpheum Theatre
April 13

Spokane, WA
INB Performing Arts Center
April 16

Enoch, AB
River Cree Resort & Casino
April 17

Seattle, WA
Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
April 18

San Francisco, CA
Nob Hill Masonic Center
April 22 - 23

Universal City, CA
Gibson Amphitheater
April 24

San Diego, CA
San Diego Civic Theatre
April 29

Phoenix, AZ
Dodge Theatre
April 30

Las Vegas, NV
The Pearl Concert Theatre - Palms Casino
May 01

Reno, NV
Grand Sierra Resort & Casino - Grand Theatre
May 04

San Jose, CA
San Jose State University Events Center
May 05

Sacramento, CA
Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
May 06

Boulder, CO
Mackey Auditorium
May 09

Dallas, TX
McFarlin Memorial Auditorium-SMU Campus
May 13

Austin, TX
Austin Music Hall
May 14

Tulsa, OK
Brady Theater
May 15

Kansas City, MO
Midland Theatre
May 16

Minneapolis, MN
Orpheum Theatre
May 18

Chicago, IL
Chicago Theatre
May 19 - 20

Toronto, ON
Massey Hall
May 22

Atlantic City, NJ
Borgata Spa & Resort - Event Center
May 30

New York, NY
Radio City Music Hall
June 01 - 02

Boston, MA
Wang Theater
June 04 - 05

Uncasville, CT
Mohegan Sun Arena
June 06

Upper Darby, PA
Tower Theatre
June 07

Washington, DC
Constitution Hall
June 08

Manchester, TN
Bonnaroo Music Festival
June 11

Atlanta, GA
Fox Theatre
June 14

http://www.teamcoco.com/

catlover79 · 03-11-2010, 04:13 PM

Very cool!!

The Great One · 03-11-2010, 06:46 PM

Awesome!!! Thanks for posting the information!

catlover79 · 03-11-2010, 10:51 PM

Too bad he's not coming near my area.

HuntingtonM15 · 03-11-2010, 10:53 PM

I bet this will sell out fast.

catlover79 · 03-11-2010, 10:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HuntingtonM15

I bet this will sell out fast.

Me, too. Those tix will go like hotcakes.

tvfreak1987 · 03-14-2010, 08:05 PM

Hmmm....Chicago is only 4 hours away from me.....eh, much as I love CoCo, I doubt I can afford it even if I could get tickets.

JamesG · 04-13-2010, 09:55 PM

Conan's Tour Kicks Off in Eugene, Oregon
Posted Apr 13th 2010
by Danny Gallagher

Conan O'Brien's "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour" might be a once-in-a-lifetime event, but that doesn't mean it isn't bound by the laws of concert tours.

Those are the unspoken laws of live entertainment physics that affect every staged entertainment venue across the globe. And just like actual physics, they are cruel mistresses with no pity for people who dare to challenge them or go outside their boundaries of motion, inertia and box office receipts.

The most important and perhaps universal law deals with the opening show: "a show will stay at rest until an unbalanced force acts upon it." Judging from the reviews and videos that appeared on the web, Eugene, Oregon acted as that unbalanced force that propelled the nationwide tour into motion with the speed and torque of a Bugatti Veyron.

We've gathered snippets of the reviews and videos taken by fans from Conan's first show. So if you managed to score tickets (first of all, I hate you because I couldn't unless you're willing to share them, in which case I love you), be wary about reading the rest of this post for potential spoilers.

Clearly, both Conan and company and Conan's fans have been itching to reunite, so the room was already filled with a megaton of pent-up energy just waiting to escape.

"The crowd at the Hult was on its feet, clapping, and yelling, 'CONAN! CONAN! CONAN!' as O'Brien came out on stage,"

Kristi Turnquist of the Oregonian said in her review. "He looked slim and healthy, beard neatly trimmed, in an open-necked blue shirt and darker blue-gray jacket and slacks. The cheers got so loud, they seemed to be rattling the walls. He shouldn't admit it, O'Brien said, 'But I really missed the applause ... You have no idea how shallow I am.'"

The show is a celebration of everything that's made Conan such a television icon, and that includes being booted from the most coveted chair in television history.

For instance, he brought back old favorites like the Masturbating Bear and even the Walker, Texas Ranger Level, but with less legally offensive names, such as the "Self-Pleasuring Panda" and the "Chuck Norris Rural Policeman Handle."

The comedy, as a whole, seemed to be a mix of old favorites and new concepts. Of course, it's the first show of the tour where new bits and sketches are being tested on audiences for the first time, so some of the stuff that appeared in the Oregon show may not make it all the way through the tour's final stop in Atlanta.

"All told, though, the comedy was hit and miss, with significantly fewer laughs during the second hour," The Hollywood Reporter's Erik Pedersen said.

"Long, oh-so-deliberate setups rarely generated the hoped-for guffaws -- a deadly sin. One promising bit about 'the eight stages of grieving for the loss of your talk show' earned some deserved hearty laughs.

Of the 'paranoia stage,' O'Brien said, 'I started hearing strange voices saying, Daddy, we're hungry.' But it meandered far too long, ending with a lazy name-check of the tour stop that generated the inevitable huge but unearned response."

The show also had a few surprises in store for that lucky first audience, including celebrity cameos by "30 Rock's" Jack McBrayer and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

It also had a large amount of musical numbers with Coco on guitar and vocals doing parodies of "I Will Survive" and "On the Road Again" to mirror his current situation.

And even though the show was live and unencumbered by the restrictions of niggling censors, it also had very few blue moments except for a stray curse word or a bit of man-on-man between Conan and his longtime trumpeter Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg.

So basically, if you've always been a fan of Coco, you'll enjoy yourself all the way to the end. If you've been dragged along by someone who is a huge fan, you'll still have fun. Thankfully, I'm in the first group, so I know I'll have a good time -- that is, if I can scare up a ticket in time.

Seriously, people, I'm this close to selling an organ, even a major one. If God didn't want me to sell my body parts for Conan O'Brien tickets, he wouldn't have given me "two" lungs.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/04/13/co...eugene-oregon/

03-11-2010, 02:24 PM	#1
JamesG Freakshow Moderator Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 01, 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 57,075	Conan O'Brien's "The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour" Dates A NIGHT OF MUSIC, COMEDY, HUGGING, and THE OCCASIONAL AWKWARD SILENCE Eugene, OR Hult Center For the Performing Arts April 12 Vancouver, BC Orpheum Theatre April 13 Spokane, WA INB Performing Arts Center April 16 Enoch, AB River Cree Resort & Casino April 17 Seattle, WA Marion Oliver McCaw Hall April 18 San Francisco, CA Nob Hill Masonic Center April 22 - 23 Universal City, CA Gibson Amphitheater April 24 San Diego, CA San Diego Civic Theatre April 29 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre April 30 Las Vegas, NV The Pearl Concert Theatre - Palms Casino May 01 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort & Casino - Grand Theatre May 04 San Jose, CA San Jose State University Events Center May 05 Sacramento, CA Sacramento Memorial Auditorium May 06 Boulder, CO Mackey Auditorium May 09 Dallas, TX McFarlin Memorial Auditorium-SMU Campus May 13 Austin, TX Austin Music Hall May 14 Tulsa, OK Brady Theater May 15 Kansas City, MO Midland Theatre May 16 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre May 18 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre May 19 - 20 Toronto, ON Massey Hall May 22 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Spa & Resort - Event Center May 30 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall June 01 - 02 Boston, MA Wang Theater June 04 - 05 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena June 06 Upper Darby, PA Tower Theatre June 07 Washington, DC Constitution Hall June 08 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Music Festival June 11 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre June 14 http://www.teamcoco.com/
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03-11-2010, 04:13 PM	#2
catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,376	Very cool!!
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03-11-2010, 06:46 PM	#3
The Great One Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Aug 29, 2006 Posts: 6,378	Awesome!!! Thanks for posting the information!
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04-13-2010, 09:55 PM	#8
JamesG Freakshow Moderator Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 01, 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 57,075	Conan's Tour Kicks Off in Eugene, Oregon Posted Apr 13th 2010 by Danny Gallagher Conan O'Brien's "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour" might be a once-in-a-lifetime event, but that doesn't mean it isn't bound by the laws of concert tours. Those are the unspoken laws of live entertainment physics that affect every staged entertainment venue across the globe. And just like actual physics, they are cruel mistresses with no pity for people who dare to challenge them or go outside their boundaries of motion, inertia and box office receipts. The most important and perhaps universal law deals with the opening show: "a show will stay at rest until an unbalanced force acts upon it." Judging from the reviews and videos that appeared on the web, Eugene, Oregon acted as that unbalanced force that propelled the nationwide tour into motion with the speed and torque of a Bugatti Veyron. We've gathered snippets of the reviews and videos taken by fans from Conan's first show. So if you managed to score tickets (first of all, I hate you because I couldn't unless you're willing to share them, in which case I love you), be wary about reading the rest of this post for potential spoilers. Clearly, both Conan and company and Conan's fans have been itching to reunite, so the room was already filled with a megaton of pent-up energy just waiting to escape. "The crowd at the Hult was on its feet, clapping, and yelling, 'CONAN! CONAN! CONAN!' as O'Brien came out on stage," Kristi Turnquist of the Oregonian said in her review. "He looked slim and healthy, beard neatly trimmed, in an open-necked blue shirt and darker blue-gray jacket and slacks. The cheers got so loud, they seemed to be rattling the walls. He shouldn't admit it, O'Brien said, 'But I really missed the applause ... You have no idea how shallow I am.'" The show is a celebration of everything that's made Conan such a television icon, and that includes being booted from the most coveted chair in television history. For instance, he brought back old favorites like the Masturbating Bear and even the Walker, Texas Ranger Level, but with less legally offensive names, such as the "Self-Pleasuring Panda" and the "Chuck Norris Rural Policeman Handle." The comedy, as a whole, seemed to be a mix of old favorites and new concepts. Of course, it's the first show of the tour where new bits and sketches are being tested on audiences for the first time, so some of the stuff that appeared in the Oregon show may not make it all the way through the tour's final stop in Atlanta. "All told, though, the comedy was hit and miss, with significantly fewer laughs during the second hour," The Hollywood Reporter's Erik Pedersen said. "Long, oh-so-deliberate setups rarely generated the hoped-for guffaws -- a deadly sin. One promising bit about 'the eight stages of grieving for the loss of your talk show' earned some deserved hearty laughs. Of the 'paranoia stage,' O'Brien said, 'I started hearing strange voices saying, Daddy, we're hungry.' But it meandered far too long, ending with a lazy name-check of the tour stop that generated the inevitable huge but unearned response." The show also had a few surprises in store for that lucky first audience, including celebrity cameos by "30 Rock's" Jack McBrayer and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. It also had a large amount of musical numbers with Coco on guitar and vocals doing parodies of "I Will Survive" and "On the Road Again" to mirror his current situation. And even though the show was live and unencumbered by the restrictions of niggling censors, it also had very few blue moments except for a stray curse word or a bit of man-on-man between Conan and his longtime trumpeter Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg. So basically, if you've always been a fan of Coco, you'll enjoy yourself all the way to the end. If you've been dragged along by someone who is a huge fan, you'll still have fun. Thankfully, I'm in the first group, so I know I'll have a good time -- that is, if I can scare up a ticket in time. Seriously, people, I'm this close to selling an organ, even a major one. If God didn't want me to sell my body parts for Conan O'Brien tickets, he wouldn't have given me "two" lungs. http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/04/13/co...eugene-oregon/ Attached Images

03-11-2010, 10:51 PM	#4
catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,376	Too bad he's not coming near my area.

03-11-2010, 10:53 PM	#5
HuntingtonM15 That Bothers Me Moderator Forum Star Join Date: Jun 20, 2003 Location: Metro Detroit Posts: 11,060	I bet this will sell out fast.

03-14-2010, 08:05 PM	#7
tvfreak1987 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 10, 2009 Location: Jackson, MI Posts: 580	Hmmm....Chicago is only 4 hours away from me.....eh, much as I love CoCo, I doubt I can afford it even if I could get tickets.