Conan O’Brien Comedy Tour Begins Tonight

By James Sheldon on April 12th, 2010

Conan, excuse me, Coco O’Brien is an American icon.

Those of us who have been fans for well over 10 years realize his potential every time he steps on stage or in front of a camera, and beginning tonight, we’ll get to see him unleashed.

Team Coco, taking their act to the road, begins the two-month, live comedy tour tonight, in the hot-bed of American comedy, Eugene, Oregon.

Conan O’Brien will launch his “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour,” to a modest crowd of 2,500 in the ripe, college town–a joint full of neo-hipsters and the granola gang/sorori-frat mix who can all get down with O’Brien’s well-drafted humor. Let’s face it, if you don’t get Coco, you must have long since burned the bridge to your childhood.

Conan will rock the Pacific Northwest, as well as western Canada for the first 10 days of the tour, before he drops back down south to hit San Francisco, then play a couple nights in L.A. at the Gibson Amphitheater–literally a hop from the Burbank, NBC studios that briefly housed his version of The Tonight Show, and made Burbank a happier place. Seriously. I live here. It was better.

My own mind is abuzz of what Conan might do or say, being less than a mile from the NBC/Universal building in Universal City, CA. Then again, such humor might be too easy.

For complete tour dates, you can hit the Team Coco site, but don’t expect to find spare tickets just begging to be purchased.