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You can’t keep CoCo down. Since he’s basically banned from TV until September, Conan O’Brien will take the show on the road, and most likely, on the web. Hitting the web would be a great way to capitalize on the army of very vocal Conan fans that have spoken out over the last couple months. Appearing on savvy shows like Diggnation and posting fun tweets worked well for Jimmy Fallon, and it would definitely do the same for Conan.
A tour like this may also help ground Conan a bit so when he’s back on the air in September, those “appease the Leno fans” jokes and skits might be replaced by classic Conan craziness. The only thing I really didn’t enjoy about Conan’s Tonight Show was the fake skits that would have been so much better had they been real. For example: When joking about the paparazzi in LA, he said it would be funny if he set up a scene of him drinking and hitting a nun (or something, I can’t remember.) So they went outside and had these fake photographers take his picture while slowly hitting an actress with a prop car. That would have been comedy GOLD if he had really duped the paparazzi. In the final week he was supposedly spending loads millions of NBC’s money on expensive props. I know a ton of people that bought into this and were all let down when Conan said that it was just a bit.
Like any big classic rock band that needs to get back in touch with its roots, Conan needs to hit the clubs and get back with the people. Conan’s been holed up in those studios for a while now, and hitting the road and meeting the people of the USA might be just what he needs.
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