Conan O’Brien live tour is a go

The rumored Conan O’Brien stage tour is no longer a rumor.

O’Brien, whose exit from “The Tonight Show” and NBC bars him from taking another TV job until September, will launch “The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour” in Eugene, Ore., on April 12. He, sidekick Andy Richter and his “Tonight Show” band led [...]

Andy Richter: Not a fan of NBC

Former “Tonight Show” sidekick Andy Richter is technically still an NBC employee, but he’s not toeing the company line.

Richter was a guest host on “Live with Regis and Kelly” Tuesday (March 9), and Kelly Ripa wasted no time in asking him about the “hullaballoo” surrounding Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show” exit.
“I can actually be on TV,” [...]

Conan O’Brien live: Tickets (maybe) on sale

Conan O’Brien’s stage show may be getting close to reality — so close, in fact, that tickets were briefly available Friday.
That’s according to TMZ, which notes that Ticketmaster had a listing for Conan O’Brien performing live at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix on April 30. (Incidentally, that’s also the venue for the first stop on [...]

Jay Leno’s late-night return outdraws Letterman

Jay Leno’s first night back as host of “The Tonight Show” was a good one ratings-wise, but no one is proclaiming him the “returning king of late night” just yet.
“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” scored a 6.6 million viewers, according to fast national numbers from Nielsen, and a 1.6 rating in adults 18-49. Those [...]

Conan O’Brien joins Twitter, almost instantly passes Jay Leno

Conan O’Brien, who made fun of Twitter a whole bunch during his “Tonight Show” stint, has joined Twitter.
The sum total of his output (Twitter has verified it’s actually O’Brien) as of 6 p.m. PT Wednesday is a single tweet: “Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.” [...]

Conan O’Brien may take to the stage

Conan O’Brien can’t appear on TV until September, but he may have hit on a way to let people see him before then.
According to a couple of reports, O’Brien is considering mounting a live stage show that would hit several cities and keep him in front of fans while he waits out the terms of [...]

So long, Jay Leno. See you later (around 11:30, to be exact)

Remember Sept. 14, 2009? Things were simpler then. The fall TV season was about to begin, every new show was a possible hit, and the television world was buzzing about a plucky newcomer who had the potential to change prime-time TV forever.
We’re speaking, of course, of Jay Leno.
So, uh, yeah, that didn’t work out [...]

Conan O’Brien: Have you seen this host on NBC sites?

Where’s Conan O’Brien? Not hanging around NBC and its websites, that’s for sure.
Not only has O’Brien vacated “The Tonight Show” premises, but NBC has made sure all traces of his short run have been expunged from the Internet and anywhere else in their sphere of influence.
O’Brien’s last night hosting “The Tonight Show” was Friday, Jan. [...]

FOX on Conan O’Brien: Only if it’s profitable

Conan O’Brien could very well end up on FOX by the fall — provided the network can show its corporate bosses that a late-night show would make money.
So sayeth Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of FOX parent News Corp. On a conference call discussing the company’s financial results Wednesday (Feb. 3), Murdoch said the network [...]

Jimmy Kimmel on Jay Leno on ‘Oprah’: ‘He’s a tattle tale.’

Jimmy Kimmel fires back at Jay Leno after Leno’s appearance on “Oprah.”
On Thursday (Jan. 28), Jay Leno told Oprah Winfrey that Jimmy Kimmel’s impersonation of him and subsequent jokes in the 10 @ 10 segment on “The Jay Leno Show” were “a sucker punch.”
Jimmy Kimmel took to his opening monologue to respond, starting with, “Excuse [...]

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