@whoneedsconanticketsanyway?
Yeah, we’re talking to you, Conan O’Brien, you big, goofy, “My live show at the Fox Theatre on Monday sold out faster than that backstabber Jay Leno” comedy superstar.
And we’re doing it in Tweet form, your preferred method of communication these days. We’ve been following you, literally and figuratively, since you started posting on Twitter in February (“Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.”) And when you kept on posting about freckles, doing stand-up and your supposedly joking mano a boyo battle for Twitter supremacy with teen idol Justin Bieber.
(He lives in Atlanta, by the way. As if you didn’t already know that.)
You even Twitt-scooped the world on your new TV gig:
“The good news: I will be doing a show on TBS starting in November! The bad news: I’ll be playing Rudy on the all new ‘Cosby Show.’ ”
(Actress Keshia Knight Pulliam, aka “Rudy,” lives in Atlanta, too. TBS headquarters is here as well. At this point, frankly, you’re starting to feel like our stalker.)
Indeed, you’re probably tearing up your act and replacing it with tons of new Atlanta-centric material even as we speak. But from accounts of your previous shows, the audience at the Fox Theatre on Monday night — the final stop on a 31-city tour — can expect a few staple bits when you take the stage:
● A taped opening segment of a certain overweight, underemployed former “Tonight Show” host visibly moping while Eric Carmen wails “All by Myself.”
● A joke about this being “the first time in my career anyone has ever paid to see me” (at $41.50-$81.50 per ticket, they quickly sold out here, though some could still be had last week at significant markups on Craigslist and the like).
● An onstage cameo by some local legend, along the lines of Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher in Chicago and Eddie “Pearl Jam” Vedder in Seattle.
There’s usually some locally flavored humor, too, as when the Tulsa, Okla., audience got tweaked for living in a state shaped like a meat cleaver, or Minneapolis and St. Paul for their intense rivalry (“You all go to the same mall. Get over it.”)
Not to brag, Conan, but metro Atlanta’s a way bigger joke than any of those other places. We figure that’s why you decided to work for TBS and end your stand-up odyssey here, where you can’t turn around on the Downtown Connector without ... well, nobody can turn around on the Connector. Traffic’s just one of our rich sources of comedy, along with the hapless Hawks, endless variations on “Peachtree” and constant 98 percent humidity. (For that we have 99-proof moonshine. Except on Sundays, of course.)
So have at us big-time Monday night, Conan. We won’t take it personally. Heck, most of us couldn’t get tickets, so we won’t even be there.
But we’ll read all about it on Twitter. Soon, we promise.
Right now we’re way too busy following that adorable little Justin Bieber.
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On stage
“Conan O’Brien: Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour”
8 p.m. Monday. Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta. 404-881-2100, www.foxtheatre.org
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