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May 10

The Writers to Appear in Chicago!

Tags: Andy Richter, News Articles, Writers

Andy Richter and the writers will be a part of the Just For Laughs festival in Chicago on June 17th, and this event will be taped for a special to be aired on TBS on June 27th. Click here for more ticket information. And here are some excerpts from the New York Times and the event’s official website:

May 27, 2010, 10:37 am
Writers for Conan O’Brien Get Their Own Show (for a Night)
By DAVE ITZKOFF

These days, being a writer for Conan O’Brien would seem to be as synonymous with idleness as being a Maytag repairman or a BP thank-you-note writer. But the writers for the former “Tonight Show” host and future TBS star are putting their downtime to productive use: after Mr. O’Brien completes his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour, his writers will perform a live show in Chicago that will be broadcast on TBS at the end of June.

The show, called “Team Coco Presents Conan’s Writers Live,” will be presented as part of the TBS Presents a “Very Funny” Festival: Just For Laughs (yes, that’s its full title) on June 17 at the Bank of America Theater, its organizers said. The show will feature Andy Richter, Mr. O’Brien’s longtime “Late Night” and “Tonight Show” sidekick, as well as Reggie Watts, a musician and comedian who has been opening for Mr. O’Brien on his tour, and will be shown June 27 on TBS. Then, before their egos get too inflated, it will be time for the writers to go back behind the cameras and help Mr. O’Brien prepare for his TBS debut on Nov. 8.

Team Coco Presents The Conan Writers Live
Andy Richter, Reggie Watts and several of Conan O’Brien’s writers will team up for the one-hour special Team Coco Presents The Conan Writers Live. This show has played to sold-out audiences in Los Angeles and is coming to Chicago for one night only. Richter was O’Brien’s sidekick on Late Night with Conan O’Brien from 1993 to 2000, before venturing out to star in Andy Richter Controls the Universe and Andy Barker, P.I., and then returning to join O’Brien as announcer for The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.

The evening will also feature the musical stylings of comedian Watts, who is opening for O’Brien on The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour.

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