Conan O’Brien And Jim Carrey Duet During Live Show From Universal Lot

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by Steve Krakauer | 6:07 pm, April 25th, 2010

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Conan O’Brien live comedy/music tour took him to a familiar place last night – the Universal lot where he used to shoot The Tonight Show.

He used the opportunity to perform what may be the highlight of the tour so far – a duet with Jim Carrey (who was dressed as Superman) – with a clip craftily disseminated to his millions of fans through new media.

“I’m doing my live show tonight from the Universal lot where I taped The Tonight Show. So if a shot rings out, tell my wife I loved her,” Conan tweeted before the show last night. And the references to his former employer, and the location irony, continued during the show. “Listen very carefully,” he said, pointing NBCU’s direction. “Bad ideas are being greenlit.”

The celebrities came out in full force for the L.A. show, but none bigger than Carrey, a frequent guest from Conan’s Late Night days. The two shared the stage for a funny, but also solidly sung, performance of Five For Fighting’s early 2000s hit “Superman” – with Carrey dressed as the character.

But since it was a live show, how would more than a few thousand get to share in the experience? A combination of YouTube, Twitter and Conan’s growing tour blog. Someone in the audience taped the performance, and put it on YouTube. Then tour blogger and former Tonight Show staffer Aaron Bleyaert put it on TeamCoco.com, tweeted it out himself, and Conan followed suit. His 800,000+ followers were instantly alerted to the performance. How many views will this clip have in 24 hours? Most likely hundreds of thousands. Thanks to some creative new media go-arounds, everyone can share in the Conan experience NBCU tried to avoid.

Watch it here:

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Jamestaylor

Two more left losers.
stoogedudes

What? Where there a bunch of losers there and they all took off and that made them the left losers? Or are you suggesting that they are liberal, which to you by default makes them losers, yes? Really?????
TylerDurden

Correction, 3 left losers!
TylerDurden

Sorry, stooge, I cloudn’t resist.

How are ya?
Munch

does anyone even watch these two anymore?
stoogedudes

Oh, Tyler, I was wondering if I’d see you on here. You don’t disappoint. I’m doing just fine, thanks! Never better!

But to Jamestaylor, why would you consider them left? I’ve never heard them spout any sort of left wing agenda or anything like that. They don’t inject politics into their careers. Just wondering what makes them members of the left…

To Munch’s question: No, no one watches them because Conan isn’t on television at the moment and Carrey hasn’t had a movie out in a little while. But when Conan comes back, people will watch him and I’m sure anything Jim Carrey does.
TylerDurden

I liked Conan at 12:30am. Didn’t think he translated well at 11:30pm.

Carrey went on an ego trip for a number of years, demanding $20 million when his pictures , except animation, didn’t warrant that kind of money. Carrey then went on a national witch hunt with his then girlfriend proclaiming that autism was caused by MMR vaccinations, which was absolutely false.

I don’t know how long the public will hold that against him, but I have no desire to see anything he does.
stoogedudes

Fair enough. I think he did good in his Late Night slot. He lost a bit of his luster when he started on the Tonight Show, but the last few weeks were classic. I think Carrey needs to go back to doing comedies like the ones he did in the 90′s. Dumb and Dumber is among the best comedies of that decade. Still, I don’t really see how his stance in this particular autism debate delegates him to a particular political ideology. But whatever.
Cactus

Agree with Tyler on that one… he tried to “dilute” his 12:35am stuff during the Tonight Show, which did nothing to appeal to Leno fans and disappointed Conan fans. He didn’t do so bad that I wanted Leno back, though…

TBS should give him all the freedom he needs to put on a good show for his fans. It’ll definitely be niche, but here’s hoping it’ll be much, much better.
kieronnpollard

The celebrities came out in full force for the L.A. show, but none bigger than Carrey, a frequent guest from Conan’s Late Night days. The two shared the stage for a funny, but also solidly sung..
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