Not just a comedy show, Conan rocked out on guitar and keys
The only thing I knew I wanted to do on this trip was see Conan O’Brien live. And on Saturday, I did. So how was the show?
Well, I don’t say this lightly but it was the best show / concert / live performance / whatever that I’ve seen. In my life. Could be the best I will ever see. Seriously.
Folks, I don’t know if you know the extent to which I am a Conan fan. I’m not fanatical about much, but I like Conan a lot. A whole lot. I like Conan like large dudes like chicken. I can still remember times before moving to St. John’s (which would have been over 13 years ago) when I would sit in my bedroom waiting until 2am so I could watch his show. I don’t know exactly when or how I started, but I never stopped. I’m sure I spent hundreds of first periods in plenty of grades almost falling asleep in school because of him (and our inconvenient time zone.) Getting TiVo in 2004 meant I could watch all of his shows. Sometimes they would backlog and I’d watch 30 in a weekend. When the writers went on strike, he got even better. No longer hiding behind the funny words of others, he grew his beard and put on even better shows. The man has the funny.
So when this man, whom I have watched for the entire portion of my life that I can remember, walked out on the stage in front me … well, I am not a good enough writer to describe that feeling. There were full body tingles and a smile on a my face you couldn’t remove with a scalpel. An exhilarated rush of emotions. It was a magic potion the likes of which I had never tasted.
I’ve done a lot of things and seen a lot of shows but nothing, and I mean nothing, compares to that single moment in time.
It’s worth nothing that the Second City show I saw in February is still the funniest show I’ve seen, but that was a comedy show. Conan was an experience. An experience that rocked my socks clean off. (I could list all the amazing things he said and did but there were enough video cameras in the audience that you can find it all on YouTube.)
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It was brilliant comedy, great music, but more importantly it was Conan being Conan with no television filter between his face and my eyes. And that’s something I never thought I’d get to see.