Conan Billboards Blanket The Country (PHOTOS)

He may not be on TV anymore, but thanks to a billboard company, Lamar, you'll be seeing a lot more Conan in your life. Thousands of digital billboards have sprung up around the nation with one purpose: displaying Conan's current tweet. Sounds good to us.

Here's what Lamar's website had to say about their good deed:

Conan has lost his home and his rightful place on millions of screens across the nation. His audience is also lost. Some are picking up the pieces of their lives, but many can't. Some are too young to know this isn't their fault: that they've done nothing wrong. So, until this talented, brilliant, voluptuously coiffed man has his show back, we shall offer him our screens.
His tweets will be displayed 22 feet wide on thousands of digital displays across this great land in the noble hope of putting a little Conan back in all of our lives. Lamar is with Coco.

(via Buzzfeed)

Comments

[Kane]

10:40 AM on 04/12/2010

Found out today that you're supposed to urinate on a jellyfish sting, NOT a jellyroll stain. Sorry, fat stranger.

Jewish fun fact: If you celebrate Passover on top of an overpass, you go back in time.

Conan tweets-

[Tom Sutpen]

01:17 PM on 04/13/2010

High wit from the mouth of Skidsville.

[btdenver]

01:18 AM on 04/12/2010

Leno's on millions of tv's every night; Coco is on freaking billboards.

Tell us again how you both got screvved, Jay.

[ZimboDude]

09:36 AM on 04/11/2010

Coco fans remind me of tea-baggers

[Maroci]

02:22 PM on 04/11/2010

The tea-baggers watch Leno, genius.

[Tom Sutpen]

03:12 PM on 04/11/2010

How do you know that?

Or are you one of those people who think there's some kind of clear alignment in ideological makeup of those who watch Leno as opposed to those who watched O'Brien . . . because after all, the political content of both those guys shows is damn near *overwhelming*; just like watching 'Democracy Now!' or old episodes of 'Firing Line'?

I'd say the ideological sympathies of both guys' audiences cut across the spectrum. Neither one wants to discourage any potential viewer, so they both play it safe in that respect.

[2CLEVER]

09:28 AM on 04/11/2010

i bet more people c him on billboards than tv..or he'd still b on

[freethinking moderate]

10:12 PM on 04/11/2010

People who love Conan cannot accept the fact that he was always a niche guy. People love Leno more. I can brag that my millionaire is more popular than your millionaire, but that would be childish. On second though, being Conan fans, I know you people love that kind of thing.....

[facepalm12]

02:11 PM on 04/12/2010

You sir, are stupid.

[Dyskresiac]

11:50 AM on 04/13/2010

Or it's that Conan's audience uses Hulu/etc for watching TV, and those numbers are not added to ratings.

Seriously, who watches live TV anymore? Under the age of 40.

[mamacat]

08:21 AM on 04/11/2010

I wasn't into his schtick. To call it sophomoric would be a compliment. Still, with all of the fans he seems to have, he should be able to find a cable channel willing to give him some air time.

[Tom Sutpen]

03:15 PM on 04/11/2010

Oh, he will. I daresay he'll be on three or four of them (probably VH-1 or TBS) within two years.

[Frank Brenner]

01:11 AM on 04/11/2010

Viva Conando! The guy is a comedy master.

[helpusa]

12:39 AM on 04/11/2010

I'm not in the demographics that is included in the Cocosphere, but I learned to love his almost surreal humor, which I think that is what people have a hard time understanding. I got to the point where I realized he was sophomorically a genius of the highest order, and I mean that as a compliment. I was so thrilled when he took over the tonight show as a fresher version of the show, and then it was gone and I just can't go back. Maybe Leno was not at fault, but I just can't watch him now and I miss Conan and his whole fresh (sometimes too fresh) bag of skits.
I wish I could go see him at one of his coming up events and at Universal Studios where it is going to be bitter sweet for him I'm sure.

[Peter G]

12:14 AM on 04/11/2010

Believe me, Conan has nothing to do with this. This is completely Lamar's doing, and it is absolutely genius. They know how popular Conan is with young adults, the most highly-prized advertising demographic. They know that Conan has over 800,000 followers on Twitter and counting. By putting up these highly popular Tweets, there is a very good chance that those prized consumers will stop to read the latest from Conan, and THEN keep looking at the billboard after it switches to another ad. Or even better, if they know that a particular billboard has a new Conan tweet on it, they may stand there for a minute or more, watching ad after ad cycle through before it finally gets to Conan.

[Tom Sutpen]

02:27 AM on 04/11/2010

Yeah. That sort of thing really happens outside of movies.

Please.

If O'Brien's not paying for this out of his own pocket, then his corporation is; it's that simple.

Lamar Outdoor Advertising is not a charity; and if they really want to be, if they want to do some good, then they should donate ad space to any number of causes a lot more pressing to the world than a multi-millionaire ex-broadcaster's latest Public Relations scheme.

[Dannydel]

08:14 AM on 04/11/2010

Cynic of the year...dude, take a breath...relax.

[tice]

01:34 PM on 04/11/2010

Do you realize how electronic bill boards work? They typically cycle through many ads, it's not like they are dedicating 100% of their resourced to Conan. We're likely talking a few Conan ads interspersed with their regular ads.

I agree their are certainly more worthwhile causes.

What corporation? He's out of work.

When one company or person pays another company or person to represent them, they are affiliated. Do you have any data to support your claim other than how you think the world works?

[Joe The Nerd Ferraro]

08:43 AM on 04/11/2010

fanned for clarity
i hope i am you first of many fans...

[Nathaniel Mills]

11:30 PM on 04/10/2010

The late Rob't E. Howard is really coming into his own.

[WRPrintz]

12:25 PM on 04/11/2010

Does this make Jay Leno "Thulsa Doom", and NBC the home of Stygian Darkness?

[Pot]

10:43 PM on 04/10/2010

team coco!

[Rondo]

07:38 PM on 04/10/2010

Conan who?

[Joe The Nerd Ferraro]

08:43 AM on 04/11/2010

just enjoy the tweets...

[Tom Sutpen]

06:21 PM on 04/10/2010

Good God. How much is he shelling out for this nonsense?

[rkzrb]

07:07 PM on 04/10/2010

Why do you comment when you either have not read or do not comprehend what has been written? "He" is not paying anything. And nonsense is in the eye of the beholder. Your comment is nonsense.

[Tom Sutpen]

08:49 PM on 04/10/2010

It says Lamar Outdoor Advertising is putting them up (in fact, every Lamar billboard in America has been employed in this Publicity offensive); it doesn't say they're paying for them.

Unless you're going to tell me that this company is donating every inch of its billboard space, turning away *paying* customers to assist in maintaining the visibility of a multi-millionaire.

Obviously he's paying for this. I'd just love to know how much.

I mean, even if he got a discount it has to be at least at least seven figures.

[msbeal]

05:02 PM on 04/10/2010

A few more Conan jokes I don't laugh at. To each his own I guess.

[ZimboDude]

09:37 AM on 04/11/2010

Ditto

[olddognewtrick]

04:25 PM on 04/10/2010

I'm with CooCoo...

[LenoFan]

11:17 AM on 04/10/2010

Everybody has the right to waste their money as much as they want!