Conan O’Brien is in early talks to film a documentary of his 30-city “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour,” his publicist confirms to EW. As first reported by Deadline’s Mike Fleming, Media Rights Capital is in discussions to finance, while Rodman Flender (Idle Hands) is in conversations to direct.
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