UPDATE (1:45 pm): They've added a second Boston show on June 5. Tickets here.

As previously hinted at, Conan O'Brien, the internet's favorite unemployed person, will be heading on a live comedy tour which will circumvent the clause in his NBC settlement that prevents him from appearing on television for seven months.

Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? Apparently Jay Leno has been restored to the Tonight Show host's chair, leaving poor Conan O'Brien - whose Tonight run was admittedly ratings-challenged, but so was Leno's for a long time - out in the cold. So while Leno has been booking guests for his post-Olympics return (watch the promo!), Conan has been left to find ways around that clause in his settlement with NBC that prevents him from appearing on television until September.

Hey, all you undecided and uninformed Phoenix Readers Poll 2010 voters: tonight is your chance to catch five of our six "Best Comedian 2010" nominees on one bill for $12. Mottley's Comedy Club is teaming up with self-described "medical anomaly" Mehran to launch "The Mehran Show," a comedy extravaganza featuring nearly a dozen local comedians riffing on a theme (this week's is "legendary") every third Thursday of the month.

Conan O'Brien today released a statement saying he will not do The Tonight Show at 12:05. You'll recall that in the wake of low ratings for both shows, NBC had cancelled Jay Leno's 10 pm talk show, and had introduced a plan to get Leno back into the 11:35 timeslot. One option on the table was for Conan to just move his show to 12:05, and then displacing the rest of NBC's late night lineup by one half hour.

Clearly, the solution to all of this is for Conan to bring back the Masturbating Bear.

TMZ is reporting (and the Times is adding more to that report) that, in a not-especially-surprising development, the beleaguered television network that is NBC is planning to return Jay Leno to the 11:30 pm timeslot, ending his low-rated 10 pm show.

Showalter (left) in Wet Hot American Summer (2001).

"I'm OUTTA heeeerrrrrrre" - Doug

"I want you inside me!" - Gerald "Coop" Cooperberg

The above two quotes represent one of two likely possibilities for people's first impressions of MICHAEL SHOWALTER, who comes to the Wilbur Theatre this Friday along with his friend and frequent collaborator, Michael Ian Black.

This past weekend marked the opening of King Richard’s Faire in Carver, MA. Most Renaissance faires can only dream of what King Richard’s has achieved: a permanent venue at an 80-acre wooded park in which they’ve built an expansive medieval village that must be seen to be believed. I attended the faire several times in my middle and high school years, and I decided to drop everything on Labor Day for the chance to find out if the festival is still as fun as I remembered.

"There's some backstage drama that you don't know about. I guess there's a problem with the wireless mics and they can hear what we're saying at The Color Purple!"

That was Kristen Schaal speaking to Eugene Mirman onstage last night at the Wilbur Theatre. The two were reconvening after their respective solo sets when Schaal delivered the news of the audio malfunction, presumably discovered while Mirman - he of the booming baritone - was on stage.

Lexington High alum Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal, who were on an acclaimed HBO series together, will be doing standup together as well at the Wilbur Theatre later this month. Here, they interview each other, with predictably enjoyable results. Show info is after the jump.