\n“NBC, I think, has already made their mind up,” said Mitchell, 27, a Los Angeles<\/a>-based freelance illustrator. “Maybe (the protest) is more of a thing to show that there’s a lot of Conan fans.”<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n O’Brien publicly refused to push back the start of “The Tonight Show,” which he hosts, so that NBC could rescue former host Jay Leno<\/a>’s prime-time ratings bomb. It seems O’Brien will leave the network, and Mitchell said he thinks the comic’s problems have touched a nerve.<\/p>\n \n“A lot of people have really crappy bosses,” Mitchell said. “They can really relate.”<\/p>\n \nMitchell administers the “I’m With Coco” Facebook<\/a> page — at 276,000 fans and climbing — and has other rallies planned for Monday in L.A., New York and Seattle.<\/p>\n \nHe also illustrated the seminal image for the “I’m With Coco” movement, a black-and-white portrait of a grim O’Brien, the only color the bright orange in his hair and in the nickname, “Coco,” which originates from a skit on the late-night show. Other Facebook users have appropriated the image for similar groups, but Mitchell’s has the most followers.<\/p>\n \nMitchell, who lived in Chicago from 2004 to 2006, will be attending the Los Angeles rally.<\/p>\n \nAbout 1,400 RSVP’d yes for the California<\/a> rally and, as of Sunday afternoon, about 400 promised to attend the Chicago gathering at Pioneer Court in front of the NBC building downtown. Mitchell wants rally attendees to wear orange, bring signs and be civil.<\/p>\n \nFans will be “there to kind of have fun and support somebody who’s kind of being (dumped) on publicly,” he said.<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Read the original article from Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n To Mike Mitchell, Conan “Coco” O’Brien is an orange-haired, smart-alecky everyman. Now, courtesy of Mitchell’s social networking, O’Brien’s biggest Chicago supporters will hold a rally at 4:30 p.m. Monday on NBC’s Michigan Avenue doorstep to deliver a message to the network. “NBC, I think, has already made their mind up,” said Mitchell, 27, a Los […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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