Conan O’Brien did it. Kevin Smith is doing it. And Charlie Sheen, God help us, will start doing it on April 2.

All three stars have taken or are taking their shows on the road, cutting out television networks and film studios, and bringing their voices right to the people.

O’Brien — who took his “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour” to 32 cities last year after severing his relationship with NBC — proved that the template can be a success. After being treated like a rock star on the road, Team CoCo fanatics, he wound up with another late-night talk show and a documentary about the tour that was just snatched up for distribution at Austin’s South by Southwest Festival. Not bad.

Smith — who recently brought his new fundamentalist horror movie, “Red State,” to Washington’s Warner Theatre as part of a national series of DIY screenings — wants to prove he can make and distribute films himself.

Sheen, on the other hand, just wants to keep winning.

Are there other stars who could give their careers a dose of rocket fuel this way? Of course:

1. Dave Chappelle: It has been six years since the Washington native walked away from “Chappelle’s Show,” in part, he said, because he felt he was losing control of the comedy. Why not take control again and launch a national tour with a mix of stand-up and that sketch comedy he does so well? Sure, he’s content to live a quiet life in Ohio, but America hasn’t been the same since Chappelle stopped doing his Lil Jon impression.

2. The cast of “Arrested Development”: It seems clear that the much-discussed “Arrested Development” movie is never going to happen, or at least not soon. So let’s compromise and reassemble the cast for a series of improv comedy nights. Granted, cast members such as Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Michael Cera have thriving movie and TV careers and no financial motivation to do this sort of thing. But surely they’d want to for the fans of the Bluth family?

3. The cast of “The Breakfast Club”: In a similar vein, let’s bring the brain (Anthony Michael Hall), the athlete (Emilio Estevez), the princess (Molly Ringwald), the basket case (Ally Sheedy) and the criminal (Judd Nelson) back together for a series of limited performances. The show — “Demented and Sad, but Still Social: ‘The Breakfast Club’ Three Decades Later” — would allow the cast members to reminisce about their work with late director John Hughes and to act out a few scenes that show us what happened to their characters once they grew up and their hearts, presumably, died. Every Gen Xer on the planet would want a ticket.

4. Wesley Snipes: The “Blade” star is serving a three-year prison sentence in his tax evasion case. But once he’s released, it’s time to reintroduce himself to the public. And what better way to do it than by writing his own one-man show that tells, in dramatic fashion, his version of the tax evasion story? Book it off-Broadway, get some good reviews, then all of a sudden, Snipes might be starring in movies that don’t go straight to DVD.

5. Jon Cryer: Charlie Sheen always gets the attention. But Cryer is a funny guy in his own right. Maybe he could do a series of live shows and finally share his side of the “Two and a Half Men” debacle. Actually, on second thought, Cryer’s probably better off keeping his mouth shut. The actor formerly known as Duckie Dale from “Pretty in Pink” can save it all up for his inevitable memoir, “I Am, and Will Always Remain, a Duckman: The Jon Cryer Story.”