LOOKS like Charlie Sheen is winning again.
After fans and media slammed his opening show in Detroit, Charlie Sheen presented a radically different performance in Chicago today (AEST).
Gone was the movie clips and YouTube videos and subsequently gone was the boos from the audience - with fans at the Chicago Theatre instead lapping up all they could from the sacked Two and a Half Men star, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Sheen spent much of the performance answering questions from tour producer and friend Joey Scoleri and exchanging quips with the crowd, all with a liberal dose of the F-word.
He claimed to owe former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss $2 million, before explaining that he paid for sex, "because I had millions to blow. I ran out of things to buy."
He said he would love to return to Two and a Half Men and apologised to his former co-star Jon Cryer for calling him a troll.
"I was wrong. Jon's not a troll. Jon's a f*cking rock star," Sheen said.
"I think it's a great f*cking show," he said of the hit sitcom that made him the highest paid TV actor in the world, but didn't have the same kind words for his bosses.
"They didn't give a f*ck that I was hammered for eight years ... money, ratings, money, ratings."
Sheen's bizarre opening show of his 18-city My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not An Option tour was in Detroit.
The troubled actor kicked off his performance an hour late, with what appeared to have been a stage version of the actor's failed online program Sheen's Korner. One man even streamed out of Detroit's Fox Theater shouting "Charlie Sheen stole my money!" according to the Detroit Free Press.
As Sheen took to the stage in Chicago the crowd began a "Detroit sucks" chant and Sheen began his performance with a poem about how much he hates the Motor City, TMZ reported.
The 45-year-old told USA Today that after the Detroit debacle he spent the five-hour bus ride to Chicago revamping the format of the show.
He said in Detroit, "everyone just got too drunk, too hot and too bored."
But there was none of that in Chicago, with Sheen saying, "they were too busy cheering."
"Seems like we fixed it. So why break it - unless we come up with something smarter, something more dangerous."
The tour is scheduled to run until May 3, with stops in New York, Boston and San Francisco, as well as Toronto and Vancouver in Canada.
Sheen was fired from Two and a Half Men in early March with CBS and Warner Bros. blaming his bizarre behavior and alleged substance abuse for their decision.
In retaliation, Sheen filed a $100 million lawsuit against Warner Bros. claiming wrongful termination.