What’s the juiciest revenge you’ve ever perpetrated on a former employer? Maybe email blasting the company? Perhaps you stole a computer? Did you, possibly, leave a flaming bag of dog excrement on the CEO’s front step? Pffft. Lame. Conan O’Brien blew around 1.5 million of NBC’s dollars by dressing a Bugatti Veyron sports car like a mouse. The Veyron Mouse’s theme song? The original master recording of the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction.” Ka-ching. That’s easily among the biggest "eff you"s of all time. Or is it? Jalopnik is reporting that the crazy expensive vehicle was actually on loan from the Petersen Automotive Museum, thus reducing the price tag to…much less? At least the rights to air “Satisfaction” must have cost the peacock network a pretty penny, right? Wrong!
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’)ABC News reports that previously existing agreements allow NBC to “play ‘Satisfaction’ at no additional cost for a live or time-delayed performance.” Since the network has pulled the bit from its online airing of the episode, it looks like NBC is essentially on the hook for nada, nuthin’, a big fat zip.
It’s disappointing news, considering NBC’s clearly evil commitment to painfully banal comedians/horrifically stupid business decisions. With the company poised to lose 200 million dollars on its broadcast of the Winter Olympics, it would have been incredibly satisfying for Conan to actually flush even more millions down the drain. Alas, it seems that Coco couldn’t make it happen. The crafty comedian did, however, have an almost equally damaging punishment to render against NBC: he invited Robin Williams on the show and let him to savage the network. Until you’ve seen a manic Williams flash/give the finger to NBC, you haven’t lived:


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