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Conan O'Brien to NBC: Sue Me, I want my masturbating bear!

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http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/10/27/conan-obrien-to-nbc-sue-me/

"If there's something we did for a long time that we've established as ours, we'll figure out a way to do it. I won't be denied my Masturbating Bear," O'Brien said in a new Rolling Stone profile, due out Friday.

Conan would even be willing to get the American legal system involved in the fight. "What I really wanna do is be sued over the bear and then appear in court with the Masturbating Bear," he said. "'Your Honor, this bear can't help himself!'"
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:guffaw:Sounds like TBS has decided to not only give him free reign with his new show, but they are backing his position of pissing off NBC.
 
I'm not the biggest fan of Conan's comedy style, but I have to say good on him! I hated how NBC and Leno treated him.
 
As long as hey have a small band in there doing the music while the bear beats off, 'cause you know the judge will be some 70/80 year old guy who has no clue who the Masturbating Bear is, and he'll ask to see the "skit", at which point a demonstration will be required... :D


GO CONAN!
 
You'd think NBC would remember how well the whole "intellectual property" thing worked for them when Letterman went over to CBS. Oh, yeah, it didn't. 17 years later, I can still watch him read the Top Ten List every night.
 
tharpdevenport said:
As long as hey have a small band in there doing the music while the bear beats off, 'cause you know the judge will be some 70/80 year old guy who has no clue who the Masturbating Bear is . . .
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Well, let’s see. Could the Masturbating Bear
be, uh . . . a masturbating bear?
cardinal biggles said:
You'd think NBC would remember how well the whole “intellectual property” thing worked for them when Letterman went over to CBS. Oh, yeah, it didn't. 17 years later, I can still watch him read the Top Ten List every night.
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I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on television, but I'd hazard a guess that NBC couldn't claim exclusive rights to a generic concept like a Top Ten list. On the other hand, Larry “Bud” Melman, the funny old geezer who appeared semi-regularly on Letterman’s NBC show, had to use his real name, Calvert DeForest, when Letterman made the move to CBS.
 
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