Conan O’Brien’s Final Tonight Show Geared For Fun
The final week of The Tonight Show hosted by Conan O’Brien was extremely entertaining and plain good television. Guests during the week were Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Robin Williams and Adam Sandler. Surprise guests during the week included Ben Stiller and Pee Wee Herman in comedy skits centered on O’Brien’s departure from The tonight show. Conan O’Brien’s final show on Friday was geared up to be a fun one. Conan was treated to a surprise visit by Steve Carell who proceeded to do an exit interview with Conan for NBC. Conan was in hysterics by the time Carell finished his interview and the audience was revved up for the rest of the show.
During the week Conan had a bit about being vindictive and charging whatever he could to The Tonight Show, with NBC unable to do anything about it. The first expensive item featured during the week was a Bugatti Veyron car dressed up in mouse ears while an original recording of the song “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones played in the background. O’Brien claimed the car and the cost of playing the original song would cost NBC $1.5 million. The second expensive item was the purchase of 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird, with the racehorse wearing a mink Snuggie while watching restricted Super Bowl footage. O’Brien claimed this hijink cost NBC $4.8 million. Conan showed the final expensive item on Friday night: a credit card purchased skeleton of a ground sloth from the Smithsonian institution, spraying Beluga caviar spraying through a hose on to an original Picasso, costing $65 million dollars paid for by NBC. Conan then made sure the audience knew the expensive buys at NBC’s expense was a joke all along.
Conan O’Brien issued an official press release statement today saying he will not accept the move of the Tonight Show to a 12:05 p.m. slot NBC planned in order to bring back Jay Leno as the Tonight Show’s lead in at 11:35 p.m. after the cancellation of Leno’s prime time show.
