NBC has gone on the offensive and pulled the web clips of Conan O’Brien’s vengeful “Bugatti Veyron” sketch from Hulu and NBC.com. The move was made to avoid costly fees associated with Conan’s decision to play “Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones, for his own satisfaction.
The controversial $1.5 million comedy sketch begins with COCO taking pleasure in the fact that even though his show is about to go off air, “we can do whatever we want, and they [NBC] have to pay for it.”
To prove it, O’Brien introduced a new Tonight Show character — the Bugatti Veyron mouse — while playing the iconic Rolling Stones hit “Satisfaction” in the background as the mouse’s theme song. The Bugatti Veyron is most expensive car in the world, just dressed up as mouse, and because of O’Brien’s song choice, the sketch that it stars in will be most the expensive bit to date.
O’Brien states:
“Let me ask you a question. Is this appropriate music for a car that looks like a mouse? No! Does it add anything at all to this comedy bit? No, it doesn’t! Is it crazy expensive to play on the air — not to mention the rights to re-air this clip on the Internet? Hell yes.”
And that’s just it. NBC is hoping to avoid those pricey track fees associated with online views of the bit. So should you wish to relive the oddly comedic moment on NBC’s official online properties, however, you’re out of luck. While copies, like the YouTube one below, still abound online, NBC’s version of last’s night show is absent one Bugatti Veyron mouse.
At this point all we can do is wait anxiously for the next show to see what O’Brien still has left up his sleeve.
