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Absolutely pathetic part deux
Donald Glover!!!
One of the sticking points in the negotiations between Conan O'Brien and NBC is a custody battle -- who gets Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and other characters Conan has created over the years ... sources tell TMZ. But we're told Conan will bag the dog, with strings attached.
Sources say Conan and NBC are "close" on his "Tonight Show" exit agreement -- but one of the remaining sticking points is intellectual property. Conan's characters -- like Triumph, the Pimpbot 5000 and the Masturbating Bear -- are all legally the property of NBC (Triumph's rights are a little tricky and may be the property of Conan's longtime friend Robert Smigel).
Conan wants to take them with him wherever he lands -- and we're told NBC will ultimately give Conan the right to his characters, in return for conceding other points in the exit deal.
As for what Conan may have to concede ... we're told the non-disparagement clause is still an issue. Specifically, how long will Conan be prohibited from trashing NBC? Conan may have to fold on this point in order to walk the dog.
Bottom line -- looks like the Masturbating Bear will live to self-gratify another day.
riskVSreward said:What the fuck would NBC even do with those characters? It's like they're trying to out douche themselves at every turn. Are they gonna trademark his hair too?
riskVSreward said:What the fuck would NBC even do with those characters? It's like they're trying to out douche themselves at every turn. Are they gonna trademark his hair too?
numble said:Conan might get rights to characters in return for non-disparagement clause...
TMZ
http://www.tmz.com/2010/01/18/conan-obrien-nbc-triumph-insult-comic-dog-tonight-show/#ixzz0czcggCif
Sure. But a majority of those characters you won't see again anyway. Going up against word that you won't offend them on the air is pretty flimsy anyway.Raw64life said:I'll take 20 more years of Conan skits over him not bashing NBC for one week.
BenjaminBirdie said:When I went to the NBC store, they were selling Conando shirts, so it's clear they want all that stuff for merchandising.
Yeah, I remember that...woodchuck said:I'm trying to find a clip of Conan and Max after a show. Max takes the elevator and then Conan runs down the stairs waiting to kill Max. The elevator opens and Max guns down Conan with a machine gun :lol
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Yup.woodchuck said:I'm trying to find a clip of Conan and Max after a show. Max takes the elevator and then Conan runs down the stairs waiting to kill Max. The elevator opens and Max guns down Conan with a machine gun :lol
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
cubicle47b said:At 2:51 it looks like the guy from Community. He must have been an intern.
Raxus said:Ripped from TMZ.
The bad guy
Zucker 54%
Jay 41%
Conan 5%
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Ploid 3.0 said:Dang I missed the golden globes. Good thing youtube has all of Ricky's jokes tied in a neat bow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbe2dtRt0Ik NBC, and Jay jabs in there somewhere.
That shit gave me nightmares man..Sanjuro Tsubaki said:I tried looking.....all I could find was Max on Max.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STYsEXiuruU&feature=related
I was just watching that:lol :lolpringles said:One of my favorite sketches, when Conan goes out on the streets with a mini-van during the transit strike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKBQrXxrvu0
pringles said:Also, those bitches had to die: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z69wBnBi9aQ&feature=related
Besides you know somebody on the inside is writing a book that would air all the dirty dirt.Ninja Scooter said:I'd rather Conan have the rights to the characters. I mentioned this earlier but its not really in Conan's style to be all vindictive and trash NBC, and to be honest, I think he would have stopped once he went to Fox/ABC/wherever anyway so the clause is kind of pointless...though it would be great if things came full circle and just like Carson would write jokes for Letterman, Conan and his writers sent all their NBC-bashing stuff to Dave to use on his show.
In 2004 Conan started to get offers from Fox and possibly ABC. NBC had just finished a contract extension with Leno until 2009 so they brought the idea to Leno that he step down after the contract ended so that Conan wouldn't leave and create a competing show. Leno said he would leave the Tonight Show but (in his public statement) he wasn't going to retire. As Leno's contract neared its end, he likely had offers to go to Fox and/or ABC and thats when NBC freaked out (especially considering he still had the #1 show) and had to figure out a way to keep Leno because there was nothing in his contract preventing him from starting a competing show. So NBC (just as they did in the early 90s) was forced to make a choice: let Leno walk and create a new show, let Conan walk and create a new show or try to keep both happy. And we all know they picked the latter which only was to delay the inevitable.ruby_onix said:Jay never wanted to leave his 11:35 show (aside from that period of time when they were making the written plans). He refused and threatened and caused a mess a year ago. NBC convinced him to move to primetime. He failed there. They had to find a new solution. Maybe daytime, maybe a car show. "Somebody" suggested that he take back his 11:35 show from Conan, even if $40 million contracts and NBC's word had to be broken to do it. Only fools think that "somebody" wasn't Jay Leno himself. Jay plays the victim card and says NBC is screwing him (even though he's getting everything he wants), and NBC lets people believe it. But that's only because Leno means that much to them.
That clip's on that Japanese site that people are linking in this thread (YouKu or something like that).woodchuck said:I'm trying to find a clip of Conan and Max after a show. Max takes the elevator and then Conan runs down the stairs waiting to kill Max. The elevator opens and Max guns down Conan with a machine gun :lol
Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
rareside said:TMZ has a live stream on their home page of Conan supporters outside Universal.
I won't link to it, because it's TMZ, but it's amazing that such a crowd came out despite the rain.
infinityBCRT said:NBC really dropped the ball on this one-- if they had put a non-compete clause for a few years in Leno's contract at the end of 2009 or for the Jay Leno show than they really wouldn't have to worry about Leno creating a hit new show hot off the heels of "Tonight". And if they knew Leno had no intention of retiring or had a desire to go to another network (which they should have), they should have let Conan walk in 2004.
That's unlikely.Buckethead said:So is Howerd Starn going to be on tonight?