Conan > NBC

Conan O'Brien leaving The Ivy restaurant in Beverly Hills last April

Conan O'Brien left a little parting gift for Jeff Zucker and NBC on Friday night's show: a $500,000 bill. From the New York Daily News:

One of his final guests, Tom Hanks, entered the studio to the tune of The Beatles' "Lovely Rita," which may have cost the network half a million dollars.

Questlove, drummer for the band The Roots, tuned in to the episode and tweeted "yo i hate spoiling but i will have you know that walk on song we just heard was half a milli. i know cause i got the list rate at nbc."

The musician tweets on good authority, as The Roots are the house band for NBC's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon."

"anytime you use the beatles on tv that will cost you dearly," he later added.

Damn, sticking it to the network for half-a-million is way better than my idea: lighting a paper bag full of dog shit on fire and leaving it in front of the studio. In my idea's defense, Jeff Zucker can't write off dog shit all over his shoe as a "business expense."

[Flynet]