Conan Bought 2009 Kentucky Derby Winner Mine That Bird
Tonight, Conan bought 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird, draped it in a mink Snuggie and had it watch restricted NFL programming.
Mine That Bird was wearing a mink Snuggie, and was set up in front of a television playing restricted NFL Super Bowl footage. Conan's estimated price tag for the skit: $4.8 million.
How he came up with the figure is anybody's guess at this point, but it's certainly a first in the television world. How he, Andy Richter and the writers came up with the idea to put the 2009 Kentucky Derby winning horse Mine That Bird on stage wearing a huge mink Snuggie and watching restricted NFL Super Bowl footage is also anybody's guess.
This one-ups the Conan Buggati Veyron mouse skit that aired the night before, where he put some big rubber ears and whiskers on the $1.5 million super car and called it a new character for the show.
The final episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien airs on Friday night, January 22, 2010. Jay Leno is slated to reassume hosting responsibilities for The Tonight Show in March, after the natural buffer provided by the Winter Olympics. It was alluded to on Thursday night's show that as a part of Conan's settlement deal, he won't be able to be on television hosting his own show again until the following September.
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