Conan O’Brien Will Fight for His ‘Masturbating Bear’

Conan O’Brien is going to run his TBS show ‘Conan’ the way he wants to, and if that includes a masturbating bear, he will get his masturbating bear.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, O’Brien drew a line in the sand, daring NBC to try and sue him for using old ‘Tonight Show‘ and ‘Late Night‘ gags on his new show.

“If there’s something we did for a long time that we’ve established as ours, we’ll figure out a way to do it,” O’Brien says in RS’s Nov. 11 issue. “I won’t be denied my Masturbating Bear!”

If Conan wants to use some of the old gags from his days at ‘The Tonight Show,’ then he may face serious legal issues from NBC, but he’s not going to back down.

“What I really wanna do is be sued over the bear and then appear in court with the Masturbating Bear,” O’Brien says. “Your honor, this bear can’t help himself!”

Now that the dust has settled from the controversial spat between Conan, Leno and NBC, the new TBS late night honcho isn’t as bitter as he was before.

“Knowing what I know, I’m quite confident that what really happened really didn’t have much at all to do with what I was doing,” O’Brien says.

Knowing that the stakes of starting fresh at TBS are high, O’Brien knows he needs to go all out.

“I feel like, ‘OK, I’m going to go for broke,’ I have nothing to lose,” O’Brien says. “Let’s face it: I’m not going to do another television show after this one.”

Go behind the scenes of Conan’s RS photo shoot here.

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Conan O’Brien Will Fight for His ‘Masturbating Bear’

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