Ratings for The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien are up more than 50 percent since the whole brouhaha with NBC began.

The shame is that so many people who have been drawn in by the drama haven’t been able to enjoy the Conan experience, and soon will have him disappear from the airwaves. Well, for a while at least.

I’m not going to feel too bad for someone who today signed a severance deal that will pay him $33 million. But it will be sad for him to lose a show he has wanted for so long. After some length of a non-compete clause in the settlement, Conan will be back somewhere–Fox?–but until then enjoy the last two days.

One of the perks of working a few overnight shifts in the past two weeks has been watching Conan live while at work. The level of sticking it to NBC has been borderline surprising, and yet just gets funnier and funnier with each step.

Take last night for example. This clip shows a segment where Conan points out that while the show is still on the air, they can do anything they want and NBC has to pay for it. So he does the only natural thing and brings in an insanely expensive car with background music that costs a fortune to license. The result is a minute of TV that cost NBC $1.5 million for absolutely no reason other than spite.

In announcing the segment, Conan made it seem like it was going to be a recurring theme for the rest of his time there, which we now know will be just two more shows. I also found it interesting that among the many clips from this episode, the skit is not one offered on NBC.com. It’s also not on Hulu, which is partially owned by NBC Universal.

At least Hulu does have a clip from last night’s episode with Ed Helms offering a very special song for Conan.

Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooonan, Cooooooooooooooonaaaaaan.