At that time, Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes were attacked by Conan O’Brien’s Masturbating Bear

For many years one of the stars in the cameo performance of NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien was the Masturbating Bear, a boorish animal with enlarged genitals who appeared on the show – usually to perform a harmless task – and then played wildly with himself. And on July 11, 2000, he attacked Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes.

The story will be told in the latest episode of Conan O’Brien needs a friend Podcast in which Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson talks about the band’s rise, his relationship with brother Rich Robinson, their new album Lucky Bastards, and the masturbating bear.