Late at Night I think about Max Weinberg, Apparently

So last night I was watching the summer re-runs of one of my favourite programs, Conan O’Brien when it occurred to me that his band drummer and leader, Max Weinberg of the Max Weinberg 7 has the sweetest job ever. If you think about it, the guy only has to play the drums for about a minute at a time at most and have a short and often humourous conversation with Conan after Conan approaches his desk. Of course, as is the nature of the show, sometimes inappropriate jokes are made about him but if you think about how much money that guy must get paid, who wouldn’t allow themselves to be the butt of a few well crafted jokes while racking in a crazy amount of dough for basically doing very little? It’s like a dream job, and he gets to wear a suit and look classy while doing it. I also wonder if Max would make more money then say, LaBamba the trumpet player, I’d assume so because the band is named after Max himself, but LaBamba also finds himself the butt of several (often homosexually referenced) jokes and the singing voice over for the very humourous Conan skit “In the Year 2000.” In such satirical working circumstances I have to wonder how much money Max would make in comparison to LaBamba and better yet, how they obtain these highly lucrative positions.