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Let the networkwide party begin: today's Page Six reports that allegedly 420-friendly NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman has jumped over the last mellow-harshing hurdle erected by the killjoy suits of his parent corporation, finally taking- his company drug test:

Sources assure us the network's new entertainment co-chairman has finally taken - and passed - a drug test.

A report last week on Deadline Hollywood Daily claimed Ben Silverman, who has political ambitions and refers to himself as a "Kennedy type," had yet to take a mandatory drug test after being hired. But now Silverman, a well-known figure on the Hollywood party circuit, "did take a drug test, and he started on Monday," said an NBC source. A rep added, "He followed the same procedures as every employee."

Unfortunately, Silverman will have to settle for the relatively quiet vindication provided by Page Six. As much as he'd have loved to have been greeted on his first official day of work with a framed copy of a full-page Variety ad boss Jeff Zucker took out to congratulate the programming protegé on his important career milestone ("Ben, I knew when I hired you that you'd have the resourcefulness and vision to beat this thing. Best, Jeff. p.s.—Feel free to expense that Whizzinator!), such a gift probably would have been frowned upon as inappropriate.