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In advance of Time magazine's Person of the Year choice being revealed on Wednesday's show, NBC's Today show brought on managing editor Richard Stengel yesterday, to reveal the seven finalists, and on Tuesday's show NBC's Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira gave the results of an on-line poll of their viewer's picks and it wasn't good news for Nancy Pelosi. The Speaker of the House finished dead last among the seven candidates but Lauer pitied...  

Weathercaster Al Roker, left, and co-host Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer of NBC "Today" show, appear during a segment of the program in New York's Rockefeller Center. (AP) NEW YORK - NBC's "Today" show will broadcast from Afghanistan this week. Matt ...  

*NBC's "Today" show will broadcast from Afghanistan today and tomorrow with Matt Lauer and Al Roker in the anchor chairs, the network announced.  

NBC's Matt Lauer, on Monday's Today show, in his first question to RNC Chair Michael Steele, asked if opponents to Barack Obama's health care reform bill, were going to deprive the President of politically joyous holiday season, as the Today co-anchor pressed: "So is the President's stocking going to be empty on Christmas Day?" Lauer then went on to question if the Republican's entire strategy was that of simply "delaying and stalling," as...  

Filed under: Good News, Gut Reactions, TV News, Exclusives, Naughty But Nice Matt Lauer may have some competition when it comes to being the hunkiest fella on morning television, as George Stephanopoulos is making sure he's in tip-top form to add some sex appeal to 'Good Morning America' ... should he join up. In other news, ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments  

Matt Lauer and Al Roker will anchor the show Tuesday and Wednesday from the country, a trip that comes in the wake of President Barack Obama's announcement last week that he's sending 30,000 more troops there. Lauer and Roker will spend time on the ...  

NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC's "Today" show will broadcast from Afghanistan this week. Matt Lauer and Al Roker will anchor the show Tuesday and Wednesday from the country, a trip that comes in the wake of President Barack Obama's announcement last week that ...  

•NBC announced that the Today show's Matt Lauer and Al Roker will broadcast from Kabul, Afghanistan tomorrow and Wednesday. The live coverage comes as more details are revealed about the U.S. troop increase to the country, including the 1,500 Marines from Camp Lejeune who will ship out later this month. Lauer and Roker will have the latest reporting from the war zone, spending time on the ground -- and in the air -- with the troops. New...  

NBC's "Today" show will broadcast from Afghanistan this week.  

This morning, as we were watching the "Today" show, we learned that anchor Matt Lauer and weatherman Al Roker were headed to Afghanistan and would be reporting from there tomorrow and Wednesday. Roker's tweet from earlier today confirms that he's en route to the Middle East. Report our colleagues at TVNewser: "The live coverage comes as more details are revealed about the U.S. troop increase to the country, including the 1,500 Marines from...  

War Journalism 2009: "Lauer and Roker will have the latest reporting from the war zone"  

War Journalism 2009: "Lauer and Roker will have the latest reporting from the war zone"  

NEW YORK — NBC's "Today" show will broadcast from Afghanistan this week. Matt Lauer and Al Roker will anchor the show Tuesday and Wednesday from the country, a trip that comes in the wake of President Barack Obama's announcement last week that he's sending 30,000 more troops there. Lauer and Roker will spend time on the ground and in the air reporting on U.S. forces. It's the first time TV's top-rated morning news show has originated...  

A few days ago I saw Matt Lauer lead a panel discussion on the Tiger Woods car crash story. If they were reporting the facts, they would have said that Woods crashed his car into a hydrant, and then they would have kicked it back to Al Roker for the...  

Here’s Meredith Baxter’s interview on the ‘Today’ show with Matt Lauer. “I’m extraordinarily happy,” says TV’s Family Ties mom. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy  

'Family Ties' Star Meredith Baxter told Today Show host Matt Lauer that she has been living as a lesbian for the past seven years. Baxter's announcement came as a surprise to many of her fans, but not to those closest to her.Contributor: Victoria Leigh MillerPublished: Dec 02, 2009  

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Tonight on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart picked one of his favorite targets: financial reporters. We get a double dose of schadenfreudey laughs—from both Dubai's spectacular downfall and the reporter who had no clue it was happening. Old Dubai may be financially kaput, but as the butt of jokes it will live on in our hearts forever.  

Last night, TVNewser headed out Greenwich Village for the release party for Al Roker's new mystery novel, "Morning Show Murders." Matt, Meredith and Ann were there, as were Steve Capus, Jeff Zucker, Hoda Kotb, Natalie Morales, and Willie Geist. Also on hand the show's EP Jim Bell. In "Morning Show Murders," it's the EP who gets the axe -- or rather, the poison -- and a TV host who is the prime suspect. TVNewser caught up with Matt Lauer and...  

Matt Lauer and Al Roker will broadcast from Afghanistan for NBC’s “Today” show next week, the Associated Press reports. The two will anchor the show on Tuesday and Wednesday from the country’s capital city of Kabul. --Elizabeth Jensen  

MSNBC - Found 50 minutes agoDec. 1: TODAY host Matt Lauer asks White House State Dinner crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi if they were actually invited to the dinner. (Today Show) Matt Lauer - Today - White House - History - Video Salahis Deny They 'Crashed' White House Party - ABC News 'We Did Not Party-Crash White House' - Fox News Accused gatecrashers insist they were...  

NBC's "Today" show will broadcast from Afghanistan this week. Matt Lauer and Al Roker will anchor the show Tuesday and Wednesday from the country, a trip that comes in the wake of President Barack Obama's announcement last week that he's sending 30 ...  

Matt Lauer on the Today Show:"Meredith Baxter - you're a lesbian! And right now all over America jaws are dropping .."Jesus Hector Christ.No, Matt Lauer, you lunk-headed talking-head dipshit, jaws are not dropping all over America because you have just informed us proles that Meredith Baxter is a lesbian.Jaws are dropping because we're astounded at your presumption that everyone outside of your enclave is a yokel who is smacked into slack...  

•NBC's Matt Lauer takes a look at the most fascinating, inspirational, heroic and notorious figures, and the most-talked about stories of 2009 in a Thanksgiving night special. NBC's "People of the Year" includes a hero pilot, an amateur singer and an Octomom. "People of the Year" premieres Thanksgiving night at 9pmET. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.  

The Salahis appeared on NBC's "Today" this morning for an interview with Matt Lauer, and the message, which appeared to be well prepared, was that they're working with the Secret Service as it investigated their alleged crashing of President Obama's first state dinner, a fiasco that has caused serious embarrassment to the Secret Service. They say they were definitely invited to attend. "Who invited you?" Matt Lauer asks."Matt, one of the...  

Who are the "People of the Year"? According to Matt Lauer and NBC News, they are Taylor Swift, Susan Boyle, Kobe Bryant, "Octomom" Nadya Suleman, Capt. Chelsey Sullenberger of the miracle landing in the Hudson and Merchant Marine Capt. Richard...  

Nov. 6: A robbery suspect in Maine has an uncanny resemblance to TODAY’s Matt Lauer. TODAY’s Ann Curry reports.Add this to your queueAdded: Fri Nov 06 15:30:02 UTC 2009Air date: Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 UTC 2009Duration: 00:51  

Seriously? Matt Lauer? Does Matt Lauer even have a fan club? From the seller’s description: This 1966 Morris Minor Mini Cooper Traveller is Red with a Red Interior. It’s previous owner was Matt Lauer of the “Today” show. He owned the car for about 10 years. We recently purchased the car from him and it is [...]  

If you didn't get enough of Matt Lauer during this morning's parade, you can catch him tonight in "NBC's People of the Year" special. TVNewser caught up with Lauer -- and his "Today" show co-host Meredith Vieira -- earlier this week. "These are people we spent some time talking about during the year," he told us. "The focus of the show is 'What happened to them after the headlines?' 'How have their lives changed because of what they went...  

NBC 10's Terry Ruggles made a World Series bet with Matt Lauer. He lost. Friday Lauer will get a dozen cheesesteaks compliments of Ruggles.  

NYTimes.com | UncleBarky.com Brian Stelter and other TV critics are asking why Matt Lauer didn't ask the White House party crashers about their "Real Housewives of D.C." role. Also, why didn't he mention that both the "Today Show" and Bravo, which airs "Housewives," are NBC properties? || "In short [Lauer] blew it big-time," writes Ed Bark. || Interview transcript.  

Here is video from The Today Show where the cast and crew give Matt Lauer the business by showing a robbery suspect apprehended who is a real look-alike of Lauer! . . . (VIDEO)  

As your Chicago TVNewser contributor was walking past her neighborhood CVS Pharmacy, the window display jumped out at us. What's Matt Lauer doing in a white coat promising us a timely prescription fill? So what do you think? Does the guy in the photo bear a resemblance to a certain Today anchor? New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.  

Must not post… must not post… must not… oh what the hell, here’s Matt Lauer’s interview with those nuts from the White House Party, Q-Tip and Michael-E Salami. They are hilarious, the way their last-minute media training comes across so transparently. First: stay calm. ACT LIKE ROBOTS. Then: Lauer. Lauer’s gonna throw some unequivocally true [...]  

TV Mom Meredith Baxter reveals to Matt Lauer she's gay. Best known as TV sitcom Mom on Family Ties, Baxter has been seeing contractor Nancy Locke for four years. Married three times with five children, Meredith, also known as Meredith Baxter Birney, finally felt comfortable sharing this news with Lauer on the Today Show.  

Ten-year-old Owen Migel of Altadena is in New York for the 'Today' show's Kid Reporter Contest. The folks over at ABC may be scrambling to find a veteran news anchor to replace Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America," but over on NBC's "Today" show, they're looking for a rookie to liven up the morning circuit.  

Matt Lauer got the big interview this morning! Lauer spoke to the "White House Party Crashers" on The Today Show. The couple denied crashing the party and claims they were actually invited. Before his interview, Matt asked the Tareq and ...  

LOS ANGELES — Pilot Chesley Sullenberger jokes that his heroic handling of a disabled jetliner brought him "rock star sex" in an interview for "NBC's People of the Year" TV special. Sullenberger, who safely ditched a US Airways plane in New York's Hudson River after geese hit the engines, is among those interviewed by Matt Lauer for the Thanksgiving Day special. Lauer asked Sullenberger and his wife, Laurie, whether his sudden...  

Matt Lauer reveals secrets of the Freemasons.Add this to your queueAdded: Fri Oct 16 06:43:10 UTC 2009Air date: Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 UTC 2009Duration: 04:21  

The world's current most-famous-not-famous couple - Tareq and Michaele Salahi - appeared on this morning's Today Show and insisted they weren't party crashers. The Salahis weren't paid for their morning appearance according to host Matt Lauer. Saying their lives had been "destroyed," the couple insisted they weren't party crashers. When Lauer pressed the couple on who specifically invited them and a claim by a White House liaison that they...  

Fresh off the heels of Apple's new product announcements this week, Microsoft released their new operating system, Windows 7 today.Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, even stopped by the American morning program, the TODAY Show, to show off the new OS to co-anchor Matt Lauer [video].Ballmer took on some tough questions from Lauer including:Can consumers use the iPhone to satisfy all their computing needs?Will Windows 7 get the same lukewarm reaction...  

PopEater came up with a list of the most scandalous, most memorable celebrity interviews of all time, which includes Tom Cruise’s crazy interview on Oprah, Bill Clinton’s interview for 60 minutes and Britney Spears’ meltdown during an interview with Matt Lauer. Top 10 Infamous Celebrity Interviews Chris Brown on Larry King Live Tom Cruise jumping on the [...]  

Previewing the President's speech tonight, NBC's Matt Lauer invited on Karl Rove, on Tuesday's Today show, and pressed the former White House senior adviser if the reason Afghanistan still required the U.S.'s attention is because the previous administration "took its eye off the ball in Afghanistan," and "concentrated too heavily on Iraq." Rove hit back, accusing Lauer and Bush administration critics of "revisionism." And later, when Lauer...  

Robert DeNiro was on The Today Show this morning being interviewed by Matt Lauer. He was promoting EVERYBODY'S FINE, opening today.In the interview, Lauer made a joke that he is such a popular actor, most actors today would probably sign up to do a remake of ISHTAR just to work with him.DeNiro then stated that he wants to do a remake of one of his films. He said that nothing has been signed yet but it was a film he made 25 years ago. When...  

NBC "Today" show duo Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira co-hosted a book party for Al Roker last night at at Sushi Samba in the West Village, where they toasted -- and roasted -- the affable weatherman. Roker -- a fan of mystery-novel machine James Patterson -- published his first book this week, entitled "The Morning Show Murders." The plot involves the mysterious death of a TV producer, and Roker plans to write a mystery series. Read the rest of...  

The clean-cut hero and his wife revealed a smuttier side in an interview with Matt Lauer to be aired on Thursday. Wash your mouth out Sully! And give that mustache a rinse too. Who knows where it's been. To be fair to Sully it's hardly like he was telling Lauer about his sex swing and collection of dildos. In the interview with the pilot and his wife Laurie for NBC's People of the Year Special Lauer asked if his new-found celebrity had helped...  

NBC's Matt Lauer, on Tuesday's Today show, actually asked Lou Dobbs, formerly of CNN, if he and the network parted ways because he was "too conservative" and if CNN was okay with Dobbs' push for immigration reform when he was attacking George W. Bush but wasn't happy when Dobbs started slamming the Obama administration on the issue, as he queried the former CNN host, "You got much less kickback from CNN than when you started to speak out about...  

Martha Stewart and Meredith Vieira had an apple bie baking contest on The Today Show. Meredith used her mother's handwritten recipe and Martha used her recipe which has a homemade crust (Meredith uses store bought pie crust). Matt Lauer is the judge and he gets more and more nervous as he realizes that no matter who he picks, he is going to be in big trouble. You can see Jon Bon Jovi in the background laughing, because it's a very funny clip...  

Previewing the President's speech tonight, NBC's Matt Lauer invited on Karl Rove, on Tuesday's Today show, and pressed the former White House senior adviser if the reason Afghanistan still required the U.S.'s attention is because the previous administration "took its eye off the ball in Afghanistan," and "concentrated too heavily on Iraq." Rove hit back, accusing Lauer and Bush administration critics of "revisionism." And later, when Lauer...  

Reporting live from the Berlin Wall NBC's Tom Brokaw, on Monday's "Today" show, never once mentioned Ronald Reagan's name and his role in helping to end the Cold War, but did find time to praise Mikhail Gorbachev and "Today" co-anchor Matt Lauer even wondered if it was "a little egocentric" to look at the fall of the Wall as an "American victory," as seen in the following exchange: MATT LAUER: I know, I think it may be a little egocentric but...  

NBC's Matt Lauer, on Thursday's "Today" show, handed San Francisco Democrat District Attorney Kamala Harris a virtual campaign contribution in the form of a full interview segment in the 8:30am half-hour as he billed her as the "Female Barack Obama." Harris, who was on to plug her new book, received the full star-treament as Lauer pressed if she had "ambitions for national office." Not surprisingly, the "rising political star" featured the...