Meredith Vieira

Getty Images Meredith Vieira turned a great shade of red on a Today show segment this morning when Al Roker played a clip from last night's Jay Leno Show , in which the comedian made it look like Meredith had a former stint on Naked News . The clip shows a young Meredith's head plastered on a blurred-out naked body as she broadcasts. Meredith hadn't seen the video yet, so she was pretty taken aback by the whole charade. She was a great sport though, and said in between fits of laughter, "It was only a month!" Meredith Vieira got spoofed by Jay Leno. ... Read Full Story

Quite some fuss being made over the “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” clip currently getting lots of play on YouTube in which Meredith Vieira refers to herself as a “horny old woman” as she blatantly flirts with a Naval officer contestant. It’s no big deal, assures Vieira. The clip might seem new, she notes, but the fact is it came from an episode of the game show that shot some seven years ago, and has now, she figures, been rerun on the Game Show Network. She’s hardly upset about the clip flap, figuring, “I’m flattered that some people evidently think I still look ... Read Full Story

  All week long, NBC's Today anchors have been pulling pranks for a segment called " Today Gets A Laugh." But the biggest joke of the series was on them. America's number-one morning team recently gathered for a photo shoot they believed was a TV Guide Magazine cover celebrating their selection as "The Greatest Television Cast of All Time." A reasonable honor, right? "That didn't make sense to me," says Meredith Vieira in hindsight. "But then ego takes over." When they arrived at the shoot, an actor playing an impetuous Italian photographer put Vieira, Al Roker, Ann Curry and Matt Lauer in bizarre costumes ... Read Full Story

The Today show “news” cast is basically made up of people who more or less resemble your Dad’s “friends he knows from work” that make jokes that don’t make any sense and laugh at inappropriate times. This is not a criticism. I can’t think of too many people who are unhappy that Al Roker exists. Even Matt Lauer, for some reason no one really understands, seems useful. If your idea of morning news is hearing about what Tiffany Amber Theissen likes to bake her dogs for Christmas, or that a Northern Florida elderly couple taught a Tortoise how to water ski, the Today show ... Read Full Story

Every year the Today Show goes all out for Halloween. I’m fairly certain at least 30% of their annual budget must go to this effort. This year, the theme was “Star Wars” and they even worked with George Lucas to make sure the costumes were done right. I saw a couple minutes of the prep work this morning and it looked daunting, to say the least. There were a lot of complaints about how hot and uncomfortable everyone was. Needless to say, I didn’t envy them. But the costumes looked good, and the gropy Ewoks had a nice time. For this year’s costume party, ... Read Full Story