To be honest, we didn’t tune into the Today show this morning to watch Matt Lauer celebrate 10 years of waking up at 3am. There’s been chatter all week about Matt’s aluminum anniversary, so we figured, “The extra time with the snooze button is probably worth it.” As, as the AP tells it, we were correct: No point tuning in for the festival of fun during an hour when Katie Couric is probably still sleeping.
Two multi-tiered cakes, kisses from Miss Piggy and Meredith Vieira and a lot of hair jokes highlighted Matt Lauer’s tenth “anchorversary” on N-B-C’s “Today” show.
A three tiered cake was wheeled onto the set and Lauer was promised a hot celebrity with a crush on him was inside. It was Miss Piggy. She serenaded him and gave him a big kiss.Al Roker gave Lauer a can of “memorial can of Big Sexy Hairspray” to kid him about how much hair he’s lost in his ten years on the show.
Things got slightly serious by the end when Lauer got another cake, this one a ten-tiered gourmet treat, and Vieira told him he was “not just a brilliant newsman, but a wonderful human being.”
And that Life Is Beautiful sentiment was just another hash mark on what Matt described to Time magazine this week:
Our biggest challenge is acquiring that intangible chemistry that works on air. We get along famously off camera, but sometimes there is an awkward moment and a lapse in timing between us.
Lapse in timing, lapse in judgment. Either or. Just leave the “falling in love with Matt’s soul” bit off camera, eh Meredith?
No. 1
candy quiambao says:
Could someone please tell me the name of the singer (his first name was John, I think) that sang one of Matt’s favorite songs yesterday for the anniversary celebration. I loved the song!!
Posted: Jan 6, 2007 at 9:53 pm
No. 2
stephluva says:
I love that song too! I’ve been trying since Friday’s show to find out the artist’s name. Help us if you know!!!
Posted: Jan 11, 2007 at 7:31 pm
No. 3
mary arthur says:
If it were not for Matt, my husband and I would no
longer watch the today show. There is so much talking and laughing at the same time it is very annoying!!! It is not the Veiw. We have always enjoyed the show until now! Surely whom ever is encharge of the show has got
to hear what we hear! Katie was getting a little out of hand
but Matt covered her butt.You can bet other watchers
feel the same
Posted: Feb 7, 2007 at 9:09 am
No. 4
mary arthur says:
If it were not for Matt, my husband and I would no
longer watch the today show. There is so much talking and laughing at the same time it is very annoying!!! It is not the Veiw. We have always enjoyed the show until now! Surely whom ever is encharge of the show has got
to hear what we hear! Katie was getting a little out of hand
but Matt covered her butt.You can bet other watchers
feel the same
Posted: Feb 7, 2007 at 9:10 am
No. 5
Nicole Rodriguez says:
Hey I’m looking for that artist who played on Matt Lauer 10 anniversary show. I liked that song.
Posted: Feb 8, 2007 at 10:32 pm
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