Tom Cruise was a surprise guest at a Friar’s Club roast of Matt Lauer on Friday at New York’s Hilton Hotel.
Colleagues roasted Lauer for being a germaphobe and for having a clothes budget to rival Sarah Palin‘s.
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams joked, “I always say, a lot of the outfits you see him wear on the ‘Today’ show, they also make for men.”
Cruise said Lauer was “the man we wake up to every morning — only because we had the channel on NBC before we fell asleep.”
Cruise had a heated on-air exchange with Lauer three years ago with the Today show co-host, berating him for suggesting that psychiatric drugs might help some people.
Cruise also joked about the infamous couch jumping episode on Oprah Winfrey‘s show, saying Lauer advised him before the interview with Winfrey to “go crazy. Trust me. Trust me. People will love you for it.”
Lauer’s former co-host Katie Couric suggested Cruise was threatened by Lauer because “he wants to be the only heterosexual man in the room who everyone thinks is gay.”
Cruise left just after his speech, leading Lauer to call after him. “Tom, can you stay?” Lauer asked. “I’ll get a booster seat.”
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Matt Lauer Roast Video
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