On this morning’s Today Show, the super high-tech NBC team (Ann Curry mentioned "a lot of people emailing me on Twitter") welcomed recently deer-struck Matt Lauer back to the airwaves by devoting no less than three segments to making fun of him. He looks particularly "over it" in the following clip, as Good Morning America bestows him with the not-greatest gift of all: an enormous "MATT XING" road sign that he’ll probably attempt to toss in the trash (à la Jemaine with Mel’s heinous portrait in Flight of the Conchords). Lauer’s a good sport throughout the inanity, but I desperately wanted him to shout at Curry and the scores of be-antlered tourists, "Uh, guys…I could have, like, DIED." Deer are no joke! Welcome back, sir.
Wait, did Brian Williams just employ the term "half-gooned"? Life = complete.
They have no class on that show!
should have taken him out. He is sooooo not interesting anymore.
I love the Today Show! They obviously like eachother so much. What a better show it is since Wicked Witch of the East Katie Couric left. Something that Al or Ann or Meredith or Matt says (or does) makes me laugh almost every morning.
I’m ashamed to admit this, but I watch that fluff “journalism” show every morning before heading to work.
Lauer doesn’t have much credibility as a journalist (though he did “gotcha” John McCain once last year in a way that was vintage Tim Russert), but he seems like a decent enough guy.
The deer story is fishy as heck (doesn’t he live in NYC?), but at least he was a good sport about it.
Was Matt drinking when he had this accident? Is he 100% sure that what he thought was a deer wasn’t actually a really hairy vagrant or some dude in a deer costume? This IS NYC we’re talking about…
You don’t need a $9,000 custom-fitted Trek Madone 6.9 Pro bicycle to dislocate your shoulder.
Celebrity make-over — bang-ups on a budget!
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