Matt Lauer Is Staying On Today, Ann Curry's Days Are Numbered
"Guuuuuuurrl, what's that smell?" is a line that came out of the mouth of Ryan Seacrest's assistant this morning and his assistant quickly learned that smell was the lump of sad he made in his underoos after finding out that he's not going to replace Matt Lauer on Today after all. Matt Lauer will glib another day, and then some, because he has signed a new long-term deal to stay on as the co-host of Today for years to come. Matt's current contract expires later this year.
There's a reason why in the picture above Matt looks as awkwardly uncomfortable as GOOPY Paltrow when someone wearing clothes from Sears tries to hug her. Gawker reported almost two weeks ago that Matt wants Today to be a Curry-free zone and would only sign a new contract if the producers dropped her ass. Good Morning America has beat Today in the ratings for the first time in the history of forever and Matt is blaming the stale chemistry between him and Ann Curry for that. So since Matt has signed on, I'm guessing that Ann Curry will soon be saying "good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning" to the clerk at the unemployment office.
I liked Ann Curry before she took over for Meredith, but ever since then it's been painful to watch her. The worst is when Ann interviews a family that has just suffered a tragedy and she has to show with her face that she cares. I haven't seen that kind of blatant overacting since I watched a porn star wearing a dildo hat pretend like she was getting pleasure from another porn star humping it. I swear, a bowl of old curry has better interviewing skills than Ann Curry does.
Today should fire Ann, demote Matt to wine pourer and give Hoda & Kathie Lee all four hours. The ratings would plummet, but Joel McHale's heart would soar.
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We record Today and watch it back at night with a big group of people just to laugh at Ann. Every time Ann screws-up, which is almost every time she speaks, we take a drink. We have a blast watching her mangle every script, but we get really hammered during her interviews. It's hilarious the way her brain goes blank and she struggles to find words and form questions. We all agree that she's by far the worst person on television - and the worst dresser.
I prefer curry to couric...but who we really need is Christiane Amanpour
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Natalie Morals is MIA because of her alleged affair with Matty. Don't be surprised if she ends up on CNN or MSNBC in the future. Matty rules the Today show with an iron fist.
Please put Curry out of her misery! She is beyond the bore!
Yeah, Matt is a "smug" ass, but I like him. I'm sure he cheats on his wife and is a cad, but so what? I'm not married to him, and he is only on for a couple of hours. He doesn't do the extended four hours. God save me from drunk Kathie Lee.
You know his true love is Katie Couric. They use to be so sickening together. I actually watched a bit of morning Katie on GMA. She really can do morning TV.
The Big O was on her girlfriend's show with Charlie Rose, but I can't stomach Charlie before midnight.
Long live Matty in the morning!
I like Ann Curry, much better than that dickhead Matt Lauer, but her dateline exclusives and interviews with people do seem like a porn star acting; ha ha that is funny. I never liked Matt Lauer, and I hate that back stabbing ultimatum contract renewal shit. Piss off, Matt, and good luck Ann Curry. Stick to the desk fluff pieces, and short and sweet stuff.
Submitted by One Size Fits All on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 6:20pm.
Just being naive here -- why not Rachel Maddow ?
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Submitted by Twat Muffin on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:24pm.
Night Owl -- but you're fun. I can guarantee Matt's wife has never cracked a smile in her entire life.
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Annette was fine when she wed Matt: just demure/somewhat introverted but not a sourpuss. Not surprisingly, all the years of his well-known cheating (beginning with a blonde Florida restaurant hostess when he was with-but-not -yet-married-to Annette) turned Wifey bitter, anorexic and glum.
"I haven't seen that kind of blatant overacting since I watched a porn star wearing a dildo hat pretend like she was getting pleasure from another porn star humping it."
So funny.
She does lay the 'I feel your pain' schtick on a bit, but I like Ann. Diane Sawyer does the whole face contortions/sympathy expressions worse than anyone else. I cringe more when I watch her.
And, if it's true about Matt then he is a complete tool. What a fucking prima donna.
Anyone remember the story about Matt Lauer being a germophobe who consumes huge amounts of Vitamin C which makes him chronically break wind on the Today Show?
Maybe Matt's eau de flatulence is why Ann is so stiff on that couch! He probably makes her cringe and try not to breathe! Eww.
Had to be I read about this on D-Listed. Couldn't have learned this tidbit anywhere else!
Every time I've since watched him on that show, all I can think is, "There's a guy who really looks like a couch farter." lol.
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Fair is foul and foul is fair..
I hope Curry takes a powder very soon.
Just being naive here -- why not Rachel Maddow ?
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Does Vader have to choke a bitch?
Ann should have kept her supporting role because she is really bad as one of the anchors. I've never liked her but I feel sorry for her and hope she at least can stay with the network if they do bounce her from "Today."
well, I thought Ann sucked even before she replaced Meredith...
Savannah annoys me and I wonder why she's on so much as opposed to Natalie? Where has Natalie been lately? I figure she's too busy with her two young kids to take on too much responsibility. I feel her pain. She's way less annoying than Savannah though.
I find myself watching Morning Joe more now, especially over the past few days of fuckery with Sarah Palin, Gaycrest, Kim K and Nicki Minaj? I was like, fuck are you morons trying to do, kill the show? Sheesh. :-P
Does anyone even watch cable news anymore? I turned off my cable last summer. Anything I need is online. The Today Show is a dinosaur.
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I knew this would happen to Ann. I wonder what would have happened if she'd just stayed on in the back-up role.
Today show is cheesy and looks like HSN.
Bring back Meredith and drop Matt! He is the reason she left. He seems like an uptight ass.
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I can't wait until they fire her. She is awful. Her fact positivity is so phoney. Get rid of her now! She Stinks!
I like Ann better than Katie Couric. I thought it was in spectacularly bad taste the way GMA handled Robin Roberts being on vaca this week. With all the publicity you woulda thought that Katie was permanent instead of just filling in. On the other hand I switched on Today one day and Ann C. didnt even look clean. I tuned in for a millisecond on Sarah Palin day and she was so uncomfortable she made me uncomfortable.
@Night Owl - yeah, I agree about the Matt stuff. And if he used his power to push Ann (not that I like her, I just HATE him) out of her job, then fuck him even more. What goes around comes around. I can't wait for one of his cheating scandals to be a headline on his own show. I keep waiting for it to happen. I thought it was going to happen with the whole Winter Olympics thing from a few years ago, but it was quickly hushed up.
Have seen clips here and there, but don't watch tv in the am. Morning routine is a 20 minute frenzy of grabbing a coffee, gettin' ready and flying out the door... kinda like Four Weddings and a Funeral! hahahaha ;)
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Oh and let's not also forget that anytime Brad and Angelina sit down with the Today show it's always with Ann. Who's going to interview them now? I like to envision that when Angelina & Brad are approached by the Today show for an interview that they stipulate that it specifically has to be Ann that interviews them.
oh, fuck 'em all, but good on NBC if they boot Ann from the co-host chair. she was awful from day one and hasn't gotten even the tiniest bit better. she's a fast, close-talker, flubs even reading a teleprompter, is THE WORST interviewer and her voice is like a million raggedy nails on a blackboard. the less she says, the better.
as for Matt, well yes, he's an overpaid, cheating douche, but aren't they all...
I'm with @BritsBaldHead, when I saw Kim K on this morning, it was just fucking awful. I realize that Comcast owns NBC and E! and everything else, but Ann isn't that bad that they need to bring on that twat for ratings.
I had to change the channel when Ann was interviewing Kim and Kim was saying that her year was so tough that she could now relate to Britney Spears and other celebrities that have coped with tough PR times. Fucking barf.
And then, THEN they asked her about the obvious PR stunt of her and Kanye and the bitch tried playing coy. Like she knows what the fuck that's like. She did the whole 'we're just friends' speech. Bitch, please. One minute, you're pleading about how you're the victim in the sham marriage, then you're 'dating' again. Fuck her. I just can't with her anymore.
Submitted by Madam Pince on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 3:43pm.
Thanks for the info. Crazy! It seems that so far, no deaths. It is inconceivable that this was the only option the pilots had.
I hope it finally gets sorted out properly.
"JUST SMILE LIKE A NORMAL FUCKED UP PERSON."
Charles Manson
Amen! Her overly-earnest whisper voice drives me fucking CRAZY. Bring back the original "Today Show" gals: Flo Henderson, Betsy Palmer (my avie) and Lee Meriwether. Better yet--cancel the shit altogether.
I watched Kathie Lee and Hoda yesterday, and all I could think about was how truly soul-crushing their office Christmas party must be...Kathie Lee blasting her own fake touchy-feely Christmas album music while Hoda passes out in the men's room. Ugh.
Event Horizon & Deb:
The VA Beach plane crash is horrific. What makes it worse is that the city has been playing chicken with Oceana for years: they've allowed housing right up to the gates, even though the Navy has warned them that this kind of thing could happen. City councils love themselves some property taxes until accidents happen.
And on top of that, surrounding counties have refused to host outlying fields so planes can land without this kind of shit happening. Time for Virginia or the feds to exercise eminent domain. This shit ain't Kelo vs. New London.
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Night Owl, are we Night Owl again? That's my fav!
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Dark-sided!
I don't watch Today but I see Ann Curry on dateline. I try to like her, but I think Michael K. has nailed her essence: eau d'boring. She always looks so sad to me.
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I have loved the Today Show since college and have had it on every morning as noise in the background before getting ready for work and/or class, but I have to say I have turned this shiz off for the first time TWICE this week. #1 - Sarah Palin as guest host, WTF?? #2 - Kim Kardashian this morning, another WTF?? And I too have noticed the demeaning and fake tone about Ann Curry when she interviews people who are suffering. My beloved Today show is going downhill.... FAYUST!!! Sad.
Submitted by kiki kutes on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:21pm.
bring on the hottie david muir! I'll watch his hot ass in the mornings!!!
I LOVE David Muir!! He makes me want to watch the boring ass news. Mmmmmmmmmm.
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Douchechill!
Ann Curry is so damn annoying. Tries way too hard.
Submitted by Event Horizon on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:41pm.
This is off topic but fuck, have you guys seen the story about the Jet that crashed into an apartment building? Crazy shit...
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I saw it. Horrible!
"JUST SMILE LIKE A NORMAL FUCKED UP PERSON."
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Matt better watch himself in dark alleys. Ann Curry will go all "Dateline" on a bitch... I'm just sayin'.
I don't watch the Today Show. Wasn't a fan of Katie and definitely not of Matt. He's a cheater and he thinks he's above everyone else? Not. ________________________________________________
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I watch I love Lucy and Golden Girls reruns in the morning when I am getting ready. The news is depressing.
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Submitted by jack-n-the-hat on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:39pm.
Submitted by Bigbendy on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:38pm.
???????? Pandora radio... it's on the inherwebz
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Oh, so it's not just a southern thang ya'all. Wink,wink.
This is off topic but fuck, have you guys seen the story about the Jet that crashed into an apartment building? Crazy shit...
OT: I haven't watched daytime TV since my Christmas break so?
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I'm with Jack, I can't handle talkin' first thing in the morning and especially from those canned hams.
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Submitted by Bigbendy on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:38pm.
???????? Pandora radio... it's on the inherwebz
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Submitted by jack-n-the-hat on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:29pm.
I don't watch any of these shows... not a morning person and I definitely don't want to hear somebody yammering on and on about shit first thing in the morning. Pandora in the morning is where it's
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Jack,agreed. I don't evev turn on the TV in the morning. Who is this Pandora person?
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Submitted by Dog on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 2:07pm.
Submitted by Bigbendy on Fri, 04/06/2012 - 1:57pm.
@dog, you are kidding right? PS I love your avie today.
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Nope. I read it on Page Six!
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Dog, they will let anybody on there ,won't they? Why not have the Situation, Snookie, a.New Jersey Housewife, Amanda Bynes, or the dog on your avie host?
I have things to do in the morning and watching a couple of shitheads on t.v. is not one of them.
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The difficult brown?! I think we're all done here. -MK
Gave up on the Today show years ago when it started relentlessly whoring for the Summer Olympics 6 months before they started.
The Today show is the bottom bitch for whatever idiotic crap NBC has paid way too much for.
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Everything one day will cease.
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I don't watch any of these shows... not a morning person and I definitely don't want to hear somebody yammering on and on about shit first thing in the morning. Pandora in the morning is where it's AT.
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"You reap what you fuck." ~ RichBitch 03/13/2012
He look like a muppet and she look like a Botox face
I can guarantee Matt's wife has never cracked a smile in her entire life.
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Maybe Matt pulled a Tiger Woods and told her to keep her emotion off her face (or is she highly botoxed?). Smooches to you Twat Muffin.
Night Owl -- but you're fun. I can guarantee Matt's wife has never cracked a smile in her entire life.
Kathy Lee and Hoda should be host of everythinnnng! Them hos are funny, I don't care what yall say...