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• Can YOU Hold Your Breath For the Length of a Lindsay Lohan Single?

  If so, you could beat out British free diver, Sara Campbell, who recently held her breath for a full three minutes and thirty six seconds while diving to a depth of 314 feet.  Let's all try it shall we?  We've embedded a video after the jump of La Lohan's single "Rumors" which, as luck would have it, lasts exactly 3:36 seconds.  On the plus side, if you don't make it, and instead pass out and die, that might actually be preferable to listening to the full song... Click through for video challenge as well as Sara Cambell's interview with Matt Lauer (who's weirdly judge-y about her sport... Read More... Posted Apr 14 2009, 03:30 PM by Lindy Parker with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, Lindsay Lohan, NBC

• Matt Lauer Injured During a Run-In With a Deer

  It would appear that, like a good citizen, Matt Lauer breaks for deer in the road.  And sometimes, he also goes over the handlebars... Read More... Posted Mar 23 2009, 11:30 AM by Lindy Parker with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, Al Roker, Meredith Vieira, Today Show

• Matt Lauer Takes His Show On The Road

  It seems the current economic crisis has put the kabash on Matt Lauer's clever ruse of travelling to distant and exotic vacation locales in the name of entertainment...  Jim Bell, the executive producer of Today, said that Lauer had solicited suggestions from viewers for possible locations -- he has traveled to such exotic locales as the Taj Mahal and the Egyptian Pyramids -- over the past several weeks, but many told him that in bad economic times, the extravagant trip sent the wrong message. (Us Magazine) It makes us feel weird that the Today Show viewers had to tell Matt Lauer about the recession.  But wait, it gets better...   Read More... Posted Mar 16 2009, 10:35 AM by Lindy Parker with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, The Today Show, Oprah

• Michael Phelps Is Sorry For Being One of Millions of People Who Smoke Pot Occasionally [VIDEO]

  Has the time finally come to acknowledge how ridiculous the media frenzy surrounding Michael Phelps's pot incident really is?  We were kind of hoping that was the strategy Matt Lauer would employ during Phelps's first interview since the picture of his now infamous bong hit surfaced in the tabloids.  You know, can we all sit down and laugh about the absurdity of the notion that smoking pot once at a party negates winning fourteen Olympic gold medals.  Instead, Lauer compared the bong hit to getting arrested and charged with DUI... Click through for the video after the jump... Read More... Posted Mar 13 2009, 02:00 PM by Lindy Parker with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, Michael Phelps, Dateline

• Christian Bale's Anger Management

  Has Christian Bale been playing the wrong superhero?  It seems that the Incredible Hulk might be a more appropriate choice given his recent tendencies to fly off the handle and let loose with a stream of expletives on the set...   Read More... Posted Feb 03 2009, 04:00 PM by Lindy Parker with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, The View, Meredith Vieira, Christian Bale, Whoopi Goldberg, Today Show

• Tucson Gets An XXXtra Halftime Show -- Porn (NSFW VIDEO)

  We thought the biggest glitch during last night's Super Bowl broadcast was the sound going out a couple times during Matt Lauer's interview with President Obama. (Either that, or Obama mentioning Jessica Simpson's weight gain. Awkward!) But no -- the biggest screwup last night was undoubtedly Tuscon's Comcast cable system inserting a few seconds of Evan Stone's about-to-be-serviced cock into the proceedings. Gizmodo notes that the clip comes from Club Jenna, and wonders whether the "screw-up" wasn't actually intentional. Guess we'll see. What do you think? Wait -- before you make a decision, maybe you should see all the evidence, right? Sure. So click through! (Pretty much NSFW, though not nearly as explicit as one might think...) Read More... Posted Feb 02 2009, 11:21 AM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, Gizmodo, Barack Obama, porn, Super Bowl, Evan Stone, Tucson (AZ)

• Barack Obama Will Be Interviewed By Matt Lauer On Super Bowl Pre-game Show

  Yes, the President is holding an NCAA football, not an NFL one, in this photo. NFL footballs don't have the white stripes. We know, you were about to say that. So what? Shut up... Read More... Posted Jan 27 2009, 02:37 PM by Jake Kalish with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, Barack Obama, The Today Show, Super Bowl

• Tom Cruise, Matt Lauer, Blah Blah

  We couldn't care less about this and we couldn't find a video that didn't have this annoying celebrojournogal in it, but it's everywhere so, here you go: Tom Cruise was on The Today Show again this morning and didn't attempt to read Matt Lauer's engrams. Sometimes you have to wonder whether the Internet's really good for people, huh? Posted Dec 15 2008, 01:44 PM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, The Today Show, Tom Cruise, Blah Blah

• Annie Leibovitz on Miley: “She was ready to take that picture”

  We know the Miley Cyrus/Vanity Fair sitch is old news.  But it still baffles us.  Why was everybody so up in arms about a little bit of back skin?  And we’re still disappointed that Miley C. couldn’t gather enough Disney gumption to defend what was in our opinion a fairly benign and fairly gorgeous photograph.  The brilliant Annie Leib, on the other hand, has not wavered in her defense of the shot.  During yesterday’s Today Show in promotion of her latest book, Annie Leibovitz at Work, Annie said: "I love the photograph. It's a beautiful photograph. To me it's actually innocent," she tells Matt Lauer. "She was ready to take that picture and her audience was not. Maybe she shouldn't have posed for Vanity Fair." (Nymag.com) Right?  Annie, listen, anytime you want to take pictures of us draped tastefully in gagillion thread-count Egyptian cotton, we’re down. Some of Annie’s genius work after the jump . . .   Read More... Posted Nov 13 2008, 04:22 PM by Olivia Purnell with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, Miley Cyrus, Vanity Fair, Annie Leibovitz, The Today Show, Whoopi Goldberg, Meryl Streep, John Lennon, Yoko Ono

• Why Do They Make Matt Lauer Dress Like That?

  Yeah, we know: Sarah Palin's quest for 2012 dominance of the GOP started on The Today Show. Ho hum. Why do we say that? Well, for one thing, we're pretty sure the GOP's candidates for 2012 will be the political equivalent of The Dirty Dozen: a ragtag of group of crude misfits, prone to fits of reactionary and unfounded violence, chosen first and foremost for their expendability. But more importantly, there are way bigger fish to fry here than Sarah Palin. Like why in the name of Ned Flanders does NBC make Matt Lauer ever dress like that? Read More... Posted Nov 12 2008, 09:32 AM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, NBC Mobile, Sarah Palin, Ned Flanders

• The Matt Lauer Celebrity Roast with Tom "Shecky" Cruise

  Friday saw a celebrity roast of Matt Lauer at New York's Friars Club, and America's favorite creepy Scientologist kept the zingers flying right at his former prescription pill antagonist. "Believe it or not, Matt and I are friends," said Tom Cruise, before channeling Don Rickles. Read More... Posted Oct 27 2008, 09:31 AM by Jake Kalish with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, Tom Cruise, roasts, Scientology

• MTV Puts Britney On The Record

  We've said it before, we want a Britney comeback.  We've been waiting for her to pull it together and rock it out, so we don't have to keep averting our eyes from the sad parade of a life falling apart before our eyes.  Looks like we might get our wish -- to kick off the release of her new album, Circus, Britney's taking her tell-all to MTV for a  90 minute documentary, For the Record, that will air November 30. Click through for a sneak peak of For the Record... Read More... Posted Oct 10 2008, 01:20 PM by Lindy Parker with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, MTV, The Today Show, Britney Spears, UPN, Kevin Federline

• That MSNBC Clip Of McCain Saying "My Fellow Prisoners" Is Just As Weird And Sad As You Think

  OK, well, if you haven't seen it, there's a clip floating around from MSNBC of John McCain calling a crowd of supporters "my fellow prisoners". Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh. So, um, we'd been loathe to post it until we were able to find out what the heck the story was exactly, whether McCain had just been in the middle of an extended metaphor that came off badly as a sound bite, was being quoted entirely out of context, or what. Well, here it is, because according to MSNBC themselves, the answer, sadly, is "what". Click on through for the video and the whole story! Read More... Posted Oct 09 2008, 09:23 AM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, Campaign 2008, MSNBC, John McCain, blunders, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

• NBC Is Clearly Getting Conan's Writers To Help With Olympic Coverage

  Exhibit A: "Dreamweaver," people; "Dreamweaver". If NBC News or NBC Sports had written this, you just know it'd be "Eye of the Tiger" or something... [via NY Mag]   Posted Aug 20 2008, 04:33 PM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, NBC, Al Roker, Conan O'Brien, Olympics 2008

• Christian Bale: "The Joker Role Didn’t Kill Heath Ledger." And: "I Want to Kick Your Ass, Matt Lauer."

  The Dark Knight star Christian Bale appeared on The Today Show this morning, looking pissed as hell. Seriously, the dude did not smile once. But Lauer almost put him over the edge, when he asked if Heath Ledger’s immersion into The Joker role might have led to his death. Bale shot back (in his strangely sexy, I-will-piss-down-your-Today Show-throat accent of indeterminate origins): “Personally, I find it to be a complete lack of understanding of acting. I also find it very rude to try to create some kind of sound bite for such a tragedy.” “The man was a complex man, he was a good man, but you know what—I saw him having nothing but the best time playing the Joker. … At the end of the day, he was having a wonderful time making this movie. I say he couldn’t have been happier during it.” Here’s a brief clip with Bale’s comeback, as well as the longer interview which ends with Bale joking that if Lauer took the Batpod out for a spin, he’d end up underneath it. Did we detect an almost-smile, then? Read More... Posted Jul 14 2008, 01:26 PM by Nicole Ankowski with | with no comments Filed under: Matt Lauer, Batman, The Today Show, Heath Ledger, the dark knight, the joker, Christian Bale

• We Do It Live!!!: Couric's Return To "Today Show" Turns Into Iraq Mea Culpa

  Today Show viewers who hadn't heard that Katie Couric's return to her alma mater would be about charity -- and not her career -- still got an interesting bit of viewing this morning as nightly news anchors Couric, Brian Williams, and Charlie Gibson debated former Presidential Press Secretary Scott McClellan's new tell-all and the media's role in the lead-up to the war in Iraq. Who do you suppose was the most apologetic about dropping that ball? Read More... Posted May 28 2008, 03:50 PM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Scott McClellan, We Do It Live!!!, Charlie Gibson, The Media, Brian Williams, The Iraq War, The Today Show