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Enya Would Like To Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away From An Overmedicated Kathie Lee Gifford
4:11AM Seth | Did we say Kathie Lee Gifford gets a Get Out of Defamer Free card last week? Well, she’s probably cashed it in about a dozen times since—so time to pile on again! More »
Kathie Lee Gifford: Pooped Out Of The Anals Of 30 Rock
2:45AM Seth | Kathie Lee Gifford, Cheyenne Jackson-certified bitch and vocally miserable co-host of the fourth hour of Today, was in rare form again this morning. Discussing a performance of Etta James’s “At Last” by Beyoncé in the earlier, non-farm-league portion of the broadcast (and surrounded by half-empty wine bottles, as if that really bears mentioning), Green-Eyed Monster Gifford expanded her 20-foot demon wingspan before launching into her own version of the song. Co-host Hoda Kotb responded by giggling nervously, as if to say, “Yes, just like that, Kathie Lee, but—you know—less dried-out, desperate, and utterly soulless.” Gifford then launched right into what she does best: complaining. “You thought there was action up above?” she segued into her gripe-of-the-minute. “Well, down below, in the anals of Rockefeller Center—her…guy wouldn’t let me in!” Sasha Fierce—we don’t know who your bodyguard is, but we think you owe him a performance bonus for keeping the backstage bowels Kathie Lee-free. [Today] More »
Kathie Lee Gifford Breaks ‘Twilight’ Audience Into Good Girl and ‘Tramp’ Segments
7:55AM STV | No explanation of the Twilight Phenomenon™ would likely be complete without such sizable insights as Kathie Lee Gifford’s and the authoritative cultureklatsch at Fox and Friends. The latter group’s ownership of the story — as evidenced by last Friday’s extraordinary investigative study of “babes” headed to the multiplex in droves — continues today with a more think-y survey of how the chaste-vampire genre trumps the more occult flavour of the Harry Potter series, but over on TodayKathie Lee diclosed the real trick nudging Twilight toward box-office immortality: Teen girls are more into romance than sex. And those who aren’t will be after the dressing-down delivered here. Failing the ready availability of another tween-friendly franchise, Hollywood would do well to bottle this and sell it. More »
Grumpy Kathie Lee Gifford Admits She Needs To Be Drunk To Make ‘Today’ Tolerable
4:07AM Seth | We admit to having been somewhat flabbergasted to learn that holiday-album-pimping anti-Christ Kathie Lee Gifford had scored a plum gig hosting the new, completely essential fourth hour of The Today Show alongside Hoda Kotb. Credit where it’s due, however—Gifford provides near-constant entertainment, mostly because she is vocally and visibly miserable 98% of the time. There was a classic moment on this year’s Halloween episode, when she came out in a Big Bad Wolf costume that must have taken hours to put on. Noticing the younger, prettier Today girls were dressed as princesses, she launched into an angry tirade right in 30 Rock plaza, pointing to her and Meredith Vieira’s horrifying Pinocchio costumes as proof that the show was “ageist and sexist.” It was loud, awkward…and kind of spot-on. More »
Bastard Son of ‘Cheers’ Alum Wears Bra on ‘Today’ Because, Why Not?
7:41AM Kyle Buchanan | We’ve heard of casual Fridays and we certainly treasure the last day of the work week as a time to let loose, but rarely have we seen both concepts mixed with such bizarre fervor as they were on this morning’s Today show. After striking pay dirt with Marcia Brady’s syphilis stories this month, producers dug up another, pre-TiVo relic: Jay Thomas. The actor (who played Carla’s husband Eddie on Cheers) and his son John were on the show to discuss how the former gave the latter up for adoption twenty years ago. These days, though, John is the lead singer in a band, and in a bit of bald self-promotion, he stripped off his t-shirt and finished out the segment wearing a bra. As one does. Nice try, John, but you’ll have to work a little harder to top the image of our potential next VP attempting to drown Elaine to win the daytime surreality sweepstakes. Today [NBC] More »
Inside the Kathie Lee Gifford / ‘Today Show’ Reign of Terror
3:40AM Defamer Hollywood | Though Today’s addition of Kathie Lee Gifford to its fourth hour has been controversial, at least one good thing has come of it: the manic host has made the incoherent Ann Curry look like Cronkite. So constant is the ex-Reeger’s chatting that even Today regular Sam the Cooking Guy erupted at Gifford, prompting him to burst out with “Can I talk?” after one babbled interruption too many. Now the New York Times has picked up on the Kathie Lee backlash, quoting enough bitter, female viewers to power a Television Without Pity message board: More »
