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Has Chris Brown’s Career Been Rehabbed By A Minnesota Wedding?
1:20AM Foster Kamer | Have you seen the viral video of the wedding party from Minnesota dancing down the aisle to their nuptials? It’s awesome. Well, they went on The Today Show and recreated it. How awkward was it? More »
‘Today’ Set Held Hostage By Best Gams In The Business
7:51AM Seth | It’s all fun and games until tomorrow morning, when Matt Lauer interrupts a sober interview with a Palestinian spokesperson by shrieking, “I’m gonna be sick—there’s Richard Simmons-juice stain on this couch!” More »
The Today Show Spreads Some Christmas Cheer
4:35PM Jess McGuire | Reader Luke sent me this video – it is amazing and hilarious and completely heartbreaking.
Currently on the Today Show, there’s a competition involving some BIG CHRISTMAS PRIZES. In order to win, you need to register with the show, and if you get a phone call during the program, you must answer it within five rings with the words “I wake up with Today” and then Channel Nine’s breakfast telly stars Lisa Wilkinson and Karl Stefanovic will give you the prize, and oh! Oh! What a happy day!
Not such a feel good segment if you fuck it up, however. Take this morning’s on air tears as a nice example.
We’ve been on since 5:30am, bitch! Get with the program!
Poor, poor woman. Still, Karl’s going to whack together the best damn hamper he can for you. That’s nearly as good as a prize worth $20,000?
Thanks for the tip off, Luke!
UPDATE: ARGH! It seems the video has been pulled! WHY? It’s the feel good moment of the year! I’ve still got the YouTube page open from earlier today and can still watch it, over and over, and I’m never closing that window again.
UPDATE II: All seems to be well, it was just some temporary insanity. Revel it the goodness! More » 
Marcia Brady Traumatizes ‘Today’ Show Audiences With Syphilitic Tales Of Horror
4:20AM Seth | Maureen McCormick stopped by The Today Show this morning in support of her new autobiography, Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice. We were prepared to settle in for the old former-child-star song n’ dance: the typecasting, the self-loathing, the drug binging, the weight-loss reality show comebacks. What we weren’t quite ready for was the McCormick Family Ugly Secret, which the actress reveals without a much-needed warning to first shoo your children out of the room: Syphilis, you see, destroyed her family. More »
The Chosen Two’s Due Date Outed By Dustin Hoffman, Expected Nationality Outed By Angelina Herself
4:40AM Molly Friedman | As we noted yesterday, Jack Black took the liberty of announcing that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are expecting twins during a pre-taped interview on The Today Show, which we all got to see for ourselves this morning. One would think Black’s blooper would ruffle Jolie’s feathers, but as this clip shows, Jolie handled the situation with breezy laughter and an amicable Oh Well! shrug. And as it turns out, Black wasn’t the only Kung Fu Panda co-star to fill everyone in on The Chosen Two’s glorious impending arrival. Once again for no apparent reason, fading funny man Dustin Hoffman decided to reveal the twins’ due date during the same segment. When Brangelina is expecting and which nationality Jolie has selected for her next soccer team members, after the jump.
Martha Stewart Is No Lush, But She Sure Loves Getting Talk Show Hosts Trashed
8:30AM Molly Friedman | After gleefully watching along as Martha Stewart doused Conan O’Brien with all sorts of lush-inducing cocktails, from Guinness to gin to mystery concoctions, we put on our thinking caps and sorted through our clip-clustered memories. After we cleared the cobwebs a bit, we remembered that this wasn’t the first time Martha shared her love of liquor with television hosts. Loyal Defamer readers will recall her 8am rise-and-shine mixers with Meredith Vieira on The Today Show last month, and insomniacs will certainly remember her booze-on-the-brain appearance on The Late Show last week (in which she listed at least four indecipherable drinks she calls her “favourites”). But her fondness of ladylike cocktails doesn’t stop there. Intrepid Defamer Videographer™ Molly McAleer put together a burp-filled mashup of our favourite Professional Housewife’s alcohol-drenched appearances of late; as always, video is available the jump. More »
