Do you think she'll miss the goofiness?
When Katie Couric leaves the “Today” show after 15 years to anchor the “CBS Evening News,” as she finally admitted she will do today, won’t she miss all the messing around?
The faked slight that Matt Lauer gave her after her heartfelt announcement: “Also coming up in this half hour…”
Or the exchange with Al Roker, that joker, whose weather report was: “Hell just froze over!”
“It feels like my sister is going off to college,” pouted newsreader Ann Curry (who like a sister, was also silently scheming how to take over the newly empty bedroom).
Couric, who gives as good as she gets, had something for Lauer who ended the heartfelt portion of his response by grabbing her knee and saying “well done.”
Katie: “Get your hand off my knee!”
Whigh got laughs, but not as much as when Roker, that joker, added his two cents: “Can’t wait to see Bob Schieffer do that!”
Do you think she’ll miss the goofiness?
We won’t.
It was really such a transparently fake reveal of Katie's intent to move on "terrified", to a new "chapter"(was that the description she used), or something to that effect, in her professional life. As she sometimes does on Today, trying to appear so much more enlightened than I think many of us believe she could possibly be.
I've also been having fun watching Ann, play both sides of the situation, and I swear she went through another transformation (since cutting her hair)this morning (Wednesday) as she seemed to try and come across as sweet and as sexy (sound familiar)as she possibly could, grabbing the spotlight with a short cut skirt that rode up her legs as she sat on the couch later in the show. She scares me some mornings, as I've watched her go through what seemed to be some kind of PMS induced emotional roller coaster, obviously in a nasty mood and not doing much at all to hide it. She's really looked ready to just break down, or freak out at times.
Well, I think we're in for some really entertaining TV if you think watching three women openly vie for the soon to be empty chair of Katie Couric, to be entertaining. I'll admit, I have a sick attraction to (within limits) watching the talking heads perform for us on long talk shows early in the morning (I really need to get a life). I just find it so, well, surprising, that the whole circus that is "TODAY" plays out for all to watch six days a week. We (millions of TV viewers) obviously have some reason for our attraction to the show and others like it, but when I ask myself what it is, I find the answer elusive and full of contradictions.
Nevertheless, If you're at all like me, let's enjoy the coming free-for-all that's likely to follow, from Ann, Campbell, and Natalie competeing to fill the void left by the 15 Million Dollar woman, Katie Couric.
Posted by: mark | April 06, 2006 at 10:42 AM