Matt Lauer Shoulders Humiliation on Today Return
With friends like these, who needs competitors?
Certainly not Matt Lauer, who received a ribbing by both his morning show colleagues and those at rival Good Morning America when he returned, for the first time since last weekend's Deergate, to the Today show Thursday.
"I feel good, and I doubled up on the meds, so I'm ready for all your jokes this morning," he said. "I'm doing fine. I was banged up earlier in the week, but I'm glad to be back."
At least, he was until coanchor Ann Curry, filling in for Meredith Vieira, and the rest of the ever-supportive Today show crew surprised Lauer by donning en masse pairs of commemorative deer antlers.
Of his own newfound accessory—a sling which he has been ordered to wear for six weeks following surgery to repair the dislocated joint—Lauer joked that it was "a fashion statement. It'll be all the rage next year."
Meanwhile, though the anchor took his NBC-meted hazing, which included welcome back jabs by Brian Williams and Jay Leno, in stride—he seemed slightly more touched by a gesture (onair, of course) made by his competitors at GMA.
The ABC show's executive producer, Jim Murphy, dispatched a worker to present the morning show vet with a "Matt Xing" sign to prevent future run-ins. And lest anyone forget that, under the good-natured show of support, they are, after all, contending for the same audience, Murphy also sent along the following note:
"Matt, I hope General Electric takes your health seriously enough to give you some time off to recuperate. Anything less than a few months would be scandalous."
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