'Today' Hosts Thrilled By Joe Biden's Birthday Wishes to Al Roker

Kyle Drennen
August 20th, 2014 12:45 PM

After a long-running "bromance" between weatherman Al Roker and Vice President Joe Biden, the hosts of Wednesday's NBC Today arranged a surprise live appearance from Biden to wish Roker a happy 60th birthday. After Natalie Morales introduced the veep, sitting in a studio in Washington D.C., Roker gushed: "Oh, my gosh. Mr. Vice President!...Oh my gosh, this is such an honor." [Listen to the…

 

Amid Global Chaos, Al Roker Asks Michelle Obama: 'Who's the Best Cook

Kyle Drennen
July 21st, 2014 11:30 AM
Despite the continuing fallout from the shoot down of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and Israel's incursion into Gaza, Monday's NBC Today devoted over four minutes of air time to weatherman Al Roker conducting a fawning interview with First Lady Michelle Obama. In what Roker teased as a "revealing conversation," he asked Obama: "Who's the best cook in the family?" [Listen to the audio or watch…
 

NBC's Roker Jokes Bill Clinton Should Have Punched David Gregory for A

Kyle Drennen
June 25th, 2014 1:05 PM
At the top of the 9 a.m. ET hour on Wednesday's NBC Today, weatherman Al Roker suggested in jest that his colleague David Gregory deserved to be punched in the face by former President Bill Clinton after the Meet the Press moderator asked Clinton in a recent interview about wife Hillary being "out of touch." Roker joked: "You know, I'd give anything if after David finished the question, Bill…
 

'Today' Hosts Imagine Bill Clinton Playing Kenny G as Hillary and Obam

Kyle Drennen
June 6th, 2014 4:42 PM
At the top of the 9 a.m. ET hour on Friday's NBC Today, co-hosts Al Roker, Tamron Hall, and Natalie Morales came up with an odd imaging of a 2008 meeting between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama following the bruising Democratic primary. Roker joked: "Well, during that date, they did play Kenny G. That really helped." Hall added: "No, no, they played Kenny G. Bill Clinton came in with the sax…
 

Al Roker Rips Into Conan O'Brien on Radio Chat

Tim Graham
February 26th, 2014 2:13 PM
The TMZ types have noticed that NBC morning weather man Al Roker is no fan of former NBC late-night host Conan O’Brien. Conan joked this week that a no-makeup day on “Today” was no big deal “except for the revelation that Al Roker is a tiny Japanese woman.” Roker uncorked on Conan in an Sirius-XM radio show hosted by comedian Pete Dominick, saying maybe some day he’ll be back on “real TV”…
 

'Wounded' Al Roker Jealous of Seth Meyers Getting Joe Biden as a Guest

Kyle Drennen
February 25th, 2014 2:30 PM
Continuing his creepy infatuation with Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, NBC Today weatherman Al Roker expressed his tongue-in-cheek jealously over new Late Night host Seth Meyers getting Biden as a guest the night before: "I'm a little upset about this....We have been begging Vice President Joe Biden to come on our program. He's right across the street. He was right across the street....now…
 

Left-Wing NYC Mayor Cuts Ribbon for New 'Today' Show Plaza

Kyle Drennen
February 25th, 2014 8:25 AM
On Monday, the hosts of NBC's Today invited left-wing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to perform a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly-renovated plaza outside Rockefeller Center's Studio 1A, with Matt Lauer gushing: "And look who stepped in here, the new mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio. Mr. Mayor, it's nice to see you....you're here for a great reason....to help us cut the ribbon…
 

Al Roker Apologizes to Liberal NYC Mayor for Predicting 'One Term' Aft

Tim Graham
February 14th, 2014 10:29 PM
While in Russia for the Olympics, NBC morning weatherman Al Roker sent several hostile tweets at ultraliberal New York mayor Bill de Blasio for keeping the city's schools open during the winter storm. The most acidulous tweet said: "I knew this am @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCSchools would close schools. Talk about a bad prediction. Long range DiBlasio forecast: 1 term." That raised from eyebrows in…
 

Priorities! Nets Spend Twice as Much Time on Michelle Obama's Birthday

Geoffrey Dickens
January 20th, 2014 3:25 PM
On Wednesday the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a devastating report that blamed the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton’s State Department for security failures leading up to the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack. While the Big Three (ABC, CBS and NBC) networks covered the report for a day, they found another event far more compelling -- The First Lady’s 50th birthday bash, spending…
 

Obama Party Guest Al Roker: 'I Got to Boogie With the First Lady

Kyle Drennen
January 20th, 2014 3:14 PM

Calling in to Monday's NBC Today, weatherman Al Roker was giddy as he told his fellow co-hosts about attending Michelle Obama's White House birthday party: "...it was literally a house party. It was a house party that happened to be in the White House. My wife Deborah and I went. And it was – yeah, there were all these stars, which was kind of terrific." [Listen to the audio or watch the video…

 

NBC: Ignore Arctic Temperatures Nationwide, Global Warming is Happenin

Kyle Drennen
January 10th, 2014 10:10 AM
On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson dismissed global warming skeptics pointing to record-low temperatures across the country: "As America the frozen thaws out, some want to reignite the debate over global warming....the Mercury feels like it's been on a bungee jump. Take New York, fifty-five degrees on Monday, down to a daily record low of…
 

NBC's Roker Wants To Give Himself As Christmas Gift To Biden

Jeffrey Meyer
December 13th, 2013 2:30 PM
Al Roker’s man crush on Vice President Biden took a new and unusual turn on Friday’s Today. Speaking with co-hosts Natalie Morales and Willie Geist, the NBC weatherman (jokingly?) expressed his desire to, “make the pitch [for Biden to co-host Today] wrapped in a box. I'm going to deliver myself on the front steps. Big bow in a box. He's going to open it. Mr. Vice president.” [See video after…
 

Joe Biden's Gaffes Go International, But All Three Networks Skip

Scott Whitlock
December 4th, 2013 12:43 PM
 Vice President Joe Biden unleashed another gaffe on Tuesday while talking to female employees at an internet company in Japan. According to the Examiner, Biden was "scheduled to address the company's female employees" and "discuss the economic impact of women in the corporate world." Instead, while talking to the women, he blurted, "Do your husbands like you working full time?" ABC's Good…
 

Networks Hype 'Interesting' Moment With Liberal 'Heckler'; Obama Handl

Scott Whitlock
November 26th, 2013 12:46 PM
 All three networks on Tuesday hyped an "interesting" exchange between Barack Obama and a liberal heckler. ABC, CBS and ABC declined, however, to specifically note that the man's concern was that the President simply wasn't liberal enough on the issue of immigration reform. On NBC's Today, Natalie Morales praised, "You know, I think that the President handled it well by engaging." [See video…