As we know Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford drink on their show every day, but do they ever get buzzed? Kotb’s Today show anchor, Al Roker, just had to know when he asked her to be a guest on his webseries Cold Cuts.
She told him, “We are only buzzed during the show if we do 3-in-a-row.” Then she explained, “Sometimes we have to tape multiple shows. If you are the last guest on the last show, we’d like to apologize.” Now we have to be on the look for the shows that are pretaped ahead of time so that we can see them get a little bit tipsy.
Kotb also explained how Gifford became her co-anchor. One day when she was co-hosting the 10p hour with Natalie Morales and Ann Curry, both of the ladies were set to be on vacation. She wound up being a restaurant with her producer and they saw Gifford at another table. They went up to her and asked Gifford to co-host. Gifford showed up that Monday and the rest is TV history.
Another little reveal from Kotb’s chat with Roker is who is her celebrity crush. It is Blake Shelton and she even named her dog after him.
It is Friday, so Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford decided to turn their Today show into Game Night. As in they played some of the soon-to-be hottest board games on the markert.
The first one is Who Cut the Cheese?. A very simple game, you cut the plastic cheese until you hear a fart-like sound. Once you hear that butt call, you lose. This is a good game to play with drunk lactose intolerant people while eating real cheese because you will not know where that farting sound is coming from. Since I am lactose intolerant, I can say that!
The next game they played was Tic Tac Tongue. Basically, the ladies put on a frog-face party horn and blew out the tongue. Then, Kotb realized she could stick her paper tongue out at her co-anchor and Gifford did the same. Which made it look like they were doing some strange type of french kissing. Like if Gene Simmons tried to make out with a woman who has a licker as long as his.
I am so glad these co-anchors drink on their show because we get entertaining moments like this on the 4th hour of Today.
Today is Wednesday Whaaaatt on Kathie Lee and Hoda’s show and today they played Dr Sandra Lee aka Dr Pimple Popper’s game Pimple Pete. I am not really sure what you have to do, but the two Today anchors look as terrified to play it as I would.
Kathie Lee Gifford went first and slowly squeezed on one of his pimples. As she pulled on his zit, he squirted out some substance on a very grossed Hoda Kotb. She was so nauseated by the thought of it, she did not realize it was just water. Her co-anchor, on the other hand, ran away from the scene of the crime. Then she picked up the assailant and got rid of him because she did not want him anywhere near her. Which you can’t blame her because that game is so like gross.
So gross, I will be going to Walmart to get that game for my friends’ kids next month. And instead of using water, I would use Horchata because it looks more like puss. Kids will think that is funny, right? Actually, it would be more fun to play with adults on a drunken game night! Could you imagine how they would react?
Today on Today’s fourth hour, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb played the hot new game, What the Smell, that is all the stink. It is a very easy game to play. You are given a card with a smell on it and you have to guess what is. Guess wrong and you have to smell a stank card.
Well, the two anchors guessed wrong and got a whiff of some extra old toe cheese and hot chunky vomit. How noxious were those scents? Their faces and uncontrollable laughter says it all.
So much so, I want to order the board game from Amazon or pick it up at Walmart or Target for just $20. How much fun would it be to play it with your friends when you are drunk? Which brings us back to hot chunky vomit.
Kathie Lee Gifford is over in Scotland filming her movie Love Me to Death with Craig Ferguson, and what do you after a long day of shooting? You ask Calgon to take you away with a nice, relaxing bubble bath. That is exactly what the 64-year-old did.
What she did that we do not do, is record a message for her fans. As she was wrapping up the video, she waved goodbye with both arms. Forgetting that they had an important job and that was to keep her fantastic body covered up. Thankfully for her, her knees and some bubbles kept her from revealing too much.
Although with her body, that is a bad thing. I want to age like her.
