I Survived “The Today Show” With Kathie Lee & Mario Cantone
NBC’s “The Today Show” was on TV. I was vaguely aware that Kathie Lee Gifford was going to be on the last hour. I hope they fire whoever came up with that idea. Anyway, I was busy and somehow she snuck in on me. I was actually in another room when I heard a voice burst into song, for lack of a better word — it was a sound that was tuneless and without key, like a show tune. Of course, I should have known: it was Kathie Lee. God! And to top it all off, she was standing there with comedian Mario Cantone, a person who obviously brings out the worst in her.
If you know me, then you probably know I hate show tunes. Even the ones that almost sound like music. I may have vocalized my dislike of Kathie Lee “I’d-be-a-bitch-if-you-weren’t-paying-me” Gifford, but usually she just makes my eyes roll. Her fake cheerfulness is that of a cheerleader who really hates your guts.
As for Mario Cantone, I like him, but he’s like finding yourself in a gay bar, even if your not in the mood. He does zany impressions of Katherine Hepburn and Liza Minnelli… and I’m sure he’s great fun at a drag show. But put him with Kathie Lee in a cooking segment about pizza, and something inside me just dies. Watching them pound dough even ruins pizza for me somehow. Suddenly it’s just too fabulous.
I have never been so thankful for a commercial break. The last thing I just heard was Cantone singing “Everything’s comin’ up roses!”
I have about four minutes. I really have to find my remote. I guess I’ll be watching CBS in the mornings now.
April 15, 2008 at 11:46 am
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May 15, 2008 at 11:27 am
High 5, 10 Gimme some. I could not agree with you more. I don’t have the guts to create my own blog about how much I can’t stand KMee. If I’m not mistaken, it was Hoda Kotb’s idea to drag the hag back into our family rooms. You and me both hope HK gets canned. In fact, I’m on a one person mission to send KLme back to her writing and watching broadway for the rest of her life. I told my partner that she should be off air by June. Ok it may take a little longer but if more people like us wrote sponsors of Today, it can be done.
As she’s like the proverbial train wreck, I guess I enjoy watching her make an ass of herself and her now co-host but even a little is way too much of her. Mario is an attention whore too but aren’t all show people? What gets me is Kmee actually thinks she’s a Broadway legend, the arrogance in her crotch grinds me.
Thank you for providing a place for my to B&^$*# about her.