OMG! I Hate Kathie Lee!
NBC, why do you hate your viewers?
Apparently, Sheryl Crow, the musical guest on the Today Show, isn’t the only one who “enjoys a good beer buzz early in the morning…” because it looked like Kathie Lee had a good three or four before her gig today. She had that “Paula Abdul/late Anna Nicole” face… like someone fighting off a good night’s sleep. Perhaps she takes “medication” that makes her stupid and fake. I watched in amusement as she pretended to care about some actress and her upcoming movie, The Mummy.
Then the Plaza Ambush Makeover segment. Anytime you have Kathie Lee and a gay man on camera together, well, just like with Mario Cantone, fabulousness usually ensues. They gave a makeover to some women, but Kathie couldn’t have been more unenthusiastic, slurring ”Fantastic!” after the first lady revealed her new look.
The second woman had 10 years taken off when they colored her hair and did her makeup. She made a very young 60-something. Everyone was excited for this lady, but all Kathie Lee could say was “Fantastic! Good job everybody. We’ve got free T-shirts for you….” It was all she could do to stay on the stool she was sitting on. Had I walked in on this segment, I would have thought it was MAD TV.
I don’t know what it is about her: the pretend smile, the forced cheerfullness, the icy cold apathy underneath, or her bad face lift, but she gives me the creeps. Maybe it’s the witch giggle. Not a cackle, just an evil, insincere giggle she throws out when anybody says anything… funny or not. I can’t imagine her before the makeup chair in the morning. They must rouse her at 2 a.m. to get her ready, and then apply an entire pancake of makeup. This morning they didn’t do such a good job.
While interviewing Blake Shelton, a singer with a CD coming out, she mistook his tattoo of deer tracks, and said “Bugs! Who would get a tattoo of bugs on their arm?” What kind of beer was she drinking so early? Maybe it was some good ol’ mushroom tea… she was clearly tripping on something. At the end of the show, she stammered and stuttered, and could barely muster enough false enthusiasm to say goodbye.
Why she has a career is a mystery to me. Why isn’t she on unemployment like half the country, some of whom are trapped at home watching her on TV?
I remember the day I’d had enough of KathyMee Guffawed. She was still on Regis and told the world she had a Wurlitzer CD player (bet that got sent to Code’s of Cass’es homes or houses). She’s all about how much she’s been blessed and how much she needs to bless others (bleeeecccchhh).
She’s scratched and clawed her way into semi-theatre and it’s reaching at straws to get her “plays” out there, pitiful.
You’re so right about her insincerity, disingenuousness and then she’s ruthlessly rude to boot.
I hope NBC makes the move instead of her doing it her way again ala Regis because the world knows that show was going to dump her pasted on perkiness.
My thoughts are she’ll be gone by Thanksgiving-crossing fingers
I was just watching the Today Show, or whatever it is called, on NBC, and I noticed how she NEVER SHUTS UP! She wouldn’t let the guy that teaches you to make drinks talk! She tries to be and funny and cute and its disgusting. It made me google “I hate Kathy Lee” and this was the first thing that came up.
She is just terrible. I was on a cruise as a child and they happened to be filming a commercial at the time. well we had a suite because my parents were travel agents. Anyway, our suite was right next to hers. She was the meanest, scariest lady I have ever encountered. This was back then, I was around 10 or 12. Now 31 watching the show she is still the same evil woman. I am glad that someone else sees it. My mother thought I was a crazy little kid when I told her Kathy Lee was a monster!! The unfortunate problem is I feel sorry for the co-host. She will always be “guilty by association” and she truly doesn’t seem that bad when Kathy allows her to speak!
I NEVER watch the Today show any more. Have never been able to stomach Ann Curry and when Katie left… well, I am now a CNN junkie.
Today, I was off from work and I just happened to turn on NBC as Kathie Lee Gifford did a non-stop schtick on Hoda Kotb drinking. It was horrifying! Gifford produced a 2 or 3 minute montage of Kotb drinking during food segments! I was flabbergasted!!!! Gifford went on to yammer on about Kotb’s alleged drinking issues. The woman has a mouth loaded like a shotgun with a hair trigger. She never EVER thinks about anyone’s feelings or the consequences. What an embarrasment. To make matters worse, she then had some conspiritor stage-hand produce 2 glasses of wine AND drove it home by presenting Hoda with some sort of wearable drinking contraption. I would have verbally decked her. What makes it worse was the premeditation and that the director must have been in on this mess!
DOES ANYBODY AT NBC REALIZE HOW OFFENSIVE THIS WOMAN IS?? Why don’t you all just run non-stop assaults or car accidents during that time slot? It would save you revenue AND you could redeem yourselves by showing the rescue. NBC panders to the worst in people with this crap. The middle-aged would-be Jerry Springer watchers. NBC: The Today Show used to have some class… no longer.
The unfortunate thing is, we will probably have to endure this moment again on the Daily Show, presenting this train wreck as another example of inappropriate TV interpersonal disasters! Congratulations NBC! Classy. Real classy.