Matt Lauer Thanks Katie Couric for the Laughs

post from Jossip on 31 May 2006 10:11:15 AM. © Jossip

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As we forced ourselves to turn on the Today show this morning, we were greeted with a rendition of Memories, a slide show photo of Katie Couric flying by, and misty eyed host. Oh, how we wish it could have ended there. If you thought you've heard the Today show do all Katie Couric all the time before, really, nothing could hold a candle to the queen of daytime's last day.

In what Katie herself called "coverage of moi, ad nauseam," the sob fest indeed continued throughout the whole episode. The Columbine kid didn't quite move us to tears, but when Katie went into the loss of her husband, a few foreign salty objects sprung from our eyes. And then we quickly went back to laughing again, when Katie tried to come up with the words for her audience.

"I've been raking my brains," she announced, "my small brains." Finally, after all that raking, she delivered us with "gratitude." And then the salty objects threatened to come again as she went on and on to her colleagues:

Matt Lauer has been her extraordinary colleague and great friend ... Al Roker's enthusiasm amazes her ... she completely ignores Ann Curry ... it was truly amazing.

Matt pulls out the 9/11 card, says how much he'll miss her, and then literally says in that boy-next-door charm, "thanks for the laughs." Then, despite getting snubbed by Katie, Ann Curry relays her memories. "People have said to me, 'I'm alive because Katie Couric got a colonoscopy.'" Then those people all wore "Thank You Katie!" t-shirts and lined up outside, introduced as "the people Katie Couric saved." (Yes, we threw up in our mouths just a little on that one.)

It is now 9:01, and we have listened to Martina McBride and Tony Bennet live, along with Green Day and The Beatles in the background, and currently Al is giving his speech while Ann and Natalie Morales try not to do jumping jacks of joy.

One more hour, folks, and then we can finally say good-bye to Katie Couric forever. Until next year, that is, when she is guarenteed to make an anniversary appearance, when we have to suffer through three more hours and 16 years of screen reels.

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