Showing posts with label The Today Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Today Show. Show all posts

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Today is the last day for you queers to win the wedding of your dreams!


On Thursday, NBC announced that it will honor entries from same-sex couples for The Today Show’s Modern Day Wedding Contest. Winners of the contest will win a free wedding broadcasted on The Today Show and an all-expense-paid honeymoon.

Originally, the contest was open only to heterosexual couples. However, once word got out, GLAAD threw an absolute hissy and issued a “call to action” to its members. There was hissing and slapping and scratching and hair pulling and even a little punching… you know, from the lesbians… and the gals did it! NBC agreed to open up the contest to same-sex couples and has extended the application deadline to July 12th in order to allow all qualifying same-sex couples to enter.

Needless to say, NBC has received tons of feedback, over 1200 Facebook comments, both positive and negative. Gay men who have always dreamed of wearing Vera Wang are gushing, while old, dried-up church ladies and former Miss Californias are having absolute break-downs. But really? With this recent controversy and Friday’s Lady Gaga performance, isn’t this the most anyone has talked about The Today Show in a really long time? Seriously? I don’t even think I’ve watched it since America’s sweetheart, Katie Couric, went on to the evening news. Heck, until I saw this article in USA Today, I had no idea that Al Roker had gotten skinny!

This is a terrific PR opportunity for the show. Personally, I sure in the hell won’t be waking up at 8 a.m. to kick it with Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera any time soon; but I might occasionally DVR it.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

The Monster Squad storms 30 Rock! (And no, much to your disappointment this isn't a Fred Savage post.)


Who knew one could become the decade’s biggest pop icon by making an outfit out of Christmas lights, tin foil and a few stuffed animals?… Oh yeah, and a consistent outpouring of the catchiest pop songs we’ve heard in the last 20 years. Lady Gaga, that’s who!

Lady Gaga put on a free mini-concert at Rockefeller Center yesterday. Despite the pouring rain, she drew the largest crowd to ever attend a taping of The Today Show, an estimated 18,000 people.

That’s 2 records the little monster-wrangler has broken in a single week! Earlier in the week, she broke the record for the most Facebook fans, now, the largest crowd to ever be at The Today Show studio.

That does it! The next time I have a garage sale, I’m going to put up signs that say, “Free Lady Gaga Concert.” Sure, those weirdos in latex and horns are going to be pissed when they find out it’s all a sham; but hopefully, they’ll buy a few chachkis before they storm off.