December 2, 2009

Matt Lauer Loses His Mind on TV

by Choire posted @11:32 AM

BETTER LATE THAN NEVERToday's Matt Lauer, interviewing that LESBIAN Meredith Baxter, known to old people as Mrs. Keaton on Family Ties, this morning: "So this first relationship you had with another woman. Did it create one of those B-movie moments when you go home and you go into the bathroom and you look in the mirror and you go, 'I'm gay!' And then you repeat it six or seven times? Or was it a more subtle—" End verbatim transcript. So. How many questions do you have about this question? For starters, what B-movie is this, and on what cable channel may I watch it immediately, please? And what personal experience of his own does this draw upon? What does Matt Lauer say to his bathroom's mirror? Is it all about Katie Couric still? And, and, and what?

 
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  1. KarenUhOh [#19]

    Matt Lauer sees Hugh Downs in his bathroom mirror, laughing and babbling about his arteries.

  2. HiredGoons [#603]

    To be fair, spending 7 years with Michael Gross would probably make most women never want to be with a man again.

  3. Baboleen [#1430]

    I remember her from Bridget Loves Bernie. Now that's dating me! What was her response? Did she call him "glib?"

  4. flossy [#1402]

    He's got the order all wrong. Looking the mirror and saying "I'm gay" seven times is what turned me gay. It's like saying Beetlejuice, but for butt-sex.

  5. KateAurthur [#1216]

    Choire, the "Marcia Cross" tag is a hilarious bit of subterfuge.

  6. NotAndersonCooper [#158]

    My ceiling mirror told me to get a life.

  7. hanna [#644]

    Don't tell me…don't tell me…oh oh it's Taxi Driver, right?

  8. iplaudius [#1066]

    Is Matt Lauer Seth Meyers?

  9. iplaudius [#1066]

    Remember the made-for-TV movie Winnie? That changed everything.

  10. Squidman [#1188]

    Even older people remember her as Nancy Lawrence Maitland on "Family", where she played Kristi McNichol's older sister. I blame Aaron Spelling for everything.

  11. No_More_Mr_Nice_Guy [#2369]

    That's just how a clueless homophobe sounds when he pretends to be interested in a lesbian's personal lofe.

  12. joshc [#442]

    Maybe he was too befuddled that he was interviewing a onetime celebrity about having been gay for seven years on the day after a major military strategy announcement to come up with any research beyond getting an intern to watch the Best of Lifetime Lesbian Awakenings montage.

 

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