Matt Lauer
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"Matthew Todd "Matt" Lauer" is an American television journalist best known as the host of NBC's Today (U.S. TV program)/The Today Show since 1997. He is also a contributor for NBC's Dateline NBC. He was previously a news anchor for The Today Show in 1994 and anchor for WNBC in New York City and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, Rhode Island/Providence and Richmond, Virginia/Richmond. He was also host of PM Magazine (or "Evening Magazine" 1980–86)

and worked for ESPN in the 1980s as a sideline reporter. In the early 1990s, Lauer hosted segments of HBO Entertainment News.

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Al is still under the weather.

We fine broadcasters for using four-letter words, we say that's offensive. So is it offensive to call for the assassination of a world leader?

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?

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Making sure you're on the straight and narrow?

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

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The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

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