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Al Roker's Colonoscopy To Air In April
Washington Times ^
| 3-26-2004
| Lisa de Moraes
Posted on 03/26/2004 7:52:06 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Because one celebrity colonoscopy just isn't enough, NBC's "Today" show has scheduled its second celebrity colonoscopy for April 2.
In so doing, "Today" has effectively cornered the market on celebrity colonoscopies -- a stunning blow to rival "Good Morning America" at ABC News. Having already made a TV star out of Katie Couric's colon in 2000, NBC News has rounded up the colon of jolly weatherman Al Roker for this year's experiment in uncomfortable-making television.
But because it's all about Katie, Couric will be with him every step of the way, NBC News assured us in its announcement.
Yes, Roker is the one having his colon probed on national television. But the camera will be firmly affixed on Couric, who "will be with him as he prepares the night before and then with him for the exam," the news division said in its news release.
The rest of the release is all about -- Katie:
Couric, who lost her husband, Jay Monahan, to colon cancer in 1998, is one of the country's leading advocates for colon cancer research and prevention. In 2000 she co-founded the NCCRA with cancer-crusader Lily Tartikoff and the Entertainment Industry Foundation. In that same year on "Today," she allowed cameras to accompany her as she underwent a colonoscopy as part of the "Confronting Colon Cancer" series. . . . Gastroenterologists across the country have since credited Couric for the increased awareness and unprecedented number of colonoscopy screenings that have taken place as a result of that segment. Not one single word more about Roker, or his colon. He definitely needs a new agent.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colonoscopy
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
LOL!
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posted on
03/26/2004 7:53:02 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: 2Trievers; albee; annyokie; Augustus McCrae; Bloody Sam Roberts; Born Conservative; BraveMan; ...
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No amateurs, please.
Send FReepmail if you want on/off ISHP list |
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posted on
03/26/2004 7:54:42 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Sili Con Carne)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Big deal. Every day we see an A##hole on the Today Show. It's named "Katie".
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posted on
03/26/2004 7:56:50 AM PST
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
>Al Roker's Colonoscopy To Air . . .
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They should let us vote
to pick the "celebrities"
we watch get the 'scope . . . |
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Y.o.u....h.a.v.e....g.o.t....t.o....b.e....k.i.d.d.i.n.g!!!....
Yes, Roker is the one having his colon probed on national television. But the camera will be firmly affixed on Couric, who "will be with him as he prepares the night before and then with him for the exam," the news division said in its news release.
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:00:18 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(The Democrat "Funeral" is on.....dum..dum..di...dum.)
To: BigWaveBetty; mountaineer; Iowa Granny; pubmom; Aggie Mama; Endeavor; Timeout; habs4ever; Fintan; ..
Looks like Roker is going to be the butt of a lot of jokes.
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:01:13 AM PST
by
Hillary's Lovely Legs
(I am trying to stop an outbreak here and you are driving the monkey to the airport!)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Wow!! -- they're going to let us see their news even before it's ... issued.
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:01:32 AM PST
by
T'wit
(Liberals are always wrong, even when they come down on both sides of the issue.)
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Cool! Maybe we can find out where he puts all that BBQ!
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:03:48 AM PST
by
Ol' Sox
To: goodnesswins
Wouldn't it be more appropriate for Roker's wife to be in attendance for moral support, rather than Katie?
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:04:22 AM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Much of your pain is self-chosen. --- Kahlil Gibran)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Al Roker's Colonoscopy To Air In April... Post-exam clean-up will air in May...
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
All I remember about mine was the realization that something was entering the forbibben hole and then the lights went out.
Never felt a thing! LOL!
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:09:37 AM PST
by
Cold Heat
(Viet Nam Vet's are "NOT FONDA " John Kerry!)
To: wirestripper
forbibben=too much coffee!
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:10:36 AM PST
by
Cold Heat
(Viet Nam Vet's are "NOT FONDA " John Kerry!)
To: mountaineer
It has been a good morning!LOL
Going camping for the weekend.....gotta pack.....buhbye all until Monday.
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:12:09 AM PST
by
Cold Heat
(Viet Nam Vet's are "NOT FONDA " John Kerry!)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Al Roker's Colonoscopy To Air In April The jokes practically write themselves, don't they?
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Is Katie the tour guide?
To: mountaineer
What a day we're having at FR! Roker's rear end, Kerry's STDs, and the health benefits of nose-picking. I need a break. Leave it to you to take a thread about a colonoscopy into the gutter.
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:14:48 AM PST
by
Hillary's Lovely Legs
(I am trying to stop an outbreak here and you are driving the monkey to the airport!)
To: Ichneumon
The jokes practically write themselves, don't they?Yes, butt so few can be posted...
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:15:44 AM PST
by
null and void
(Don't stand idly by and watch your country commit Hairy Kerry!)
To: theFIRMbss
Gag - who's that anorexic young lady you'c pictured?
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:16:55 AM PST
by
Core_Conservative
("right now western Europe is looking like a dead horse." Mark Steyn)
To: wirestripper
Going camping for the weekend.....gotta pack.....Don't forget the fudge...
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:16:57 AM PST
by
null and void
(Don't stand idly by and watch your country commit Hairy Kerry!)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Leave it to you to take a thread about a colonoscopy into the gutter.Booger.
To: freeperfromnj
Is Katie the tour guide?Are her lips brown? LOL
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:19:07 AM PST
by
Core_Conservative
("right now western Europe is looking like a dead horse." Mark Steyn)
To: null and void
Don't forget the fudge...Ok Mr. Towlie!:-)
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:19:09 AM PST
by
Cold Heat
(Viet Nam Vet's are "NOT FONDA " John Kerry!)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
HOMO ALERT! PORN COMING UP!
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:25:15 AM PST
by
JimRed
(Fight election fraud! Volunteer as a local poll watcher, challenger or district official.)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
It'll be just like a tour of Crystal Caves.
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
How disgusting! I don't want to see that. What in the world would make them think I want to see something like that? It's outrageous to put something like that on broadcast television! Just more vile filth on display!
Why, oh why, do they insist on ruining a perfectly good colonoscopy by putting Couric in the picture?
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posted on
03/26/2004 8:47:11 AM PST
by
kenth
To: martin_fierro
Actually I was hoping they would go into Hitlery's colon and try to remove Daschle's head.
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posted on
03/26/2004 9:12:06 AM PST
by
JoeSixPack1
(Kerry is a combat vet. But he fought for the wrong side.)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
NBC - Still Going Down the Tubes
To: r9etb
NBC - Going to new depths for you, the viewer
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Having already made a TV star out of Katie Couric's colon in 2000Didn't Katie perform a self-colonoscopy then?
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posted on
03/26/2004 9:16:47 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Howard, we hardly knew ye. Not that we're complaining, mind you...)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Al Roker's Colonoscopy To Air In April Big Deal. 60 Minutes did an on-air colonoscopy last Sunday.
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posted on
03/26/2004 9:18:32 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Howard, we hardly knew ye. Not that we're complaining, mind you...)
To: CecilRhodesRidesAgain
love the freepname
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posted on
03/26/2004 9:19:37 AM PST
by
cyborg
(troll on a stick)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
It'll be confirmation of what we've always known... what he's full of.
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posted on
03/26/2004 9:25:51 AM PST
by
luckymom
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Who cares? Who wants to watch the camera view, in the words of the adventure game "Zork" -- "a maze of twisty passages, all alike."
To: goodnesswins
Why don't they show somebody getting their wisdom teeth extracted or having gum surgery? Or how about an amputation? It their any limit to what the networks will show? All they think is it's medical, it must be OK.
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posted on
03/26/2004 10:14:19 AM PST
by
oyez
(A Colt in hand beats a cop on the phone.)
To: martin_fierro
Oh, the humanity!
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posted on
03/26/2004 10:15:06 AM PST
by
Constitution Day
(Over 140,000 FReepers, and just about all of us will be going pro in something other than politics.)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Colorectal cancer runs in our family, and when Katie Couric had her colonoscopy televised, my mother taped it and sent it to me!!!!!! I didn't know whether to laugh or fume, but the upshot is that I went for my own test, and they found two polyps. Two years later, there were two more polyps. So it was for the best in the long run--
Carolyn
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posted on
03/26/2004 10:25:03 AM PST
by
CDHart
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Kouric will be with him as he prepares the night before Will she be with him in the bathroom after he drinks that gallon of . . . whetever it is ...
(Lucky for us we won't get a toilet-cam)
To: Core_Conservative
>Gag - who's that anorexic young lady you'c pictured?
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It's Paris Hilton.
If we're gonna see inside
somebody's colon,
the inside of hers
must be spic-and-span, clean as
a NASA clean-room . . . |
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
I've seen enough of Al Roker.
Give this to Al and send him home for a week.
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posted on
03/27/2004 9:20:42 AM PST
by
BigWaveBetty
(Have you forgotten - - How we felt that day?)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
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Well, I suppose it could be worse.... |
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posted on
03/27/2004 9:46:54 AM PST
by
Fintan
(© 1950)
To: theFIRMbss
:sigh: I can't believe my mind is in the gutter THIS early on Saturday.
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posted on
03/27/2004 9:49:50 AM PST
by
cyborg
(troll on a stick)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Oh. I'm so excited. < /sarcasm >
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posted on
03/27/2004 10:13:50 AM PST
by
BlessedBeGod
('I went to Vietnam, yada yada yada, I want to be President...")
To: Pearls Before Swine
The trip up Katie's colon was so hypnotically fascinating that I heard some enterprising soul was marketing it as a screen saver - in color, with the sounds of groans and cries extra.
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