Katie Couric Caught On Tape: Giddy, Swearing, Imitating Meredith Vieira

In November, video of Katie Couric mocking Dan Rather found its way to the internet via Harry Shearer's My Damn Channel. Today, she may have added her Today Show replacement Meredith Vieira to her hit list.

In behind the scenes footage from Tuesday, January 8 — the evening of the New Hampshire primary, Couric's first major election from the anchor's chair — Katie was caught saying, "My voice is so low with this cold." She continued, "I feel like," before looking over her shoulder and switching to a deeper voice, "'Time for the weather, and Al,'" a reference to the Today Show and its weatherman, Al Roker.

Vieira's voice was a central feature of her New York Times Magazine profile last year, in which Lisa Belkin wrote, "It's the voice you notice first" and, "It is a voice often described as having 'gravitas,' the very thing nit-pickers said Couric lacked during the days when her switch to CBS was still mere speculation."

If you can't watch the whole clip, at least catch the last ten seconds, where Couric repeats her Vieira imitation for the second time. Other highlights include, but aren't limited to, Couric complaining about equipment ("Is that a bad monitor on top? Because I look so much better in the one below."), asking for clearer note cards, admitting "I don't know much about Huckabee," obsessing over Cindy McCain's eyes ("They're like, light ice blue. And she had a purple suit on and I was, I mean. They were so intense. I couldn't stop staring at her."), and uttering, "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit."

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Comments

[Jared137]

I watched the whole thing waiting for something to happen. Nothing happened. I don't get it.

[Tortillas]

Katie, Katie, Katie. Divert attention from your potty-mouth and focus on something equally absurd.

Which Republican candidate likens himself to a racist former governor of Arizona? Which candidate was quoted in a YouTube ad suggesting a vote for Romney was as good as a vote for Hitler?

A slew of colorful candidates are giving the presidential candidacy a run in Arizona. When this finally makes headline, you'll wonder where you heard it first.

http://projectwhitehouse.wordpress.com/
It would be funnier, if it wasn't for real!

[GQTaste]

Harry sure has a thing for Katie. AFter all, he is a comedian, yes? I've been around newsrooms and this isn't any big deal.

[Mauiloa]

Jesus! What a bunch of sad people posting on this one.

Oh, it's so much fun to hate and ridicule people, isn't it?

Even though this is anonymous, it still marks too many of you as morons.

[watchingthings]

If she were green she'd look like the Grinch. No, just because some people have pointy little heads, it dosn't mean they also have bean-dip between their ears.

[BlueBoomer]

The fundamentalists are right.
The world IS coming to an end.

KATIE COURIC sits in WALTER CRONKITE'S SEAT!

It's beyond comprehension.
Send her back to the Today show where she belongs and put Harry Smith on the CBS nightly news, where HE belongs.

Corsica 2012

[zendem1]

I don't think those are her real teeth. it's all done with mirrors.

[OckhamsElectricRazor]

Fluffy multi-millionaire cat fight wearing Prada.

[lvbell]

doesnt know the candidates, cant conduct herself properly before giving the world a thirty second sound bite???ive been in print journalism for thirty years and as bad as the electronic media is, katie couric is the worst of the lot

[Bulbul]

I do not watch her, so no comments there.
I was watching CBS other day and she came up for promotion. I could not help but noticing how much more work she has done on her face .
That itself shows desperation, and bad judgement.
Katie, it is not your looks dummny, it is all about your presentation !

[VictorAndTim]

I guess I don't understand the point in posting this clip. First of all, the headline here says "Katie Couric: Caught on Tape". Well, she wasn't "caught" on anything. She knew damn well she was being flimed. What saw (and I watched the entire piece) was a hard working person, seemingly enjoying her job and making mostly self-deprecating jokes about HERSELF.
What I see here is someone going out of their way to bash Katie Couric. The fact of this clip and article say more about you than her.

[godlessclif]

Wr all think Meredith Viera is ridiculous. She should go back to "The View" and stay there with the other old hens.

[samuraijack]

The mouth always overloads the brain.

[asmir]

I thought that was great! A side you never see!

[whsmith]

so... she came off as pretty "normal" when the camera isn't "on". she wasn't really insulting anyone. sort of interesting regardless, just to see what it looks like when a news anchor is trying to pull everything together between shots