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

[PrdAmerican]

Ummm..did anyone catch her gaffe about the predicted point spread between Obama and Clinton...she thought it was 20??! I don't think the crazy press ever went above 14. Guess I was wrong about her...I always root for women..seeing as I am one...but this is embarassing! Can you picture Walter Cronkite complainging about how he looks in a monitor or grasping for facts about candidates. She's a great interviewer, she has personality...but is fast losing credibility...news is serious and CNN/MSNBC/CBS/FOX are making it into a circus which does nothing for the American People.

[rwe]

Hah, the pix of her and Brit Spears look very similar.

[ZenCrusader]

YAWN. This is not news and is not even interesting. YAWN. WHY was this posted here ?

[thepainter57]

Katie caught acting like traier trash ?

Say it isn't so..........

[union79]

All I can think when I read this article is: Would Walter Chronkite, Peter Jennings or Bob Woodward have the character to be so small and comfortable with themselves? They may not have been perfect but you never got a sense of this type of thing.

Bob W ~ forgive me for using your name in the past tense and doing a super job ~ you stand head and shoulders above so many of the others in your work. Keep it up!

[fitCTmom]

I have to admit, being a Today show watcher I had to read this blog...but, honestly there is nothing there. Did Katie Couric steal Arianna Huffington's boyfriend in the 8th grade or something...Can't you find something else to "report" on?

[Libsrule]

Just further proof that Couric must have gotten her job by using her industrial strength knee pads.

"I look better in the lower one"??? THIS is what she considers important??

Then making fun of her replacement who has RAISED the ratings of the Grinning Idiot's former show???

Love seeing evertime Katie's fucked way of looking at things is shown. Talk about a waste of 15 million a year for a vain, unlikeable, shallow moron who really has no idea of what she is reading off of the teleprompter.

Total waste.

They could have hired dozens of great investigative reporters and done serious news reporting and instead that got this moron who thinks putting Rush Osamabinlimbaugh on the air with her is a great idea and who sits on the desk trying desperately to show off her 50 year old legs as though THAT is what is going to bring in the viewers.

What a fucking idiot.

[landmine]

Give me a break!
Has Huffington gone completely junior high?
Much more of this and I'll be checking in a lot less.

[oogabooga]

People hat Couric because she makes 15 mil a year for talking.

[fitley]

Harry has always pointed out celebritys who were totally fake. Like Jerry Lewis. Couric is just another jive celeb. She's cute and bubbley but a total dunce when you see her behind the scenes. This is journalism... jeeez

[ChiGuy]

I always liked Katie for what she was; An interviewer. That's it.

She's cute and the giggle didn't even bother me.

But she can't hold a candle to Vieira on ANY level. Class. Beauty. Heart. Brains.

Not even close.

Sad to see someone so insecure.

[raker]

Another reason to hate Katie Couric: she's a 50-year-old woman who says like, like a LOT.

Also, Meredith Viera's ultra self-conscious, affected speaking voice is only slightly less annoying than Bob Costas's. ("Bob Coshtash.") She puts on a newswoman lockjaw when she isn't pretending to flirt with Lauer. But Katie shouldn't laugh. Her cadence and style is just as stilted and inauthentic.

[Sketchartist]

So what?

[VOTER]

Couric's dimwitted comments reflect her total ignorance about the news. She is ONLY reading it and thank god for that.

To quote her: "Shit, shit, shit shit............"

And CBS pays her millions. SHIT!

[Canukistani]

Other than to say that these days it seems like any behavior that in some way even suggests it's outside what is considered to be the acceptable norm is open to criticism or at least is noteworthy, I don't know why this is worthy of comment.