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

[LeslieGriffith]

anchoring the news alone in the bay area for 13 years before getting a co-anchor, I know nervous chat when i see it. but, couric has to understand that whoever turned over this video was in her studio---right there by her side. that person should be fired, and couric needs to watch every word she says on or off the air. I do hate the fact that a grown woman says "like" over and over. You know "like.." I cannot understand another thing: criticising other women in journalism. It's hard enough out there--and Meredith v. would never do the same to couric.

[skepticali]

Please!!! that's it? Caught doing nothing. I never cared about Katie but I think this made her look human. She said "Thank you" and "Sorry" not the words of a tyrant.

[wijg]

You mean Katie's human???

I don't watch msm, but this is just b.s.

[MNmommy]

Eh, doesn't seem that bad to me.

I'm kind of surprised about how ignorant she is about the process though.

[NYCforObama]

Katie Carwreck is a disaster. Why report it?

[Meah]

I actually like her more now. Nasty about Meredith. Says more about Couric. But I am old enough to remember Walter Cronkite. That is the problem. What a farce our news media has become.

[ballz97fm]

Why do people keep giving Harry Shearer video of Katie's off-air moments? And why does Harry so obviously hate her so much? Seeing these behind-the-scenes things actually made me like her more. And seeing Harry trying to swift-boat her makes me like him less and less every time.

[GoodbyeKitty]

What was the point of this? I'm sure that there is much worse said behind the scenes at Fox or CNN.

Too much time on one's hands, I guess...

[WilliamWallace]

Ah, they're going for it because Katie's an easy target. You could get one of these reels for every talking head if you wanted to.

Nothing new here, move along....p­oopnews.

[mediamarv]

Harry is a national treasure..­.

Couric on the other hand.....