Katie Couric's YouTube Channel: "Today" Show Spirit Alive On The Web

Katie Couric's YouTube Channel: "Today" Show Spirit Alive On The Web

NEW YORK -- EVERY weekday evening, Katie Couric is the picture of sobriety on the "CBS Evening News": buttoned-down and earnest.

Viewers who miss the impish humor the anchor exhibited on "Today" probably don't know that it's still possible to catch glimpses of Couric, unplugged -- and in a medium that's light-years away from the staid environs of broadcast news.

Since February, Couric has been quietly uploading videos to her own channel on YouTube. The clips -- so far, 33 -- display the mischievous and often hammy personality that the newscaster doesn't get to show in her current post.

Along with extended material from her CBS interviews, much of the footage consists of behind-the-scenes moments with a lighthearted Couric. During a visit to CNN for an interview in March, she snapped the back of Larry King's suspenders as he escorted her into a studio. On a flight to Washington to interview Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in February, she held a mascara stick and joked that "it takes a village to make this face presentable on television."

The outtakes delight many YouTube users who have come across the channel.

"Love to see the real katie . . . not the behind the desk robot," read one typical comment posted on the site.

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