Today Show Ridiculousness

About a week ago, we had the pleasure of watching Kathie Lee Gifford recounting a joke using a fake Chinese accent.  Classy.

Now we get to see Al Roker and Hoda Kotb join in on the fun and win what Talk Soup’s John McHale calls the gold medal in the “Condescending American” event:

Oh gee, that’s so funny, Al and Hoda… HER last name is “Lee” and Kathie Lee Gifford’s last name is “Lee”!  They MUST be related! Ha! ha! ha!

Dumbasses.

Jeff Probst Has Ethnic Revelation

The Washington Post recently had an interview with Survivor host Jeff Probst, in which he revealed his ethnic ignora– I mean, his newfound appreciation for Asian culture:

Until “Survivor” host Jeff Probst sat in on casting sessions for the CBS reality series’s new edition, in which competitors were picked and put into “tribes” based on their ethnic background, he had not realized that “Asian” includes Japanese, Koreans and Chinese and that they do not necessarily like each other as a matter of ethnic solidarity…

…”When you start talking to a person from Asia, you realize — Wow! They have all different backgrounds!” gushed Probst, who described himself repeatedly as a 44-year-old white guy from Wichita.

… Way to go, big guy. Wanna cookie?

The other day, he told the reporters, he went to his dentist, who is white, and the dentist brought in another dentist, who is Asian. “And I found myself saying to the Asian doctor, ‘Where in Asia is your family from?’ ” The dentist said he was Korean. “The only reason I had the courage to even ask that question or the knowledge to ask that question was I’d just spent 39 days with people from Korea,” Probst said.

Courage? Dude, how about you go read a book… Or look at a freaking map?!