As part of The TODAY Show’s “TODAY Gets A Laugh” series, host Ann Curry (”Good Mornin’, Good Mornin’”) took place in a spontaneous musical with New York-based pranksters, Improv Everywhere.

As part of the new TODAY Show series TODAY Gets A Laugh, on Monday, hostess Meredith Vieira took a less than glamorous gig working the drive-thru at a surburban McDonald’s! Check out some of the hilarious reactions to Mer’s rude comments….

More than a decade after Full House ended, former child star Jodie Sweetin — who played Stephanie Tanner on the smash sitcom from 1987 to 1995 — takes fans insider her battle against meth addiction and alcoholism in the new memoir Unsweetined.

Click Here To Read An Excerpt From Jodie’s Book…..

The force was with the cast of The TODAY Show this Friday. The anchors celebrated Halloween by dressing up in lavish costumes from the Star Wars trilogy for their annual All Hallow’s Eve Special! We have Hoda Kotb as Yoda, Natalie Morales as Queen Amidala, Kathie Lee Gifford as C-3PO, Meredith Vieira as Princess Leia, Matt Lauer as Luke Skywalker, Al Roker as Han Solo, and Ann Curry as Darth Vader.

George Lucas sent TODAY a number characters, including several Ewoks, Chewbacca, R2-D2, “Clone Wars” characters Ahsoka and Cad Bane, and 30 Stormtroopers.

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The child of a heroin-addicted Vietnam vet and a gambling-addict mother, high school dropout-turned-Emmy nominee Tracy Morgan writes candidly about how humor has served bulletproof vest in the new memoir I Am The New Black….Tracy also speaks about his dislike for former SNL co-stars Cheri Oteri and Chris Kattan…

The new season NBC’s Emmy-winning comedy 30 Rock returns for its fourth season tonight, so it’s only natural for Tina Fey to make out with Al Roker. It’s called promotion, people!

Groovy baby! Check out those porn ’staches…. The hosts of The TODAY Show are helping PEOPLE celebrate its 35th anniversary by recreating the show’s set from 1974. All four anchors — including Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, Ann Curry, and Al Roker — donned ’70s polyester and shaggy harif for the photos spread, which goes on sale on newsstands nationwide this Friday.

While nothing can quite compare to his now infamous DWTS tirade, in his new book, Barack Like Me, comedian David Alan Grier explains why being multiracial is now the epitome of “cool.”

Is beige the new black? (Click Here To Read An Excerpt….)

Hey, Mariah Fans, while you were sleeping, Madame Butterfly and her favorite personal accessory — hubby Nick Cannon — appeared on The TODAY Show to promote the release of MiMi’s new album Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel. The songbird belted out a string of singles, including “Obsessed,” “Make It Happen,” and her rendition of Foreigner’s 1984 ballad “I Want To Know What Love Is.”

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Jenna Bush Hager made her debut as a TODAY Show correspondent live from the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Friday.

Did she make a good first impression?

The former First Daughter, who plans to keep her part-time job as a sixth-grade reading resource teacher in Baltimore, will serve as The TODAY Show’s resident educational correspondent. Her first assignment was a feature on Dalton Sherman, a 11-year-old Dallas boy with a knack for public speaking.

After her segment, TODAY anchor Matt Lauer gave Jenna a high-five. “It’s nerve-wracking what she just did,” Lauer said. “You think about 6 million people watching you, and as they say, you never get a second chance to make a good first impression. I think she did a great job.”