Katie Couric Unplugged - CBS anchor Katie Couric chatting away on a CBS feed the night of New Hampshire primaries, a funny unplugged look at how the news is presented.
Some sample off-air comments from Katie Couric Unplugged:
“I don’t know much. I don’t know much about this Huckabee…”
 ”I just feel like we’re not making it kinda dramatic enough…”
“Cindy McCain has pretty eyes. She looks like a husky. They’re like an ice blue. She must think I’m so weird. I couldn’t stop staring at her…”
And that’s the video clip of Katie Couric Unplugged.
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January 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Gawd! Katie cusses up a storm about 3 minutes in…
She says “shit” about five times there:
“I’m always like Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit…”
“Oh shit I have seven seconds!”
January 17th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I work at an NBC station, and we always get 30-45 mins of run through and pre-production stuff before the start of the Today Show. I had watched Katie “unplugged” since 1998 before she left for CBS, and this is pretty much her all the time off camera… or at least off-air, she knows the camera is on. The swearing bit is NOT very common - it’s kinda an industry deal that you just assume whatever you say COULD go over the air when a camera is on you. But it’s not that odd either.
While quirky, she is always very friendly and the people around her seem to generally have fun with her. I don’t really understand the comments about how hard she was to work with and what a bitch she was. I’ve seen her in very stressful situations where she has to - and rightfully should - demand things from the people in the studio, and she is still courtious with “please” and “thank you”.
Her replacement, Maredeth, is very much the same - although even MORE raw! She also has a lot of fun on set, and even lets some of that carry over to on-air.
I think it’s nice that they let their gaurd down a little like this… they are almost human, you know!
-Ace