# Hod Kotb Is Drunk On Today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hod-kotb-is-drunk-on-today/785783 "2017-05-03T15:52:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hod-kotb-is-drunk-on-today/785783/1 "2017-05-03T15:52:20Z")
I don’t know if I am the best judge of these things. But I could swear _Today_ host Hoda Kotb is usually drunk on the show. I know she and Kathy Lee Gifford usually have these **BIG** glasses of white wine next to them. But I suspect Kathy Lee may be better at holding her alcohol than Hoda. Her eyes just seem so glassy. And she often slurs her words. Oh, well. Nothing wrong with that. Just as long as they don’t drive home, I suppose. And I am sure they both have a limo anyways. Have any of the rest of you noticed what I am talking about? Please give us your input too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hod-kotb-is-drunk-on-today/785783/2 "2017-05-03T16:48:12Z")
Well I know her and Kathy Lee’s schtick is to always have alcoholic beverages on the set, though I haven’t watched it enough to know if they ever drink it. Coincidentally I happened to watch a few minutes of it in the wee hours when I couldn’t sleep the other morning. She seems like a very nice person and yet there is something about her that irritates the hell out of me. Almost enough to start a “Celebrities for whom you have an irrational dislike for no discernible reason”. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hod-kotb-is-drunk-on-today/785783/3 "2017-05-03T18:55:15Z")
Yeah, I think she’s tipsy a lot of the time but she’s also a celebrity worshipper and just acts like a giddy teenager a lot of the time. I can’t believe she used to be a serious journalist. The show I’ll never forget was a year or so ago when she and KLG were talking about pubic hairstyles and Hoda shared that she has a “landing strip” early on in the show. KLG spent the rest of the hour giving her shit about it. I’ve actually grown to like KLG a little bit. Never watched her on the Regis thing. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hod-kotb-is-drunk-on-today/785783/4 "2017-05-04T03:20:11Z")
I’ve seen this person maybe a total of 3 minutes while channel surfing, and she always looks loaded to me. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hod-kotb-is-drunk-on-today/785783/5 "2017-05-04T03:28:16Z")
I think she’s biting the inside of her cheek and shaking with suppressed rage at wanting to strangle that dim-bulb in the other chair. But not in front of witnesses.