This morning on Today, Nick Offerman and his champion 'stache stopped by to promote their — I assume the 'stache wrote at least a couple chapters — new book Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living. To make the outdoorsy Offerman feel at home, the Today Show staff had another one of their… Read… 10/01/13 11:40am 10/01/13 11:40am

Samantha Geimer, 49, has lived the past 36 years of her life in the shadow of one of the biggest sexual assault cases of the 20th century. In 1977, Geimer (née Gailey) — then only 13 — was at a party where she was given champagne and quaaludes and was then sexually assaulted by famous director Roman Polanski. Polanski … Read… 9/16/13 1:20pm 9/16/13 1:20pm

Lori Duron is the author of Raising My Rainbow, a popular parenting blog (now a memoir) where she documents what it's like raising C.J., her non-gender conforming son who prefers dresses, dolls and makeup to toys that are typically seen as boyish. Thanks to her popular website, Duron has become the face of non-gender… Read… 9/03/13 3:00pm 9/03/13 3:00pm

Anthony Castro — son of the Cleveland man who will serve a 1000-year sentence without parole over the kidnapping, imprisonment and repeated raping of Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight — was on the Today Show this morning to talk about his father and the family's reaction to his terrible crimes. Read… 7/29/13 4:40pm 7/29/13 4:40pm

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 22: Coffee lover and apparent supervillain Tim Gunn shares his savvy and sophisticated tips for entertaining with Nespresso this summer on May 22, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Nespresso) Discuss… 5/22/13 11:15pm 5/22/13 11:15pm

Squee! This morning on Today, Hoda and Kathie Lee met two baby goats from the Stamford Museum and Nature Center in Connecticut that had been named Hoda and Kathie Lee. Read… 5/10/13 6:20pm 5/10/13 6:20pm

Gabrielle Reece, former volleyball luminary and wife of surf Olympian Laird “Anatomically Correct” Hamilton, appeared on the Today show on Friday to promote her new book and talk about the virtues of being a “submissive” spouse, because the best way to cultivate a healthy, modern relationship is to return to the… Read… 4/14/13 2:00pm 4/14/13 2:00pm

Chris Brown promoted his new single on Today while wearing a shirt on which peace signs and hearts were interlinked. Matt Lauer acknowledged that Breezy claims to be a changed man, and asked the singer: "How are you different?" Read… 4/01/13 10:25am 4/01/13 10:25am

On this morning's Today Show, Hoda and Meredith Vieira (who's subbing in for Kathie Lee) decided to go through each other's big-ass bags to see what was in there. Both women were lugging around nearly 10 lbs. of stuff, ranging from make-up to good luck charms to birthday cards to wallets stuffed with cash. Read… 1/23/13 2:10pm 1/23/13 2:10pm

Dawn Hochsprung, 47, the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary, was apparently one of the faculty members to immediately run toward the sounds of gunfire (along with school psychologist Mary Sherlach, who was also killed). This morning, two colleagues who had worked with her before she took the post in Newtown, Mark… Read… 12/15/12 3:00pm 12/15/12 3:00pm

The morning news is a strange animal. Every day, hosts of shows like Good Morning America and Today have to juggle a convoluted mix of hard news, entertainment and human interest stories all while seeming cheerful and likable, an act that's probably even more exhausting to perform than it is to watch. It makes sense… Read… 12/05/12 4:00pm 12/05/12 4:00pm

Stop the presses — there's some heartwarming news coming out of the NYPD! Yesterday, a photo depicting an unknown New York City cop giving a pair of winter boots to a homeless man went viral after the woman who took it (a tourist and fellow police officer from Arizona) posted the picture to the NYPD's Facebook page… Read… 11/30/12 4:20pm 11/30/12 4:20pm

Poor Al Roker was sick with laryngitis on this morning's Today Show and, having lost his voice, needed a little help doing the weather. A charmingly eager Scarlett Johansson was more than willing to add a jazz hand. Read… 11/27/12 6:30pm 11/27/12 6:30pm

In August, Debbie Sterling, an engineer from Stanford, launched a Kickstarter campaign in an attempt to fund GoldieBlox — a construction toy for girls. Sterling explains that she created the toy because: Read… 11/16/12 2:30pm 11/16/12 2:30pm

In this week's TV roundup, Sarah Jessica Parker revives an old role, the Emmys are a snore and Hoda does drunk pull-ups on The Today Show. Read… 9/28/12 7:00pm 9/28/12 7:00pm

A couple of days ago, the International Squee community was rocked when a video of two twin girls gleefully acting in unison to their father's guitar quickly went viral. Now, mere days later, the parents and their adorable daughters were on The Today Show to talk about their sudden Internet stardom. What could go… Read… 8/30/12 1:10pm 8/30/12 1:10pm

In this week's TV roundup, Cybill Shepherd awkwardly discusses her engagement, Chloë Sevigny has a very public orgasm, an anchor accidentally harasses his colleague on air and a church painting gets destroyed. Read… 8/24/12 7:00pm 8/24/12 7:00pm

Claressa Shields is a 17-year-old from Flint, Michigan who made history yesterday when she defeated Russia's Nadezda Torlopova in the Women's Middle (75kg) Final Bout and became one of the first women to ever win an Olympic gold medal in boxing (women could not qualify to compete until this year). Shields was on Today… Read… 8/10/12 2:30pm 8/10/12 2:30pm

All five members of the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team were on The Today Show this morning where, among other things, the girls discussed their gold medals, McKayla Maroney's "not impressed" face, and what they expect when they return to in the United States (apart from a bajillion dollars worth of endorsement… Read… 8/09/12 11:50am 8/09/12 11:50am