{"id":263541,"date":"2018-12-14T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/today-goes-all-out-to-celebrate-al-rokers-40th-anniversary-at-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2018-12-14T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:46:00","slug":"today-goes-all-out-to-celebrate-al-rokers-40th-anniversary-at-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/today-goes-all-out-to-celebrate-al-rokers-40th-anniversary-at-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Today Goes All Out to Celebrate Al Roker’s 40th Anniversary at NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Friday, it may have been chilly in New York City, but inside the Today\u00a0<\/em>studios, it was warm and sunny\u00a0with a whole lot of\u00a0Al Roker<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That’s because the famed weather anchor was celebrating 40 years with NBC News, including 22 spent at the morning show. In honor of the incredible milestone\u2014or as the show called Roker’s “Aliversary”\u2014the\u00a0Today<\/em> team went above and beyond to celebrate the beloved member of the TV family, including renaming the famous Rockefeller Plaza “Rokerfeller Plaza.”<\/p>\n

Fans lined the plaza, holding up signs that spelled out “Happy 40th, Al,” while inside, his colleagues donned matching “Roker 40” T-shirts and offered up bacon roses to the guest of honor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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There was also no shortage of nostalgia as the\u00a0Today<\/em> co-anchors and correspondents, including\u00a0Craig Melvin<\/strong>,\u00a0Savannah Guthrie<\/a><\/strong> and Jenna Bush Hager<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0took viewers down memory lane, revisiting all of Roker’s unforgettable moments on the show over the last two decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He’s been there since we can all remember and he’ll be there long after we’re all gone,”\u00a0Hoda Kotb<\/a><\/strong> quipped.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He never forgets how lucky he is to do this job, to interview all of our idols, to get to make people laugh and share a little bit of their lives\u2014it’s contagious,” Guthrie added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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And plenty of famous faces\u2014many of which he has interviewed over the years\u2014shared their entertaining well wishes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You make Lorne Michaels<\/strong> look like a real part-time employee,”\u00a0Tina Fey<\/a><\/strong> quipped of the longtime\u00a0SNL\u00a0<\/em>showrunner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“So Al, I got 25 years of doing the Oprah show. I was feeling pretty good with that, thinking that’s a milestone record. And then I hear about you,” Oprah Winfrey<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0said. “Forty years. Four-oh. You win.”<\/p>\n

Of course, no celebration is complete without cake\u2014and there was plenty of it as Roker’s wife\u00a0Deborah Roberts<\/strong> and son\u00a0Nicholas Roker<\/strong>\u00a0brought up a multi-tiered NBC-themed rainbow cake.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Roker, growing emotional, weighed in on the moment with words of gratitude.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Thank you to all of you for putting up with me for all these years,” he told everyone. “I really appreciate all the bad dad jokes. Thank you so much.”<\/p>\n

And, in classic Roker fashion, he concluded on the sweetest of notes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“My dad always said if you can look in in the mirror and say you’ve done your best at the end of the day and you like the people you work with, you’ve had a good day.”<\/p>\n

(E! and NBC are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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