in nbc news, this is today, with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb, live, from studio 1 a, rockefeller plaza. >> you know who's filling in for kathie lee? >> i think i am. >> what did you say? >> i think i am. >> your poor little voice is shot.

black eye. the bathroom. >> and this time i have no voice. denominator. >> what's that? >> hoda kotb. every time somebody says you're working with hoda, something bad happens. >> that black eye was terrible. >> it took over a month. >> do you rewear your clothes you do sometimes. >> you mean on my show. >> on your show. >> yes. sometimes they won't let me. >> if you could wear one thing over and over, what would it be? >> a green plastic bag. no, i would wear jeans and a tee shirt. and clogs. i'm on vacation right now for a week. >> we're going to make this easy and fun. i've got to have some fun this

i got to crash people's parties. you know what, that's what it's like to be a publisher's clearinghouse person. i was a limo driver. and i had a southern accent. >> give to me. >> i was like, hey, my name's abbey, what's your name? >> that's so lame. >> no, it is not. >> my name is -- >> my name's abbey. >> her back was to me. so she couldn't see me. voice. we're going to catch up with actress anna camp. >> i love her. cause i do. it wasn't fake. it was real. that's called enthusiasm, hoda.

perfect", did you love those movies? >> yes. >> any way, plus you may know him from the microsoft ads like this one. all the things we've done fallin' in love in the settin' sun >> eric hutchinson is joining us. he's got the song called "tell the world." he opened for kelly clarkson. >> i know he did, and she sang one of his songs. >> this is really true. he really didn't know who i was, and he was like, what's the matter with you? and i said you're going on tour, aren't you? and he said i'll be on tour in january. >> i said you're going in december. and he s but is. but i think he thought i was

>> stalker. >> i so apologize. he's going to flip out. like she's leaving now. >> where were you last night? >> chris and dana reeve foundation. 25 years they've been doing this. when chris had his accident, there was no hope. he provided hope because he so believed he would walk again. and he never was able to, but this foundation has done so much to help people with spinal chord problems. his children were there, so dedicated to the cause and president h.w. bush got the chris reeve spirit award. he couldn't be there that night. >> were you there with your husband? >> no, he's one of the gentlemen with the foundation.

it's kind of like a cape. >> i thought it was a torn, and they said it's a cape, you idiot. fun. >> i can't believe that. >> every single show's been amazing. i've been laughing and crying. >> 2 thousandth. >> i didn't pick it up. >> she's been on forever. >> 2 thousandth episode. celebrating her 2000th episode all week. >> one of the things she does. >> what does she do? >> she has fun scaring celeb ritz during her interview. montage. >> that are are different kinds,

>> ah! [cheers and applause] >> oh! [ bleep ]. >> oh! you know. >> oh, my gosh! what the [ bleep ] where's that guy? bring him back! >> we saved our favorite ones. >> you did? >> we d just take a look at our own meredith vieira. >> this is what i live with.

>> oh, my gosh, [ bleep ]! >> you know, you couldn't actually air what i said. >> by the way, we wanted to -- >> oh, please, that is so lame. >> how scary is that? this is all we had. jerry, jerry. [ laughter ] >> 2000 years ago. >> by the way, part of reason we were afraid to scare you because you now a lot about somebody once they're startled, and you swear. >> i swear and i just p etch ee just a little bit. never enough for anybody to know, but i know. what do you do when you're scared? don't play like this. you scrimmage swear eam immage

scream and swear. >> i scream. i don't swear. maybe just an a little. >> melissa mccarthy is in a new movie and she's a redhead. >> she's almost unrecognizable. she's a tough cookie and gets sent to prison for some sort of insider trading. >> let's see what she looks like. >> can i set it up? six months later she ends up moving in with an employee played by the wonderful kristen bell. >> you can just leave. >> wealthiest woman in america! how wealthy am i? i wanted to come down on a golden [ bleep ] phoenix, and i [ bleep ] did it. >> all your accounts have been frozen. >> get me a new lawyer.

stupid ginger! >> mom, if she doesn't have anywhere to go, she should stay here. >> look at that. >> a bed and a sofa. temperamental. >> not so bad. give up." >> you're making me feel very insecure before my date. >> if you could hear these sad bassett hounds. please don't set me up in your genes. >> that is so great. >> oh, my gosh. i'm dying to see that. >> she does the best physical comedy of anybody. and that was her husband in real life. >> can you remember his name? we don't know. guess where i get to go this weekend? >> i have no idea. >> miami! >> i love miami, yeah. it's going to be sunny?

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all right, for the past several days i've been surprising some of our loyal fans as part of our make your day segment. >> you have been quite the party animal. first you nearly gave one fan on a cruise a heart attack. when you showed up as the cruise draerkt. then yesterday we saw a bride. >> for this one i didn't have to go far. i came right here to new york city and got to surprise this really, really sweet woman from ohio. i went along for the ride. you may be wondering why i'm sitting shotgun in a super

>> a long way from mississippi. voice. it's all part of a master plan to give one special fan a ride of her life. >> are you kidding me! >> vickie is the nicest person you would ever meet. she is always doing things for other people. >> a loving wife and devoted mother of two. >> that's it. >> vickie kugler is also a home economics teacher who spent the last 36 years inspiring her kids to dream a little bigger. >> i was kind of a bad kid. and she alone was the first person ever pushed me into the right direction. >> getting ready. >> vickie's family asked us to help her celebrate her 60th birthday. she thinks she's meeting them in new york for a weekend away. >> vickie is the biggest fan of the today show. you would think she was one of the co-hosts, because she talks along with hoda and kathie lee.

[ laughter ] >> hi, vickie, i'm abbey. >> though i just sound like a weird southern hoda, there is hope. vickie won't be able to see me from her seat in the limo. but we'll see her, since our covert ops crew has rigged cameras all over her surprise limo. here's milton, her real driver. i'll play the role of his assistant. >> hi, vickie, my name's hoda, how are you? >> you said hoda. >> i said hoda? >> yes. >> you're going to introduce me as your trainee, right? >> all vickie know is that hubby mark has a few things planned. >> she's going to freak a little? >> she's going to freak. >> vickie is in the bottom of a coal mine without a light about this whole weekend. >> oh, my god.

>> i'm milton, i'm going to be your chauffeur today. i have an assistant. hope you don't mind. >> hi y'all. is it somebody's birthday? >> it's going to be mine tomorrow. >> well, happy birthday. >> i could get used to this. >> we'll drive you around all day long. >> i've managed to keep my identity under wraps for long enough. >> we talk about a bucket list for vickie, vickie's jaw is going to drop. >> are you kidding me? are you kidding me? hoda! oh, my god! >> i was your limo driver. i was abbey in the front seat. >> oh, you're kidding me! oh, oh! >> happy birthday. >> little does vickie know, we've stopped just outside of saks fifth avenue. >> let's go shopping! >> where vick eye, a shoe junky

has its own zip code, and she's going home with any pair she wants. >> oh, my gosh. >> she's in heaven. in you when you die, this is where you want to go. >> yes. >> how could you choose one? >> the orange one with the fringe, how could you turn it down. after you, birthday girl. another item on vickie's list, afternoon day at the plaza hotel. come on, girl. ladies and gentlemen, your lunch is served. >> and now the biggest surprise yet, a student she hasn't seen in more than 20 years. we flew him in from ohio. >> any way, the staff wanted to come and say hello. >> are you kidding me? are you kidding? will, oh! oh, my gosh! >> phil was one of my former

>> she took an unruly, rotten kid and turned him into a chef, and i love you for that. >> oh. >> she makes other people better around her. >> yeah! woo! enjoy! >> that was so nice. >> oh, my gosh. wouldn't that be a great second profession? hitting the road, doing that for people? >> that's a great show. >> right? >> yes. >> makes people feel good about themselves. >> spending their weekend getting ready for thanksgiving. >> we've got just the holiday event you're going to want to watch. and it stars "pitch perfect "'s anna camp. on my long-term control medicine, i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment. once-daily breo prevents asthma symptoms. breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid.

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anna camp has appeared in hit tv shows like "the office", and "glee". >> you might recognize her from "mad men." and in "pitch perfect". >> now she's in another movie about the may flower pilgrims. >> perhaps god didn't hear us. >> we have sold our house and all we own. left everything and everyone we know behind. how much more can he ask of us.

>> william, i worry constantly. >> oh, whoa. >> ooh. >> great acting. >> thank you, thank you. >> was it hard to get that one? >> when you mentioned being on broadway, i was british in that as well. >> their is is is a real woman from 1620. >> absolutely. yeah. i read a lot of books. we did some wikipediaing, and i learned so much about the mayflower and the journey and how much of a struggle it was. i didn't know that the mayflower itself was mainly meant for cargo and not for people. >> i didn't know that either. >> that's very interesting, but shoes. she's got some crazy hot kicks. >> thank you. >> who makes those? >> these are sophia webster, i >> what? >> are they so fun? >> they're comfortable, too.

what are they? >> i can't really tell, but they lace and they tie up. >> uh-huh. >> they take a little while to get in. >> so you were buff on broadway. >> yes. >> was that totally unnerving to stand there in front of a live audience. >> yes. one time at curtain call, it was in the round, and i turned around at curtain call and i see a guy that i went to college with. >> oh, no. >> oh, god. >> really? why did you have to pick that seat, you know? >> can we please promise that there will be "pitch perfect 3"? >> yes, it is happening, but i don't know if aubrey will be back. i would love to do it. obviously, i didn't have a clue it was going to continue and become a franchise, but it's such a great movie and such a great movie for girls, and i had

ime shooting it. >> do you love singing, by the way? >> i do. i love singing. >> what do you sing in the shower? >> i sing something when i get nervous. but i always sing "strangers in the night." i don't know why, but dun, dun, dun, dun. >> that starts this sunday on . and trish mcavoy's with us right after this. of ageless. age neutral. age defiant. age agnostic. olay is a purveyor of ageless. only the best 1% of ingredients make it into our products. for transformed skin without expensive brands or procedures. it's the ultimate beauty victory. nobody has any idea how old you are. with olay, you age less. so you can be ageless.

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it is try day friday and our friend meredith vieira sa is filling in for kathie lee. >> how can you take your every day makeup and kick up the glam factor for parties and get togethers? >> here is our friend trish mcavoy. she's a renowned celebrity makeup artist, the founder of a great line called trish mcavoy. >> thank you. so great to be with you. >> what is in your hand? >> the four must-haves. and they are 24-hour shadow. >> okay. >> eyeliner. >> okay. >> lip and cheek and concealer. >> are you saying these four things are all you need? >> they can take you day to night. >> day to night. put them in your bag, you're good to go. >> tina's a new mom, your child is turning one? you're about to turn 30. explain her day look.

hold this for me? if you look at the day look, i like to do this. you see that everything is very late. we have a little bit of concealer. just a touch of liner under the lash. barely anything. now we go to evening, and what we've done is popped the liner up. and that's what's most important. really pop that liner up, extend it out, exactly. a touch, oh, that's perfect. look down. and look at the smoky eye. just take a little bit of the 24 eyelid. night? >> a touch of cheek right here on the upper cheekbone and just a touch of gloss on the lips. lid. >> because, if you are very, very tired, i never suggest that you line underneath. >> it makes you look? brightness to the eye. if you're not tired you can go

>> if you apply underneath it makes you look tired. >> if you're not tired it makes the eye look bigger. but if you're tired, you do not want to add darkness under the eye. >> we have lisa over here. lisa's in her late 40s. and tell us what we're doing to move lis from the day to night. >> before, lisa has a very wonderful upper eyelid, but you don't see it a lot. so, to bring it from day to evening, we put more emphasis underneath and popped the cheek up. we added a touch more color to the lips and it's that easy. >> very subtle. >> it's subtle until you do this. >> one of the things you do, you don't do heavy anything. all your stuff. >> i believe in definition. line the eye a little stronger if you're more mature. what you definitely don't want to do is go across the entire eyelid heavy, because it weighs

what does a heavy liner do on a young girl? it makes her look older, right? >> i know you've shown the line, but when you show us with the liner, how you would extend that. people don't know how long or how wide. >> what i'd love to do is bring you first into the smoky eye. all you do to get the smoky eye on a more mature woman, go across and just request the finger. you see it? it's all relative. lis. all you do, get really close to that lash, right here, look how lash. that's the key. then there's a smudge on the reason. be sure you really get that smudge. >> you just smudge it right in. >> and it's less smoky in a woman that's a little more mature? >> it's a lighter smoky. if you look at her smoky, it's

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thanksgiving is all about enjoying the three fs, family, friends and food. >> when it comes to that turkey feast with all the trimmings, it's easy to overdo it. >> we are going to try to make

we call "who's at the door." >> we like to splurge a little bit. it's not about deprivation but being a smarter eater. we're going to have friends and family joining us and you're going to guess which thing is lower in calories. let's see who's up first. [ knocking ] >> hello. >> it's bianca who has an appetizer, four little pigs in blankets or four devilled eggs. which is lower in calories? >> the eggs. >> no, it is the pigs in the blanket. >> i think i said that. >> no, you said the eggs. the pigs in blankets, we think they're little bitsy things, 140 calories versus 240 in the eggs. but you can cut the calories in half by eating two. a serving is four. 140 for the whole plate?

>> sometimes they are, but it's the holidays, you're thinking, i'd love a pig in blanket, it's more about what do you want to indulge in. >> who's at the door now? [ doorbell ] . >> it's yosef with favorite side dishes. a half cup of green bean casserole and sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top. which is lower in calories. >> it's the yams. >> oh, no! it's green beans. >> i thought it was the marshmallows. >> no, i'm very honest with this. if you have a modest serving, because it's 100 calories for the green beans. you can eat regular steamed green beans at 15, but that's no fun for a lot of people. >> you think they're staying for dinner? >> i hope so.

>> >> the yams are 170. >> who's at the door now? ah, it is laura here with some of our starchy favorites, a half cup of dressing or corn pudding. >> corn pudding. 150 calories versus 200. when your servings are modest, you can have either. or a little taste of each. >> now we're going to have some -- >> who's at the door? >> ah, look at david. he's here to give us two of our favorite sides. we have a one cup of macaroni and cheese or one cup, same serving of lasagna, which is lower. >> i will tell you which is lower right now. the mac and cheese. >> hoda is right. it's about 290. and the lasagna for the same serving is 390. that's a cup. a big serving, so you can split

and be a taster. who could be here? >> come on in! >> hey, mary's here with talking turkey. two kinds of turkey, five ounces of white meat or five ounces of dark meat. which is lower? >> white. >> correct, but not by lot. it's 190 calories. the dark meat only has 230. so the difference is not much. if you have to choke down that white meat and go, i'd really like dark meat, and a little bit of good news for crispy skin, it only adds a few calories. >> we have to call this the tiebreaker. >> these are some must-haves. jack has brought us some cranberry sauce. or some turkey gravy, if you have a quarter of a cup of each of cranberry sauce or gravy. >> you go first. >> i say gravy. >> and you would be right.

>> meredith has a midriff on. >> and look at that, a giant, inflatable turkey. >> yay! >> spike it! >> all right, coming up, he's ready to get his big solo tour going. >> and we have guests ready to tell the world about his new

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the citi concert series often "today" is proudly presented to you by citi. >> we would love to take credit for eric hutchinson's success. >> but his star was already on the rise. and now he's spending the summer with kelly clarkson, and he's setting out on a solo tour next month. >> he was on the top ten on

>> a year ago you might not have been able to write it. so what's changed? >> i felt like i had to take some risks and break some rules. i've been kind of a traditionalist am i grew up on billy joel and stevie wonder, and i thought maybe i don't need a second chore us. >> people may not think they know your music, but they do know it through some commercials. but what song are you going to play? >> "tell the world." >> "tell the world." okay, eric hutchinson, take it away. tell the world all the things we've done fallin' in love in the settin' sun i've got a song and a smile so bright i'll make you wish you were

all the places we ever go feel familiar i'm never alone all of the people that i don't know will be lookin' me up when they all get home let's tell the world all the things we've done fallin' in love in the setting sun i've got a song and a smile so bright i'll make you wish you were here tonight and tell the world your secrets never know that song

tell the world tell the world i'm going to tell the world tell the world tell the world that i got something on my mind let's tell the world all the things we've done sun setting sun i've got a song and a smile so bright i'll make you wish you were here tonight everybody now let's tell the world all the things we've done sun and you know, we keep it up i'll make you wish you were here tonight all rightna

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so at the beginning of the show, we were wondering who melissa mccarthy's husband was. it is ben falcone. they co-wrote stuff together. anyway, happy, happy couple. we have nice friends who were standing outside. we want to bring them in. huntington, west virginia. by the way, thanks for coming. >> i love you. you're the best. >> we love meredith. today is saturday is family volunteer day, they ask people to participate in projects in their area. >> you want to practice one more time? start your -- engines.