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How to Get Into the Today Show Summer Concert Series

If there’s one NYC tourist trap that’s hard for even sensible tourists to pass up, it’s the glorious cheesiness of saying hi to your friends from the set of The Today Show, and actually, getting on the set is surprisingly doable. Unlike late-night shows such as SNL and Letterman, you don’t have to send away in advance for tickets or queue up all night for standbys.

For Today, you can just show up and be on TV, provided you beat the crowds of course. Most days, you’ll want to be outside the Rockefeller Center studios by 7am for any hopes of getting near the cameras.

And what about the Today Show Summer Concert Series, which brings the music out on to the Rock Center plaza starting tomorrow? That’s a little more difficult, but also not so bad. You can email NBC for a chance to get randomly selected “fan passes” for a specific show, which put you right up front and center. If you don’t luck out with those, you can also just show up at the plaza, but you’ll usually need to be there by at least 6 a.m.

The concert series kicks off this Friday with Kings of Leon, then continues every Friday in August with live sets from Jason Mraz, Flo Rida, Natasha Beningfield and Mariah Carey.

Related Stories:
· TODAY concert series schedule [Official Site]
· Want fan passes for the TODAY concerts? [NBC]
· Is Peter Greenberg Through With 'The Today Show'? [Jaunted]

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Ann Curry Is Unimpressed With Dubai

A couple weeks back NBC's Today Show did their annual "Where in the World is Matt Lauer" shtick. We did not tune in, but we should have. The Lauer is Lost segments can be informative, entertaining, and most of all, chalk full of unintended humor.

In any event, a tipster alerted us to a video (the one half way down on the right) showing Today Show host Ann Curry breaking down Matt's Dubai portion of the trip with travel everywhere-man Peter Greenberg.

Peter and Ann have a three minute conversation about Dubai, and by the pace of their speech, the two of them must have been backstage downing Claritin and coffees, or greenies, before they arrived on set.

Anyway, near the end lap of their double speed Dubai travel talk, Ann, who seems absolutely miffed you can't eat cheap food and visit archaeological sites in Dubai, says:

I've been to Dubai. All I've seen is a shopping mall, I can see a shopping mall in the United States.

So there you have it. Ann Curry's back of the envelop travel guide to Dubai--it is full of pre-fab strip mall bullshit.

Looks like you can forget about offering Ann Curry a house in The World, or a job at Halliburton.

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·   Dubai Travel [Jaunted]
·   Hotels in Dubai [HotelChatter]