Kotb on The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo in 2020.
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Kotb (left) interviewing Kermit and Piggy with Gifford (right) on Today in July 2008.
With Piggy again in November 2008.
Hoda Kotb (b. 1964) is an Egyptian-American broadcast journalist, author, former correspondent for Dateline NBC, and current main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today.
As a longtime host of Today, often together with frequent co-host Kathie Lee Gifford, she has interviewed multiple Muppet and Sesame Street characters over the years:
- Together they interviewed Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy about Studio DC Hosted by Dylan and Cole Sprouse on July 29, 2008.
- On November 13, 2008, when the Muppets took over Today, both sat down with Miss Piggy again.
- On March 19, 2014 Kotb and Gifford interviewed Kermit and Miss Piggy once again.
- On New Year's Eve 2014 she and Gifford co-hosted A Toast to 2014!, on which Miss Piggy also made an appearance.
- And on November 8, 2018, Today aired a pre-recorded segment, that showed Kotb bringing her baby daughter to the set of Sesame Street in order to meet Big Bird, Elmo, Grover, Abby Cadabby and Cookie Monster. Big Bird, Elmo and Abby also appeared live in-studio to talk with the hosts.
On May 29, 2019, Kotb hosted the 50th Anniversary Sesame Workshop Benefit Gala.
She appears as a guest on The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo in 2020.
Kotb hosting the 50th Anniversary Sesame Workshop Benefit Gala in 2019
Kotb with her daughter at Sesame Place in 2019