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Sex Change Helps Couric "Live for Today"
After a month of making the banal dreams of viewers come true in a sweeps stunt dubbed "Live for Today," Today show host Katie Couric has fulfilled her own personal dream of becoming a man.
"I'd always felt like a perky, effete boy trapped in a perky girl's body," Couric admitted to co-host Matt Lauer. Couric recounted the pain of being an attractive and popular student in high school and college. "I knew that I should have been the boy who was taunted for his effeminate qualities and lack of sports prowess, but instead of being beaten up in the locker room I was getting asked out to dances by dozens of athletic, muscular boys. It was hell on earth," the popular morning show host tearfully confessed.
Couric's private nightmare was made public on the final week of the sweeps stunt, during which selected viewers were given the chance to live exotic fantasies that included embarrassing themselves on television by needing a morning show to help them do things they could easily have done themselves.
"We realized our viewers are either exceptionally unexciting or have a diminished capacity," admitted executive producer Jim Bell. "We were frankly surprised by the number of people whose idea of 'living for today' was eating lunch at a restaurant or making a pilgrimage to the outlet mall in the next town."
According to Bell, it was the pathetic lives of Today viewers that inspired Couric to live her dream.
"I wanted these people to see what living is all about," the newly christened Kenny Couric said. "I'm finally the slight, effeminate man I've always wanted to be, and it should be an inspiration for everyone watching. Your dreams can be bigger than cutting out of work," the gender-bending host said in reference to one "Live for Today" segment, in which the program helped a viewer leave work early by feigning his wife's death.
Meanwhile ABC is reporting that Good Morning America host Charlie Gibson will give viewers a glimpse of his inner turmoil when he commits suicide live on air during the next sweeps period.
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