It was just hours after KATIE COURIC's heartfelt last day on "Today" that her former co-host MATT LAUER was socializing with her soon-to-be replacement, "The View"'s popular moderator MEREDITH VIEIRA. Both TV personalities turned out for a very worthy cause: Sesame Workshop's Fourth Annual Benefit Gala, along with members of the Sesame Street gang, including Elmo, Grover, Ernie, Bert, Oscar and the Cookie Monster.
"I have been without a co-host for 10 hours, so I recruited Elmo," Matt jokes around with ET. "I think this is a pretty good transition until Meredith comes in the fall. We will go from one extreme to the other. I am not going to compare the two [Katie and Elmo], because there is no comparison. He is furrier, but he is also perky and energetic."
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