Host Chat: 'Today' with Kathie Lee... and Jill?

I've become addicted to watching Today with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. This morning, I missed the show because I was taking my son to swim class. (Side note: WHO schedules a class during the 4th hour of Today? How dare they?) Since I missed my wine time (OK, tea time) with the gals, I decided to produce my own opening segment of hot headlines, paired with host opinions. 

Headline: More and more celebrities name their babies after locations: India, Georgia, Bronx.
Jill: Because the most well-known person with a location name, Paris Hilton, is such a great role model!
Headline: Four-year-old banned from school picture for her hairstyle.
Jill: I've got 3 decades on this kid, and I'm dying for that 'do! So cool. Maybe the school officials banned her because they were jealous of her style. I can't blame them. I'm jealous of her style!

Headline: Charlize Theron says her pit bull is "helping me out" with her adopted infant son.
Jill: When it comes to mommy's helpers, what baby would choose a loving grandma-type saying, "I just want to eat you up," when a totally safe pit bull is around and communicating the exact same message?


Now that I've gotten that out the way, I can start focusing on more hard-hitting topics as I gear up for an appearance on tonight's Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld. You know, like, what kind of trouble has Levi Johnston gotten himself into lately. News you can use!
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Talk Show Hopeful: My Greatest Regret

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My greatest regret in life? I didn't start regularly watching Today with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb until last month. I've been missing so much. Great co-host chemistry! Cute kids doing a mini The Voice! Wine at 10am! 
When The Jill Dobson Show takes off you can bet we'll have at least 2 out of 3. (Sorry, The Voice.)
I'm going to be a guest on Red Eye on Fox News Channel overnight tonight (3-4amET) and I fully plan to give a shout-out to my two new best friends. 
I hope we can remain best friends when my dream show hits the airwaves. KLG and HK, let's remember the wise words of morning show veteran Diane Sawyer:
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. I've worked with some of my best friends in direct competition.
If Diane and Katie* can make it, we can too!


*We all agree Diane was talking about Katie Couric, right?

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Casting Call: Courtney Friel

Welcome to another edition of Casting Call: Jill's Search for the Perfect Co-Host!  With each Casting Call, I advocate for someone I'd love as my future talk show co-host.  Eventually, the viewers (and the network executives) will make the final call.

Jill Dobson & Courtney Friel

Today's Casting Call features... Courtney Friel!  I once believed the network brass would insist on a classic male-female duo at the co-host desk.  Then I started watching Kathie Lee and Hoda. How much fun are these two? Watch this video of them storming Entertainment Weekly's offices and demanding a cover story!  I love it!  And I think there's room for another gal-gal talk show duo, don't you?
As co-hosts, I guarantee Courtney and I would engage in hijinks that would be just as entertaining as Kathie Lee and Hoda's.  In fact, we crashed an OK Magazine party last year... so we're ahead of the curve when it comes to unhealthy obsession with weekly celebrity news magazines!  
Speaking of celeb magazines, Courtney and I met when I was Editor-at-Large of Star Magazine.  She was at Fox News, and interviewed me for a segment she hosted.  Then I joined her at Fox News, where we took turns interviewing Oscar nominees, hosting Strategy Room, and being mistaken for one another.  
I decided to leave Fox to pursue the worlds of talk show hosting and writing.  Courtney stayed at Fox, where she's interviewing American Idol finalists right this moment.  (Scotty told her to tell me to tell YOU hello, by the way!)
Now I think it's time for a Courtney and Jill reunion.  After all, the talk show world needs more diversity.  What could be more diverse than a bubbly blonde with deep blue eyes (Courtney) and a animated blonde with green-blue eyes (Jill)? 
If you agree, please contact the executives at ABC, NBC, CBS, E! or any other relevant TV network, and urge them to give me a talk show... and to make Courtney an offer, too!  (Although, I should note, she is happily employed at FNC.)  Thank you for your support.*

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*Yes, that last sentence was a Bartles & Jaymes reference circa 1984!  Good lookin' out!