Halloween at Work

This year, the Today Show's tradition of testing its hosts' fortitude by giving them nutty Halloween costumes did not disappoint. Matt Lauer and Al Roker were Jack Sparrow and Captain Davy Jones from the Pirates of the Caribbean. Yes, that is Al as Captain Davy Jones - he is squidalicious! In years past, Matt and Al have dressed as famous pairs, like Siegfried and Roy, Batman and Robin, and J.Lo and Puffy. We're surprised that NBC was cool with Matt and Al dressing as a famous Disney movie, but the Good Morning America folks didn't dress up at all. All they had were their faces carved into pumpkins and a scary interview with Courtney Love.

The female Today Show personalities were "divas" of music - Ann Curry was Cher, Meredith Vieira was Bette Midler, and Natalie Morales a "Blond Ambition"-era Madonna. Ann and Natalie were racy - Ann mentioned flashing everybody!

Which gets us thinking: Are you dressed up at work? Do you have coworkers who do? Or are jokes about being "office workers who actually work" as far as you go? And if you wanted a Halloween costume idea, here are some last-minute ones from the Today Show.

Photographs of the Today Show crew by Richard Drew/AP

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on October 31, 2006 11:56 AM

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Julius Jamieson

Veteran actor William Franklyn, known for voicing the 1960s Schweppes TV adverts, dies aged 81...

Cornelius Gunn

London-born rapper Sway is to be honoured at the BET Hip-Hop awards in the US...

Darrin

Ann Curry looks great in her Cher costume!

grinch

holiday spirit? I'll have it when we get the day off.

p.s. to everyone - a cowboy hat is not a costume.

Al killeu

When I get home, I'll be all ready to go as Zombie Steve Irwin.

Bored Stiff

No one in Midtown dresses up. It is just so depressing. I can't wait to get home and rip off this corporate garb and start scaring the cute trick-or-treaters. What ever happened to the holiday spirit? This part of the city just sucks it dry.

J

Am I the only person who can't stand morning "news" show people like Matt Lauer , and Ann Curry ..?

They make my skin crawl...surley the scariest thing anyone will see today is Natalie Morales a "Blond Ambition"-era Madonna..

btw..nobody at work dressed up as Al Roker today....

KFC

Trans Fat with a big red cross

Dude

I'm a hipster pretending to be a corporate drone, spreading irony everywhere I go.

worker in BIG office

I'm surprised that NO ONE in my office of almost 3000 employees dressed up! There is no spirit, only work. I do have a small pumpkin and candy on my desk.

enigmaticjack

Cheers to Sylvia Plath and her oven--awesome.

I'm going as a punk/lesbian vampire, out to threaten hetero marriage. The question however, is whether I wear the red dildo or not. Opinions?

acimeow

I drew a spiderweb on my face and stuck a plastic spider in the middle of the web.

Jen

Such awesome ideas! Everyone is so much more creative than me. (I am wearing vampire teeth.)

Stephanie

I'm at work and in costume. I am Sylvia Plath - blonde wig, early 60s skirt and cardigan outfit, and an oven made out of a cardboard box to go over my head. It was a little tricky getting the cardboard box oven to my workplace without it getting banged up on the F train, but my cowrokers love my costume.