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After 39 near-perfect years of showing up on time, Today show veteran Al Roker overslept and missed his own show on Tuesday, reports the Daily Mail.
After 39 years, it happened. I overslept and missed a show. Missed #WUWA. But will be on time for @today
— Al Roker (@alroker) August 6, 2013
As soon as Roker woke up and realized he missed the taping for Wake Up With Al on The Weather Channel at 6 a.m., he tweeted about his morning mishap and rushed to NBC Studios for his second taping on the Today show. Roker didn’t get off easy and was naturally quizzed by his colleagues Savannah Guthrie, Natalie Morales and Matt Lauer about the incident.
“The alarm clock on my phone didn’t go off. Somebody asked, ‘What’s your back-up?’ For 39 years I didn’t need one,” Roker explained and joked that he had changed the name of his show to “Al, Wake Up!”
His coworkers also couldn’t help but poke fun at the funny man on Twitter.
Whoa. You know those people you can set your watch to? The always on time people? @alroker *used* to be one of them #oversleeping
— Savannah Guthrie (@SavannahGuthrie) August 6, 2013
Rip van Roker. pic.twitter.com/HLRDZjonTH
— Matt Lauer (@MLauer) August 6, 2013
Roker himself even made light of the situation and asked his fans to share their oversleeping stories.
Wow. My oversleeping and missing #WUWA really has blown up on Twitter. So tell me your oversleeping story. #oversleeping
— Al Roker (@alroker) August 6, 2013
Looks like the TV personality will be investing in a new alarm clock pretty soon!