Article: ON 'TODAY'S' MENU: ROASTED LAUER.(Life and Arts)(PEOPLE)

"Today" co-host Matt Lauer will be roasted by one of his own, colleague Al Roker, at the annual Friars Club Roast Oct. 24 at the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan.

"I fully plan to, like, bring an iPod in my sport jacket and run the headsets up to where they can't see it into my ears so I won't even hear half of it," Lauer told The Associated Press. "But I will tell you right now: I'm not going to invite my mom or anything like that. I have a feeling it's gonna be way over the edge for someone like that to be there," he added.

There's the possibility Lauer's former morning partner, Katie Couric, and current co-anchor, Meredith Vieira, will join the fun.

But Roker "knows ...

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