It has been a rough few days in the games department for the team from “Today.”

Savannah Guthrie interviewed “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon, and the pair played one of his trademark games, “Rock, Paper, Scissors, Pie.” It went horribly awry:

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On NBC’s primetime game show “Hollywood Game Night,” Al Roker was kicked off the comfy couch by comedian Will Sasso… though he did get some revenge.

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A month ago, “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade threw a basketball in a toddler’s face.

It wasn’t intentional, but it sparked a storm of controversy. The child, “Trick Shot” Titus Ashby, just wasn’t the same. As a new YouTube video posted by the boy’s father shows, he has had to overcome a lot since the Kilmeade incident.

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The YouTube video actually got some play on “Fox & Friends.” Watch their reaction here.

It was Hoda Kotb‘s birthday Friday, and her “Today” fourth-hour co-host Kathie Lee Gifford decided to put together a special present for her colleague. The result: a music video and an original song “I Want to Hoda on Your Kotb.”

Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Natalie Morales, Al Roker and Carson Daly even got in on the fun.

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Former CNN host and current Ora.tv and RT host Larry King has been around the block a few times. For YouTube’s “Geek Week,” The Nerdist channel asked him to put on his thinking suspenders and name his top 10 superheroes. Despite some obvious flaws in his list (Green Lantern made it?) The number one pick is a crowd-pleaser.

Between this and his recent partnership with Snoop Lion, King is quickly becoming as known in the comedy world as he is in the news world.

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The crew at “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” once again spliced some “NBC Nightly News” clips together and turned anchor Brian Williams into a rap sensation.

In honor of guest Mark Wahlberg, Williams “rapped” to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch’s classic “Good Vibrations.”

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Thursday’s episode of “Jeopardy!” featured a category of “Today” trivia questions called “It’s Not Matt Lauer.” Questions included “He was a ‘Today’ host for six years before starting a 22-year run on the ‘NBC Nightly News’ in 1982″ (Who is Tom Brokaw?) and “He was the original host of ‘Today,’ from 1952 to 1961″ (Who is Dave Garroway?).

The “Today” hosts tried their hand at a few of the “Jeopardy!” questions Friday morning. Unsurprisingly, Lauer, Savannah Guthrie and Natalie Morales knew all the answers, although without the official game show buzzers, there was some confusion over who got to answer what. Watch:

Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean and WPIX reporter Magee Hickey were crowned New York’s funniest reporters over the weekend, marking the first year in the history of the eight-year contest that there was a tie for first place.

It’s the second year in a row that the winner has come from Fox News. “Fox and Friends” weekend anchor Clayton Morris was the 2012 winner. Syndicated radio host Peter Schiff came in second place and Fox Business Network’s Charles Payne was third.

The annual stand-up competition was held Sunday at Comic Strip Live. The Blaze’s Laurie Dhue and Fox News’ Dr. Manny Alvarez were among the other competitors, and HLN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell served as a judge.

Rapper Snoop Lion (formerly Snoop Dogg). Larry King. Together, at last.

The pair delivered a faux newscast on “GGN,” aka ‘Double G News.”

“I Like peanut butter, crunchy peanut butter,” King revealed.

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The residents of Sesame Street popped in to Univision’s morning news program “Despierta America.”

As is often the case on serious news programs, the hosts pretended like they were real people, and not puppets.

It was Grover, however, who got to do something special. The blue Muppet put on a suit, tie and glasses, channeled his inner Jorge Ramos, and co-anchored alongside Satcha Pretto. He reported on a dog that can ride a scooter.

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It was just a couple weeks ago that ABC’s “Good Morning America” launched a sugarbomb at its morning show competition, securing a Ben & Jerry’s sundae based around the program: “Good Morning America’s Sunrise Sundae.”

Now “Today” is looking to battle back in the developing battle of the bulge.

On Monday America’s favorite cream-filled spongecake–the Twinkie–will return to store shelves across the country. One of the first shipments will be to “Today,” courtesy of the “Twinkie Mobile.” NBC’s morning program has asked viewers to share their favorite Twinkie memories, and will be sharing them on-air.

Typically when one thinks of confectionery confrontations, they think of dueling desserts. Now the mornings are clearly fair game. “CBS This Morning,” the ball is now in your court.

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