“Meredith Vieira dressed up as Bette Midler for her first Halloween with NBC’s Today show, but she somehow got stuck inside the clamshell she was brought out in,” the AP notes.

“Viewers saw guys from the crew with their backsides to the camera frantically try to pry open the clamshell. By the time they did, the Midler song Vieira was supposed to lip-synch to was over.” More…