Willie Geist
Willie Geist
William Russell "Willie" Geistis an American television personality, journalist and humorist. He is co-anchor of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-anchor of NBC's Today's Take the third hour of The Today Show, and anchor of Sunday Today with Willie Geist. Geist also frequently serves as fill-in anchor on Today for Matt Lauer. Geist is a Correspondent for NBC News and NBC Sports, hosting and contributing to NBC's Olympic coverage...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth3 May 1975
CityEvanston, IL
CountryUnited States of America
People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.
My routine is to ride that snooze button as far as it will take me, take a quick shower, get dressed in the dark and bolt out the door.
I was a landscaper for three years and loved it.
When you work in TV long enough, you tend to get a little jaded with different things you have to deal with.
It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference.
I've had two pedicures in my life, and they were glorious.
The nice thing about 'Morning Joe' is that I do get to do serious news sometimes.
Do whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home.
Everyone worries about their kids, of course, but you can drive yourself nuts thinking about all the horrible things in the world - and many, many people do. I believe life is to be lived and not survived.
There's a lot to be said for going to baseball games for a living.
I'm not a coffee drinker, so my drink is kind of like a girlie skim chai latte. I'm not proud of it, but it's really good.
I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now where I look back when pulling into the spot only as a formality.
Watching 'CSI: Miami' is like watching 'Teen Jeopardy!' or doing the crossword puzzle in 'People' magazine. It makes you feel smart even when you're not.
Bachelor parties would pay a lot of money to hire Pat Buchanan to come.