In what must surely be the lowest point in the Today show host’s career, Matt Lauer plays “straight man” to Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno character. As the crew obediently hoot and howl at every scripted joke, and Brüno’s schtick get less and less funny, Matt Lauer simply refuses to give up on the dying bit. He sets up lame joke after lame joke, and never seems to realize how far he has fallen. Rest assured, Christiane Amanpour would never have agreed to such an embarrassing spectacle.