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"Matt Lauer has mocked his own decision to dress up as Pamela Anderson for Today&amp;#039;s Halloween show. Lauer donned Anderson&amp;#039;s famous Baywatch swimsuit for the NBC morning show&amp;#039;s October 31 episode, while weatherman Al Roker dressed as Mr T.  The Today host joked about the costume during an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show by comparing himself to heavy metal group Twisted Sister. &amp;quot;It was supposed to be a tribute to Pamela Anderson. I look more like Dee Snider with fake boobs,&amp;quot; Lauer quipped, adding: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not a great look.&amp;quot; Lauer then teased that he prepared to don the bathing suit by working out more than ever, and also revealed that it only took &amp;quot;about 30 minutes&amp;quot; to dress up as Anderson. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I mean, I sit in the chair. We&amp;#039;ve got the Today show wardrobe people. We have Saturday Night Live people.  &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve got prosthetic people, so what I do is I sit in the chair and I&amp;#039;ve got people buzzing around me. I&amp;#039;ve got one person doing make-up, one person doing hair, another applying the appendages. And, then I don&amp;#039;t look in the mirror until the transformation is complete because I want to be surprised. And, I was surprised.&amp;quot; He then declared: &amp;quot;The hardest part is putting on the device. The device that um, it&amp;#039;s called a concealer is what it is. &amp;quot;If they use the name that&amp;#039;s more appropriate - if described it like, &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s a testicle vice&amp;#039;, then I probably wouldn&amp;#039;t have used it.&amp;quot;  Lauer added: &amp;quot;You get naked. So I&amp;#039;m in the dressing room and I get naked and then you put this [costume] on.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never put Spanx on but I would imagine it&amp;#039;s sort of Spanx times ten. And it&amp;#039;s intentionally 20 sizes too small.&amp;quot; Today has had its anchors wear elaborate costumes on Halloween for the last several years, with Lauer and Ann Curry once dressing as Prince Harry and the Duchess of Cambridge. Watch the Today cast unveil their Halloween costumes below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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