- Mm-mm. - (Cough) Mm.

- Me, me, me, me.

Also word, me got something in me mouth.

Me got little cookie crumb.

Num num.

- One take Cookie, that's what they call you.

- Yeah, that's all me need.

Camera two.

- So you don't wanna give them any good stuff until the close-up cookie?

- No, me waiting for close-up.

Me professional monster here.

Me know how it works.

- Just give them garbage in the wide, that's right.

You can cheat the edit.

- They never use the wide shot.

- (Laugh) - That's right.

- Me gonna save the tears for the close-up.

- That's right.

No, no, no.

- Sorry. - For reading, for reading,

not for eating.

We'll get more into that after the break.

- Brilliant.

- You terrific.

- Bang, right, big swing.

- You so good at this.

- Thank you, Cookie.

You're a great hope man.

- Me in the shot.

You no want me in that shot.

Me here if you need me.

- Okay, on deck, he's on deck.

Cookie's on deck.

Our top story.

- Yeah, like that.

Do that again with the turn.

- That terrific turn.

- Not bad, right? - Me love it.

Keep it up.

- Ear touch.

- Ear touch?

- Something important is coming in.

- Do you do the one finger or the two finger touch?

- Two finger is something very serious had better be happening.

One finger- - But then two if you need it.

- Two if, I'm struggling to hear you.

- Whoa, me no believe it.

- Exactly.

- We have confirmation from Al Roker, but- - Confirmation from Al Roker does not

mean Al Roker.

- (Laugh) - Great job, Al.

- I'm gonna drop you like a bag of dirt.

I'm not telling you how to run camera.

- (Laugh) - (Laugh) You do not have Al Roker.

- (Laugh) - Expect two to three feet of GIFs.

That's GIFs, you want me to say GIFs.

- (Laugh) - Me believe it's pronounced GIF.

- That's what you believe.

I do, I believe.

(Sound) You know what?

I don't need this, okay.

I'm out of here.

- Al? Me losing Al.

- Al. - Al.

- Al. - Where'd Al go?

He made run for it?

- Where did he go to?

That man is a mystery.

Wow, he really stormed out of there.

So, you get it because.

- No quit with your day job.

Stick with the news.

Yeah, but I can't.

- It's okay. - No, I don't think it is okay.

- No, no, it's fine.

You're going to be fine.

- Because you get it, though, right?

- Me get it.

- Right. - But

me no think it really work, quite work in this setting.

- Well, it work, I mean- - Maybe on a different show.

- Well, fundamentally, structurally it works, it's a weatherfront,

there's a storm and a weatherfront.

- Yes, structurally it works because it's stormy, weatherman.

- It crosses over.

- But me think it just not quite get there.

- Well, well, it's subjective.

- Here the line, here the joke.

(Sound) - (Laugh)

- Not quite there.

- (Laugh) I'm not sure about that.

I think there's a line, and the joke.

I think it's through.

- No, me think it was that way.

- I think it's- - No, wait a minute!

Al!

- Al.

- Al, Al here.

- Is he back? Al.

- Al back.

What do you think, Al?

Al weighing in.

Al says, he no buy it - No, it's a solid weather joke.

Come on Al.

- We on to sports already.

- I feel this- - You can drop it.

- I feel I'm resolved. - It was a good try.

Me appreciate the effort.

- Well, that's passive aggressive.

- Do you think Grover is watching this?

(Laugh) Hi, Grover.

- Cookie Monster is back in the studio, Grover's not here.

- (Laugh) It's a shame, he's my favorite, hi Grover.

- You got cookie?

That solve everything. - Wow, that is your go-to, isn't it?

- I'm really honored to be here on TV, and

I guess I just wanna say thank you mom for giving birth to me and.

- That's good, that's good, that's good.

- Got a little bit of something.

- Yeah, better, better, what?

Probably a cookie.

- Me think it cookie crumb.

- Okay.

- Me got crumbs in here from the 80s.

- (Laugh) - That's-

- We got one.

It's vintage.

1983 oatmeal raisin.

- That's nice.

Before the FDA stepped in, that's the real stuff.

- Yeah.

- I don't know if the.

(Laugh) Okay. - Is that newsroom gesture?

- Do you know what?

- On to sports.

- (Laugh) I think on to- - Me like it.

- I think on to anything.

- That works. - That works.

That's right, it doesn't just need to be sports.

- No, it could be anything.

- Okay, and onto more terrible news about the wealth gap.

We never quite got that.

- Yeah, sorry, yeah.

- (Laugh) - Yeah, you're right, you're right.

We never did the thing we're supposed to do, you're right, yeah, okay.

- (Sound) Let me get that leather piece in here.

What kind of belt you wearing?

- (Laugh) - (Cough)

- (Laugh) No,

don't, leave the hanky alone.

Can you leave me with something?

- That not taste very good, that not cookie.

- It's not a cookie.

- Why you not tell me that?

- We've learned something about trust.

Just savor it at least.

- There's no way they can use any of that.

- Mm-mm.