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
I'm 6-foot-4. If my life depended on it, I could still dunk a basketball. Then I would need assistance from a first responder to get down from the rim.
My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him.
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.
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.
My dad was always fascinated and amused by Trump, so I learned to be fascinated and amused by Trump.
I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.
I keep my politics a little closer to me than others do.
When youre young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.
I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it.
I treat Twitter like a news feed. I follow you guys, I follow every news organization - left, right, center, and everything in between - and it's like a ticker on my phone. For me it's that you have to wade through the people who wish you were dead - and I have to respect their opinions - but it helps me stay on top of the news.
Sometimes @BrookeShields rolls into your party dressed as a Christmas tree, carrying a bucket of KFC. pic.twitter.com/DTtZkZY4cB
New York, it's people. It's grit. It's diversity of people. It's diversity of industry. In L.A. everyone's looking over their shoulder because one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills just walked in. They value the wrong things.
I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.
Bacon. Crispy. Salty. I could just eat a mountain of bacon for breakfast; it's so delicious.