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Veteran news anchor Katie Couric outed former colleague Bryant Gumbel as 
“incredibly sexist,” claiming that he suggested she should deliver her baby 
“in a field” and come straight back to the show rather than taking some time 
off for maternity leave.

Couric made the comments during her recent appearance on comedian Bill 
Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, where she also said that Gumbel’s attitude was 
similar to that of many of her male colleagues and the overall culture at NBC 
at the time.

WATCH:

	Katie Couric on Club Random with Bill Maher revealed a couple of 
	interesting facts about her time working on the 'Today Show' with 
	Bryant Gumbel and Matt Lauer:
	Couric: "He [Gumbel] got mad at me because I was doing something on 
	maternity leave, and he was giving endless shit for… 
	pic.twitter.com/9KjrtZSbGY

	— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) April 14, 2024

“He was prickly, but, what a talent. He’s such a seamless broadcaster, 
eloquent. I mean, when that countdown would happen — five, four, three, two, 
one — he would just hit it perfect,” Couric said of Gumbel.

And while she did have a number of nice things to say about him — she called 
him a “natty dresser” and noted that he was intelligent and “really talented” 
— her overall assessment was that he was “complicated.”

She went on to say that things kind of came to a head when she planned to 
take maternity leave when her first child was born.

“And he was giving me endless s*** for taking like a month or two off. I was 
having my first baby,” she said. “He was like, ‘Why don’t you just drop it in 
the field and come back to work right away or something?'”

Maher, who is friends with Gumbel, pressed Couric on that point and said that 
it sounded like he probably meant that last remark as a joke — and while 
Couric conceded that he’d been “kidding,” she said that wasn’t the only thing 
he had said on the matter.

“He was goofing on me but giving me a lot of s***. But it was emblematic of 
sort of an incredibly sexist attitude,” she continued.

“It was a very different environment,” she said of NBC at the time.

Maher noted that there was an “old boys club” feel to the interoffice 
politics at major networks at the time, adding, “And women had to put up with 
more. They just did. I mean, you know, not to get all fuzzy and Lifetime 
Channel about it, but people like you and Barbara Walters or just like women 
comedians of a certain age, you have to really tip your hat to them because 
it was harder.”

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Let's go Brandon!