Photos: Matt Lauer through the years
See photos of Matt Lauer, the longtime co-host of NBC's “Today” show, through the years. Lauer was “terminated” by the network, NBC News announced Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017.
NBC's Al Roker, Savannah Guthrie, Matt Lauer and Hoda Kotb on Sept. 25, 2017. Lauer becomes the latest — arguably the biggest — casualty in the ongoing shakeout in the entertainment and TV news industry related to sexual harassment.
Matt Lauer on Sept. 13, 2017.
Matt Lauer on June 30, 2017. NBC said Lauer’s firing was related to “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.”
Matt Lauer, Hillary Clinton and Rick Stengel at the TIME 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2012.
Matt Lauer and Charlie Sheen for an interview that aired on Sept. 16, 2011.
Matt Lauer and President George W. Bush on Oct. 29, 2010.
Ann Curry, Matt Lauer, Meredith Viera and Al Roker on Dec. 19, 2008.
NBC "Today" co-hosts Katie Couric and Matt Lauer chat during a segment of their program in New York's Rockefeller Center on Dec. 5, 2005.
Matt Lauer and Yankees manager Joe Torre speak to reporters before the second annual Golf Classic for the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation at the Trump National Golf Course.
"Today" show co-host Matt Lauer introduces a segment on the program in New York's Rockefeller Center on May 6, 2005.
Matt Lauer, co-host of the "Today" show arrives at the wedding of Donald Trump and Melania Knauss at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Church in Palm Beach Jan. 22, 2005.
Tom Brokaw, with Matt Lauer, recalls poignant stories that were reported by NBC News in the days and months after the 9/11 attacks.
Matt Lauer talks with the boy band Backstreet Boys on July 2, 2001, on the "Today" show at Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan.
Captain David R. Bryant, Commanding Officer, USS Theodore Roosevelt, chats with the "Today" show's Matt Lauer on the signal bridge of the nuclear-powered carrier on May 12, 1999.
TV hosts Matt Lauer, left, and Bryant Gumbel on the set of NBC's "Today" show on Dec. 5, 1996.
Matt Lauer, as an anchor/reporter on Live At Five" for "Today in New York" in 1993.