Jenna Bush Hager, Savannah Guthrie and more get into character for 'TODAY' show's Halloween celebration

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Oct 30, 2026
Green played by Jennifer
Aniston was the waitress
turned fashion executive
with a haircut so iconic it's
simply called the Rachel.
Lisa Kudrow started...
I'm glad that we met yesterday.
Are you ready?
One more right here.
Okay, thank you.
One more to your left.
Wait, we have a
special guest!
You always get the dancing part.
Thank you.
Ooh, mine was, first of all,
we had to get clearance from the Rockettes.
I mean, it's not exactly, you know, you
don't usually associate them with Halloween,
but I promised them that I would do my best.
So it's been a few weeks.
Um, same with me. We once Savannah nailed on Rachel.
I, I zoomed in to Phoebe and then I
started practicing smelly cat.
Although it's been in my head since 1994. And the world knows that
Jennifer Sager is a cat lover. So yes.
And I brought my own cat Maisie. She was the star of
the show. I like everybody that of my age, which is middle age.
I loved friends so much. We actually
I actually just hung out with Courtney Cox.
I didn't because we have to sign in DAs.
Oh, that's true.
But I mean, it's a secret.
Yeah, we don't have to, but I just, in case.
Maybe she'll call you later.
There you go.
Call you later.
I know.
I hope Lisa thought I did well.
Last question, what hand are you guys giving out?
Ooh, go ahead.
I'm giving out what I like to have
in case not many trick-or-treaters come
so that Mama can eat it,
which is a Reese's peanut butter cup.
My favorite.
And this is a big year for me.
For the very first time,
my kids are going to parties
because they're in high school
and not door-to-door.
So what am I going to do?
You're having your girlfriends over
and you're putting this outfit on.
Are you going to?
You know what?
Now that she said it,
maybe I can take this home.
Yeah, she's going to wear it.
Trick-or-treating, door-to-door.
Jenna.
Hey.
Okay, are we good?
Yeah, we're good.
Great job, y'all.
Thank you!
Excuse me,
someone
brought
a six pack.
We're going to let him up.
All good?
All right, thank you.
Go ahead.
Okay.
Thank you.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Welcome here.
I know, it looks like I may need to sneak it out.
Go on, give me that! That's mine! Yeah, thank you!
Ah, that's right! About time everybody! Recognize my great face!
I'm DUMBIE DAMMIT!
Thank you so much.
And so far...
When we get to see the D-Day show, that's my favorite.
Me too! That's our next stop.
I don't know.
Hello, it's our D-Day show, and we're going to be doing a tour.
Get out
of here.
Craig!
Where are we going?
You've got to call me Scoop.
No, it's Craig.
Thank you very much.
You're right.
Yes, Craig.
You're right.
Oh!
Woo!
Hey, I know you.
I'm
What's your name?
I'm Rachel from Pizza.
Hi, Rachel.
Okay, I want to know, what kind of candy do you give out on Halloween?
I give out full-size candy bars.
You know when they say, when it says fun size, that's no fun
when you gotta open up three or four candies to get one candy.
That's ridiculous.
What inspired your look today?
What look?
Oh, it's your look every day?
This is, I'm Gumby, dammit!
Hero, but if you want to sing a song.
That's okay, it's out of tune.
How are you doing?
When you decided you were going to do this amazing pop?
Well, I knew what everybody else was doing,
and I thought we were missing a little, like, current pop start flavor,
some music, and Ella Langley, you are amazing.
You've had an incredible year.
I'm sorry I look like this.
You're so beautiful.
We did our best, but I wanted to honor Ella
and the biggest song on planet Earth.
And so we had a lot of fun doing it.
Um, If It Weren't for the Wind is my favorite song off her last album.
I can't buy enough candy in my neighborhood.
Like we have monsters.
So I buy so much.
My favorite are the hundred grand bars, the minis.
We don't do full size.
So that's, I try and I try and hook kids up with my favorite.
There's a lot of food.
Drinking Jack all by myself.
Thank you.
I'm choosing Texas.
So hot! So hot!
Although I just wonder what it would
look like way up there in the clouds.
There's a weird way to find out.
We rehearsed at 5 a.m. and we got
in a costume at 5.45,
but because of my magic trick this
year, I got to do a whole trial run on Tuesday.
So we had already put the costume on,
fixed what needed to be fixed, and we were ready
to go this morning.
And then I want to know, what kind of candy you're giving out for home?
I've been buying candy for the last several months.
I usually give out my favorites
so that if there's any left over, I get to eat them.
So Twix, Almond Joy, Kit Kats,
I like the chocolate candy, not the gummy candy.
Are they full-size candy bars?
Broker, I'm not doing full-size candy bars.
That guy's a madman.
Hey
folks,
you're
back.
I can't be Snoop without Martha.
And we thought it was going to be a long
shot, but we pitched the idea to Martha,
Yeah, it'll be fun.
We did.
Martha's been a friend of the show for a couple decades,
so it was an easy call to make.
But I knew that our team had crushed it this morning
when Martha saw me in my full get-up,
and she looked me up and down, and she was like,
you look good.
For Martha, that's, you know, that's high praise.
When did you think of doing it?
About a month ago.
They settled on the theme,
and then we had to figure out who I could be inside the theme.
Amen.
So.
That really quick, just what candy are you giving out for home?
Ooh, we usually get M&M's.
No peanut stuff.
Thank you, thank you everybody.
We have a great, a great show tonight.
And I have right here a hermetically sealed envelope.
And by my mystical powers, I shall reveal the answer to this question.
So this is classic Johnny Carson.
If you're going to do 100 years of NBC,
you have to do the king of late night, Johnny Carson.
And this is his most famous character,
Carnac, who was kind of a mind reader.
Read through an envelope and then tell a joke.
So when they came to me with Johnny Carson, I was like, that's it.
And I got to kind of live out childhood fantasies
and be a late night host for like 30 seconds.
Yeah. No, they have a concept, and they have a bunch of ideas,
and they'll come to you, our amazing producers,
with the idea, and you can say yes or no, or you can say,
yes, but let's do it in this character, yes,
let's do it this way, or let's do something else all together.
But the truth is, they're so good at this, our Halloween team,
that at this point, you kind of go with what they have,
because they know how to do it so well.
I would say two months ago like
and they've been thinking about it for months before that so by
the time they have the concept they've already really vetted
a bunch of different ideas and
thought what would look cool how could we present it
in a good way and like
Could SNL and the wardrobe, hair, makeup teams,
could they work with this concept?
So, it's awesome.
And then one, I'm very good at that.
Okay, so we're doing Kit Kats and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
But really, Reese's has really expanded, and this isn't a commercial,
but the shapes that they're putting out these days,
whether it's a pumpkin or an Easter bunny,
they really tailor it to the holiday.
So it's not even just a cup anymore,
it's just a beautiful Reese's product, and I would
like an endorsement deal.
Are they full-size?
You gotta go full-size.
You disappoint kids.
They come by your house, sometimes they go,
oh, their mom says this, you know, they're
on the Today Show.
So if you hand out like, you know,
breath mints or toothpicks or toothbrushes, you get
a bad reputation in town.
Here you go. You've earned it.
All right, thank you.
It's super simple. I want to know what kind
of candy you're giving out for Halloween.
I love to give out full-size candy.
So we're doing full-size KitKat, full-size Nerd boxes.
We are all about, everybody gets like a big chunk too.
Not just like one, you get a big fistful.
Are you judging how many guys don't get full-size?
I'm a big-time judger. I'm a big-time judger.
I can't even raise myself.
Everyone to your left.
All the way to your lap.
He's like, what is happening?
There's a cat.
There's a cat.
Me.
One more look.
See.
