C U Next Tuesday, Jane Fonda

Studio 1A, Rockefeller Plaza. The light, fluffy banter typically associated with Today was disgraced with gutter talk this morning by Jane Fonda. During a live interview to promote her work in The Vagina Monologues, Fonda said the word “cunt.” Meredith Vieira made her patented grossed-out face and exhaled sharply.

In her dressing room during the commercial break Vieira said, “We do hard news here, but with a fun attitude. That’s why I left The View. I was sick of all that contentious bullshit. Fuckin’ Fonda… Look, you have to excuse me. I have to calm down. I’m making meat balls with the entire Scotto family in ten minutes."