TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager has been replaced by Joel McHale on Thursday’s live show.
Comedian Joel McHale joined Hoda on Thursday’s episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna.

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On Thursday’s episode of Today with Hoda and Jenna, Jenna was absentCredit: Getty Images

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Comedian Joel McHale joined Hoda as a co-host for the episodeCredit: Twitter
“This is Joel, Joel McHale,” Hoda said as the pair walked out together.
“It’s me, yes!” Joel said as he followed Hoda to the show’s desk.
“He’s filling in for our pal Jenna,” Hoda continued as she sat down.
“Yeah, welcome to the ninth hour of the Today show, everybody,” Joel joked as he eased into his own seat.
“I dressed like a real estate agent from Miami for this,” he continued, referring to the black and white suit jacket and dress shirt he was wearing.
“You look sharp,” Hoda complimented Joel.
“Well, I got drunk before the show, just like you guys,” he joked. “Is Kathie Lee still here?”
He kept going: “You alone got so much wine pushed on you and so much of America responded.”
The show was underway after Hoda asked Joel how he was doing and what he had been up to.
There was no mention made of why Jenna was out for the day.
OOPS!
Meanwhile, Jenna had to hastily fix her bra strap after it fell down her shoulder on live TV.
On Tuesday’s episode of the Today show, Jenna and Hoda Kotb tried out a lemon-squeezing hack.
The pair fumbled with the hack, which was supposed to make things easier.
Jenna got frustrated a couple of minutes in and resorted to going back to the “normal” way of squeezing the lemon.
She called: “Just squeeze it like a normal person!”
At that point, her bra strap and dress sleeve started to slide down her shoulder.
She started to grab at it and fix it while talking about the supposed hack.
“Here’s the thing, y’all! We don’t need a hack for everything,” she said, exasperated.
As she asked for something to clean her hands with, she stood up and tried to straighten out her dress.
With a lemon in one hand, she pulled her dress sleeve and bra strap back up.
She then straightened her entire dress out.
But neither Jenna nor Hoda was interested in continuing with the lemon-squeezing hack.
They found the “old-fashioned way” to be much simpler and more effective.
WOAH, JENNA!
Meanwhile, Jenna appeared on the Hoda & Jenna Instagram page in a very risqué outfit.
In the photo, Jenna stood proudly in a completely nude bodysuit and held a microphone to her mouth.
The bodysuit was covered in glitter, and had graphics of black-gloved hands covering her private areas.
The 41-year-old appeared to wear similar latex gloves that reached up to her upper arm.
Behind her, the arms of backup dancers could be seen mid-performance.
In a second photo, her colleague Hoda Kotb wore a shocking outfit of her own.
The tiny minidress revealed most of her legs, while she sat on a man and smiled.
Critically, both of the photos were photoshopped, with the NBC stars’ faces superimposed on Beyonce’s body from her current Renaissance World Tour.
The caption read: “The ‘Renaissance’ tour looks a little different here.
“To celebrate the start of Beyonce’s world tour, we wanted to see what Hoda & Jenna would look like sporting some of her concert looks!”

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Joel joked that he had been drinking before he came outCredit: Twitter

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Hoda couldn’t stop laughing at his comment and noted they had “begged” him to cohost againCredit: Twitter

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Jenna was nowhere to be found for the day’s show
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