Savannah Guthrie To Undergo Surgery On Vocal Cords; Will Be Absent From NBC’s ‘Today’ “For A Couple Of Weeks”

Today co-host Savannah Guthrie said that she will be absent from the show for a couple of weeks to have surgery on her vocal cords.

Guthrie told viewers on Friday that she has “felt like Peter Brady these past few weeks and months. Some of you have noticed that my voice has been very scratchy and started to scratch a little bit like Peter Brady.”

She was referring to an episode of The Brady Bunch in which Peter Brady’s voice cracks just as he and his siblings are trying to establish singing careers.

“I have found out what it is. I have vocal nodules, and now I also have a polyp. It’s not a big, big deal, but I am going to have a surgery real early in the new year and be off for a couple of weeks. So it’s my last day for a little while. So I just want to let everyone know, and if you’ve been wondering, do I have the world’s longest head cold? No, I don’t.”

“You’ll love this, guys. I have to be silent for a couple of weeks, totally silent,” she said, adding, “the jokes write themselves.”