I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.

2011: The Talk Show Murders. Roker initially wanted to be a cartoonist. In 2005 Roker reported from inside Hurricane Wilma.

He is best known as being the weather anchor on NBC's Today. Writing with Dick Lochte Roker began a series of murder mysteries in 2009 that feature Billy Blessing a celebrity chef turned amateur detective.