Tim Gilbert declares Good Friday’s Today Show ‘the loosest show I’ve ever been involved in’

IT might be Good Friday, but the Today Show had a shocker this morning prompting sports reader Tim Gilbert to declare it ‘the loosest show I’ve ever been involved in’.

IT might be Good Friday, but the Today show had a “Bad Egg” reading the news, a late co-host, spilt coffee and more lame seafood jokes than you can poke a fish at.

The Nine breakfast team had a clear air of ‘that Friday feeling’ today with an added dose of public holiday thrown in, making for what Sports Reporter Tim Gilbert called “the loosest show I’ve ever been involved in”.

The morning didn’t start off too well with Gilbert half an hour late to the set, having slept in, but instead tweeting every excuse under the sun for his tardiness.

@TheTodayShow I was told we had good friday off, the train had a flat tyre, the dog ate the homework, the alarm fell out the window.....

— Tim Gilbert (@TimgGilbert) April 2, 2015

His absence forced producers to call in “Bad Egg” to read the sport news, a bizarre giant chocolate Easter egg dubbed with Karl Stefanovic’s lips.

Our new buddy Bad Egg has all the sport details for you this morning (we think @TimgGilbert slept in) #Today9 pic.twitter.com/SROUA75tbJ

— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) April 2, 2015

.@TimgGilbert accidentally slept in this morning... so Bad Egg stepped up to read the sport! #Today9 https://t.co/A6JtSZPlTl

— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) April 2, 2015

And it only got more relaxed from there on in.

The team are on fire this morning @TheTodayShow! So funny! Karlos is out of control! Love it! 🐰

— Nicole Pettersson (@bluevelvet1968) April 2, 2015

Wendy Kingston spilt her coffee all over Karl Stefanovic during an interview with Father Bob, resulting in Karl exclaiming he needed “medical attention for my scalding third degree burns”.

“Wendy’s coffee just came to life on my leg, which is very unfortunate,” he told Father Bob during their eight minute interview. “I’m going to need to have medical attention given to my leg which now has scalding burns to it ... but I’m tough.”

Meanwhile, Richard Wilkins was also late to introduce his segment, leaving cast and crew laughing as he scrambled to run across the floor and introduce his Beach Boys interview.

Wendy Kingston struggles to contain her laugh after spilling coffee all over Karl.

Steve Jacobs was hanging out down at the fish markets, watching a whole tuna being sliced into sashimi and dropping dad jokes like there was no tomorrow.

“What happened when the prawn went to the disco? He pulled a mussel,” was one of his best, along with “what did Schwarzenegger say when he went to the fish market? ... It’s not a TUNA!”

It seems some of the Nine team clocked off yesterday too, with A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw tweeting this clanger last night, after Finance Reporter Ross Greenwood being renamed “Ross Greedwood” in an unfortunate Freudian slip.

Such big hands you have Ross Greedwood! Big hands - big heart,er,wallet,er,personality. @Ross_Greenwood pic.twitter.com/jjsUhPn4sL

— tracy grimshaw (@tracygrimshaw) April 2, 2015

While Lisa Wilkinson was lucky to have the day off from hosting duties on Today, Karlos was not afraid to make it known he got the raw deal on the Easter roster.

Stevie delivers his dad jokes from the fish marks.

“It’s a public holiday and no one should be at work!” he said.

“That’s your sacrifice today,” added Sylvia Jeffreys.

Amen Karl, from all of us working here at news.com.au to you.

Happy Easter.