Savannah Guthrie Joins TODAY to Share Kids’ Response to Vocal Chord Rest: ‘You’re Still Loud’
TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie may not be able to say a word after her vocal chord surgery, but she found a way to chat with her co-hosts on the Jan. 12 broadcast while recovering at home — and she shared her kids’ thoughts about her silence.
“Savannah, I was telling them how I called you the other week for you not to answer, so your voicemail would play, but you answered and just clapped over and over again like a seal,” joked Jenna Bush Hager.
Still in week two of complete vocal rest, Savannah couldn’t respond to Jenna vocally, but she smiled, nodded, clapped and even snapped.
When asked how she was feeling, Savannah wrote on her trusty white board: “good, boring, quiet.”
“This feels like a new prime time Jimmy Fallon game show,” Carson Daly said.
Savannah indicated that she has been journaling, painting and reading recommended books, like “Theo of Golden” by Allen Levi and “Yes and … Daily Meditations” by Richard Rohr. She wrote that she is “trying to grow as a human.”
“You were already a pretty great human before!” said Craig Melvin.

Savannah has been concentrating on painting with watercolors and displayed some of her artwork, including a sunset, the TODAY logo and a black cat she specifically created with Jenna in mind.
“I think you’re going to have to auction these off!” said Al Roker.
Though her coworkers seem delighted to communicate with Savannah via white board, her children — daughter Vale, 11, and son Charley, 9 — have thoughts.
Savannah held up a white board that read, “The kids said, ‘Mom, even when you’re quiet, you’re still loud.'”
She prepped a second message that was a riff on the classic “Jaws” quote: “We’re gonna need a bigger white board.”
Savannah will be back in Studio 1A next week.
Craig said, “Can’t wait to get you back, SG!”

