Cruise, who had a testy exchange with Lauer while discussing psychiatry and post partum depression in an 2005 on air interview, to show bygones were bygones, made a surprise appearance at a Friday Friars Club roast and skewered and poked fun at Lauer, while referring to the incident as ‘that little thing’ and insisting the two were close friends. 
  
Cruise related how Lauer advised him to talk about his relationship with Katie Holmes when he was to appear on Oprah Winfrey’s show, as people would find his love inspiring and go crazy, loving him for it. 
  
Others to roast the ‘Today’ host also, were Meredith Vieira, Katie Couric and colleagues Zucker, Al Roker, Brian Williams and Martha Stewart, whose raunchy jokes and bawdy swipes lampooned Lauer, causing the broadcaster to laugh embarrassedly, for much of the afternoon.