20 WTF Moments From Sharknado: The 4th Awakens

11. Gilbert Gottfried Reports The Weather

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Though the Today Show's Matt Laurer was nowhere to be seen this time, his co-hosts Natalie Morales and Al Roker returned for The Fourth Awakens, discussing the Sharknado incidents before throwing the ball to their weather reporter named Ronald McDonald (seriously), played by...Gilbert freaking Gottfried.

Gottfried is perfectly cast here as the man in the van chasing down the Sharknadoes, because who better to play a weather reporter in a movie like this than the man with the most grating and irritating voice on the planet?

He makes several brief appearances throughout the movie and is, well, basically exactly what you'd expect: loud and loony as he talks up the appearance of a "Cownado". Speaking of which...

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