Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper are identified for his or her hilarious — and on occasion unhinged — antics all over CNN’s reside New 12 months’s Eve broadcast.
Cohen turned into Cooper’s cohost in 2017 when he changed Kathy Griffin. Alternatively, the pair have identified each and every different for many years after first crossing paths when their buddies attempted to set them up on a blind date within the early ‘90s.
“We had a phone call to set up the date, and I knew within 45 seconds I was never going on a date with Andy Cohen,” Cooper advised Jimmy Fallon all over a 2017 look on The This night Display, noting that he canceled their date. “He violated my cardinal rule, which is he asked me about my mom [Gloria Vanderbilt] within the first minute of talking to me.”
Cohen, for his phase, stated he used to be “excited” about their telephone name, including, “I wanted to date the Vanderbilt boy!”
Whilst their romantic setup by no means panned out, they ended up turning into shut buddies after touring in combination all the way through the early 2000s with a gaggle of mutual buddies. They each have massive careers and feature grown households of their very own. Cohen is a father to son Ben and daughter Lucy whilst Cooper coparents his sons, Wyatt and Sebastian, along with his pal and previous spouse Benjamin Maisani.
Cohen and Cooper’s real-life friendship interprets on digicam, and audience eagerly song in annually to observe the duo. They've made headlines through the years on account of their alcohol intake all the way through the night time, which has introduced blended reactions from lovers.
CNN banned their correspondents from consuming whilst ringing in 2023, and Cohen begged the community to opposite the verdict heading into 2024.
“Hopefully, I will not be sneaking it,” Cohen stated at BravoCon in November 2023. “I haven’t heard anything yet, but come on, they need to let us drink. It’s New Year’s Eve. That didn’t go well last year in terms of viewer happiness about us drinking. People really cared and I hope CNN gives the people what they want.”
Stay studying to peer Cohen and Cooper’s funniest NYE moments:
Cooper Recounts Saucy Tale About Gloria Vanderbilt
All over the 2019 broadcast, Cooper attempted Jägermeister for the primary time ahead of telling a hilarious tale about his past due mom.
When Vanderbilt gave the impression on Watch What Occurs Reside to advertise her 2017 e book, The Rainbow Comes and Is going: A Mom and Son on Existence, Love, and Loss, there used to be one query she used to be nervous host Cohen would ask.
“She turns to me out of the blue and goes, ‘He’s not going to ask me who has the biggest c–k in Hollywood, is he?’” Cooper recalled all over the printed.
Cohen Suggests They Drop Acid
Snoop Dogg gave the impression all over the 2020-2021 display and Cooper couldn’t forestall laughing about the entire puts the rapper had smoked marijuana.
“Have you ever done acid?” Cohen requested Cooper, who exclaimed that he had by no means attempted the drug. The Bravo superstar stated, “Well, it’s time. We’re doing it tonight.”
Cohen’s Ryan Seacrest Diss
“If you look behind me, you’ll see Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers performing. I’m sorry, but if you’re watching ABC, you’re watching nothing,” Cohen stated all over the 2021 broadcast about Seacrest, who hosts Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve.
Cohen later stated on Sirius XM’s Andy Cohen Reside that he “regretted” dissing Seacrest’s particular, calling him a “great guy.”
Cohen’s Well-known ‘Sayonara, Sucka!’
Whilst on the point of ring in 2022, Cohen took two pictures of alcohol ahead of taking a couple of pictures at former mayor Invoice de Blasio.
“Watching Mayor de Blasio do his ‘victory lap dance’ after four years of the crappiest term as the mayor of New York, the only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is what a horrible mayor he has been. So, sayonara sucka!” Cohen stated. “2022, it’s a new year, because, guess what? I have a feeling I’m gonna be standing right here next year and you know what I’m not gonna be looking at? Dancing as the city comes apart.”
Cohen Calls Cooper a ‘Nepo Baby’
After Cooper jokingly stated the Vanderbilt “fortune was lost long ago,” Cohen quipped, “Look at this little nepo baby! He’s so sweet.”