Fantastic minds consume alike!
Nobody understands how to call in a brand-new year like besties Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper– and CNN has let them do it given that 2017. (Cohen changed Kathy Griffin as Cooper’s co-host.)
After years– and numerous juicy minutes– of alcohol-enhanced airtime, previous CNN CEO Chris Licht described in 2022 that on-camera drinking rusted the network’s and their staff members’ trustworthiness in the eyes of the general public.
“New Year’s Eve Live” audiences, nevertheless, appeared to appreciate the absence of alcohol: 2023’s programs balanced 2.1 million audiences compared to 3.7 million the year prior.
Ahead of 2024, fellow late-night host Stephen Colbert attempted to pry the news out of the co-hosts: Will they or will not they be consuming this year?
Cooper responded, “I believe you’re going to need to tune in to see.” He later on joked that sober Cohen wasn’t “any less awkward.”
As folks in your home wait for the outcomes of Cohen’s plea to reverse the alcohol restrictionhave a look back at his and Anderson’s funniest minutes on NYE up until now.
2018: Andy storms versus the Times Square Alliance
After it started moistening the co-hosts and Cohen appropriately safeguarded himself, the Times Square Alliance– who supplies security and is among the planners of the occasion– informed him to eliminate his umbrella. He didn’t take that news well, informing audiences, “I stated I will not do it.”
“I stated, ‘Get the paddy wagon, trigger that’s what it’s going to take.’ Now they are threatening to pull CNN’s area from the qualifications from Times Square for next year!” The only time the umbrella made a reappearance is when Cohen and Cooper talked to Faye Dunaway, an icon definitely deserving of protection.
2019: Anderson gets sauced– and saucy
Cooper made the most of his prime-time position to attempt Jägermeister for the very first time along with Cohen. After downing a shot, he stated, “What is that? Who would consume that?” Cohen addressed, “College trainees and Jimmy [Fallon],” among Cohen’s competing late-night hosts who talented him the bottle.
Later in the program, Cooper stated a story about his mom, heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, backstage at Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live.” She was anxious whether Cohen would ask her whose manhood was the greatest when they were promoting their 2017 book, “The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss.” Her boy communicated on-air: “She turns to me out of the blue and goes, ‘He’s not going to ask me who has the greatest c– k in Hollywood, is he?'”
2020: Anderson can’t keep one’s cool around Snoop Dogg
Before leaving the very first part of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cohen took the possibility to play a video game with Snoop Doggproperly called “Have You Gotten High There?” Like Dr. Seuss, he asked the rap artist if he ‘d ever gotten high on a private yacht, at the White House, at Martha Stewart’s homeat a bar mitzvah and so on. Unsurprisingly, the response was “yes” to each one. Cooper imitated a narc throughout the video game, laughing so loud that Cohen could not hear Snoop’s responses in his headset.
Before the clock struck midnight, Cohen likewise asked Cooper, “Have you ever done acid?” His good friend stated, “No!” Cohen revealed his shock, ending the exchange by informing Cooper, “Well, it’s time. We’re doing it this evening.”
2021: Andy knocks Ryan Seacrest
Cohen, in a program of unsportsmanlike conduct, chose it was time to take a jab at NYE hosting rival Ryan Seacrest. Throughout the broadcast, he stated, “If you look behind me, you’ll see Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers carrying out. I’m sorry, however if you’re enjoying ABC, you’re seeing absolutely nothing.”
Cohen later on blamed the synthetic pas on being intoxicated– and ahead of the 2022 program, Seacrest even praised CNN’s alcohol restrictionThe hosts’ beef is formally compressed as they head into 2023’s hosting activities.
2021: Andy airs his complaints versus then-Mayor Bill de Blasio
As he called in 2022, Cohen conjectured of alcohol– and another one at then-Mayor, Bill de BlasioWhile Cooper awkwardly stood beside him, Cohen stated, “Watching Mayor de Blasio do his ‘success lap dance’ after 4 years of the crappiest term as the mayor of New York, the only thing that Democrats and Republicans can settle on is what an awful mayor he has actually been. Sayonara sucka! 2022, it’s a brand-new year, cause, think what? I sense I’m gon na be standing right here next year and you understand what I’m not gon na be taking a look at? Dancing as the city splits up.”
2022: Andy calls Anderson a ‘nepo child’
For the set’s very first dry broadcast, Cohen had his enjoyable by calling his good friend of 20 years a “nepo child” while playing a video game with Jean Smart. After the co-hosts exposed they were both delighted they ‘d never ever entered into cryptocurrency, Cohen stated, “Anderson lost the Vanderbilt fortune in crypto. I understand, nepo child!”
Cooper reacted: “That fortune was lost long earlier!”
Cohen inserted, stating in a child voice: “Look at this little nepo infant– he’s so sweet.”
CNN’s “New Year’s Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen” airs Sunday, Dec. 31, at 8 p.m. ET and will stream survive on CNN Max.