
Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper are recognized for his or her hilarious — and typically unhinged — antics throughout CNN’s dwell New Year’s Eve broadcast.
Cohen grew to become Cooper’s cohost in 2017 when he changed Kathy Griffin. However, the pair have recognized one another for many years after first crossing paths when their pals tried 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 instructed Jimmy Fallon throughout a 2017 look on The Tonight Show, 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 half, stated he was “excited” about their cellphone name, including, “I wanted to date the Vanderbilt boy!”
While their romantic setup by no means panned out, they ended up changing into shut pals after touring collectively all through the early 2000s with a bunch of mutual pals. They each have enormous careers and have grown households of their very own. Cohen is a father to son Ben and daughter Lucy whereas Cooper coparents his sons, Wyatt and Sebastian, along with his buddy and former companion Benjamin Maisani.
Cohen and Cooper’s real-life friendship interprets on digicam, and viewers eagerly tune in yearly to observe the duo. They have made headlines over time due to their alcohol consumption all through the evening, which has introduced combined reactions from followers.
CNN banned their correspondents from consuming whereas ringing in 2023, and Cohen begged the community to reverse the choice 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.”
Keep studying to see Cohen and Cooper’s funniest NYE moments:
Cooper Recounts Saucy Story About Gloria Vanderbilt
During the 2019 broadcast, Cooper tried Jägermeister for the primary time earlier than telling a hilarious story about his late mom.
When Vanderbilt appeared on Watch What Happens Live to advertise her 2017 guide, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss, there was one query she was fearful 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 through the broadcast.
Cohen Suggests They Drop Acid
Snoop Dogg appeared through the 2020-2021 present and Cooper couldn’t cease guffawing about all of the locations the rapper had smoked marijuana.

“Have you ever done acid?” Cohen requested Cooper, who exclaimed that he had by no means tried the drug. The Bravo star 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 through the 2021 broadcast about Seacrest, who hosts Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.

Cohen later stated on Sirius XM’s Andy Cohen Live that he “regretted” dissing Seacrest’s particular, calling him a “great guy.”
Cohen’s Famous ‘Sayonara, Sucka!’
While on the brink of ring in 2022, Cohen took two photographs of alcohol earlier than taking a number of photographs at former mayor Bill 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.”
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