A Sloppy Andy Cohen Went Off About Bill De Blasio On CNN’s New Year’s Eve Countdown
This seems like the set-up for a corny call-and-response joke. But hey, if it works it works. In the grand tradition of New Year’s Eve being the messiest bitch of our 365 days around the sun, Andy Cohen and his best pal Anderson Cooper hosted CNN’s New Year’s Eve countdown, and Andy Cohen got progressively drunker as the night went on. This would be where you holler, “How drunk was he!“, and let’s just say he was drunk enough to call out the now-former Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, live on television, by name, and hiss some fightin’ words at him. Yeah, that’s pretty drunk.
Andy must have heard all the people calling for Anderson’s former NYE mess-maker Kathy Griffin to make her triumphant and long-overdue return to the annual ball drop. Because Andy really went for it this year (it being that he fully committed to being a televised disaster and thus making Anderson Cooper turn eight shades of embarrassed and giggly). For example, here’s Andy and Anderson barely keeping it together as Regina King and Jackée Harry had an inebriated 227 reunion (or for fans of Watch What Happens Live, you could say it was the 10th anniversary of Regina and Jackée getting perfectly wasted and joyfully overworking their vocal cords).
10 years since our #WWHL episode! So good to see my girl @ReginaKing last night! ♥️ pic.twitter.com/90G0Z6s1d2
— Jackée Harry (@JackeeHarry) January 2, 2022
CNN’s producers probably should have switched out Andy’s booze for some Pedialite prior to midnight. But they did not, and after that ball dropped, he delivered the verbal smack-down to Bill de Blasio. Andy is a resident of New York City, so he knows a thing or two about what it was like to have Bill de Blasio as mayor for the past 8 years. Bill de Blasio’s last day as mayor was December 31st, 2021, and on the strike of midnight, he was succeeded by Eric Adams. If CNN had obtained the rights to “Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead,” Andy probably would have sung that instead of “Auld Lang Syne.” via New York Daily News:
Andy Cohen used a spirited New Year’s Eve countdown on CNN to share his thoughts on the “crappiest term of the mayor of New York” by Bill de Blasio. “The only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is what a horrible mayor he has been,” Cohen shouted and stammered. CNN personality Anderson Cooper, playing the role of straight man in Cohen’s bit, tried unsuccessfully to talk his co-host down.
“Don’t go on a rant,” Cooper asked repeatedly.
Andy Cohen just dragged Bill DeBlasio up and down 7th Avenue #CNNNYE pic.twitter.com/5m1DEVvZwx
— Wes Reynolds (@WesReynolds1) January 1, 2022
As the New York Daily News points out, some viewers thought Andy was being funny, while others thought it was unprofessional for him to put the outgoing mayor on blast like that. Well, one thing is for sure, and that’s that it was all such a wreck, Andy hopped on Twitter the next morning and confirmed that everyone was right to be praying for Andy’s liver on New Year’s Eve.
🌧 good morning! 🌧. Um, I was a bit overserved last night…. 🥴
— Andy Cohen (@Andy) January 1, 2022
A bit overserved? That’s a bit of an understatement. Andy got so messy and was delivering so many hater vibes, it’s like he was on a reunion show for The Real Hot Drunks of New Year’s Eve. I don’t know if CNN is going to call him into the office this week and chew him out for what he said, but I’m sure he’ll be fine. They probably thanked him for keeping his political rant limited to the Mayor of New York and being 0.000000000001% sober enough to stop before he got to the New York Governor and his brother.
Pic: CNN