Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen shared a shotski with Late Present host Stephen Colbert and band chief Louis Cato, forward of a sit-down throughout which they revisited tipsy CNN New Yr’s Eve Dwell specials of years previous.
Cohen is thought for busting out a shotski on Bravo’s Watch What Occurs Dwell, however for this big day, Colbert furnished a Late Present-branded model.
Watch a clip beneath.
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Cooper and Cohen are set to once more headline CNN’s New Yr’s Eve Dwell with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen countdown particular, which kicks off Wednesday, December 31, at 8 p.m. ET, and this 12 months options friends akin to Colbert, SNL‘s Sarah Sherman, Leanne Morgan, Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell, B.J. Novak, Amy Sedaris, and mentalist Oz Perlman.
After kicking again the “very massive” pictures (as Cohen noticed), Colbert opened Tuesday night time’s Late Present Q&A by asking Cooper what he remembers about hitting Patti Lupone’s New Yr’s Eve occasion following final 12 months’s CNN particular.
Cooper began to type a solution when Cohen interrupted to remind, “You bear in mind none of it! You have been so drunk!”
“I might have been drunk,” Cooper allowed, saying that he doesn’t actually imbibe besides “after I’m with this man” on New Yr’s Eve.
“Let me say this…,” Cohen jumped in. “Round 10:45 on New Yr’s Eve yearly, I develop into the straight man of our broadcast. I’m driving the ship of CNN beginning at 10:45.
“I hear the slur in his voice, I do know his voice so effectively,” Cohen mentioned of detecting when the hourly on-air pictures begin to influence co-host Cooper. “And final 12 months, I actually did get him just a little drunk, so by the point we went to Patti Lupone’s home—.”
“I used to be absolutely in management,” Cooper insisted. “I don’t bear in mind a lot, but it surely was enjoyable.”
Cooper in flip dished that he spends “the final half-hour” of each CNN New Yr’s Eve Dwell broadcast “ issues on-line to see in what methods has [Andy] screwed us over. In what methods I’m going to have to scrub up after [him].”
The 2 then shared a realizing chuckle over a Drudge Report headline from a previous NYE outing.
“Will the headline be the subsequent morning, ”This Is CNN?’ with an image of this man”? Cooper recalled.
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