Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen stopped by The Late Present with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night time (December 4), the place they obtained their drink on and revealed plans for this 12 months’s CNN New 12 months’s Eve present.
The hosts have fronted the information community’s New 12 months’s Eve Dwell present collectively since 2017 and are recognized for getting greater than a bit tipsy on air through the festivities. Nonetheless, in 2022, CNN banned its presenters from consuming whereas on air, which led to backlash from viewers and Cohen himself.
Talking on his Watch What Occurs Dwell present on the time, Cohen stated, “I simply need you to know, Anderson and I are going to get together tougher than we now have ever partied earlier than on New 12 months’s Eve! Do you perceive me?!”
The ban didn’t final lengthy, because the hosts have been allowed to drink once more for the 2023 particular, and so they confirmed to Colbert that they’d been given permission to drink once more this 12 months.
“Properly, let’s toast to you guys getting toasted,” Colbert stated as he introduced out a tray of drinks, together with “that George Clooney liberal tequila.”
The late-night host poured the drinks, together with a fairly massive shot of tequila for Anderson. “Wait, are you happening air tonight?” a shocked Cohen requested his co-host.
Colbert additionally introduced up how Cooper was not too long ago struck by a bit of flying particles whereas internet hosting hurricane protection. Cohen added, “What I obtained [from this situation] was, ‘Andy, it’s worthwhile to serve this man loads of alcohol on New 12 months’s due to what he has been via this 12 months!”
Elsewhere on the present, Cooper poked enjoyable at Cohen for his obsession with creating content material, together with a latest picture the Bravo host took of the pair driving the subway in New York Metropolis.
“He all the time needs to create friggin’ content material!” Cooper said earlier than sharing one other quirk of Cohen that he finds “insane,” the actual fact he takes rides from strangers in New York Metropolis when he can’t discover a cab.
“I’ve obtained rides from good truck drivers, good {couples},” Cohen defined, whereas Cooper added, “It’s loopy.”
“That is just like the opening scene of a Regulation & Order,” Colbert quipped.
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