"We spent a good deal of the holiday taking selfies to send to Cher."

May 12, 2017 6:06 AM

One is a respected journalist. The other is the king of Bravo's reality tv empire. Together, they're BESTIES4LYFE, and they're taking their friendship on the road. At the 92nd Street Y in New York, Anderson Cooper talks to BFF Andy Cohen about his new book, The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year, a behind-the-scenes look at his late-night talk show, Watch What Happens Live, "the gayest letters you've read in your whole life" aka Andy's 3rd grade letters from summer camp, fame, celebrity, and of course, real housewives. Later, Andy plays a dangerous game of Plead The Fifth.

Some shorter encounters, from Watch What Happens Live:

Life On The Road With Anderson Cooper And Andy Cohen

Anderson grills Andy

Anderson asks Andy who his first crush was

posted by Room 641-A (3 comments total)

I waited on Anderson Cooper at my store, once. Nice guy.
posted by jonmc at 9:33 AM on May 12, 2017 [1 favorite]

I love knowing now that Anderson is probably suppressing an "Oh, sweetie..." every time he's interviewing Trumpsters.
posted by Room 641-A at 11:09 AM on May 12, 2017 [2 favorites]

So, last week a coworker and fan was asked by Watch What Happens Live to be a caller! (I think she signed up to do it several times before they called, but I'm not sure how it works.) They talked to her for a while, presumably to make sure she wasn't loony or unintelligible, and gave her the question to ask - a relatively vapid question about a book written by someone from Two Broke Girls.

She was SO DAMN EXCITED. They recorded the call to be played the next night. She told all her friends she was going to be on tv! So! Excited!

They never played her question. She was crushed. We told her, try again! She said she hates them now, forever.

The end.
posted by Glinn at 6:42 PM on May 12, 2017