Happy 2008, Suckers!
Did anyone catch Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin from Times Square? Oh my god, it was amazing television and brilliant casting. Someone knows talent management at CNN.
Kathy and Anderson, whom Kathy lovingly referred to as “Andy,” went back & forth with competitive one-liners and vaudevillian zingers. What can I say? The pairing worked, yo. The couple reminds me of George & Gracie, possibly Fred & Ethel, only a little gayer (and I’m talking about the live commentary about drag queens and Key West — not Anderson Cooper himself).
One of the best parts of the night came when Kathy gave a HUGE eye-roll to the stupid i-Reports, hosted by CNN morning anchor Kiran Chetry. Kathy asked what America was asking: just how many camera phone pictures can you show from Ohio and Pennsylvania without exhausting that genre?
In a nutshell, CNN did a great job with the Times Square celebration. Kathy was well behaved (but on fire) when she took shots at Lou Dobbs and Wolf Blitzer, and then went on to discuss Mexican immigrants and water-boarding members of the Bush administration. There was a guy from the crowd who told CNN reporter Erica Hill that he resolves to read the bible on a daily basis (which I hope wasn’t lost on Kathy), and there was a great discussion about the role of Chuck Norris in a Huckabee administration.
It was awesome television. I hope you caught it.
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It was funny, amazing, I enjoyed watching Anderson and Kathy, I think she put in problems Anderson several times, and I think He tried to do his best before an veteran actress
I thought Kathy was brilliant!! Anderson needed to loosen up, in a big way. I was laughing the whole night, yes, especially the “waterboarding” question. Kathy was vintage Kathy and I am so glad you hired her. I hope she is on next year!
We only caught about 10 minutes (a repeat broadcast around 1 a.m. here), but that was after watching 2 back-to-back Kathy Griffin stand-up shows. LOVE.
Dude, it was amazing to see him play the straight-man (ahem) to Kathy’s genius.
andy was super uptight. he had no funny comebacks at all. a humorless journalist!
I think he was afraid of being outed, and I’m like, dude, her mere presence outs you.
Kathy and Andy were great. I saw the show last year and this years was better. They work well together I hope CNN does it again next
year with them. They made me and my family laugh all night.
They deserve a Emmy for the live show.
thanks
john
I was totally annoyed by Kathy Griffin. I felt she interrupted repeatedly and rarely let Anderson finish a sentence. Poor Anderson, I’ve never seen him blush so much. A class act (Cooper Anderson) with a bimbo (Kathy Griffin) never works for me. I’ll take Cooper Anderson’s intelligence and class over Kathy Griffin anytime!