Anderson Cooper Reveals the Most Annoying Thing About Working with Andy Cohen

The longtime BFFs will host CNN's New Year's Eve broadcast together for the eighth time this year

Anderson Cooper has plenty of things he could complain about when it comes to working with Andy Cohen.

The longtime BFFs reunited on Watch What Happens Live on Monday, Dec. 16, with Cooper appearing alongside Julianne Moore as Cohen's guests. Cooper and Cohen's bond was then quickly put to the test when a viewer from Washington, D.C., named Jack, asked the following during the show's fan-submitted questions segment: "Anderson, what's the most annoying thing about working with Andy on New Year's Eve?"

Cooper, 57, took a second to think about it, but then said, "Just who he's gonna insult and what the clean up on aisle 3 is gonna be in the morning."

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Cooper and Cohen have hosted CNN's New Year's Eve Live broadcast together since 2017, delighting fans with their hilarious dynamic but the show has also introduced a fair amount of controversy for the Bravo exec.

Cohen was "overserved" during the 2021 broadcast — which he admitted in a post on Twitter the next day — and slammed Ryan Seacrest's ABC show, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, calling it a "group of losers," which led to him and Cooper having more limits on their alcohol consumption during the annual special in 2022.

Cohen said he "had a blast" and refused to "be shamed" for drinking and "having fun on New Year's Eve" in a Jan. 5, 2022 interview on The Howard Stern Show, but he did admit his regret at calling out Seacrest.

"The only thing that I regret saying, the only thing is that I slammed the ABC broadcast," he said on Radio Andy thereafter. "And I really like Ryan Seacrest and he's a great guy and I really regret saying that and I was just stupid and drunk and feeling it."

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The pair recently squashed the feud, though, as Seacrest joined Cohen on WWHL in September and was asked about the "feud."

"I don't even remember what the feud was about," Cohen admitted. "But we did see each other this year. We did wave this year."

"We did do all of that," Seacrest agreed. "I just said — are you going to be there this year? We will be, we will wave. We can't get to each other or we'd hug!"

"I feel like the beef is squashed," Cohen said.

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CNN's New Year's Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen premieres at 8 p.m. ET on Dec. 31.