Andy Cohen tore into outgoing New York Mayor Eric Adams stay on NCS moments after the Times Square ball drop as his co-host Anderson Cooper cringed and tried to shut it down.
Cohen, 57, and Cooper, 58, returned for his or her ninth straight 12 months co-hosting “New Year’s Eve Live” which is meant to be one of many information community’s few politics-free exhibits.
Instead, the Bravo star—drink in hand—began increase to a rant about Adams, 65, and his exit from City Hall. “Watching the final moments of Mayor Adams’s chaotic…” Cohen started at 12.10 a.m., earlier than Cooper reduce in quick: “Oh no. I’m out.”
Cohen tried once more—“I just want to say…”—and Cooper shut it down a second time with a blunt “Don’t,” edging as if to stroll off. The digicam widened to hold him in body as Cohen pushed by with a barely slurred line: “He got his pardons.”
Cohen stored going, telling Adams to “go off into the sunset” and complaining about “what you’ve left us with,” whereas Cooper repeated: “I’m out.” At one level, Cooper summed it up for viewers: “He can’t help himself.”
Guest B.J. Novak additionally tried to defuse the second as Cohen continued his gripe, saying: “They’re going to cut you off!”
“Is this how we are going to enter 2026,” Anderson sighed.
Cohen’s “pardons” crack regarded like a misfire, as Adams didn’t obtain a presidential pardon over his federal corruption case. A choose dismissed the fees with prejudice on April 2, 2025, that means they may not be introduced once more.
Even Cohen briefly gave Adams a sideways praise, noting he might need “dented the rat population”—after Adams’ workplace formally established a Mayor’s Office of Rodent Mitigation in December, simply earlier than he left workplace.
Social media lit up because the change circulated, with customers describing Cooper’s makes an attempt to step out of body because the evening’s funniest second. Posters mentioned Cohen sounded drunk and delighted in Cooper’s deadpan “I’m out” chorus, sharing response gifs and strings of crying-laughing emojis.
A separate clip of their earlier, tipsy banter about sharing a mattress and casting themselves as characters from the homosexual romance sequence “Heated Rivalry” additionally unfold extensively, topping 700,000 views as followers cheered the present’s occasion vibe on-line.
NCS viewers had been anticipating the standard alcohol-infused present after Cohen confirmed final month on Watch What Happens Live: “We will be drinking. It’s my job to get Anderson drunk.”
Adams was succeeded as New York mayor at midnight on Jan. 1 by Zohran Mamdani, 34.
The Daily Beast has contacted NCS for remark.