Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper have been in stitches throughout a shock go to from Cheri Oteri as Barbara Walters.
On Friday, July 3, Oteri joined Cohen and Cooper — whereas dressed as the late Walters, who died at 93 in 2022 — throughout NCS’s countdown to the 250th anniversary of the U.S. The actress and comic repeatedly impersonated Walters on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2000.
“All right, we have a special treat now,” Cohen mentioned in the course of the Independence Day eve appearance on NCS. “Joining us to celebrate 250 years of America from heaven, it’s the one and only Barbara Walters.” He added, “Wow, Barbara, you are truly heaven-sent. I can’t believe you’re here.”
Oteri, as the late 20/20 anchor, then reported in her greatest Walters voice, “I didn’t think there was a way I’d be able to join you, either. Until my friend, Thug Life’s Tupac Shakur, said that there was.” She continued, “So here I am, finally in my perfect lighting, gracing you with my ethereal presence to celebrate America’s 25oth birthday. And needless to say, Lady Liberty has never needed a Kris Kardashian deep-plane facelift with upper and lower bleph more.”
At this level, Cooper was full-on guffawing in the background as Cohen silently shook with laughter.
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Oteri then identified, “I almost materialized into the traditional American Apple Pie White House Cage Match. But I said if I wanted to watch two b****es fighting, I would tune into your Bravo, Andrew. Excuse my language, gentleman, but I have been making pottery with George Carlin and Richard Pryor.”
Cooper misplaced it once more at this level, whereas Cohen requested if Walters had been maintaining with information on Earth.
Oteri mentioned she had been hanging out with Nipsey Hussle, “Russian life coach [Grigori] Rasputin,” Harry Reasoner, Nancy Reagan, and Siegfried & Roy, amongst others.
“We mused about Earth’s adversaries, such as Blake vs. Baldoni, Erin Brockovich vs. data centers, and Lindsey Graham vs. masculinity,” she mentioned. “And Kanye vs. anyone with two ears and a conscience.”
Additionally, Walters mentioned she and her “besties” additionally mentioned “Earthly hot topics such as Taylor Swift and her Paul Bunyan fiancé’s
low-key Madison Square Garden wedding, roadkill culinary expert RFK Jr.,” and extra. Additionally, Oteri claimed she had run-ins with “insufferable suffragette Susan B. Anthony,” and “the last man American believed, Walter Cronkite,” and plenty of different late celebrities.
Previously, Oteri joined Cooper and Cohen as Walters on New Year’s Eve in 2019.
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