- I watch loads of CNN. It is normally a continuing stream of doom and gloom — besides on New 12 months’s Eve.
- That is when Anderson Cooper, information anchor extraordinaire, will get delightfully tipsy and says petty issues.
- This time it was in regards to the cage combat that by no means occurred between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
Anderson Cooper, CNN anchor and CBS Information “60 Minutes” correspondent, doles out the information with the gravitas you’d count on from an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist.
However on December 31, we get to observe Cooper in Occasions Sq. with the king of Bravo, Andy Cohen, getting delightfully tipsy — and just a little bit petty. (Thanks for letting them drink on air once more, CNN.)
Such was the case on December 31, 2023, and his zinger was aimed squarely at Elon Musk over the MMA combat with Mark Zuckerberg that by no means was.
And — as anyone who consumes quite a bit of CNN due to my job as an editor — I can’t cease watching this clip.
Cohen and Cooper, at 10:10 p.m. ET on New 12 months’s Eve, are taking part in “Can we ‘Vanderstump’ Anderson?” through which Cohen quizzed him about whether or not a quote is from a information story or the truth present “Vanderpump Guidelines” when the subject arose of the cage match combat that by no means materialized between the “shredded” Zuckerberg and Musk.
“Are you saying Elon Musk just isn’t in good condition?” Cohen requested Cooper.
“Sweetie, I imply, have you ever seen the yacht pictures?” Cooper responded, referring to pictures printed by Web page Six of a shirtless Musk on a yacht off the coast of Greece.
It is not the dig at Musk’s un-shredded determine that has me watching time and again: The pictures are over a yr and a half outdated, X’s CEO mentioned final yr that she noticed Musk coaching, and who amongst us does not have “get your self to the fitness center” as a New 12 months’s decision?
The clip jogs my memory that Cooper, who typically delivers somber information from warfare zones and different websites of tragedy, is human: getting just a little tipsy and saying one thing salty about feuding billionaires’ bods.
“I am certain he has loads of high quality attributes,” Cooper added after Cohen switched topics, then provided Musk a closing piece of sartorial recommendation: “Put on a gown on the tender, is what I am saying.”
