Andy Cohen Wants To Be In The Late-Night Conversation
deadline.comWhen Vanity Fair gathered ten male late-night TV hosts for a photo shoot for its September 2015 issue, it left someone out.
Stephen Colbert, James Corden, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brien, John Oliver, Bill Maher, Trevor Noah, who had yet to host The Daily Show, Seth Meyers and Larry Wilmore were all in the photograph.
However, Andy Cohen, whose Watch What Happens Live had already been airing on Bravo for six years, wasn’t. And he hasn’t forgotten that. “I was very conscious that I wanted to be part of the late-night conversation,” Cohen tells Deadline.
He admits that when he found out he wasn’t invited he thought “this kind of sucks” and he was “salty” about the omission. “I know what we’re doing; I know what it means to people and I know what it means to me.” He believes one of the reasons that the show is “discounted” from the late-night conversation is that he is a host and an interviewer rather than a comedian.
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