CNN New Year’s Eve host Anderson Cooper literally doubled over laughing when co-host Andy Cohen got Conclave star Ralph Fiennes to perform a dramatic reading of 2024’s most viral monologue
New Year’s Eve means many things to many people — time to load up on all the things you’re going to give up in a few hours until your resolve weakens eight or nine days into the new year, time to look back on a year that was full of surprises, and if you’re a media figure, time to celebrate that appearance on Mediaite’s Most Influential In Media 2024 with your favorite bubbly or mocktail.
And if you’re a media watcher, it’s time to sample the closing moments with a stunning display of Auld Lang Synergy across the cable and broadcast television… do people still say “dial?”
Everyone from Boomers to Zoomers can relate to the Ryan Seacrest-hosted NYE institution that is Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve over on ABC, while NBC offers up The Day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year’s Special and CBS goes country with New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash.
On cable, there’s reruns on MSNBC and Fox News personalities yukking it up on Jimmy Failla’s All-American New Year’s Bash. And it wouldn’t be New Year’s without the
Those antics included a memorable guest shot by Fiennes, who had Cooper wheezing and falling out of the shot laughing with a posh recitation of the now-famous Jools Lebron “Very demure, very mindful” monologue:
The way I came to the interview is the way I go to the job. A lot of you girls go to the interview looking like Marge Simpson and go to the job looking like Patty and Selma. Not demure.Be mindful of why they hired you.Here’s your reality check, diva. What’s the name you’d like me to make it out to?
Watch above via CNN New Year’s Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen.