Andrew Joseph Cohen (born June 2, 1968) is an American talk show and radio host, author, and producer. Cohen produces and hosts the Bravo nightly series Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. He is the first openly gay host of an American late-night talk show. After being head of development at Bravo for more than 10 years, Cohen resigned in November 2013. He continues to serve as an executive producer of the Real Housewives franchise.
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Early life
Cohen was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Evelyn and Lou Cohen. He is Jewish. Cohen graduated from Clayton High School in 1986. As a child, he attended Camp Nebagamon For Boys in Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin. He is a graduate of Boston University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcast journalism. Cohen wrote for the Boston University student newspaper, The Daily Free Press. He later interned at CBS News alongside Julie Chen, who was also working as an intern.
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Career
He spent 10 years at CBS News, eventually serving as senior producer of The Early Show, a producer for 48 Hours and CBS This Morning, and becoming vice president of original programming for the cable network Trio in 2000. Cohen joined Bravo in 2004 when the network purchased Trio.
Cohen is a regular on Today and Morning Joe and has co-hosted Live! with Kelly, and The View. He has made various guest appearances on other talk shows. He has made several guest appearances on television shows playing himself, such as The Comeback and Saturday Night Live. In summer 2009, Cohen began host a weekly midnight television talk show, Watch What Happens Live. The show was later expanded into a weeknight series.
Cohen's autobiographical memoir Most Talkative (Henry Holt and Company), released in May 2012, became a New York Times Best Seller in the paperback nonfiction category.
On August 15, 2013, he declined to co-host the Miss Universe pageant in Russia, due to the country's recent adoption of anti-gay laws. Before that, he hosted Miss USA 2011, Miss USA 2012, Miss USA 2013, Miss Universe 2011, and Miss Universe 2012. On March 22, 2014, he portrayed Zeus in Lady Gaga's music video for "G.U.Y.".
In September 2015, SiriusXM announced that it would launch a new radio channel curated by Cohen, known as "Radio Andy". It features two programs hosted by Cohen (Andy Cohen Live and the music program Deep and Shallow).
On December 31, 2015, Cohen hosted a one-off live edition of Hollywood Game Night (New Year's Eve Game Night), and co-hosted New Year's Eve with Carson Daly, for NBC. In January 2017, Fox ordered a revival of Love Connection hosted by Cohen.
In 2016, the publisher Henry Holt and Company announced it was launching the imprint Andy Cohen Books.
In 2017, he played himself on the Netflix series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Cohen succeeded Kathy Griffin as co-host of its CNN's New Year's Eve coverage alongside Anderson Cooper.
In 2018, Cohen played himself on the show Riverdale as a friend of the Lodge family. He made a March 2018 appearance as a guest judge in an episode of the VH1 reality-television series RuPaul's Drag Race.
Awards
- 2004, Peabody Award, 2004, as executive producer of the Trio documentary The N-Word,
- 2007, Multichannel News' "40 Under 40" broadcasting executives.
- 2007, Peabody Award, as executive producer of the Bravo reality-TV competition Project Runway.
- 2010, appeared on the TV Guide "Power List" of talked-about individuals.
- 2010, Emmy Award of Outstanding Competitive Reality Series as Executive Producer of Top Chef
- 2012, GQ's "25 Best Dressed Men of the Year",
- 2012, chosen as one of Broadcasting & Cable's "Digital All-Stars".
- 2012 to 2016, listed in Out magazine's list of Most Powerful Gay People.
Filmography
Television
Bibliography
- Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture. Henry Holt and Company. 2012. ISBN 978-0-8050-9583-8.
- The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year. Henry Holt and Company. 2014. ISBN 978-1-627-79228-8.
- Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries. Henry Holt and Company. 2016. ISBN 978-1250116482.
Each became a New York Times Best Seller on the lists for, respectively, Paperback Nonfiction, Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction and books written by celebrities.
References
External links
- Andy Cohen on Facebook
- Andy Cohen on IMDb
- Watch What Happens Live official website
- Andy Cohen's blog on Bravo
- Andy Cohen interview video at the Archive of American Television
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