As for his VIP guests: “They also might see that when they do this show, it generates a lot of extra attention,” he said. “Say what you will about that episode with Tituss, but it was a half-hour episode of television where he was not feeling me, and you saw it - and we’re not cutting around that,” Cohen said. But he also recognizes that Bravo viewers love a good train wreck. (See: Mariah Carey’s slyly pleased expression when given a chance to shade her nemesis, Nicki Minaj, in a May 2016 appearance.) Cohen never wants guests to leave angry, and they are allowed to designate certain topics as off limits.
Seems like Burgess hadn’t been watching much WWHL, where most stars anticipate personal questions and even bask in the awkwardness. NOT a place to rehash old rumors or bring a star negative press.” Later, he slammed Cohen on Instagram: The show, he wrote, should be “a place where artists come to talk about art and have a little fun. “Any troubles he may have had with gay people, I guess, are gone because he loved me,” he said. Cohen, who came out in college and was bothered by Murphy’s homophobic routines in the 1980s, made the question sharper: “I was just wondering if you got close at all,” he asked Burgess, who is also gay, “because he was very problematic for the gays at one point.”īurgess bristled. This summer, a fan texted into the show to ask guest Tituss Burgess how he liked working with Eddie Murphy on a new movie. His pot-stirrer techniques don’t always charm. “We are very proud at the amount of water-cooler churn that we generate on the show,” said Cohen, who has described WWHL as “ ‘Playboy After Dark’ meets ‘Wayne’s World’ meets ‘Larry King Live.’ ” Howard Stern, one of Cohen’s broadcast heroes, may score as many scoops with his celebrity interviews, but Cohen manages to work his magic in a mere 30 minutes, including commercials. On WWHL, they divulge the hardest drug they’ve ever taken (for Gwyneth Paltrow, it was ecstasy) what they really think of Ben Affleck’s back tattoo (his ex-girlfriend J-Lo hates it) or how long they’ve reigned as “master of their domain” (“a reasonable period of time,” Jerry Seinfeld said).
“Watch What Happens Live,” which airs Sundays through Thursdays at 11 p.m., emerged as the late-night stop where A-listers are most likely to let their guards down in an era known for intense self-curation. It was 10 years ago this summer that he started hosting his own show, no longer just a wrangler of big personalities but one in his own right. His own human nature is a great deal of what makes him a superstar.” “We embraced the idea that real people are as interesting, if not more so, than scripted characters,” said Lauren Zalaznick, the former NBCUniversal executive who brought Cohen to Bravo.
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