While Dick Clark's Rocking New Year's Eve With Ryan Seacrest is the establishment choice for TV watching on December 31 (and Carson Daly's New Year's show on NBC is actually better than you'd think—we appreciate that Daly asked Bloomberg about Occupy Wall Street), the best New Year's TV hosts are CNN's brilliant odd couple of Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin. While some wondered if Griffin would come back after telling one heckler in 2009, "Screw you. Why don't you get a job, buddy? You know what? I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth," her outrageousness works well with Cooper's tight-laced WASPy personality. And this year, she stripped down to her panties and bra! more ›

Anderson Cooper is at the center of a tragedy this week, after Gawker reported that one of the guests scheduled for an upcoming episode of his show fell into a coma following a skateboarding accident—that one of Cooper's producers told him to film. more ›

Earlier this week, French actor Gerard Depardieu peed all over an airplane in Paris, a story that made headlines around the world. Today, he apologized for the incident, kind of, using a spokesman to blame the whole thing on his prostate. more ›

If you've ever wanted to hear silver fox Anderson Cooper say the words "she aimed her grinding hips straight at salami boy," to the sounds of some bow-chicka-bow-wow tunes, this video's for you. more ›

The journalist and now ex-NYU fellow who belittled the "brutal and sustained sexual assault" on CBS correspondent Lara Logan last week in Cairo, Egypt is now on an apology tour. Well, sort of: Nir Rosen, who resigned his position at NYU's Center on Law and Security yesterday after the uproar his Tweets ("Jesus Christ, at a moment when she is going to become a martyr and glorified we should at least remember her role as a major war monger") caused, told CNN's Anderson Cooper he had no excuse, he "was a jerk," but then blamed his actions on the late hour, "It was 2 AM and I was just being thoughtless," and not really knowing what happened to Logan. But Cooper called him out on that. more ›

So that time Lady Gaga tried to get into her old apartment at 176 Stanton Street with Anderson Cooper in tow? Turns out she got in by buzzing every buzzer in the building until someone let her in (she calls this "the New York way"), but the current tenant in her apartment of three years wouldn't allow her to check out her old place. The woman told her she'd "rather not" let her in, and if you watch the below video closely you can almost see Gaga's ego regenerating instantly from the bruise. more ›

It's been a glorious two months since we last posted about Lady Gaga (what was in that casserole dish, anyway?)—but now that she's got a new album coming out, the Fame Monster has hurled herself back into the spotlight. In fact, right now she is on the Lower East Side with CNN's Anderson Cooper! According to EV Grieve (via), the two were strolling down Stanton Street (her former stomping grounds), and may have broken into her old apartment building at 176 Stanton. Or something! Here's what we know: more ›

Because of his upcoming syndicated talk show, chances are sadly slim that Anderson Cooper will be replacing Regis on Live. But don't worry, the Coop keeps adding other things to his plate. Like Broadway. The CNN anchor has signed on to be the voice of the narrator in the upcoming Daniel Radcliffe revival of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying—something of a compliment since in the 1995 revival the narration was read by no less an icon than Walter Cronkite. We wish we could land a debut Broadway role where we don't even have to show up every night. more ›

With cuts for 16 fire houses, the mayor's budget is expected to leave many firefighters out in the cold—but newsman Anderson Cooper is just moving in. The NY Post reported that Cooper will soon take up residence in the century-old Greenwich Village fire house he purchased in September. With the help of conversion architect Cary Tamarkin, the globe-trotting CNN anchor will have the place homey in no time, though he plans to keep its brass poles and historic facade. No projections have been made of how much the residential conversion will cost, but the building's original price tag was $4.3 million. Now how many actual fire houses could that fund? more ›

As expected, CNN came out yesterday and ate crow for Kathy Griffin after a live New Year's Eve broadcast alongside Anderson Cooper featured the closest moment a major TV broadcast has come to hearing someone being told to eat a bag of dicks. A CNN spokesman told the press, "We recognize that the comment made by comedian Kathy Griffin during the live broadcast was inappropriate...She did not know she was on the air at the time and we removed [the comment] from the [West Coast] rebroadcast." That raises the question: do west coasters have to spend every new year's counting down to midnight alongside footage they all know was recorded three hours ago? In any case, CNN has little to worry about from the FCC since this all aired on cable and the network would not comment on whether Griffin was likely to be back next year. The Hollywood Reporter points out that earlier in the telecast, Griffin lampooned former CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck and asked for a pap smear given by medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. more ›

Kathy Griffin proved to be the co-host yet again for CNN's New Year's Eve countdown coverage when she yelled back at a Times Square heckler. The self-proclaimed D-List comedienne, co-hosting with Anderson Cooper, was so fed up with someone (we're not sure if it was a man or a woman, but we hope he/she emerges!) that she yelled—on air— "Screw you. Why don't you get a job, buddy? You know what? I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth." more ›

Happy New Year, everyone! We'll have some more coverage of New Year's Eve/New Year's Day in Times Square—where it was about 0 degrees, counting wind chill— later, but here are some videos various people already put online of the festivities. more ›

Last night Michael Phelps (aka World's Greatest Swimmer) faced off with Anderson Cooper (aka Middle-aged Mortal) in the pool, for what had to have been the most well-worth watching segment in 60 Minutes history. The race lasted seconds, but the memories will surely last forever. more ›

As rumors about Katie Couric leaving the CBS Evening News early next year continue to simmer, the Daily News offers one suggestion from a network (CBS? CNN?) "insider": "Take Katie off the 'Evening News,' let her to do Larry King, and then let [Anderson] Cooper anchor" the CBS Evening News. more ›

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a ceiling collapse at Franklin Ave. and Union St. in Brooklyn, a pedestrian was fatally struck on Queens Blvd. in Woodhaven, Queens, and an unusual rescue on the south bound tower of the Throgs Neck Bridge in Queens.
• An undercover cop forgot to turn off the wire he was wearing while discussing 11 bags of cocaine he seized in a Brooklyn bust that were never turned in. He was also sure to repeatedly refer to black people using the "N-word." [No link yet, but we saw the story on NY1.]
• The mother of an escaped convict is telling him through the press to keep running, and knows some day he'll be exonerated of his crime. We foresee either a one-armed man eventually brought to justice or subsequent imprisonment in a South American jail.
• Civil disobedience on 5th Avenue. We did not realize this, but the city has offered free vendor licenses to military veterans since the Civil War. Dan Rossi is protesting the curtailment of the practice by parking his hot dog cart right in front of The Metropolitan Museum.
• There's an interesting installation at the Gavin Brown Enterprise on Greenwich St. created by artist Urs Fischer, who's dug a hole in the ground. It is an absolutely enormous hole in the ground.
• Michael Douglas is the new announcer for the NBC Nightly News. Anderson Cooper responds that he would also consider a celebrity announcer, like Fran Drescher, Clint Eastwood, Paul Reubens, or Cher.
• Macy's is going to stay open 24 hours a day until Christmas Eve. Those are going to be some tired elves.
• A siamese cat named Yoda was bludgeoned to death in an Upper East Side doorman building. Sarah Favorite, the girlfriend of Yoda's owner, was arrested and is being charged with aggravated animal cruelty.

As we mentioned this summer, Anderson Cooper briefly left CNN for GNN! That's the Grouch News Network for those not Sesame Street-savvy. Here's his hard hitting interview from a trash can (if anyone has a better quality video let us know!)... more ›

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Thanks to Flickr, we've seen four instances of some "I ♥ Anderson Cooper" graffiti over the past week. The marker mash notes at the 14th Street 1/2/3 station, outside the 66th Street 1 station, inside the 72nd Street 1/2/3 station, and outside the 72nd Street 1/2/3 station, on the newstand's NY Sun stand. more ›

Hopefully Monday's season opener of Sesame Street will help in sweepin' these clouds away! The new season will begin how it always does, by determining the educational needs of their tv-watching tot demographic. more ›

Cam'ron snitched about the "no snitching" rule on 60 Minutes Sunday, and is now apologizing for his comments on the show. To explain the rule, he told Anderson Cooper that "If I knew the serial killer was living next door to me? I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him -- but I'd probably move. But I'm not going to call and be like, 'The serial killer's in 4E.'" A bit disconcerting. more ›

After previews of the segment last week, The Rap Up shares video of Anderson Cooper's chat with Cam'ron on 60 Minutes to discuss the "no snitching" rule prevalent in the rap community. Tupac, Notorious B.I.G. and Jam Master Jay are all examples of murders that have gone unsolved. More recently, Busta Rhymes bodyguard, Israel Ramirez, was shot and killed at a video shoot; out of the 25 people believed to be present during the crime - no one has come forward. more ›

Get ready for this Sundays 60 Minutes, because there's an intriguing segment: Anderson Cooper interview rapper Cam'ron about the hip-hop community's code of silence when it comes to crimes. In fact, here's an excerpt of their exchange from CBS News:

"If I knew the serial killer was living next door to me?" Giles responds to a hypothetical question posed by Cooper. "I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him — but I'd probably move. But I'm not going to call and be like, 'The serial killer's in 4E.' " more ›

A look at some noteworthy television this week: more ›

- And New York magazine looks at why viewers OD'd on The O.C., but let's face it, we all wanted Marissa to die. more ›

Surrender Monkeys, by Mihow.
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-- And Rocketboom is still off the air-- two days after promising a comeback. more ›

MUSIC: If you aren't going to a 06.06.06 party tonight, and if we are in fact all here and the apocolypse hasn't happened...we suggest getting over to the Delancey. Why? Because it's the first Beg Yr Pardon party and there will be free red velvet cupcakes and brownies! There will also be all you can eat BBQ if you're into that sort of thing (for an extra $5). Oh, and music! There is also music. The lineup is: Momad, Kickstart, Fenwick, Up The Empire and Cholo. more ›