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Kathy Griffin Topless On New Year’s Leads To Surreal Exchange

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During last night’s CNN coverage of New Year’s, co-host Kathy Griffin, who was on her worst behavior, decided to strip down to her bra, much to the chagrin of Anderson Cooper, who then had to subsequently field a call from political correspondent David Gergen. Awkwardness ensued.

RELATED: Kathy Griffin Tells Anderson Cooper She Will Be ‘Recreating Nancy Grace’s Nip Slip’ On New Year’s Eve

Despite the weirdness of the moment, Gergen valiantly trudged on with the phone call.

“Glad to see you and Kathy there, and I’m waiting for the ball to drop to see what Kathy does next.”

“I know that her clothes have dropped and I don’t know what is going to drop next,” Cooper fretted.

“Is there a Mrs. Gergen?” Griffin sassily asked.

“Yes, we are happily in the Caribbean with my brother and his wife,” Gergen replied.

“He’s with his wife?” Griffin exclaimed. “I am standing in my underwear in Times Square! And you are telling me that he has a Mrs. Gergen.”

“And you are there with Anderson, and he can handle it,” Gergen responded. “Oh, my goodness!”

Watch Gergen’s awkward phone call with Cooper and Griffin below:

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  • Anonymous

    And yet one more reason to never watch CNN again; this is beyond pathetic.  It is not humor, it is not fun, it is sick…just like the guy who knows about “teabagging” and this bitch (word approved by NOW and the ladies of the view).

  • Anonymous

    Values and class out the window- anything for attention… welcome to the progressive side of the  culture war in 2012.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    PLEASE, PLEASE, SOMEBODY NOTICE ME!!! I’LL DO ANYTHING TO GET OFF THIS LIST OF D-LIST CELEBRITIES!

  • Gloves J. Donahue

    How many people were hurt frantically diving for their remote controls?

  • Anonymous

    Again, hoW is this media criticism?

  • Anonymous

    Whatever.

    CNN keeps bringing her back on despite all these stunts year after year. Does anyone not believe this isn’t staged, scripted, and rehearsed at this point?

    And does anybody even care? She could strip down naked for all I care, I ain’t watching regardless and I wouldn’t give her the pleasure of being shocked.

  • Gloves J. Donahue

    Next year, they’ll bring on Whoopi Goldberg, who will reveal previous hidden personal details to the audience, which will be just Cooper’s mother and a couple of other people.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-Jones/100003248967001 Fred Jones

    Picture icicles hanging off her nasty, wet bush as she gets herself aroused.

  • Anonymous

    LIGHTEN UP PEOPS!

    It’s all fun and in good spirits. Kathy and Anderson have the complicity of “opposites-attract” that makes the whole evening/night unpredictable and very entertaining.
    If you don’t like it, you’re not into this kind of humor… don’t watch. Instead you can rent Jackass 2, or a horror movie, or one of the WW2 documentaries… and entertain yourself for  the New Year’s Night  ;)

    Happy New Year!

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    Anderson is there next to a babe that would let him have his way..
    and he rather be in Key West sitting in the shoe.. sigh
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Edwards/588445226 David Edwards

    I’d hit it

  • Jane

    I think Kathy can be fun, humorous and extremely snarky.   

    But word to the wise:   keep your dayum clothes on, Kathy!

  • Anonymous

    first off, this isnt even topless. WTF? And even worse, you repubs are all worked up about some lady in a bra? really? what a sad existence you guys must have….

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Never cared much for Kathy, but seeing how she gets under the skin of ALL (R)egressives, I have found a new respect.

  • Just Ed

    With a year of gloom and doom, stocks doing poorly, gold falling, Iran looking for the bomb, our rights eroding away, and the Repubs mishandling their chance to replace Obama….the humor was not wasted…at least not on me.

    Here’s to a lighter and happier 2012. 

  • Anonymous

    CNN decided several years ago that Kathy Griffin was really ‘cool’ – that people loved and would tune in to see that vulgar tramp.  And they’ve been living with it ever since.  However, I don’t watch even the first moment of CNN, so they’re welcome to go right on down the sewer, if they wish.

  • Anonymous

    Gergen hasn’t seen a rack like that in ages.

    Herman Cain would do Kathy in a heartbeat.

  • Anonymous

    “Hey …how was your New Year…?”

    “Great…I watched some washed up nobody get nude for a gay man on CNN…and you…?”

    “No…seriously, how was your New Year ?”

  • Anonymous

    Barry Hussein woud do Anderson Cooper in a heartbeat.

  • Anonymous

    All liberals are classless.

  • Anonymous

    Glovepuppet didn’t reach for his remote, and now he is billing CNN for the cost of dry cleaning his La-Z-Boy.

  • Anonymous

    Griffin is so ridiculous–she displays almost no wit–she relies on the ‘over the top’ formula to generate buzz in the way of former ‘celebrity’ Tom Green–we all remember him right?

    Oh well its kept her employed up till now–all you need is a goofy sidekick to act as foil and a network willing to prostitute itself in the hope of appealing to the future demographics so prized by ad buyers. “Oh wait! What will she do NEXT?” It will involve trying to keep in character while acting ‘sassy’ or gross–depending on what she can script with her agent.

    Can’t (yawn) wait. Can you?

  • Anonymous

    FUNNY,AMAZINGLY FUNNY….any bets that CNN or any other decent network will use this C*****t again for anything except maybe to clean out the networks toilets.maybe she and the kardashian broad should do a “reality” show together…both sluts and pigs

  • Anonymous

    On the other hand a lot of really deserving tyrants were offed in 2011.

  • Anonymous

    hope you had a good “rub” watching this pig embarass herself and poor anderson….

  • http://www.whitehouse.gov TOTUS

    Seeing Kathy topless definitely solidified Cooper’s sexuality. No way that would get him to change teams.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Why not an Abbott and Costello rerun? After watching one about 100 times I might ask for this “Oh look a bra!” I can forgive anything if it’s funny but this is just dumb. Remember somebody actually thought this up. Even at a high school party it’d be low.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    CNN figured out that their biggest demo is gay people.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Cooper’s never seen a rack. Might have been on one.

  • Anonymous

    Such ecdysiastic displays are better left to the bedroom. Is this a CNN employee ? Are these the people who pass judgement on other people ? I’d sooner be in Philadelphia

  • http://twitter.com/GetFuzzyFan Kevin

    Don’t forget Mr. Gaga and everyone on Bravo!

  • http://twitter.com/GetFuzzyFan Kevin

    Not Obama.

  • http://twitter.com/GetFuzzyFan Kevin

    Seeing Kathy Griffin in a bra makes me feel like a Nazi soldier in Raiders of the Lost Ark!

  • Anonymous

    I love it.  Some end of the year silliness.  Peeps need to chill out and have some fun once in awhile.

  • http://www.google.com Doodaddio

    My barfometer is pegged. What a troll she is.

  • 12voltman1

    Amen Brother!

  • 12voltman1

    No, he was the one who was responsible.

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’: Kathy Griffin teases evil plans for Anderson Cooper on CNN New Year’s Eve 2012

    “My dream is to make the screen turn to a bar code,”

    http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/12/20/kathy-griffin-piers-morgan-tonight-cnn/

  • Anonymous

    Anderson, you can not consider yourself a serious reporter/journalist when you do stunts like spend such a long evening with the low life likes of “that woman”.

  • http://www.madcharles.com/ MadCharles

    CNN would have a better ratings chance if Anderson showed his tits..

  • Anonymous

    All conservatives are assholes.

  • Just Ed

    Actually Kathy had a tat of a black bra applied to her breasts the last time she was in Vegas!

  • Anonymous

    it is messed up that she was half naked in front of that girl
    like we dont have enough girls thinking the only way to get attention and money is to get naked and service men

  • Anonymous

    assholes with class!!!

  • http://twitter.com/sixtus66 Sixtus66

    I can’t stop laughing…That was a really good one. 

  • Anonymous

    YEAH!! If you’re gonna show a chick in her underwear on TV, at least have the CLASS to accompany it with properly faux-outraged commentary! That’s the Republican (read: hypocritical) way! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-h4LILtDBw&t=0m50s

  • Pablo

    Oh, yeah! She’s a whore and he’s gay! Now I get it!

  • Pablo

    This is topless. http://www.tmrzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/griffin-topless-tweet.jpg

    She’s better off in the bra. And the makeup.

  • Anonymous

    Five years of “unpredictable”, “loose cannon”, “awkward”, etc….and she never makes one single queer joke about AC, not even a tiny insinuation.  This tells us everything we need to know about how spontaneous any of this actually is, or how loose a cannon she is.  Or how worried he is about how what actually might transpire.  All a big sham.

  • http://www.madcharles.com/ MadCharles

    real saggers

  • Anonymous

    CNN, the place for news.  Yeah right.  Will anyone ever take Cooper seriously again?  He is a “journalist” after all.

  • Anonymous

    The only way he could be taken any less seriously is if he goes to PMSNBC.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    -cough-Mid-life crisis!-cough-
    Ever since Kathy turned 50, she feels the need to be an exhibitionist.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    BWA-HA-HA-HA! PMSNBC!
    Where do you conservatives come up with this stuff?
    It’s funny because it has PMS in it, and women go through PMS!
    And everyone knows that women are stupid or something!
    Oh, my sides! You dittoheads slay me!

  • Anonymous

    It’s not at all offensive.  So, why all the fuss?

  • Anonymous

    Where do you get off being so abusive, for no good reason?  You’re a fine example of the most virulent of today’s Republicans.  You ignorantly and angrily insult fellow Americans, simply because you do not share their  political viewpoint.  You act like a monkey, beating a stick on the ground, amidst its angry tribe, mindlessly attacking  anything that looks like it doesn’t belong.   

  • Anonymous

    PMS is a hormonal state which leaves a woman prone to irrational behaviour and, famously, moved easily to reacting angrily over nothing.  Like for instance, hurling a vase at the TV set when their least favorite commedienne inoffensively celebrates New Years Eve, in her bra, on national TV.  It’s like a temporal version of Republicanism.

  • http://www.facebook.com/saohi Sing Aohi

    Kathy Griffin Strips Down her Underwear new years eve 2012 video: 

    http://yep.it/deodrx

  • us995

    next stop the porn industrie the D list anyway

  • Anonymous

    All liberals aspire to become assholes with the governments help and the redistribution of republicans wealth.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not all about sexuality in life… You can have fun and feel complicity with someone without a sexual basis.

    Am I going too fast?

  • Anonymous

    The fun of this clip transcends sexuality of Kathy, of Anderson, or you!

    Can’t you have fun guys or you have a “misguided rage” problem?

  • Anonymous

    What a dried up humorless prude

  • Anonymous

    I am glad that everyone here is welcoming in the New Year with levity and humor

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, like he was covering a really important breaking story with in depth research too

  • Michael T.

    Oh what a strange world we live in.

    The very people who hate the comedy stylings of Kathy Griffin, Joy Behar, Jon Stewart and Bill Maher are the same folks that find Dennis Miller and Greg Gutfeld a laugh a minute. Go figure.

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    I voted for the other guy.
    Who is the asshole?

  • Pablo

    Yes, you are. Make a pit stop over here.

  • Anonymous

    At least they don’t have to get naked to get an audience!

  • Anonymous

    LOL!!  Republicans insult fellow Americans??  That’s a good one.  If they do it’s because they learned from the masters…Democrats all.

  • Anonymous

    With all the pre-publicity this stunt had, I’d really like to see the ratings for these shows.  Somehow, I think with the warning out there, most people were smart enough to watch another channel and save themselves from the horror.

  • Anonymous

    Just shut up you buffoon. I;m sure you are quite attracted to transgendered women.

  • Anonymous

    ABC’s Dick Clark was the ratings winner for all new year’s shows, per deadline.com

  • Anonymous

    The concept was fine except being on CNN, I suppose.  She chose a bra that was no worse than a Victoria’s secret commercial. The girl simply doesn’t have the ‘chest’ to make this comedy bit work, I’m afraid.   I give her credit for doing it given her lack of substance takes some guts.
    Very strange on CNN, but CNN knew what it was choosing with Kathy.  When you take off your shirt and no one cares, that must be the most awkward feeling in the world for a woman.   

  • Anonymous

    too mean.

  • Anonymous

    1) This will be the fourth or fifth year that Griffin’s hosted with Cooper. She’s been fired every time for her antics on air, then re-hired for the following year. This year will be no different. The scenario is about as spontaneous as a pro wrestling match.

    2) Do you kiss your mother with that keyboard?

  • Anonymous

    Your wasting your time Kathy, Cooper is gay.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    I was flipping channels throughout the night, and it makes no difference to me that what her affiliation is, she really brought some fun to the night. Kind a whacky, but, quit witted and sponteneous.

  • 12voltman1

    Her body looks pretty good for someone in their 50′s.

  • 12voltman1

    Classy assholes?
    LOL.

  • 12voltman1

    Like yourself?

  • Anonymous

    Spot on impression of a typical mindlesss right wing jerk, bravo!

  • Anonymous

    You need to take a vacation from being a putz for a day or two.

  • Anonymous

    “Hey Morris, how was your New Year…?”

    “Great…I saw a bunch of miserable creeps attack some lame comic and her TV host, just because he is gay, on some stupid message board and even participated.”

    “No…seriously, you need to get a life Morris and stop trying to reason with such narrrowminded clowns!”

  • Anonymous

    Yes, FOX is your best bet for self righteous ignorant hypocrites.

  • Anonymous

    Her body looks good for somebody 30 years younger!

  • Anonymous

    I want Kathy to announce that she is a Republican Candidate for President in 2012!  If elected, she will keep us laughing until the recession is over!

  • Anonymous

    I would love to prop them up with my hands!

  • Michael

    I’d like to make a comment about this, but it’s the level of “professionalism” that I expect from CNN.   Neither can I bring myself to criticize this pathetic woman.

  • Anonymous

    According to Obama’s economic advisors  the recession was over in 2009.

  • LJB57

    The Potty-Mouth and the Giggler manage to gross everyone out again.
    Was Anderson trying to step on those rumors that he is Queer, by commenting on Kathy’s
    Body? 
    And isn’t that a “no no” to the gender challenge liberal media? 

  • Anonymous

    I am a right winger and I love this woman.  She should take over either The Tonight Show or The Late Show, but I doubt that they will be able to find any guests willing to come on the show.   

  • Anonymous

    “Poor Anderson?”  You have got to be kidding.  He loves every minute of it!

  • Anonymous

    You must be gay! (nothing wrong with it, but a Nazi soldier in Raiders of the Lost Ark?  Are you suggesting that most nen melt with lust when they see Kathy?)

  • Anonymous

    If you liberals would listen to Rush Limbaugh once in awhile, you would know that is a phrase which was coined by “El Rushbo.”  In addition, you might learn something.

  • http://hotair.com/ StewartIII

    ChickaBOOMer: CNN’s Over The Top New Year’s Eve Live Broadcast Starring Topless Kathy Griffin
    http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2012/01/cnns-over-top-new-years-eve-live.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Johnson/100000190455903 Rick Johnson

    Kathy is a talentless total piece of trash who’s entire act is based on classless shock. Her fan base is also made up of those who can only related to trashy shock. If she were required to make a career without shock language she would starve.

  • Rick Foster

    On to Mardi Gras!  Send more girls, now! 
    Funny.  Love it.  Tastefully done and humorous commentary. 
    Way to begin the New Year.

  • Rick Foster

    Askholes with their delusions………..

  • Anonymous

    … except that you just did. Twit.

  • Anonymous

    NB: Fellow Not-Conned Servatives:

    OMG, THE SKY IS FALLING … “Will anyone ever take Cooper seriously
    again” (yeah, humor is a terrible characteristic); “I don’t watch even
    the first moment of CNN” (liar); “All liberals are classless” (classy
    comment); “Barry Hussein woud (sic) do Anderson Cooper in a heartbeat”
    (say hi to your momma for us); “My barfometer is pegged” (Larry, Larry
    Craig – s’at you?);  “Cooper is gay” (duh).

    Whaddaya think … let the right-wingnuts in on the joke?  Hard not to laugh — or at least roll the eyes — at comments from people who’s tongues are wagging & eyeballs popping from Griffin’s “shocking, offensive, evil, repellant, hideous, nasty, loathsome, horrible, nauseating, obscene, repulsive, scandalous, sickening, ugly, contemptible, detestable, execrable, ghastly, heinous, lurid, unspeakable, vile, [ __insert adjective of your choice here__ ] over-the-top pornographic performance” on live TV.

    Poor babies.  If this was boxing, they’d have stopped the fight by now and told Griffin she’s got to pick on people her own size.

  • Michael

    Well it appears that I DID comment…

  • http://spacegod.tumblr.com/ spacegod

    Why is Cooper freaked out?
    Has he heard of Kathy Griffin?Why does he point to the NO NUDITY sign? 
    She’s not nude.
    This is so not a scandalous issue.It’s not a wardrobe malfunction or a nip slip.

    The only thing awkward about the bit was Cooper.
    What’s the big deal?

  • http://spacegod.tumblr.com/ spacegod

    Thanks for the skewed perspective, Miss Prudey Two Shoes.

  • http://spacegod.tumblr.com/ spacegod

    He’s gay but she’s not a whore.

    Maybe you should take a pit stop over here.

  • http://mikechimeriblog.com/ Mike C.

    I don’t know.  I get the feeling CNN will end up the NYE ratings leader yet again.  As a loyal FNC viewer, I don’t say that happily.

  • http://twitter.com/psheckman scott heckman

    Now Mike you do know that CNN had no agenda while Fox News even in New Years coverage did show it. Do you really think that all of Fox News is fair to both sides? CNN is the gold standard in news ratings or no ratings…..it is like Arrested Development a great show that nobody watched while Fox News is like Spongebob a horrible show than everyone watches. Steve Doocy is Fox News spongebob.

  • http://mikechimeriblog.com/ Mike C.

    Is it required for you to reply to every one of the J$ regulars’ comments outside of J$P?

  • http://twitter.com/psheckman scott heckman

    it sure is since that Asshole banned me because I questioned his bias….and is it possible for you to answer my question?

  • liquidassets

    He’s also a registered Republican. But I agree, he jumped the shark from journalist to infotainment a few years ago, too bad because he had potential to be a moderate with serious journalistic chops. 

  • liquidassets

    they wouldn’t let him because he refused to remove his nipple rings….

  • http://mikechimeriblog.com/ Mike C.

    Okay: Yes, I do.  And apparently you don’t.  So be it.

  • http://twitter.com/psheckman scott heckman

    here is you answer, how can I reply when I am banned? Now answer my question, tell me how fox is fair to both sides, you can’t can you? Admit it you are a Conservative?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RU4Z37G3IF4YDR453PVZ7NQGLQ Jeff

    Most of you are so clueless!  It’s Kathy’s unpredictability, and Anderson’s subsequent squirming, which makes us watch her.  It’s also why CNN’s NYE show is the only one worth watching.  Does anyone really think that Ryan Seacrest’s show, featuring Justin Bieber, is better?  Really?! 

  • Yes I’m Right

    Li’l feller, after you have been stalking and harassing Mike C for years now, reading his comments at Johnny Dollars Place, here on Mediaite, and on his own blog, and after all these years you are still unaware of his political views?  Are you really that stupid?

  • Anonymous

    Well, this thread is a good example of unwarranted Republican insults based purely on political intolerance, justify how you will the poor behavior on display. 

  • http://twitter.com/psheckman scott heckman

    Lil Cake Boy, this is not stalking, that is what you did remember? Still waiting on an answer does your wife approve of calling people pussies. I can remember when you are called that you get all pissy. Listen little girl if you cannot take it don’t dish it out.

  • Yes I’m Right

    Li’l feller, on the day you finally look back on your meaningless life and realize that you are an imbecile, an uneducated weasel, a homophobe, an obsessed troll who hounds a certain person all over the internet calling them “retard” when you have said you have an autistic child, and feeble-minded dunderhead, will you please send me an email giving me an idea about how embarassed you actually are?  I would appreciate that, thank you so much.

  • http://Mediaite.com Frances Martel

    I’m leaving this here as an example of how not to comment on this website. Scott Heckman, this is perhaps the 30th comment in this vein (profanity, name-calling, no actual point) that I’ve seen on the site so I’m just banning you since you clearly have no interest in any constructive discourse. It isn’t hard to not get banned here, but congrats, you figured it out.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Fire the brainless bitch!

  • Derek B

    As if CNN needed to dumb itself down any more.  

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