‘I’m Not An Egomaniac!’ CNN’s Chris Wallace Swears It Wasn’t His Idea To Name All His Shows After Chris Wallace

CNN anchor Chris Wallace joked to fellow anchor Abby Phillip that it was not his idea to name yet another show after himself, telling her, “I’m not an egomaniac!”

Wallace currently hosts the interview series Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace  — now available exclusively on Max, without a replay on CNN. That show has been cut back to a single interview to make room for the Saturday morning show that was announced months ago.

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Phillip hosted Wallace for a news-of-the-day segment and wrapped up by asking him about the show’s debut this weekend:

PHILLIP: Chris, you have got this really exciting news, a new show starting this weekend. Tell us about it.

WALLACE: Yes. I want to just say, first of all, I am not an egomaniac, Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace and The Chris Wallace Show. I did not make that decision. That was done by somebody else. But at least you know where to find me.

It’s going to be very exciting. It’s going to be a political panel talk show. I know we have a lot of them. But this is going to be just that, just journalists, four of them, two kind of skewing a little bit to the left, two skewing a little bit to the right. And we are going to talk about all the issues that we talk about.

I think it’s going to be a little different than anything else on CNN. You know, it has a little bit of overtones for older folks out there of the McLaughlin Group, and I hope it’s as entertaining and, hopefully, as informative as that was.

PHILLIP: Well, that’s a good, you know, analogy to make, I think, for a lot of audiences. So, I am really looking forward to it.

Chris Wallace, you can catch him this weekend with the premier of The Chris Wallace Show airing this Saturday at 10:00 A.M. only here right on CNN.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.