Things that didn’t suck this week – All Anderson, all the time

by Kona Gallagher

This week in television was fine, but there really wasn’t a whole lot of new stuff that set my world on fire. Leverage was pretty funny, and Mad Men season 2 is on “On Demand”, which is pretty amazing, but nothing truly tickled me this week in the way that Anderson Cooper did, when he subbed for Regis for two days this week on Live! with Regis and Kelly.

It was so fantastic, that I’m devoting this week’s column to Cooper’s appearance on Live. These are three of my favorite moments during his all-too-brief tenure this week. In it, Anderson gets to the point with the Bachelorette, he talks about the child labor at Live, and Kelly shamelessly flirts with the newsman.

Anderson Cooper asks Jillian Harris exactly how big of a slut she is:

Look, it’s the question everyone wants to ask, but never does: What goes on in the Bachelorette house? Like, those people are totally doing it all the time, right? Anderson Cooper certainly seems to think so. He also thinks Jillian Harris is stupid for getting offended about what he thinks is a perfectly reasonable question.

It’s no wonder why Anderson is Kelly’s favorite guest co-host:

What makes the days that Anderson subs for Regis the best ones, is the amazing chemistry he and Kelly have together. I’ve never seen either of them funnier then they are when they’re together. In this clip, Anderson starts off with his impression of how Jillian Harris spent her evenings after filming was done, and he and Kelly go through this whole routine of Live‘s child labor practices.

Don’t tell Anderson Cooper your dreams — he doesn’t give a shit:

Kelly always spends a lot of her time on air with Anderson, shamelessly flirting with him. While she may want him to tell her his dreams and desires, Anderson doesn’t want to hear anybody else’s. Like with the Bachelorette, Anderson gets real here. Nobody likes hearing about other peoples’ dreams; it’s boring. They’re never as interesting to anybody else, as they are to you.