Andy Cohen felt ‘salty’ about WWHL’s lack of recognition

Andy Cohen opens up about feeling like an outsider in the late-night TV landscape.

Cohen, 56, is celebrating 15 years Watch what’s happening live this year, but admits that in the past he has felt “salty” about the show being left out of the late-night conversation.

For example, in 2015 there were several late night talk show hosts including Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meijers, Conan O’Brien And Trevor Noah appeared together in a photo shoot for Vanity fair. Cohen was not there.

“I was very conscious of wanting to be part of the late-night conversation,” Cohen said Deadline in an interview published on Friday, June 21.

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‘I know what we’re doing. I know what it means to people and I know what it means to me,” he told the outlet.

Cohen said he thought at the time, “This is stupid.”

Cohen added that one of the reasons he thinks he’s been “left out” of the late-night conversations is because he’s not a comedian like his fellow talk show hosts, but an interviewer.

Still, WWHL has attracted a number of big guests over the years, including Hillary Clinton And Jennifer Lawrence.

“Late at night [TV] It’s very intimate for people because they go to bed and sometimes you’re the last person they see,” Cohen said, reflecting on 15 years of the Bravo show. “They choose you too, and they feel comfortable enough to be with you. The connection you have with your viewer is truly special. I have an enormous amount of gratitude. I know it sounds very hokey, but it really is.”

Cohen also said he hit a stumbling block in hosting WWHL around six years. “I think it was in year 6 that I started to hit the wall a bit,” he said. “Craig Ferguson said that is very common. I started to feel like I was checking some kind of box. But I came around, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, dude, you have your absolute dream job. This is a show of your imagination and everything about you,’ and I just kind of figured it out. I haven’t looked back since.”