Andy Cohen didn’t hold back when reflecting on former New York City mayor Eric Adams as 2025 turned into 2026.
During CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast from Times Square, the 57-year-old Bravo host launched into what appeared to be a drunken critique of Adams’ time in office, calling the outgoing mayor’s tenure “chaotic” and “horrible.”
In a clip later shared by the New York Post, Cohen raised a shot glass while standing alongside co-host Anderson Cooper and actor B.J. Novak, then began speaking just moments after Adams’ term officially ended.
“Oh no,” Cooper, 58, said with an uneasy laugh as Cohen referenced “watching the final moments of Mayor Adams’ chaotic, horrible” run shortly after midnight on Thursday, Jan. 1.
Novak tried to interject, joking, “Oh, are we going on a de Blasio-style rant?” But Cohen pressed on.
“I mean, he got his pardons,” Cohen said, prompting Novak to interrupt again: “Andy! Andy! We’ve got to cut you off!”
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That didn’t stop him. Looking into the camera, Cohen added, “I’m just saying, great. You got your pardons. Go off into the sunset. We’ll fiddle with what we have, with what you’ve left us with.”
As Cooper attempted to steer the moment elsewhere, Novak remarked that Cohen simply “can’t help himself.” Cohen continued anyway.
“You pardoned your way through four years, and all the clubs, we’ll see you there,” he said, according to the Post. “I just want to say, goodbye, Mayor Adams. You did it, you did it, you did it, didn’t you?”
Earlier that day, Cohen had leaned into the party atmosphere on social media, joking repeatedly about drinking. In one post on X, he suggested tequila was on the menu for the night. In another, he replied to a fan’s question with a blunt, “We. Are. Drinking.”
Shortly after midnight, Cohen shared an Instagram Story showing himself dancing with a drink in hand. The following day, he reflected on the broadcast by writing that he “had a ball” and admitted the group may have been “a tad overserved (by me).”
The moment echoed a now-infamous rant Cohen delivered during the New Year’s Eve broadcast at the end of 2021, when he targeted then-mayor Bill de Blasio.
While Cooper again tried to calm him down, Cohen criticized de Blasio’s record, calling it one of the worst mayoral terms in city history and joking that political rivals could at least agree on that assessment.
A few moments later, Cohen doubled down with another jab, saying he expected to be standing in the same spot the following year—only without having to watch de Blasio celebrate as the city moved on.
After that earlier broadcast, Cohen later acknowledged on Instagram that he had been overserved, pairing the admission with photos of himself and Cooper in Times Square. “But man did I have fun!” he wrote at the time.
