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How Andy Cohen Became Famous And Ended Up On Riverdale

"I'm a huge

fan, and I was on

one day having just watched the season 1 finale, and it hit me, I was like, I need to come to

. I want this to happen,"

.

And when Cohen wants something to happen, he wills it into existence. That's the power of Cohen, who, in the past decade, became one of the most powerful men in popular culture. He hosts a nightly talk show called

and

On top of that, he's the executive producer of the

franchise, where he frequently appears as host of the reunions. He has his own imprint, Andy Cohen books, as well as two Peabody awards to his name. Andy Cohen isn't just a celebrity — he's an empire.

He started out as a broadcast journalist.

Cohen emerged from the world of broadcast journalism, a field that's increasingly amorphous. What is broadcast journalism when the news is entertainment and entertainment is news? Cohen is a pseudo-David Letterman for the era of reality television. While David Letterman got his start as a radio host, Cohen began as a behind the scenes producer of the news. According to Cohen's memoir Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture, Cohen worked for more than 10 years at CBS, where he started as an intern. (This is, for someone who now sips martinis on TV each night, a fairly banal start to his career. Who stays somewhere for 10 years anymore?) By the end of his tenure there, Cohen was a senior producer.

Through pure happenstance, Cohen moved to Bravo.

Then, Andy Cohen started appearing on TV.

He first hosted a reunion show in 2007. Cohen mediated a conversation between the

the first of the

franchises.

, Cohen joked that, at the time, he was faking it.

"It was a real big deal,” Cohen said of his first on TV hosting gig. “I was really nervous, and you can see it on how my lips are. If you ever see the show, I am trying to be comfortable, and my face is a little tense. I’m trying to be relaxed — I’m, like, pretending to be a TV host." He'd hosted a web show before, a Top Chef companion piece that looked like an early version of Watch What Happens Live.

By the time Real Housewives of New York City rolled around, Cohen was the go-to host for the reunion episodes, which happened once per season.

Following his Real Housewives hosting gig, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen happened.

Cohen's first hosting gig, for the record, was called "

."

debuted in 2009, only two years after Cohen first started hosting

reunions. The

profiled him at this time because he was an anomaly: Cohen was a high-level exec working overtime to host a late-night talk show. When it premiered,

was on only two nights a week. Cohen also wasn't the mind behind

If he were, he might've made it an easier gig.

"If I had green-lit my own show, do you think I would have made it once a week at midnight on Thursday? For only 12 weeks? Give me 10 o’clock. An hour. Monday nights,"

Still, the show had an appeal, and it was pulling in viewers — at least 700,000 per episode, according to the

But he still had a day job. In 2014, Cohen

to focus on

Additionally, the show moved to five nights a week. Cohen was officially a late night television host.

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen becomes an entertainment juggernaut.

WWHL gave way to Radio Andy, which gave way to Cohen's brief Riverdale cameo. That's how deep Andy Cohen's relationship to pop culture goes — he can appear on the teen's fave show as himself. (He also appeared in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as himself.) Cohen succeeds because he celebrates the increasingly permeable barrier between pop culture fandom and pop culture himself. Cohen loves Real Housewives; he's also the boss of Real Housewives. He loves celebrity culture; he's also a celebrity. He loves Riverdale. Well, damn. Get him on Riverdale! Andy Cohen's empire might just be big enough for all of us to live in it.

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