Andy Cohen’s Concept of Reality

Fail Better with David Duchovny

Grace Cohen-Chen

Society & Culture

4.6 • 534 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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When a young Andy Cohen sat in front of his family’s TV watching hours and hours of soap operas, his mother grew increasingly concerned about his future: Was he destined to become an “airhead”? But Andy’s obsession with melodrama paid off. He’s defined modern television as executive producer of the Real Housewives reality show franchise, and he’s spent 15 years as the host of the boundary-pushing talk show Watch What Happens Live. We discuss the little moments that could have changed everything for Andy, how he decides what to share and keep private, and why he has so much respect for actors — and I for reality show editors. Follow me on Instagram at @davidduchovny. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. And if you want to continue the conversation with other listeners, join the My Lemonada community at https://lemonadamedia.com/mylemonada/ For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's morning in New York.
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0:30.1	Acting styles have been changed by reality TV, I think.
0:34.1	Not just acting styles, but the way we act in life, because, you know, it's the cliche
0:38.9	that we're all playing parts, right? And I guess that's what reality TV is banking on. But, you know,
0:46.0	if you look back on acting styles over the last 50 years, you know, you have Brando, which is like
0:53.2	the benchwater mark, I think, and he's mumbling,
0:57.2	and he's not enunciating his words, and he's real. He's realer than we've ever seen.
1:02.1	And then you have the next 40 years of everybody, you know, being Brando's children,
1:07.1	and we're all doing, in effect, an invitation of what Brando did.
1:11.7	In the same way, all rock and roll guitarists after Hendricks are doing an invitation of Hendricks, more or less, most of them anyway.
1:19.6	And then I think the next big leap, the next big jump or the next big break is reality TV, when all of a sudden The Bachelor or Love Island or you know andy shows on
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