Andy Cohen is bringing his freewheeling, no-script live show with Anderson Cooper to Washington, D.C., and he is not holding back about what audiences can expect: total chaos, zero censorship, and the possibility that he will tell another story as wild as the one he once told Hillary Clinton on live television. DAR Constitution Hall is set to host AC2: An Intimate Evening with Anderson Cooper & Andy Cohen, bringing the duo's unpredictable stage act to the nation's capital.
Cohen described the format bluntly in an interview with WTOP News, saying, “This is Anderson and I on stage, uncensored.” There is no script, Cohen told the outlet, and the show leans on behind-the-scenes stories from television and whatever the two hosts feel like sharing in the moment. Cooper, a longtime CNN anchor and Cohen's New Year's Eve co-host, has helped carry that same loose, conversational energy from city to city for years.
No Script, No Politics (Mostly)
According to the WTOP interview, the night is designed to be a politics-free zone unless audience members bring up the subject themselves during the question-and-answer portion. Otherwise, the evening is built around spontaneous storytelling rather than prepared material, Cohen said. He is, after all, the man behind the Real Housewives franchise, a credential WTOP notes gives him plenty of real-life drama to draw from even before the audience starts asking questions.
That unpredictability has produced some memorable nights on the road. During a stop at The Masonic auditorium in San Francisco, the audience reportedly drank every drop of vodka the theater had on hand, per the same WTOP account. Cohen has also said the ultimate compliment comes from husbands who show up reluctantly, apparently dragged along by their wives, and later admit they loved the show.
A Tour With a Pause and a Comeback
AC2 is not a new act. Cohen and Cooper have been doing versions of this unscripted back-and-forth together for years, and WTOP reports they spent about four years taking the show to more than 60 cities before pausing it after both became fathers. A separate account from People puts the tour's run at 50 cities, beginning with a Boston stop on March 21, 2015. The two outlets differ on the exact count, but both describe a tour that crisscrossed the country for years before going dark.
Cohen said he persuaded Cooper to bring the show back for a limited run, and the revival has already included a stop in Boston this past November, according to Bravo, which reported the two announced the relaunch on Instagram in July. The outlet also lists New York City dates of January 23 and 24, 2026, at the Beacon Theatre as part of the comeback run. Cohen and Cooper's chemistry is familiar to a much bigger audience than theater-goers, too: the pair have co-hosted CNN's New Year's Eve broadcast together since 2017, per Bravo.
The Hillary Clinton Story That Made Headlines
Part of what makes AC2 unpredictable is Cohen's willingness to revisit his own most jaw-dropping moments on live television, and one in particular keeps coming up. Cohen told WTOP he once informed Hillary Clinton on the air that he had had an affair with one of her Secret Service agents back when she was first lady. “She was shocked,” Cohen said of her reaction.
The disclosure happened during an episode of Watch What Happens Live that featured both Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, sitting down with Cohen, according to The Independent. Clinton served as first lady from 1993 to 2001, the outlet notes, placing the alleged liaison squarely within her White House years. The moment has become one of the stories Cohen returns to when describing just how unfiltered his conversations with Cooper, and with his talk-show guests, can get.
What To Expect in Washington
For D.C. audiences, the pitch is simple: two famous friends riffing without a net, in a hall better known for symphonies and civic ceremonies than celebrity gossip. DAR Constitution Hall sits in Washington, D.C., and the AC2 stop there slots into the same limited revival tour that has already taken the show back to Boston and New York. Whether or not the capital crowd drains the venue's bar the way San Francisco's did, Cohen has made clear the format leaves plenty of room for surprises.
