Video: Kathy Griffin Goes Semi-Naked For Anderson Cooper

While Dick Clark's Rocking New Year's Eve With Ryan Seacrest is the establishment choice for TV watching on December 31 (and Carson Daly's New Year's show on NBC is actually better than you'd think—we appreciate that Daly asked Bloomberg about Occupy Wall Street), the best New Year's TV hosts are CNN's brilliant odd couple of Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin. While some wondered if Griffin would come back after telling one heckler in 2009, "Screw you. Why don't you get a job, buddy? You know what? I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth," her outrageousness works well with Cooper's tight-laced WASPy personality. And this year, she stripped down to her panties and bra!

In a press release two weeks before New Year's, CNN offered these quotes:

"Get ready, America. Pull up a chair and a box of your finest wine, because you've never seen a New Year's Eve show like this,” said Griffin. “By the time I'm done with him, Anderson's hair is going to be even more gray. In fact, the night is going to be so wild, his hair is actually going to turn brown again."

“Kathy Griffin scares me. I’ve said this often to CNN management directly and through my attorneys,” said Cooper “She continues to appear by my side on New Year’s Eve, so clearly no one is listening to me”

Well, she did warn him.