Kathy Grif­fin co-​​hosted New Year’s Eve at Times Square with Ander­son Cooper on CNN last night. And she claims to be D-​​List. That’s a squarely C-​​List activity.

Kathy tried her hard­est to get Ander­son fired, at one point ask­ing him who, in the cur­rent admin­is­tra­tion, he would most enjoy water­board­ing. Of course we all know Anderson’s posi­tion on water­board­ing (even though he never really comes out and says it), so he was quite per­turbed, refused to answer, and accused Kathy of “cross­ing the line.” To which Ms Grif­fin responded by look­ing at the cam­era and say­ing, “That’s what I’m here for!” They moved on, but Ander­son was just a lit­tle bit more prickly to Kathy from then on. I couldn’t tell if he was just play­ing off her aggres­sive­ness, or if he had actu­ally grown uncomfortable.

Notably absent were Kathy’s fre­quent exple­tives and any jokes about Anderson’s mys­te­ri­ous sex­ual preferences.

All in all, Kathy was well behaved and gen­er­ally amus­ing, and Ander­son was his usual col­lected self, even if he wasn’t sure what to make of Kathy.

Happy 2008 everyone!