It dropped but CNN didn't catch it well.

I was looking for it after I heard some anchor or another say it would be a soggy ball drop. My son heard "soggy balls drop." Maybe my eyes were focused on the wrong place.

It was the show that was always on NYE when I was a kid, Guy Lombardo was classy. I have to admit though I really enjoyed seeing the high society of New York cutting loose at the Waldorf Astoria while all liquored up!

I saw the Chappelle interview. I liked the broadcast better with Kathy Griffin but that it is a shit show is part of the appeal IMO. Don was far more hammered last year. As for the Key West thing, no way in the world they’re going to cut to Key West from Times Square at midnight on New Years. They did show a brief clip a few minutes later. Dick’s shows were always a bore fest from where I’m sitting. Different strokes I guess.

He was subdued this year. I love The Spotted Cat and the joy of a New Orleans Party. The technical stuff was awful but the rain may have been a factor. They were either oddly or deliberately unprepared.

But hey, it’s 2019! Happy New Year! 🥂🍾🎉

Especially compared to what other major cities around the world like Sydney and Paris (OMG!) do.
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We really need to up our game. That was embarrassing.

I think they will never reunite given the way she felt about his reaction to the fake severed Trump head.

They were NOT fun!

Otherwise, it was a total borefest.

So allow me to ease the suckage somewhat...

I enjoyed that, I needed a Lombardo fix!

The ONLY reason I ever watched any of those shows, including Dick Clark's replacement, Ryan Seacrest, was to watch the damned ball drop. But, they ALWAYS jump back to local news at 10 pm/midnight, never actually showing the damned ball drop. I thought it was in error at first, but nope..

Apparently now, they return to the pre-midnight TAPED coverage AFTER the local news (something they never used to do) to "simulate" being in the same time zone, but, I'm done at that point. Hell, even the neighborhood kids set off the fireworks at 10 pm here, in acknowledgement of New Years on the East Coast.

Kathy and Cooper were pretty vulgar together on CNN in the past, but at least it was amusing. Now, meh.

Happy New Years without live tv for me.

I don't get the whole "doing shots" on the air thing. Dick Clark was great back in the day.

Still one of the greatest song titles ever

I missed that part.

I fell asleep watching it.

The commercials 'advertising' the event looked embarrasing enough.

I had some wine, caught up on my reading, and went to sleep.

The passing of time - what's the big deal anyway?

Kathy made the night.