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On AC360 earlier this week, as Anderson Cooper went into his “Ridiculist” segment, he thought he was going to be discussing annoying habits of office coworkers. And he was, sort of! When the segment begins, the camera pans into Cooper’s own office, taking him completely off guard. As it turns out, the entire thing was a set up by his staff to publicly air their grievances over a particularly foul-smelling candle that Anderson Cooper burns in his office to apparently cover up the smell of his jeans that he refuses to wash — which is a whole other issue. (Look, I get it. I’ll go as long as I can without washing my jeans too, but when that sh*t starts to be an olfactory malfeasance, it’s time to wash.)
At any rate, Anderson Cooper tried to defend his “fancy, basil-scented candle,” which apparently cost an “obscene” amount of money, but his co-workers think it smells like grandma’s house, old mall, Woodstock vomit, Italian salad, and dumpster ravioli, among other colorful adjectives. To be fair to Anderson Cooper, although I have not smelled the particular candle on trial here, I can think of a lot worse candle scents than basil. His co-workers should consider themselves lucky he didn’t bring in a cookie dough or brownie batter candle or any of those other forms of aromatic diabetes.
(Via The Advocate)
