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Uh oh, I hope this isn't another Dakota Fanning moment for Kathy Griffin. Several years back, while co-hosting the E! channel pre-awards coverage (I think Golden Globes) and she asked some stars for their reaction that Dakota had checked into rehab. She was joking but got fired. Watch this from last night and see if you think she'll suffer the same fate on CNN!

My favorite part of this is Kathy dissing on Lou Dobbs. Kathy and Anderson are such a great team! They should have their own morning show. Too bad they have such kick-ass day jobs...

Here is more of last night's Griffin-fest. She was also on with Larry King...

I'm usually running around somewhere in either Palm Springs or West Hollywood on New Year's Eve but if I were at home tomorrow night, I'd have the TV on CNN watching the fun team of Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin. The D-Lister adores the Silver Fox and plays off him well. Above is a clip from last year's show followed by two more after the jump.

DListed's Michael K has posted an early Christmas present: photos of Anderson Cooper's yearbook page from Dalton School in New York in 1984. He's listed as Anderson Hays Cooper, He listed his senior quote as, "Mary had a little lamb, the doctor fainted."

He was cute then, gorgeous now...

Anderson Cooper, CNN's Silver Fox, was at a launch party last night for his "Planet in Peril" documentary premiering on CNN tonight at 9 p.m.

Anderson, CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and National Geographic Channel host Lisa Ling examine effects of the Earth's rapidly growing population. Among other subjects, the trio investigates the spread of disease, oil and poverty in Nigeria, shark fishing and shark dive tours, African elephants and mountain gorillas. It is the second "Planet in Peril" special.

"I love the political coverage this year, I found it incredibly exciting, but it's always nice to change things up," Cooper told the New York Daily News. "You don't get the opportunity to go into the mountains in the Congo, then off to Rwanda every day, so it's something that I really jumped at."