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During a conversation about his friendship with Rivers, plastic surgery and his time as Watch What Happens Live host, Cohen, 56, told How to Fail podcast host Elizabeth Day that Rivers used to tell him to get Botox.
"I've not touched it. I’ve never even had Botox," Cohen revealed during the Nov. 20 episode, after chatting about the amount of Botox that appears in the Real Housewives franchise. "Joan Rivers, before she died, used to beg me to get Botox."
"And every guy that I know who's hosting a TV show, mainly all of them are younger than me or about my age. They all have had Botox," the Watch What Happens Live host continued. "I look at their foreheads. I’m like, 'Your forehead does not move.'"
Making a quip at his fellow male talk show hosts, Cohen revealed he thinks it's funny that despite him being the only gay host, he's the only one who has never gotten Botox.
"How about that? The gay guy is the one that doesn’t have the Botox!" he joked.
"... But I haven’t done it yet. It's not something that I think I need to do. I don't know who I would be doing it for," he continued, before conceding that he "will probably do it soon."
According to the WWHL host, he had some firsthand experience with bad Botox, after he said a group of young gay men had botched plastic surgery.
"'This has to stop,' I said, ‘Your generation, what are you doing to yourselves?'" he recalled. "Like, you’re handsome young men. Stop this. I think people need to get a hold of themselves."
Cohen has been candid about how influential the late comedienne Rivers — who died on Sept. 4, 2014, during a medical procedure at age 81 — was to him. Speaking with Today in 2014 shortly after her death, he told a similar, Botox-related anecdote.
According to the host, he and Rivers were working on a pilot for a show called Straight Talk with Joan Rivers in 2006 when she first recommended he get some cosmetic enhancements.
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"The first thing she said to me when I went in to audition was, 'You gotta get Botox. You have to get Botox,'" he said at the time, speaking with then-Today host Matt Lauer. "I never did, and I was thinking last night, maybe I should get a little shot in tribute to Joan. I think it would be a nice tribute to her."
"But she was incredible," Cohen added, reflecting on her legacy. "She was generous. She wanted everyone around her to succeed. ... She was electrifying."
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The father of two added that Rivers "was one of the first kind of larger-than-life women that I connected to, and I just couldn't believe, like everybody in America, the stuff that she said. She was shocking, but she was so funny."
Cohen — who was one of many celebrities who attended Rivers' star-studded funeral after her death — also credited the comedian with influencing his career, writing soon after her death that he always admired her.
"I grew up in awe of her as she filled in for Carson and pinched myself when I co-starred in a pilot with her for Bravo in '06," Cohen wrote on Instagram in 2014. "She went on to appear on WWHL many times, showing up in the middle of the night with a great attitude and a slew of new jokes."
"... She was so indomitable we all thought she would live forever. Joan was a trailblazer and an indelible part of pop culture," he finished.
