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    How Andy Cohen taught 'Watch What Happens Live!' showrunner Deirdre Connolly to roll with the punches

    by Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times Jul 08, 2019 5 minutes

    "I wanted to work at the State Department" is not something you'd expect to hear from the showrunner of Bravo's off-the-wall late-night gabfest "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen."

    But that was Deirdre Connolly's first career ambition. She studied political science at Boston College and was planning to move to Washington, D.C., to forge a career in the federal government. But an internship for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in her final year of college left Connolly at a crossroads.

    "As much as I admired him and it was amazing and it was such a gift to do, it kind of turned me off of politics as a job," she says.

    Still, it proved an invaluable experience: When Kennedy's head of communications left for MTV, it occurred to Connolly that her intense love for pop culture could be her meal ticket.

    She eventually went to MTV too. A

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