Without the ever-charming Andy Cohen, there would be no Real Housewives (well, there would be plenty of “real housewives,” just not the over-indulged, jaded ones who hail from privileged communities countrywide and make up an iconic guilty-pleasure pocket of contemporary pop-culture). Cohen, largely responsible for the reality programming success of the Bravo network, will step down from his executive role to focus on his talk show and projects with his production company, Most Talkative, the New York Daily News reports.

Though Emmy-winning Cohen has developed many of the network’s hit shows, The Real Housewives franchise set the stage for his talk show, Watch What Happens Live. In 2009, Cohen began hosting WWHL in a casual, conversational format, replete with alcohol, sexy guest bartenders, and Bravolebrities—a Cohen-ism that identifies the network’s reality stars.

In time, the show extended to five nights a week, while still, Cohen maintained his executive role with the network and hosted all the reunion specials for The Real Housewives franchise. The idea to have a live talk show air show directly after a new episode quickly gave way to a trend in cable television, the New York Times reported. Cohen’s production partner, Michael Davies, now produces talk shows of similar format for AMC like Talking Dead and Talking Bad after The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad.

Quickly, Cohen became a Bravolebrity himself. In 2012, Cohen’s autobiographical memoir, Most Talkative—the same name as his production studio—became a New York Times best seller, and recently, WWHL has grown to garner big attention: Oprah, Cher, and Lady Gaga have all been guests in the past year. While it’s unclear when the busy cable television renaissance man sleeps, he still makes time for his besties, like Anderson Cooper and Kelly Ripa! At a price though—during his tenure of working ‘round the clock, Cohen has become noticeably grayer. As in, an almost identical yay-to-gray trajectory to Obama’s first presidential term.

So, get some sleep, Andy. And mazel on your success!

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• Follow our friends at Tablet for the latest in what’s happening in Israel. [Tablet]

• The scene: Philip Roth, his iPhone, a Jewish deli on the Upper West Side, and a novel called Balls. [Paris Review]

• Christian Dior designer Raf Simons calls disgraced former Dior designer John Galliano’s designs no longer relevant. [Fashionista]

• We could watch GIFs of Bravo’s Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper eating a gigantic gummy worm all day. [BuzzFeed]

• Tavi Gevinson, still teaching people how to do a proper bitchface. [Access Hollywood]

• Mayim Bialik, Call Me Maybe flash mob participant. [Vulture]

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“You’ve watched the fights, seen the drama…but who’s gonna clean up the mess?” a Bravo-esque voiceover teases. The Real Housekeepers of Long Island, that’s who—at least according to this (at times NSFW) parody video from the guys behind the YouTube video Nassau (County) State of Mind.

Mocking the Real Housewives series on Bravo, which seems to be reproducing endlessly in new locations, the video turns the cameras…onto the maids. An obnoxious Long Island woman demands Xanax and accuses Olga of stealing her jewelry, while her husband demands to know who made a $200 phone call to El Salvador. It’s absurd and over-the-top, just like the shows it skewers.

Tyler Gildin, one of the video’s creators, said they put out casting calls and hired actors and actresses for the one-day shoot—a step up from last year’s music video tribute to the unparalleled opulence of Long Island’s Nassau County, which featured Gildin, Evan Krumholz, and Keith Gould rapping in front of sports cars.

“With YouTube, there are so many opportunities to put yourself out there now,” Gildin, an aspiring comedian, explained. It’s hard not to believe that, coming from the guy who stars in the video’s toilet-clogging scene.

Would you tune in for the Real Housekeepers of Long Island?

Related: Tribal Humor Goes Viral [Tablet Magazine]

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• The Times reveals New York City’s best bialys, pastrami, and rye.

• In what sounds like a worse version of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are vacationing in Bali.

• The Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik discusses walking the red carpet on Tisha B’Av.

• Spotted: Bar Refaeli and Shaun White in the stands watching swimmer Michael Phelps compete.

• According to Fran Lebowitz, “a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.”

• While on Andy Cohen’s late-night Bravo talk show, Joan Rivers says “even as a Jew” she wouldn’t wear Princess Diana’s wedding ring:

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• Richard Belzer, who’s Jewish and really great on Law & Order: SVU, made a Nazi salute on a red carpet in Monaco. He claims he was referencing Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator—he also put two fingers to his lip to represent a Hitler mustache and then went on to show his butt to photographers—but the usual suspects (read: the ADL) are not pleased.

• To prepare his crew for filming Cosmopolis—which takes place mostly in a billionaire’s limousine—David Cronenberg screened the Israeli film Lebanon and the claustrophobic German war epic Das Boot.

• Barbra Streisand held a $20 million (!) fundraiser to raise money for research into women’s heart disease.

• Larry David’s almost-lost sketches from ABC’s SNL competitor, Fridays.

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• Meet Faygele ben Miriam, the gay rights activist who mobilized Washington state’s battle over marriage more than 40 years ago.

• Bravo’s Andy Cohen totally understands why we watch reality TV, and will get us to watch even more of it.

• A first look at LiLo as Elizabeth Taylor.

• We’re very sorry we missed Bar Refaeli’s 27th birthday earlier this week. Please accept our sincere apologies:

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Jones, the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton, confirmed that she is completely awesome in real life by giving spot-on descriptions (of Bill O’Reilly: “He went crazy live on Fox News, he was like ‘Live! I want to do it live! I’m gonna do it live!’”) which Slattery quickly identified. When a picture of Mel Gibson popped up, she shouted “He hates Jews! And he’s hateful and angry!” then added, “He said horrible things to his girlfriend. He’s Australian. His dad hates Jews!”

Seriously, can we be friends?

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• Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film, The Dictator, is pretty much what you expected.

• The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee visited the Park Slope Food Coop, and it was amazing.

• OMG, Whoopi’s going to be on Glee.

• The New York Knicks’ Landry Fields tweets from Carnegie Deli.

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