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The upsetting answer is, I dont think you missed much, he explained.

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There was a lot of pressure on me from the channel to put out Palin.

And obviously, she did the only publicity for the show because I did zero interviews.

There was no other publicity at all for the show.

Thanks to her, people knew that the show was coming.

But ultimately, I looked at the footage and it just wasnt funny enough.

For the pieces to be good, there has to be a good comic dynamic, Cohen continued.

She was just delivering these kind of rote answers, as if she was doing a campaign speech.

And even though I sat with her I think for about two-and-a-half hours, there was no comedy gold.

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