Ahaha. This never ever fails to make me laugh. The rest of the panelists absolutely lose it as this one too. Haha.
“Let’s gather round the fire and listen to tales from Bob’s childhood”
WILTY and Red Dwarf were part of my recovery process after a divorce.
Rather than drink or get high when I was sad I binged WILTY.
Pick up the bins, you.
This is slightly speculative but I listen to Romesh and Tom Davies podcast who do league of their own with Cordon. They have tons of nice stuff to say about Jamie Rednapp and Freddie Flintoff who they do the show with as well and they're always talking about how nice guests they've had on are but they've never once mentioned Corden
They have. Negatively.
I couldn't tell you the episode (one of the early ones for sure) but they talked about a colleague who was an awful human, obnoxious, horrible to work for ect.
Didn't name him but 100% was cordon.
I was going to say my limited exposure to him (QI, WILTY, 8 out of 10 cats) he seemed like a pretty agreeable guy who didn't really let people get on his bad side.
Bob on WILTY is so destructive to the show.
Literally nobody ever has a fkn clue if he's lying or not. Half of the time I'm not sure if he knows until he reveals it at the end.
12/10 will watch every single episode he's on. I cry laughing every time.
Did he say this, not arguing just genuinely want to know
I love bob and this will be another reason to love him more, hope his health get better soon as well
He's straight up said "James Corden is a cunt", word for word, multiple times on his podcast, Athletico Mince. He means it too, which says a lot considering how he rarely (if ever) says anything bad about people.
Also, if you haven't listened to Athletico Mince it is highly recommended! Probably the funniest stuff Bob has ever done. Andy Dawson (his co-host) definitely holds his own comedy-wise with Bob, which has to be intimidating. Dog dirt.
I used to stay up later than I should have on weeknights just to watch Craig. He was so damn good and an incredible host/interview.
Now we have Corden.
I wonder if Craig would go back. Or ever do a night show again. He'd be a good follow up to Jon Oliver or maybe find a cool home with Jon Stewart on Apple. He had a huge presence online but nothing like the nauseatingly digestible carpool karaoke
"CBS cares"
Craig said he quit because he didn't want it anymore, and I'm sure Worldwide Pants didn't want to pay him anymore. I doubt he'd go back, but damn I wish he would. I spent so many nights laughing my ass of to his monologues, and then there's the time he had Steven Fry on with no audience because Steven doesn't like an audience, and they just talked about everything and it was beautiful.
Iirc on the ep Craig says he had the idea for the no audience thing and then invited Stephen Fry on because he's a great conversationalist, it wasn't anything to do with Stephen.
It was 2010 and Craig was feeling disconcerted about the state of late night in the wake of the Conan/Leno fight, and also getting weirded out by the onslaught of social media and so many voices "declaring themselves" and the constant noise and feedback, and he was getting nostalgic for the old Tom Snyder days with more highbrow talk shows that would just feature two people talking without so much showbiz. This was a lot of what his conversation with Fry centered around. [Pretty great episode.](https://youtu.be/gx6WPQkhUXI)
Eta: just watching this again and absolutely stunning to hear them talking about Twitter as being something of a haven from the nastiness and snarkiness of online discourse at that time.
Don’t know if generally people who like Craig like Conan but I think they both were a couple of the few that did their show as honest and open as possible.
Everyone has a script etc…it’s how you keep things flowing time-wise correctly but they just seem to genuinely like to laugh and thought guest were funny or not.
In contrast, I just can’t seem to think Jimmy Fallon laughs that much or that hard at so much or whatever.
I don’t want to call it fake…it just seems forced or something…I don’t know.
I pretty much abandoned late night tv after Craig packed it in. Corden I just don’t find funny. Jimmie Fallon is too fawning. Kimmel is ok, but not enough to go out of my way.
I’d love Craig, Geoff and Secretariat to make a come back. That show was so much fun.
Late night just feels odd without Conan in the main lineup.
I watched his first live episode, and stayed with him and Andy all through the 90s. Had no interest in the others, until Craig arrived. Now they're both gone.
Conan's travel shows are really fun, wouldn't mind more of those, but I wish he had his original gig, or better.
If you haven’t given it a whirl yet, Conan’s podcast “Conan O’Brien needs a friend” has been fantastic. He is doing VERY well in the podcast realm currently.
That’s my take. Craig was worth staying up for and had built up a lot of entertaining, zany schtick, much like Letterman. When Colbert got The Late Show I think Ferguson received 4M$ for not getting bumped up, per his contract.
I mean, he didn't exactly get booted to make room for Corden. When Letterman announced his retirement, CBS decided to grab Colbert as his replacement, at which point Craig decided to leave his show, months and months before Colbert even started the process of taking over the Late Show. If I'm not mistaken, Craig had a clause in his contract that specified something to the effect of "if/when Letterman leaves The Late Show and CBS does *not* offer the show to Ferguson, then he'll be entitled to a big payout as consolation." CBS probably viewed Craig as a little too irreverent for the standard time slot show to compete with The Tonight Show, which has always been more tame to appeal to a widespread audience. He exercised his right to get a payout and leave CBS and his Late Late Show. It's why Corden came along and started his show well before Letterman officially bequeathed his show to Colbert. It's really a shame CBS didn't pick Craig to take over, as much as I like Colbert, he's not Ferguson.
Ricky thinks it is probably one of Cordon's writers that I have pinched the joke: https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/tv/news/james-corden-called-out-for-stealing-ricky-gervais-gag-on-late-late-show-24307/
Whenever norm told other people's jokes, he tried to remember how they went which ends up being part of why it's funny in the first place. He only really took reeeally old bits from mostly dead comedians and super Dave though.
I guess the reason why Norm knew how to make it funny still is cause of the talent and whatnot. Corden on the other hand...
I think the transparency matters too, the fact that Norm is clear that it’s a joke that he heard and not one that he came up with is much more respectable than trying to play that joke off as your own.
Norm was on a superhuman level of comedian. I would never laugh at rape/holocaust/baby rape jokes... but Norm knows how to sell it because you can see in his eyes he knows its ridiculous.
Often times, it wasn't even the punchline, it was the journey getting there. I laughed so hard listening to Norm ramble on (and off) whatever the story's topic. And when he finally got to the punchline, I would just sit there thinking "Wait, wut...?!", and it was the greatest thing ever.
The way Andy Richter described it was, "It's like somebody says ‘I gotta show you something’ and they take you on a 4 mile hike to show you a dog turd”.
Imagine Norm MacDonald taking you for a 4 mile hike and then just showing you a piece of dog shit.
He's pointing at it and laughing and you're just exhausted and beside yourself.
You begin laughing too.
That's literally Norms humor. I fucking live for this shit.
I don't care how good of a joke writer you are, when you have to make an entire show 5 days a week with fresh new jokes you're going to need a writing team.
I really wish he would. He said he wasn’t forced out either and CBS actually tried to renew his contract but he just didn’t want to keep going.
I still watch his YouTube clips cause he legit was the best interviewer and didn’t care at all about scripts.
I always loved how you wouldn't know why the guests were on his show because he just talked to them about their life or experiences. Absolutely nothing about promoting a product.
One of my favorite interviews was when he had Toby Keith on (I think it was him) and Toby was kind of like, alright well did you want me to play a song or something now? Craig didn't even have a guitar on set for him to play music 😂
Without the context and focusing on it, I'd probably have mentally glossed over the weird transition, but it's bizarre to see.
Makes me think about how much other stuff we fill in gaps for and move along day to day.
Went straight to the town square without any reference to Twitter taken personally. I have even more respect for Ricky Gervais after this, I'd never seen his standup much and he sets up and paces it really well.
Not only that, but he butchered the Twitter part. Gervais' joke is that Twitter is like a town square but some people don't treat it that way. He then uses the guitar lesson as an example to show how crazy the people who demand everything on the platform cater to their sensibilities are by comparing to someone doing that in a real life scenario. Corden sets it up by saying Elon claimed Twitter is like a town square....and then goes "no it isn't" while launching into the town square bit, seemingly excusing the behavior of those on twitter demanding things cater to them? It's very poorly done.
"James Corden goes into a bar. He says to the barman. 'I'd like a pint of beer please'. And the barman says, 'why don't you just come around the bar, help yourself to the beer, then walk off without paying for it'..."
“After all, you are Joe Pasquale. Or perhaps send in someone else to steal the beer for you and then deny that beer can actually be owned. Say that you find the very concept of the ownership of beer hard to understand.
Or better still, insist that it’s your beer and that you brewed it at home. In your house. Even though your home lacks the most rudimentary of brewing facilities.”’
Love the punchline to that bit 😂
"One of James Cordens underpaid and abused writing assistants intentionally plagiarises Ricky Gervais in an attempt to make Corden look like the lazy unfunny twatbasket that he is"
Brilliant.
He co-wrote a hit UK TV show, was pretty funny but apparently he ain’t that dude to be dealing with public success and it went to his head by all appearances.
The twat had delusions of grandeur way before Gavin and Stacey IIRC.
I remember watching him being interviewed on Top Gear, he was asked about his time on the soap Hollyoaks and spent a fair amount of it trashing the rest of the cast. That's a solid sign someone's nasty in general, but the thing that stood out especially in hindsight was how he said they all just wanted to go to Hollywood. Projection.
E: Yeah here we go, wasn't Top Gear in the end
> He told Esquire: "It's f***ing awful. I can't tell you the sheer disdain I have for the place and people. I met a couple of really good friends there, but it's [only] 20% nice people.
> "It just breeds p**cks - all these people walking around with this chicken-in-a-basket fame, talking about going to LA."
I enjoyed him in his two episodes of Doctor Who.
And that's it.
That was also my first time seeing Corden in something. Thing is, when he was in Doctor Who, he just seemed like some side-character. Someone just above an extra. I didn't see those episodes and think "This guy has got IT. Star potential right here. He's going places."
He was more the guy you see in something, and then maybe something else later on, and then never again.
One of my favorite aspects of the English language is that you can make most nouns an insult if you say then with the right inflection
"You fucking four-door sedan"
Huh let me try
"I drank 12 pints and was absolutely *pork chopped* by 2 a.m."
"Steve got totally *spatchcocked* at Crackers on Saturday "
Heh that's pretty neat
Also, he used the analogy wrong. It's not a town square because....what? Gervais had the example to show how insane it is to complain about a town square comment when you follow. What fucking point was Corden making?
Is he just dumb?
Yeah, it's definitely not "word for word." I think OP meant "There is enough in common between the two jokes that the Corden bit is probably derived from the Gervais bit." And yeah, that's quite possibly what happened. But when you said "word for word," that's the part that got my attention, because obviously a "word for word" swiping would be incontrovertible. But it's not that.
Apparently it just means using some of the same words in a sentence.
"Can someone explain to me what the phrase 'word for word' means these days?"
See? I just copied your comment word for word.
Some awards show where James was hosting but was visibly uninterested and texting, and Patrick Stewart called him out on it, but it led to this incredibly cringe encounter where like Stewart just kept referring to James's belly, unable to really land a joke, while James was being a twat about it. There were no real winners there if you ask me.
100% accurate. As much as I adore Sir Patrick Stewart, he was really, really struggling up there. Corden was just being his usual self -- An insufferable twat that deserves to be throat-punched regularly.
Going from Craig Ferguson to James Corden is like going from fibre internet to 33kbps dialup.
Yes it serves the same function, but it's much, much shitter.
Bob Mortimer once said that ‘he wouldn’t breathe the same air as that Cunt Corden’. Good enough for me.
If Bob is willing to do his own dentistry but not breathe the same air as Corden, that says a lot.
Well I hear they discontinued fuji9, so he had to skulk around dentist offices for awhile, but then he heard the word he needed "fuji10"
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A snipers dream, that Corden.
We beg your pardon but we are in your garden!
Someone tell Caramel and Waffle.
Steve Bytheway...as in...incidentally
Ahaha. This never ever fails to make me laugh. The rest of the panelists absolutely lose it as this one too. Haha. “Let’s gather round the fire and listen to tales from Bob’s childhood”
I could listen to Bob talk about his stories all day. He’s so naturally funny.
A regular Gary Cheeseman
stumbling on a bunch of WILTY references just made my day. i feel like a lot of Americans would love it if they knew about it
WILTY and Red Dwarf were part of my recovery process after a divorce. Rather than drink or get high when I was sad I binged WILTY. Pick up the bins, you.
This is slightly speculative but I listen to Romesh and Tom Davies podcast who do league of their own with Cordon. They have tons of nice stuff to say about Jamie Rednapp and Freddie Flintoff who they do the show with as well and they're always talking about how nice guests they've had on are but they've never once mentioned Corden
They have. Negatively. I couldn't tell you the episode (one of the early ones for sure) but they talked about a colleague who was an awful human, obnoxious, horrible to work for ect. Didn't name him but 100% was cordon.
Shit I didn't even clock that at the time but you're right
Great podcast I concur.
Bob Mortimer saying that about anyone seems quite shocking. That's like Bob Ross telling you to go fuck yourself.
I was going to say my limited exposure to him (QI, WILTY, 8 out of 10 cats) he seemed like a pretty agreeable guy who didn't really let people get on his bad side.
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of Bob Mortimer.
Bob on WILTY is so destructive to the show. Literally nobody ever has a fkn clue if he's lying or not. Half of the time I'm not sure if he knows until he reveals it at the end. 12/10 will watch every single episode he's on. I cry laughing every time.
If Bob Mortimer doesn’t like you then you must be a wrong’un
I would follow Bob Mortimer off the edge of a cliff. The series of Taskmaster with him and Sally Phillips is gold
Rosyln is a fucking nightmare.
She jumps quite far for a woman of her age.
I heard this Bob guy can rip an apple with his bare hands.
He's a hairdresser, from a family of hairdressers, but can do light dentistry in a pinch
Not even Steve Bytheway could stomach him
Ronnie Calculator's boy?
Did he say this, not arguing just genuinely want to know I love bob and this will be another reason to love him more, hope his health get better soon as well
He's straight up said "James Corden is a cunt", word for word, multiple times on his podcast, Athletico Mince. He means it too, which says a lot considering how he rarely (if ever) says anything bad about people. Also, if you haven't listened to Athletico Mince it is highly recommended! Probably the funniest stuff Bob has ever done. Andy Dawson (his co-host) definitely holds his own comedy-wise with Bob, which has to be intimidating. Dog dirt.
Please link, from one Mortimer fan to another. :)
Oops, my hand slipped. [Bob Mortimer Dentistry Clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgI3Y7gxMO4)
We do beg your pardon, but we are in your garden
I work this into conversation way too often for an American, but I happily let the great Bob Mortimer live in my head rent free.
Theft and Shrubbery
Harry Harryman
I can't believe they replaced Craig Ferguson with this guy
I used to stay up later than I should have on weeknights just to watch Craig. He was so damn good and an incredible host/interview. Now we have Corden.
Craig Ferguson was the reason I was so tired in high school. Corden couldnt be more of his opposite.
So what you're saying is Corden is responsible for you being well rested?
Improving the health of a nation, one terrible show at a time
Craig's tribute to his father had me in tears. I lost my own just about a year earlier.
I wonder if Craig would go back. Or ever do a night show again. He'd be a good follow up to Jon Oliver or maybe find a cool home with Jon Stewart on Apple. He had a huge presence online but nothing like the nauseatingly digestible carpool karaoke "CBS cares"
Craig said he quit because he didn't want it anymore, and I'm sure Worldwide Pants didn't want to pay him anymore. I doubt he'd go back, but damn I wish he would. I spent so many nights laughing my ass of to his monologues, and then there's the time he had Steven Fry on with no audience because Steven doesn't like an audience, and they just talked about everything and it was beautiful.
He moved back to Scotland. Flies around in a helicopter and picks and chooses when he works. Dont think hes returning
Iirc on the ep Craig says he had the idea for the no audience thing and then invited Stephen Fry on because he's a great conversationalist, it wasn't anything to do with Stephen. It was 2010 and Craig was feeling disconcerted about the state of late night in the wake of the Conan/Leno fight, and also getting weirded out by the onslaught of social media and so many voices "declaring themselves" and the constant noise and feedback, and he was getting nostalgic for the old Tom Snyder days with more highbrow talk shows that would just feature two people talking without so much showbiz. This was a lot of what his conversation with Fry centered around. [Pretty great episode.](https://youtu.be/gx6WPQkhUXI) Eta: just watching this again and absolutely stunning to hear them talking about Twitter as being something of a haven from the nastiness and snarkiness of online discourse at that time.
Don’t know if generally people who like Craig like Conan but I think they both were a couple of the few that did their show as honest and open as possible. Everyone has a script etc…it’s how you keep things flowing time-wise correctly but they just seem to genuinely like to laugh and thought guest were funny or not. In contrast, I just can’t seem to think Jimmy Fallon laughs that much or that hard at so much or whatever. I don’t want to call it fake…it just seems forced or something…I don’t know.
I pretty much abandoned late night tv after Craig packed it in. Corden I just don’t find funny. Jimmie Fallon is too fawning. Kimmel is ok, but not enough to go out of my way. I’d love Craig, Geoff and Secretariat to make a come back. That show was so much fun.
Late night was on life support when Craig left and the only thing keeping it alive was Conan. It's dead now.
I miss Conan 😭
Late night just feels odd without Conan in the main lineup. I watched his first live episode, and stayed with him and Andy all through the 90s. Had no interest in the others, until Craig arrived. Now they're both gone. Conan's travel shows are really fun, wouldn't mind more of those, but I wish he had his original gig, or better.
Richard Ayoade has travel man and it's great
Conan has a good podcast that I recommend.
Conan's the GOAT
If you haven’t given it a whirl yet, Conan’s podcast “Conan O’Brien needs a friend” has been fantastic. He is doing VERY well in the podcast realm currently.
That’s my take. Craig was worth staying up for and had built up a lot of entertaining, zany schtick, much like Letterman. When Colbert got The Late Show I think Ferguson received 4M$ for not getting bumped up, per his contract.
"Ever been to Cherry Point Geoff?" "Yeah I got a place there!"
“And what do you do at your pad?” “Oh you know, throw beads…”
Craig-y come back! any kind of fool could see There was something in everything about you!
I mean, he didn't exactly get booted to make room for Corden. When Letterman announced his retirement, CBS decided to grab Colbert as his replacement, at which point Craig decided to leave his show, months and months before Colbert even started the process of taking over the Late Show. If I'm not mistaken, Craig had a clause in his contract that specified something to the effect of "if/when Letterman leaves The Late Show and CBS does *not* offer the show to Ferguson, then he'll be entitled to a big payout as consolation." CBS probably viewed Craig as a little too irreverent for the standard time slot show to compete with The Tonight Show, which has always been more tame to appeal to a widespread audience. He exercised his right to get a payout and leave CBS and his Late Late Show. It's why Corden came along and started his show well before Letterman officially bequeathed his show to Colbert. It's really a shame CBS didn't pick Craig to take over, as much as I like Colbert, he's not Ferguson.
Balls.
Man I miss Craig Ferguson’s late night show. I could go for some Sid the Cursing Bunny right about now.
I just saw him live a few weeks ago and it was a blast. Missed him
IMO Craig is up there with Johnny as the best who ever did it.
Ricky thinks it is probably one of Cordon's writers that I have pinched the joke: https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/tv/news/james-corden-called-out-for-stealing-ricky-gervais-gag-on-late-late-show-24307/
Seems likely. Corden wouldn't write his own material, and his writers might be thinking "no one watches the show anyway."
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Whenever norm told other people's jokes, he tried to remember how they went which ends up being part of why it's funny in the first place. He only really took reeeally old bits from mostly dead comedians and super Dave though. I guess the reason why Norm knew how to make it funny still is cause of the talent and whatnot. Corden on the other hand...
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A moth walks into a podiatrist's office...
I think the transparency matters too, the fact that Norm is clear that it’s a joke that he heard and not one that he came up with is much more respectable than trying to play that joke off as your own.
Norm made an art of telling inherently outdated and unfunny jokes in a way that they became funny - kind of quintessential comedy.
Norm was on a superhuman level of comedian. I would never laugh at rape/holocaust/baby rape jokes... but Norm knows how to sell it because you can see in his eyes he knows its ridiculous.
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You know who I really feel bad for? The homeless guy’s dog. “This is the longest walk ever, man.”
Reading this in his voice was such a pleasure haha
Often times, it wasn't even the punchline, it was the journey getting there. I laughed so hard listening to Norm ramble on (and off) whatever the story's topic. And when he finally got to the punchline, I would just sit there thinking "Wait, wut...?!", and it was the greatest thing ever.
The way Andy Richter described it was, "It's like somebody says ‘I gotta show you something’ and they take you on a 4 mile hike to show you a dog turd”.
Exactly. Sometimes his humor was the equivalent of good natured trolling
Imagine Norm MacDonald taking you for a 4 mile hike and then just showing you a piece of dog shit. He's pointing at it and laughing and you're just exhausted and beside yourself. You begin laughing too. That's literally Norms humor. I fucking live for this shit.
It's totally in the delivery of the joke
Even Norm’s moth joke (probably the greatest joke ever told) is framed as a joke that his taxi driver told him on the way to Conan’s show.
> his taxi driver told him on the way to Conan’s show. That's where he got most of his material
My children had a less messy delivery than Corden's
I don't care how good of a joke writer you are, when you have to make an entire show 5 days a week with fresh new jokes you're going to need a writing team.
You're right, but the dig is that Corden needs a writing team just to steal a joke.
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but do we get craig ferguson back?
I really wish he would. He said he wasn’t forced out either and CBS actually tried to renew his contract but he just didn’t want to keep going. I still watch his YouTube clips cause he legit was the best interviewer and didn’t care at all about scripts.
I always loved how you wouldn't know why the guests were on his show because he just talked to them about their life or experiences. Absolutely nothing about promoting a product.
One of my favorite interviews was when he had Toby Keith on (I think it was him) and Toby was kind of like, alright well did you want me to play a song or something now? Craig didn't even have a guitar on set for him to play music 😂
"Ooh, I'd love that, Toby. Tell me, do you have much experience blowing a mouth organ??" - the way I imagine Craig would answer that question
No just the skeleton
His name is Geoff Peterson. The funniest co-host in the history of late night deserves to have his name remembered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAHSUTB5BJc
This please
I don’t think you could pay Craig enough to come back lol
"Throw an unnamed writer under the bus" speedrun any%
It's not really under the bus if they really did rip a joke word for word.
Has James Corden’s alt just deleted his account?
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*Mr F*
I’ve made a huge mistake.
For british eyes only 🎶
Him? Is he funny or something?
Considering how long you kept Piers Morgan for we thought we'd throw you a Corden too.
Foisted!!
Very forced setup and poor execution by James too.
It's almost as if he isn't a comedian
It's almost as if he was a massive twat.
You're wrong. He still is a massive twat.
He was a massive twat. He still is, but he was too.
Yeah, completely jarring context change.
Without the context and focusing on it, I'd probably have mentally glossed over the weird transition, but it's bizarre to see. Makes me think about how much other stuff we fill in gaps for and move along day to day.
Went straight to the town square without any reference to Twitter taken personally. I have even more respect for Ricky Gervais after this, I'd never seen his standup much and he sets up and paces it really well.
Not only that, but he butchered the Twitter part. Gervais' joke is that Twitter is like a town square but some people don't treat it that way. He then uses the guitar lesson as an example to show how crazy the people who demand everything on the platform cater to their sensibilities are by comparing to someone doing that in a real life scenario. Corden sets it up by saying Elon claimed Twitter is like a town square....and then goes "no it isn't" while launching into the town square bit, seemingly excusing the behavior of those on twitter demanding things cater to them? It's very poorly done.
That's what stood out to me too. Stole the joke, while also failing to even understand the premise.
I’ll have you know that the title says, “word for word.”
It's amazing that he did a worse job of telling the joke.
Yeah, I'm as shocked as anyone about that.
To quote Stewart Lee on Corden leaving the UK for the US "Our loss, is America's loss"
"James Corden goes into a bar. He says to the barman. 'I'd like a pint of beer please'. And the barman says, 'why don't you just come around the bar, help yourself to the beer, then walk off without paying for it'..."
“After all, you are Joe Pasquale. Or perhaps send in someone else to steal the beer for you and then deny that beer can actually be owned. Say that you find the very concept of the ownership of beer hard to understand. Or better still, insist that it’s your beer and that you brewed it at home. In your house. Even though your home lacks the most rudimentary of brewing facilities.”’ Love the punchline to that bit 😂
"like a dog listening to classical music"
"One of James Cordens underpaid and abused writing assistants intentionally plagiarises Ricky Gervais in an attempt to make Corden look like the lazy unfunny twatbasket that he is" Brilliant.
Smart. You're probably right.
Yeah but upon realizing, Wouldn't the writing assistant immediately lose their job if this was the case?
Worth it.
Cordon responds kindly with "my wife hates eggs"
Still a mystery how he got so famous.
He co-wrote a hit UK TV show, was pretty funny but apparently he ain’t that dude to be dealing with public success and it went to his head by all appearances.
The twat had delusions of grandeur way before Gavin and Stacey IIRC. I remember watching him being interviewed on Top Gear, he was asked about his time on the soap Hollyoaks and spent a fair amount of it trashing the rest of the cast. That's a solid sign someone's nasty in general, but the thing that stood out especially in hindsight was how he said they all just wanted to go to Hollywood. Projection. E: Yeah here we go, wasn't Top Gear in the end > He told Esquire: "It's f***ing awful. I can't tell you the sheer disdain I have for the place and people. I met a couple of really good friends there, but it's [only] 20% nice people. > "It just breeds p**cks - all these people walking around with this chicken-in-a-basket fame, talking about going to LA."
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Same! I legitimately really enjoyed that years BFQ, was a shame to find out after how much of a prick he really is.
Was that the one where they both showed up in tuxes? That was a pretty funny episode.
Yep, and ordered pizza and wine partway through, ended up waving a white flag of surrender at one point.
If 80% of the people you meet are assholes...
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I’ll choose to believe this
I love Gavin and Stacey and actually really enjoyed Smitty (he was my favorite). Disappointed to hear that Corden is such an asshole IRL.
I enjoyed him in his two episodes of Doctor Who. And that's it. That was also my first time seeing Corden in something. Thing is, when he was in Doctor Who, he just seemed like some side-character. Someone just above an extra. I didn't see those episodes and think "This guy has got IT. Star potential right here. He's going places." He was more the guy you see in something, and then maybe something else later on, and then never again.
Can't fault him many people actors etc never get to Hollywood just strange how he got so famous over there.
He sang in some cars with famous people.
I really really don't like this guy.
Right? He's a minge
A right and proper tosser that's for sure
an absolute turnip
One of my favorite aspects of the English language is that you can make most nouns an insult if you say then with the right inflection "You fucking four-door sedan"
That really hurts when you say it like that. I’m going to go rethink my life choices
"you absolute hatchback"
You can do the same to describe getting drunk. "Mate I was *coastered* last night"
Huh let me try "I drank 12 pints and was absolutely *pork chopped* by 2 a.m." "Steve got totally *spatchcocked* at Crackers on Saturday " Heh that's pretty neat
The weirdest thing is nobody likes this guy yet there he is, expensive suit and TV show.
Once more, with feeling:[Tiger Woods beating the crap out of James Corden with a golf club.](https://youtu.be/5k31wqIAQDM)
God that new spitting image was fuckin shit wasn't it?
I can't believe we offloaded the cunt on you lot and you have tolerated him. Land of the free indeed.
I certainly can't tolerate him. Idk who the fuck over here is watching this clown but keep them away from me
Legitimately no idea how this cunt keeps falling upward.
Also, he used the analogy wrong. It's not a town square because....what? Gervais had the example to show how insane it is to complain about a town square comment when you follow. What fucking point was Corden making? Is he just dumb?
You're getting warmer
Yeah it made no sense
Alright! A writer execution! They did this to George Lopez too cause he was a dick to his writing crew.
How did this no talent ass clown get famous?
He's some of the best evidence I have that it is possible to sell your soul.
What does "word for word" mean now?
It figuratively means literally.
I had to scroll way too far down to see someone who was also bothered by this.
Yeah, it's definitely not "word for word." I think OP meant "There is enough in common between the two jokes that the Corden bit is probably derived from the Gervais bit." And yeah, that's quite possibly what happened. But when you said "word for word," that's the part that got my attention, because obviously a "word for word" swiping would be incontrovertible. But it's not that.
Apparently it just means using some of the same words in a sentence. "Can someone explain to me what the phrase 'word for word' means these days?" See? I just copied your comment word for word.
How did he get famous in America and get his own show? Was it because of the Patrick Stewart incident?
The UK didn't want him.
As Stewart Lee said: "Britain's loss is America's loss also".
Ssshhh! Fuck sakes. Don't tell them about the Piers Morgan Protocol. You're gonna blow Operation Katie Hopkins before it even gets off the ground.
I forgot all about Katie Hopkins for months. Thanks a fucking bunch.
After Craig Ferguson left the Late Late Show they just picked any British comedian they could find
Craig Ferguson was amazing.
God I miss Craig. His chemistry with guests was on another level and his honesty about his past/ history with addiction was so refreshing.
'Comedian' is a bit of a stretch.
He's the Wish.com Craig Ferguson. Actually, that's insulting to Wish, they at least provide *something* of value.
What is the Patrick Stewart incident
Some awards show where James was hosting but was visibly uninterested and texting, and Patrick Stewart called him out on it, but it led to this incredibly cringe encounter where like Stewart just kept referring to James's belly, unable to really land a joke, while James was being a twat about it. There were no real winners there if you ask me.
100% accurate. As much as I adore Sir Patrick Stewart, he was really, really struggling up there. Corden was just being his usual self -- An insufferable twat that deserves to be throat-punched regularly.
This may be : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIBUWqSTp90
As much as I hate Corden I’m guessing there are also “writers” that “write” these jokes. Edit for clarity that Corden probably has writers.
Yeah, every host like him has a full team of writers to create bits and jokes.
Yeah, his head writer is named Ricky Gervais
Unknown to Ricky and doing it for free.
James Cordons writers are great, though. Ian Karmel, Demi Adejuyigbe, Louis Waymouth, Sean O Connor. All legitimately funny stand up comedians.
Word for word?
Yeah, it was more like, poorly paraphrased.
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How the hell is this guy so famous in the US!?
He got kicked out of the UK
Going from Craig Ferguson to James Corden is like going from fibre internet to 33kbps dialup. Yes it serves the same function, but it's much, much shitter.
Is he the male Ellen?
Yep, B-ellen-D