James Corden Talks Life After The Late Late Show and Being Approached in London

James Corden talks about his life after leaving the The Late Late Show, the familiarity of his work for people in the U.K. and being approached by Gavin & Stacey fans.
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[@bubblesezblonde]

"There was talk of gerbils"

[@murdermatics]

Clicking on a clip of James Corden feels like morbid curiosity.

[@Trigger200284]

LOL, i agree.

[@TheDayisMineTrebeck]

Lol because he's the bloated corpse of Hollywood.

[@vooveks]

Morbidly obese curiosity.

[@emu314159]

Yeah. Why does Seth love him so much? News at 11

[@murdermatics]

It's one of those obligatory famous people friendships.

[@raymondm.9954]

Seth has a legion of fans dependent on A Closer Look.

[@BlunderDownUnder]

I'm more of a correction Jackal myself...

[@bluelion1995]

The late late show was a morning show in Britain…

[@carina9295]

not on RTE - Corden even stole the marquee

[@frankdemascio4808]

Graham Norton is the OG of late night and can’t be beaten

[@Viviorkogaming]

Last Week Tonight

[@jesseamadeus5351]

I agree last week tonight is the GOAT, that aside Graham is only the OG in the UK. Ask 100 ppl in the states who Graham Norton is and maybe 5 will know the correct answer.

[@elliotbrent]

John Oliver is the Goat 🎉

[@frankdemascio4808]

@@elliotbrent yes I agree but Norton is great and I love his couch

[@WooBino.]

LOL. Carson by a mile.

[@lesliemccutcheon2016]

Are guests on strike now?

[@alexandermonday4196]

Such a good comment, you glorious smartass!

[@pjforde1978]

The difference between Seth and James is that I would invite Seth to come stay with my family but I wouldn't ask James for help if I was on fire.

[@blahblah4129]

LOL

[@Viviorkogaming]

Seth and the rest of us wouldn’t help you either.

[@mddupont]

Agreed

[@rachel_rexxx]

He misbehaved, we collectively dragged him so hard he left his show, the question is 'Did he learn anything?'

[@Glitch_in_the_Matrix]

Why the hell did Seth's overlords invite this terrible human for self promotion?

[@guksack]

Say what you like about James Corden, but Gavin and Stacey is one of the best comedy shows ever made. I will die on this hill!

[@ser9656]

Agree.

[@MrHarbonaut]

Why doesn't he mention that a lot of UK people are aware of his recent work through Limmy?

[@michaelrmurphy2734]

Limmy is an app for UK TV?

[@RHTeebs]

He's a Scottish comedian.​@@michaelrmurphy2734

[@honestempire]

@@michaelrmurphy2734 Aye

[@itsallreal]

RIP Benny Harvey, never forget ya pal.

[@Yanni75]

0:58 Anyone else reminded of Barbie in that scene at the end of 'Dance The Night Away'?

[@burtbackattack]

Just when we thought we’d seen the last of him...😩

[@makatron]

It's like relapsing into a worst nightmare.

[@alexhaynes7220]

James is so good nice friendly man and great actor and singer I don’t get and understand and no how and why he gets hate and backlash

[@leilaniaileenlove]

Did Seth just say at the end, "We'll be right back with Dave"...?

[@waltmccarthy9837]

He did lol

[@JillWhitcomb1966]

I first saw James Cordon on a British TV show called 'Fat Friends' (2000-2005). James played a binge eating teenager who was bullied a lot at school, and growing up with a depressed divorced Mom. The 'Fat Friends' storyline centers around a group of overweight people attending Weight Watchers-type of meetings and their friendships. For those of us who have ever been bullied due to our weight or body shape, the show was very relatable.

[@LineCad]

Very good show indeed. James did a good job in it too.

[@carina9295]

So “My Big Fat Diary” with Jodie Comer was a ripoff?

[@Leblribrbrrq]

I've known him The Wrong Mens and that one story from Doctor Who …

[@MoneyGist]

One story? I do believe he was in 2 episodes.

[@Leblribrbrrq]

@@MoneyGist Indeed! My comment was more about him having “only” a guest role and not being a companion, the doctor himself or other characters that stay for a whole season. And for two appearances (and another one in a DVD special), I remember his character more than others, especially considering it's over ten years now.

[@MoneyGist]

@@Leblribrbrrq True. Those episodes are old anyway. I remember stumbling on a very young Daniel Kaluuya in one episode and I had to remind myself where I'd seen him before.

[@MoneyGist]

Gavin & Stacey was the first place I ever saw James Corden. Then in Doctor Who. And I'm not British.

[@billwheeler1213]

Dr Who, and his character was great!

[@sophiaestella5611]

Love Ruth Jones as Ness... A strong, proud, and fiercely independent woman

[@cezarblack13]

#BothAreGreatok❤❤❤

[@justayoutuber1906]

He and Ellen should do a podcast together where they are just mean to employees

[@theprecipiceofreason]

And both also terrible dancers

[@yamahkogribbis6212]

I might watch that. Sounds fresh.

[@burnyizland]

@@theprecipiceofreasonTerrible actors too.

[@peterbathum2775]

rofl

[@Will-nn3pb]

and the employees are paid more then E and J

[@bsquared4604]

I wonder if he knew he stepped in it when he started talking about being in a restaurant.

[@MultiLiamryan]

As a uk man growing up watching him……American made him INCREDIBLY sus….in England, we call that ‘gay’ 😂

[@stingray1irwin0]

Good lord man, take the hint and move on

[@Dagwood5]

James' hair plugs are stellar.

[@tjfreno69]

I loved Gavin and Stacey ❤

[@MaserXIV]

Huh. That's unexpected.

[@Dog_gone_it]

James is good at pretending to be nice 😅

[@roscoemuttley]

I felt the phoniness more than a Jimmy Fallon intro.

[@lukemcdo]

@@roscoemuttley The thing about a phony Fallon intro is it doesn't feel like something being done to you, just with you in an unpleasant way. Corden feels like it's flying at your face. People want to duck.

[@salyol7]

He had some good guests on his show his podcast sounds great.

[@shuddupeyaface]

He likes boy bands and and mimics more talented people badly. What a talent! Plz keep him.

[@LennonZA]

0:28 >>> somebody call Limmy

[@SkyNeely]

Is saw a report that said James ended his show instead of taking a pay cut. That his show was spending too much money to make it profitable and pay the staff/crew. Does anyone know how much of that is true?

[@bettersecret1499]

Absolutely false

[@user-er3lt1cp8p]

I’d believe it. Head of Late Night Programming Nick Bernstein would be at the show and would do ridiculous stuff but you could tell in the honest bits he was telling Corden to accept the offer but Corden was still negotiating

[@user-er3lt1cp8p]

Corden was pulling about 6 mill a year, more than Seth who is getting shot 5, Jimmy and Colbert getting about $15 mil

[@ernie316]

UK "you took him, you can keep the cant "

[@hrmmmmmm]

Oh James, there's a reason that everyone IN A RESTAURANT looks at you with disdain.

[@115online]

what's the reason? He did a great on his show. It was watched a lot more than his predecessor

[@hrmmmmmm]

@@115online it’s because he famously mistreats restaurant staff

[@lowellthomson1958]

Seems kind of contemptible that people simply believe three stories about someone being publicly rude or acting privileged and assume that's all there is to a person, as if a minuscule number of examples compared to their day to day public exposure is a condemnation of all they are as a person. Perhaps people should give other people the benefit of the doubt, instead of being such callous cynics, particularly when they've repeatedly apologized.

[@dceplay]

Those people want so badly to cast the first stone...

[@yelloweyes1237]

James' talk show was one of my favorites. I hope he is doing well

[@amynolan3630]

Love Gavin and Stacey

[@orijimi]

If I went to a taping of Seth's show not knowing that this was gonna be a guest... Man, what a disappointing experience that'd be.

[@squishyshelli]

Exactly what I was thinking! And two segments of it. Yuck.

[@JM-zo5me]

1000%

[@Leah-vb3ud]

nah i was there it was pretty fun evem though james was annoying

[@mikelarson7856]

who?

[@fornitegood122jr6]

James

[@fornitegood122jr6]

James corden from England and now America

[@abbysomnia624]

I loved Gavin and Stacey! And I miss seeing James and his crew every day. Glad he's back for a sec

[@famousgoldentouch]

I miss their talk and jokes during the monologue too 😔

[@fornitegood122jr6]

​@@famousgoldentouchsure is

[@sorkinfanatic]

Gavin and Stacey really is a great show!

[@vooveks]

Funny - Seth always comes across as genuinely nice, and he clearly likes Corden, but it does make you realise what a different world these people live in. If Seth wasn’t who he is, and just some random person, say, a member of the crew, Corden would be completely awful to him. Seth must have heard about what he’s like to ‘ordinary’ people - guess it’s a case of ‘well, he’s always been pleasant to me’. But we all know the truth.

[@GodsMemeTV]

0:26 - the way he moves IMAO 😂 did he join the rainbow community?

[@levent.a.7280]

Gays don't walk like that, the majority of gay men are much manlier and more masculine than "hetero" men.

[@meme-tg6hr]

Best interview of the rounds James had made.

[@israel_started_it_ALL_in_1948]

wow

[@ninaschultz6922]

I LOVE JAMES CORDEN ❤❤❤ James is the best, and I was wondering where the heck he's been. Thank you for this talk 🎉🎉🎉

[@fornitegood122jr6]

Craig ferguson is really happy too see you

[@ZaulMJ04]

Get your show back James

[@welcomestranger]

A lot of people hate/hated Corden, but I really enjoyed The Late Late Show, and I really think it came into its own during COVID when he went back into the studio without the audience and made his entire production team part of the show.

[@user-er3lt1cp8p]

I enjoyed it too but that was his lifeboat. There’s a classic clip where Kimmel plays a game with Corden and asks him to name one of diss cameramen, which he couldn’t

[@user-er3lt1cp8p]

And he was just a mean little shet, Reggie Watts was underutilized so he would completely check out and James would randomly ask Reggie what he thought and Reggie always had a save. Corden was being an ass

[@jasonoliveira2149]

I LOVE the self awareness of this show nowadays. So much better than a buttoned-up, hour long teleprompter reading.

[@dianehartung5954]

I miss his SINGING IN THE CAR AND ON THE STREETS!!!!

[@MrFunkinPure]

America. Please don’t send him back. Ever.

[@johnbauman4168]

The interview that no one asked for

[@Succubusisis]

It's like when Colbert interviewed Jada Pinkett Smith

[@murdermatics]

"How much time do you have?" 🤣 "I haven't been doing anything." 🤣 Must be nice to fail upwards so hard. I need a little of that.

[@Luckichiaralucianna]

I find James hilarious always have

[@ohotnitza]

I miss the chaos of cordens show. It was so fun watching him and the crew doing crazy things every night

[@vooveks]

The crew that he couldn't name a single one of.

[@somefreshbread]

before or after he tried to cut their pay?

[@MrDLW2010]

Came here just to say. James Corden is the worst. I had a great dinner once sitting next to his assistant and I heard all of the goss, he really is the worst.

[@TheAccidentalViking]

James Corden shows up on Jimmy and Seth and says he's going to be on Stephen. Trying so hard. NOBODY does this and is such a sign of desperation. James is NOT Graham Norton and nor will he ever be. His reputation is going to take much more than this to overcome. He literally advocated for lower wages for writers. Nope nope nope.

[@bettersecret1499]

Literally everyone who hasn't an exclusivity contract with a talk show does this when their work comes out

[@TheAccidentalViking]

@@bettersecret1499 No, they pick one late show. Doing more than one makes you look desperate. But his new project is a subscription only podcast, so I guess he is.

[@Gandrewjm]

​@@TheAccidentalVikingso you're not aware of people making the rounds on ALL the major talk shows to promote upcoming projects?

[@TheAccidentalViking]

@@Gandrewjm only the desperate ones. Usually there are more people to send around the other late night shows, co stars and the like. But maybe no one else wants to be or is ssociated with his project?

[@Gandrewjm]

@@TheAccidentalViking Stop pushing your agenda. Any celebrity with an upcoming project does the major talk show rounds, it's nothing to do with desperation and it's all about advertising. Appearances on the more popular talk shows are coveted and if Corden was able to appear on all the top shows then that's a big win for him.

[@blackbird5634]

Good gawd what IF James had time to contemplate his decisions in life?!🤣That really would be ''a dark place!"😅

[@annmc3878]

I liked James on Gavin and Stacy. I hope he does more things with Ruth Jones as she is awesome.

[@withershin]

Corden on Seth... give Jimmy 2:29. No sorry bailing at 0:46. GenX dies hard. We even die harder. We even die the hardest but stop at the third movie.

[@kinderliving1]

I love James Corden!

[@aidanphillips9337]

OMG me too.

[@JeffLouis-dv4em]

Irenes mother the real elephant 😮

[@tabaxikhajit4541]

Love you Corden! I'll be watching for your future work. America loves you, and even if you go overseas, there will always be One More Day.

[@noahlevin11]

You gotta do it, Seth!

[@reymondlopez7468]

You can really tell a lot of his character when he immediately brags about what other talk shows he’s going to do right out of the gate debatably the most despised person on late night due to his horrible attitude in real life

[@harryfranklin1263]

I think your previous dislike of him is causing you to negatively interpret completely harmless statements. He was clearly just making a joke pretending to be staging interventions for each of the remaining talk show hosts. Most people with new shows to promote go on several shows; it's not really a huge flex

[@katecosettevocals]

oh my goshhhh him talking to the crowd made this feel like what he used to do those last few years of LLS 🥰🥰 miss that show so much and lmao love that he somehow found way to bring chaos in here, and somewhere in the world even though he's not involved I'm sure Nick Bernstein is not happy about it 😆

[@andrewmerida2114]

Come on, seth you and the producers knew what this comment section would look like. Corden is the worst and y’all should’ve expected this

[@jakelesnake]

What a travesty to have been reminded James Corden still exists

[@levent.a.7280]

Not for long, no one wants him , he is mean ,extremely rude and untalented.

[@meme-tg6hr]

Love Graham Norton show and miss James Cordem show.

[@LarryPerone-fo4dr]

Nasty weekend affairs everybody knows

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Well i did make it to NYC

[@sharonsmith1822]

Don't listen to James! We need you every night!! 😅❤

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Appreciate billy poolrter episode and paul mccartney involvement to seperare legit things for non legit.

[@Succubusisis]

Two segments for this dude and Seth had to rush through A Closer Look at the News Industry collapsing, booo! How many other late night shows is he going to shoe horn in this week?

[@fotogeanick]

Very DiSAPPOINTING . 1 star review indeed.

[@crstfrdrnt]

Shady shady Seth setting James up asking him about people approaching him. That's why he's my favorite!

[@monero892]

Please take him back, we don’t want him

[@makatron]

Our lives for sure improved once he left the show.

[@oskymoron]

i cant get over the fact that he nowhas a 12 yr old??? Woah

[@ser9656]

I enjoy the British show Gavin & Stacey a lot. For that reason I can’t watch James do anything else because of find him rather annoying.

[@woofdog1525]

Let me get this right He’s doing the rounds on different US talk shows talking about himself quitting his own talkshow..it’s been less than 6 months James isn’t liked in the UK at all by the British people..he’s not funny & is a massive narcissist

[@nohpleft]

You don't need to invite guests that brag about going to all these other talkshows... He should just go there then.

[@burkemd]

Correction: Don't watch anything by James Corden.

[@artworx12]

Hell no, he's gone and he ain't coming back 😡

[@fornitegood122jr6]

Well he was gone and he's back

[@artworx12]

@@fornitegood122jr6 can't wait to hear "the podcast" 😂.

[@AnnieWarbux]

❤ James 🤗

[@c1nn4m0ng1rl]

love james

[@laluna5177]

So, do people in the Uk only hate him 'cause he was successful?

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

Well- theres maybe four people i dont want to disappoint one being the former queen

[@cezarblack13]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@aidanphillips9337]

I love James Corden, just like I love marmite. 😊😋

[@fornitegood122jr6]

He's back yes craig ferguson will be proud of you

[@francescaa8331]

Nice to see you again, James. I miss those crazy post pandemic shows, with your crew and band.

[@Phil34373]

Poor Seth

[@compuservermaster2063]

I got a rule, if you product, service or brand shows with James Orden I just don't purchase it, many people feel the same.

[@thepiratepenguin_]

I can only assume when James Corden gets approached in London it’s because the alternative is to walk head on into traffic.

[@HometownUnicorn]

Funny how these messages are getting filtered out just so James Corden doesn't realise everyone he meets despises him. Deep down he does. That's why he's such an the way he is

[@edfleming9600]

Really?

[@makatron]

He was the living proof that you don't really need real talent to succeed in show business.

[@borandiUK]

All my comments have been deleted.

[@cmasterson]

@@borandiUKonly 20/72 comments are showing. Smh yeah they are hiding 2/3+ comments

[@patbyrnes3825]

I never liked him.

[@BlackCatAlley23]

It is a shame to see Seth talking with James 😢

[@fraac]

Everyone loves James Corden

[@paulnolan4971]

😁

[@aidanphillips9337]

I love James Corden but people are toxic sometimes. 😊

[@a-dezzz]

Not this clown😂

[@naylas3908]

The lovely James! We miss your carpool karaoke!

[@williamkittler]

Oh look, it’s the James Cordon apology tour.

[@lesliemccutcheon2016]

Yes, we in the UK know all about James Cordon. Unfortunately.

[@michaelrmurphy2734]

I've come to realize with all these talk shows, you really have to care about and be on top of pop culture. For me, so much of it is "who?" "Never heard of them". Movies I don't see, music I don't hear, books I don't read. Good for the hosts and writers and staff that they are enthused about it, but for me its enh, whatever.

[@silverXnoise]

Glad you felt the need to share.

[@jred5153]

“If you're a cheap tipper, by the way, or rude to your server, you are dead to me. You are lower than whale feces.” -Anthony Bourdain