James Corden will be 86’d from The Late Late Show on April 27
Will Ferrell and Harry Styles will help The Late Late Show transition to the late Late Late Show on April 27
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After eight years of “Carpool Karaoke,” James Corden is finally leaving his post at The Late Late Show. On April 27, joined by his friends Harry Styles, Will Ferrell, and the millions of Balthazar haters watching at home, Corden will help The Late Late Show shuffle off this mortal coil to make way for a reboot of @midnight. But the real feather in Corden’s cap is that he locked a pre-taped “over-the-top” Lion King sketch with Tom Cruise for the final episode. Seeing the gruesome twosome of Cruise and Corden in their Timon and Pumba costumes really must’ve rankled Kimmel.
Styles is an old hat at The Late Late Show, having been a guest since 2015 when he appeared with One Direction, which will not be reuniting for the show. And now, just eight short years later, he’ll be forced to withstand tired barbs about spitting on Chris Pine. And for no reason at all, it’s an excellent time to remind everyone that we only get one life. Will Ferrell, too, has graced the Late Late couch numerous times, appearing as recently as 2020. Unfortunately, there are no plans, thus far, to invite Balthazar owner Keith McNally, so Corden can show him how to make a proper egg yolk omelet.
Of course, we’ll never have to go far to find Corden or his automobile-based singing show. As a pre-show to the final episode, CBS is running The Last Last Late Late Show With James Corden Carpool Karaoke Special—not to mention another season of the spin-0ff coming to Apple TV+ to sate fans of Bryan Cox singing the Spice Girls. There will also be a final “Crosswalk The Musical” performance, meaning that Corden will, once again, thrust his crotch to the honks of disgruntled motorists, as he did for that Cinderella movie that everyone loves and remembers. One can only imagine how much road rage Corden’s instigated during his time on CBS.
The Last Last Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke Special airs on CBS on April 27 at 10 p.m., with the last last Late Late Show airing at its regular time of 12:37 a.m.
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Whoever designed that set did a great job of accentuating James Corden’s fat stupid head.
Could that desk be any tinier?
Funny you say that – I took the NBC tour in the late 2000’s and saw Conan O’Brien’s Late Night studio while it wasn’t in use. For a man that’s almost 6 and a half feet tall, he had the tiniest desk I had ever seen. I guess that’s a thing for talk shows on after midnight.
In that pic it looks like he’s sitting behind a wooden bathtub.
Weird that Last Call with Carson Daly aired for 17 years.
Even weirder was the show it became – in the last few years, it changed from a standard late night format to a show where Daly was doing remote wraparounds at locations across NYC that set up pre-taped, edited profiles of emerging/lesser known artists and performers. A bizarre show, but you knew immediately why it was still running: it plainly cost almost nothing to produce, while Daly (and the crew) got to keep a steady paycheck going for a little while longer.
Andrew “King Of The Green Screen” Zimmern still proudly carries on that legacy.
I enjoyed that later version a lot more. It wasn’t something I’d regularly watch, but when I would catch some of it they were usually profiling some indie band or another that I ended up really liking.
After replacing SCTV reruns which ran for at least 5 or 6 months, which were way better IMO.
They ran SCTV reruns on NBC in the early 2000s?
Yep, I fondly remember that. They were the ones cut to 30 minutes which was sometimes weird (whenever there was a musical guest they’d take up half the show) but it was cool. Why the hell isn’t SCTV streaming anywhere
There are rights issues I think because it was on so many different networks.
A lot of it’s still on Youtube.
Better question – why wasn’t the SCTV reunion documentary made for Netflix by Martin Scorsese ever released? It was filmed. It happened. But I’m guessing we’ll never see it because of the same rights issues. At least they released some DVDs, I guess.
Okay how did I never even HEAR about this? That’s amazing.
I mean the Irish Late Late Show ran for 61 years , (and is still running now)
Ah Gay Byrne. Now there was a chat show host.
I feel like inertia is half the reason it lasted as long as it did, the other half being the fact it was so cheap to make.
Corden did a good job bringing over the Graham Norton style of “all guests are out together” format. That usually brings out better interviews from everyone.
That said… I’m sure there aren’t too many staff members upset to see him leave.
This is also a reminder that it’s been 8 years since Craig Ferguson (and Geoff the robot) had a nightly talk show.Only difference is that was a show I would actually watch.
I miss Craigy Ferg.
That show was too beautiful for this world.
(and Sid the Cussing Rabbit)
No fucking shit.The fact that Ferguson is off the air, and this talentless irritant stull plagues us is criminal.
Yes!!
It feels like way longer than 8 years. Imagine if we’d had that show during lockdown.
I hadn’t even thought of that. Ferguson does seem weirdly suited for the kind of Late Night show from home format we had for a while there.
Plus he already socially distanced from his co-hosts. God, that really felt like one of those “you’ll never see the likes of that again” shows, didn’t it
Wrong reply.
Geoff the robot was absolutely fucking hilarious.
Careful, Icarus.
Only 8? I feel like it’s been 20 years since I last saw him. He was great. Sometimes I think of it randomly, like how he would touch the camera during his monologue.
I don’t really hate James Corden as much as everybody else seems to, I just simply don’t watch his show. I haven’t really been interested in any late night shows since Craig Ferguson left.
Yeah I’ve never gotten the vitriol for him. Like, he’s not forcing you to watch his show. I guess they just want a funnier host for carpool karaoke so they can admit they watch carpool karaoke.
“Like, he’s not forcing you to watch his show.”
Yeah, people don’t like him because they’re forced to watch his show, not because they’ve read countless accounts of what an absolute cunt he is to anyone who isn’t famous.
But sure, pretend that people hate him because of his hacky late night show, dickhead.
Eh, as a former theatre kid, that dude is the theatre kid-est theatre kid who ever theatre kidded. He has (and apparently embodies) all the energy of the insecure person who got the lead in the high school production of Our Town, and almost immediately developed a Brando-esque ego.Plus, for awhile, he was in so goddamned many kids movies and/or musicals and/or musical kids movies that my kid wanted to watch, and he was the weakest element of all of them.Am I losing sleep over his success? Nah. Do I care for his shtick? Nah. Does any of that matter? Nah.
Oh nowwwww I get it then. There’s nothing ex-theater kids hate more than other theater kids, so it tracks that Corden made himself target #1
Take it from me: regardless of what any of us tell you, we were all terrible.
The Carpool Karaoke on Apple + seems to be largely Corden-free. I haven’t watched them all, but Sandra Oh + Duran Duran and Nikki Glaser + Wilco were my favorites of the ones I watched.
Sandro Oh was living my dream on her episode.
I feel like late night talk shows are going to be a thing of the past. I don’t personally know anyone who watches them.
Yeah, I mean the appeal of late shows was literally that there was nothing else on. In the days of streaming, they’re just irrelevant.
I know people in the business and Cordon apparently is a goddamn cancer. That cheery front he sports hides an absolute shitbag who is utterly Hollywood.Got a smidge of starpower, the dude is your walking carpet and will kiss your ass with abandon and be the sweetest little milksop you ever seen. Work for him or be considered an ounce under his line in the sand, you are smelly dogshit whose very presence offends him for existing. This includes any and all help, anyone doing work publicly not part of the machine, and anyone who doesn’t recognize the butterball on sight.He’s been burning bridges left right and center with the town at large and I honestly think the people writing the checks have just had it with him.
Oh and in case anyone needed proof he is still a fucking wanker, here is a recent slam piece:
Apparently he’s an absolute nightmare in person.
Reggie Watts named this date for the end of the series on a Comedy Bang Bang episode over two months ago…and I guess nobody picked up on it since then. A testament to how much people are concerned about when we’ll be losing the comedic thrills of Corden’s Late Late Show.
“A testament to how much people are concerned about when we’ll be losing the comedic thrills of Corden’s Late Late Show.”
Or a testament to the importance of CBB.
Nobody claimed this was breaking news.
At long last, our national nightmare is over.
I really hope that One Direction announces their reunification on April 28th.
Awesome.
There is no way his last episode will be 1/100th as entertaining as the opening to Craig Ferguson’s last show. Here’s the proof:
Well, Craig Ferguson did start out as a punk rock drummer in a band fronted by Peter Capaldi named “The Bastards from Hell”….
Did I just see Betty White playing percussion on her tits and arse?
Typical Betty.
God I remember tuning this in not knowing it was going to be the last show and thinking within seconds, “Shit, is this his final episode?” Great last intro to the last great late night talk show. Weirdly it seems like both yesterday and ages ago but much of the last insane decade feels that way to me…
I like Craig and while I didn’t watch much of his show (I don’t watch late night talk shows in general) the little I saw it it was better than the little I saw of Cordons. But its weird to use this as proof one is better than the other, when this is still just having celebrities showing up to do silly things, when that’s exactly what Cordon has been doing.There are better examples you could have gone with
Well, one has a robot skeleton. The other doesn’t.
“this is still just having celebrities showing up to do silly things, when that’s exactly what Cordon has been doing.”
I’m sorry you can’t differentiate between funny & clever and old & tired.
If only I weren’t comparing one last episode with another last episode since that was the topic of the article.
Fine, but I feel like Cordon actually *could* replicate something like this because again, it’s just celebrities being silly out of context. It’s honestly not all that amazing.
His show kept my faith alive in late night talk shows after the Conan/Leno fiasco. I also cannot believe that I never saw that final episode, but that was also a weird time in life for me. I appreciate what Corden has attempted. I’ll fully admit that I didn’t mind his carpool schtick at first, but when it became a “thing” it wore out its welcome pretty damn fast. The problem was that Corden was never gonna be Craig, because Corden always came across as smarmy and full of himself to me, and Craig was just a goofball who was clearly enjoying himself for just being there and getting to be stupid, dumb, and hilarious all for the sake of the audience. Aside from never getting to see Letterman’s show live before it ended (despite a few remote chances), I’m pissed that I’ll never, ever get to see Ferguson live.
He’s going to be Bustopher Jones full time now!
This is some quality snark.
Me-ow.Ffs
At last, our long national nightmare is over.
Shut up everyone, @midnight is coming back!
“And for no reason at all, it’s an excellent time to remind everyone that we only get one life.”
I feel that this is specifically referencing those of us losers who still frequent this garbage dump.
It’s very weird to me that Kimmel will be the only LA-based talk show host from here on out. That should enable great bookings for him, while Fallon, Meyers, Colbert, and whoever hosts the Daily Show fight for New York celebs.
There’s a thing called airplanes.
Yes, but: generally, studios will pay to have celebs flown out from LA to do press in New York, stay in a hotel, etc. The shows themselves don’t have to pay that. Kimmel can call up a laundry list of people to do drop-ins, cameos, last-second bookings, etc. Why do you think Corden has had such great guests consistently for a low-rated after midnight show, especially after Conan ended?
Yeah, there are celebrities who are more likely to say yes to things that happen to be local. All Jamie Lee Curtis needed to hear was Michelle Yeoh and Simi Valley and she was all aboard for EEAAO.
A lot of celebs live in NY though too.
That reminds me, during the last WGA strike, Letterman’s Worldwide Pants cut a deal to keep its union writers on Late Show and Late Late. And that helped these shows get better bookings, since many guests didn’t want to cross a picket line. Who in late night has that kind of independence from the network to make a side deal during the upcoming strike?
No one. CBS took over ownership of their Late Night shows after Letterman and Ferguson ended.
That’s why I asked who in late night today would have that kind of autonomy. Broadway Video co-produces Tonight and Late Night. Maybe Lorne would be interested in reaching a deal to keep those writers’ rooms and SNL going.
I will miss the banter with Reggie, Ian, Winnie, Nick, Rob, et al. Funnier than anything Meyers is currently doing. Talk about a show that’s become stale.
Why do we hate this guy? Is there any other reason than he is really annoying? That’s enough for me but is he an asshole too?
Yes, he’s also famously an asshole to waiters (as in the Balthazar bit mentioned above).
My favourite story was a guy who was sat next to him and a woman with a crying baby on a plane.They get on, the baby starts crying, and Corden fires up his iPhone and plugs in some earphones for the duration of the flight as the baby continues to cry and cry and cry as the poor woman tries to cajole and calm it and settle it down.They land, baby’s still crying. Passengers start disembarking Jimmy unplugs his earphones and gets up and the woman with the baby next to him goes “Would you mind holding your child for just five fucking minutes?”
He once went to a WGA meeting to lobby for the ability to pay his writers less.
Watch the whole thing but the main point is at 7:00 to see how pompus Corden is and how Kimmel nailed him on it.
From people I know that have worked with him in various degrees: he’s a huge knob, especially to people he deems “lower” than him. Just an absolute dick to service people, PAs, runners, etc.
“When England sends us their TV personalities, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending James Corden. They’re sending Piers Morgan. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. And some, I assume, are good people”
James Corden is like Graham Norton without the talent
After he gets the heave-ho, I demand a week of shows from the CBS This Morning set hosted by Adam Pally and Ben Schwartz.
YES.