James Corden pre-taped a bit for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner… but so did Billy Eichner!
After sitting out the previous administration, the White House Correspondents' Dinner is coming back on Sunday
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Hollywood is full of bad people who have no right to ever work in show business again, but it also has a lot of people who aren’t necessarily bad but we still wouldn’t mind getting a break from. Maybe a permanent break.
Anyway, Variety says that James Corden (somewhat secretly) pre-taped a comedy segment for Sunday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner based on his popular (?) “Take A Break” segment from The Late Late Show. You can see an example of the sort of thing this involves in this commercial—err, comedy show segment—where Corden goes to a place where normal people work and tries to do their jobs.
It’s a little patronizing when we’re talking about Walmart (how silly is it to imagine someone working at a Walmart?!), but the White House Correspondents’ Dinner version will involve Corden filling in for Washington D.C. people doing stuff in the White House, including the Oval Office. What’s that? Some guy from a TV show in the Oval Office even though he has no business being there? What is this… the years 2016-2020??? Thank you, thank you! (We’re auditioning for next year’s Correspondents’ Dinner. Cross your fingers!)
Now, while James Corden doing his James Corden thing is fine, whatever, another comedy person will be doing his much more appealing thing there as well: That same Variety story says Billy Eichner also pre-taped some kind of “sketch” for the dinner that was produced by Funny Or Die, and though we know nothing about it, we’re going to guess that it will be a lot of fun and it will involve Billy Eichner screaming at people.
You may say “but that’s what he always does,” to which we’ll respond: Billy On The Street ended in 2017, so it’s been a long time since we got to see him screaming at people. We’re ready for it, we’re hungry for it, and we’re willing to watch the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to get it.
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“while James Corden doing his James Corden thing is fine”
Please show your work.
James Corden does seem to me to be to show business what glitter is to crafting. A little glitter is fine but then you realize it’s gotten everywhere and it seems like it will never go away.
Glitter, or, as I like to refer to it, “craft herpes”…
They should just cut to Limmy doing a Corden laugh every time Corden laughs.
Did it “take a break?” Or did everybody just collectively agree that Trump was too thin skinned and too impossible to parody for it to be fun.I mean, he was likely to take any satire about him and do something worse, just to show those liberal Hollywood types that he could.
Although T* was indeed too thin-skinned to attend, the WHCD was held without him 2017-2019 before the pandemic shut it down. Of course it would have taken the headline writer about a minute to research that as opposed to making up shit.
Michelle Wolf laid the WCHA bare and it never recovered.
A message to Billy Eichner, Akwafina, Kevin Hart and other comedians, screaming out your jokes did not make it funny.
Billy Eichner is awesome.
Billy Eichner is awesome….in that one episode of New Girl, and nowhere else.
A reminder that Michelle Wolf is still owed an apology because she had the WCHA (and the press in general) dead to rights and they threw her under the bus for it.Fuck the whole lot of ‘em.
that’s fully just a goddamned commercial for Wal*Mart. Is this what talk shows have been reduced to? I mean, at least Dick Cavett had the decency to telegraph his embarrassment every time he had to pause for Brillo or whatever.