Now We Understand Why These Celebs Can't Stand James Corden

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Now We Understand Why These Celebs Can't Stand James CordenNow We Understand Why These Celebs Can't Stand James Corden

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00:00Through his British celebrity talk show and film career, James Corden knows just about

00:05everybody in the entertainment industry.

00:07But not everybody in the entertainment industry likes him.

00:10Here are some of the people who seemingly can't stand James Corden.

00:15At the end of a 2019 episode of his HBO show Real Time, Bill Maher discussed high obesity

00:20rates.

00:21His solution?

00:22Make people feel bad about themselves for being overweight.

00:25Fat shaming doesn't need to end, needs to make a comeback.

00:29Some amount of shame is good.

00:31A few days later, James Corden took nearly eight minutes at the top of an episode of The

00:36Late Late Show to address Maher's remarks.

00:38So I sat at home and I'm watching this, and all I could think of, I was like, oh man, somebody

00:43needs to say something about this.

00:45If only there was someone with a platform who knew what it was actually like to be overweight,

00:50and then I realized, oh, that will be me.

00:52Corden reminded Maher that fat shaming was still alive and well, adding that,

00:56There's a common and insulting misconception that fat people are stupid and lazy, and we're

01:00not.

01:01Following Corden's plea for basic human decency, Maher fell back on his comments about obesity

01:06as a health issue.

01:07He said on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience,

01:10You can't keep eating as much as you want, and as s***y of food as you want, and expect

01:16us to cover the bill.

01:17He then went on to say that Corden, quote, missed a great opportunity to literally save

01:21lives and took the easy way out by criticizing the real-time host.

01:25In 2017, a sea change in Hollywood took place, with the Me Too movement and other organizations

01:32calling out men for decades of unchecked offenses of a sexual nature.

01:36Arguably the biggest catalyst was an October 5 New York Times story that revealed numerous

01:41allegations against studio mogul Harvey Weinstein.

01:44The entertainment industry was left shocked and reeling, and James Corden failed enormously

01:49to read the proverbial room.

01:51On October 13th, 2017, he hosted a black-tie charity gala event for the AIDS Research Foundation

01:57Amphar, and he peppered his monologue with several jokes about Weinstein.

02:01According to The Guardian, for example, he called the evening so lovely that Weinstein,

02:05quote, has already asked tonight up to his hotel to give him a massage.

02:09Then he cracked,

02:10It's been weird this week, hasn't it?

02:12Watching Harvey Weinstein in hot water?

02:14Ask any of the women who watched him take a bath.

02:16It's weird watching Harvey Weinstein in hot water.

02:19Two of the women who accused Weinstein of deplorable acts of sexual violence didn't think Corden's

02:23jokes were all that funny.

02:25Asia Argento tweeted,

02:26Shame on this pig and everyone who grunted with him.

02:29Rose McGowan called Corden a, quote, mother-f***ing piglet.

02:33Corden later apologized via a statement on Twitter, writing,

02:36I was not trying to make light of Harvey's inexcusable behavior, but to shame him, the

02:41abuser, not his victims.

02:43I am truly sorry for anyone offended.

02:45That was never my intention.

02:47In many ways, Ricky Gervais and James Corden have lived out parallel careers.

02:51Both are comedians who came to prominence on British television shows they starred in

02:55and created in the 2000s, The Office and Gavin and Stacey, respectively.

03:00Before jumping to movies and eventually hosting American TV productions, Gervais hosts the annual

03:05Golden Globes while James Corden hosts The Late Late Show.

03:08According to a source close to the situation in The Sun, the seeds of a nasty rivalry were

03:12planted when Corden played Gervais on his 2009 sketch comedy series Horn & Corden.

03:18In the sketch in question, Corden portrays Gervais as if he were cast as the Karate Kid instead

03:23of Ralph Macchio in the 1984 classic.

03:26With his interpretation, we see the fictional Gervais talking over his fellow actors' lines

03:30and even the director's constructive criticism, a pretty overt jab at the real Gervais and

03:35his propensity for interrupting people with snide remarks.

03:39In the years since, Gervais has publicly teased and criticized Corden on multiple occasions.

03:44As The Sun's source said, Ricky is now somewhat obsessed, attacking James when his jokes fall

03:49flat and poking fun of his size.

03:51For example, after Corden bombed with those Harvey Weinstein jokes at the Amphar Gala just

03:56faced days after the producer was exposed as a serial abuser, Gervais told Radio Andy

04:01that Corden, quote, "...didn't do it well enough."

04:03And at the 2020 Golden Globes, Gervais quipped,

04:06"...the world got to see James Corden as a fat c**t."

04:09He was also in the movie Cats, but no one saw that.

04:12James Corden hosted the 2010 Glamour Women of the Year Awards, and a presenter that evening

04:17was another well-known entertainer, Sir Patrick Stewart.

04:20When the Star Trek icon got to the stage, he thought it was the right time and place to

04:25lay into Corden's stage demeanor between hosting segments.

04:28Stewart instructed,

04:29When the presenters are up here and when the recipients are receiving their awards, don't

04:33stand at the back of the stage with your hands in your pockets, looking around as though

04:37you wished you were anywhere but here.

04:39Corden tried to keep the show moving, apologizing if he appeared bored, adding,

04:43"...but when you come up and present an award, just f*** get on with it."

04:46Stewart didn't get on with it.

04:48Instead, the actor said,

04:49"...from where I was sitting, I can see your belly, and that was right there over at the

04:53back of the room."

04:54To this, Corden replied,

04:55"...you can see my belly, and we can all see you dying right now."

04:59Stewart's final retort was equipped to, quote, "...cover your belly," which made Corden wince

05:04an embarrassment, but not necessarily his own.

05:07Stewart later apologized.

05:08A representative told The Sun,

05:09"...Patrick felt awful about the ugliness.

05:12He had had a drink, his new girlfriend was there, and he just got carried away."

05:16They eventually joked about the spat in a sketch for a Channel 4 charity special.

05:20Hollyoaks is one of British television's most popular soap operas, airing in the early evenings

05:25on Channel 4 since 1995.

05:27It takes place in the fictional Chester suburb of Hollyoaks and, like most daily dramas on

05:32both sides of the Atlantic, concerns the romantic and relationship entanglements of primarily

05:37young and attractive people.

05:38Ricky Whittle, best known to American audiences for his work on The 100 and American Gods,

05:45played constable and nightclub operator Calvin Valentine on the series from 2006 to 2011.

05:50During this time period, James Corden, who appeared on one episode of The Soap in 2000, fired some

05:56verbal shots at the series in an interview with Esquire, saying,

05:59"...I'd actually rather die than go back.

06:01It's f—ing awful.

06:03It just breeds p—ing, all these people walking around with this chicken-in-a-basket fame,

06:08talking about going to L.A., you know?"

06:10Whittle threw the nasty shade right back at Corden in an interview with What's On TV, ultimately

06:15threatening him,

06:16"...it's very childish that he's slating the place where he came from.

06:19The place that made him.

06:21Good luck to him.

06:22I hope he doesn't bump into us on a night out."

06:24Every late-night show has a signature schtick, a recurring comedy bit that keeps fans tuning

06:29in year after year.

06:31For Jimmy Kimmel Live, it's celebrities reading mean tweets about themselves.

06:34For The Late Late Show with James Corden, it's the host and an extremely famous singer, driving

06:39around Los Angeles in a car, singing along to the musician's own songs in a segment called

06:44Carpool Karaoke.

06:46It's Corden's most popular contribution to the culture by far, and the likes of Adele, Britney

06:50Spears, and Lady Gaga have taken part.

06:53"...how you feeling about that?"

06:54"...pretty good, man."

06:55In a 2017 interview with GQ, Liam Gallagher, the former lead singer of 90s alternative rock

07:01sensation Oasis, said that, if asked, he would not do karaoke.

07:05He even worked an apparent jab at Corden's show, Gavin & Stacey, into his response, seemingly

07:11misnaming it on purpose,

07:12"...no thank you very much.

07:14No f-ing chance, mate.

07:15With that fat bloke from Kevin and Perry, James Corden is a knobhead."

07:19When the Daily Beast asked Corden if he'd caught wind of Gallagher's remarks, the host said

07:23he had.

07:24And then, Corden offered up a sarcasm-drenched response,

07:27"...I don't know how we'll even think of carrying on.

07:30Yeah, God, what will we do?"

07:32Jack Allison wrote for Jimmy Kimmel Live! in the 2010s, and, as such, he's a member of

07:37the Writers Guild of America.

07:39In 2019, he told a story on Twitter about the time he went to a union meeting that James

07:44Corden also attended,

07:45"...I'd like to state once again for the record that I went to a WGA meeting for only

07:50late-night writers, and James Corden showed up without any of his staffers to advocate

07:55for a lower pay grade for late-night writers."

07:58That means, according to Allison, Corden apparently made a special trip to ask a trade union to

08:03allow him to decrease the salaries of his own employees at the Late Late Show.

08:08Allison claimed that Corden wanted to hire writer's assistants for 13-week stretches instead

08:12of for longer periods as contracted, full-fledged writers.

08:16By WGA rules, this would carry a higher salary.

08:19Allison went on to tweet,

08:20He was framing it positively as,

08:22"...we want to give writer's assistants a chance, so maybe there should be a lower pay

08:26grade for them."

08:27According to Allison, WGA officials quickly dismissed Corden's request.

08:31However, Corden related a different version of events on Twitter,

08:34"...I would never, ever want to pay a writer less than they deserve.

08:38Never.

08:39I love every writer on my show, and all I ever wanted from that meeting was to

08:42explore whether talented people could get a better opportunity."

08:45Despite this statement, Allison dug his heels in, tweeting,

08:48"...what I said was accurate."

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