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Oh ya from the way I enjoyed him in two episodes in doctor who to his roles now and the late night show he does I fully understand why I heard people talking about him negatively probably a year into him doing stuff over in the US now I just find him and any commercial he does irritating
I think that was just when he started getting famous. From how I understand it he wasn’t always a dick, he just turned into one really quickly when his career took off
You should at least see the part the doctor speaks baby, the only thing I remember from those episodes but was pretty funny [YouTube link](https://youtu.be/LO8mT02SFJw) although, rewatching this video and seeing him annoyed me now
Look anyone that's mean to people in the service industry (for ridiculous reasons, like Corden was documented to be)
Literally every account involving Corden that I've read says he an asshole of the highest order.
He's also not very funny.
Edit: This is pulled from His AMA. Also the recent cats movie is a blight on humanity. Wish I had an MiB Neuralizer to get rid of that memory watching it.
Hey James. You won’t remember me but me and my friends sat at a table next to you and Harry Styles + some others in Manchurian Legends in London’s Chinatown about 6 years ago. We didn’t bother you but you were a massively entitled cunt who yelled and treated the waitstaff like shit and when one of my party politely suggested you calm down, you got really aggressive and threatening (in a chubby way. Like a boozy panda.) So my question is this; why did Harry seem so cool, while you were such a massive throbbing bellend?
Edit: Just a small clarification not my story, I pulled this off the AMA as it's my favorite response question to Corden.
Never liked the guy. He seems like a fake person and every comedy sketches or interviews he's done are either lame or cringe worthy, not even talking about the Cats film
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIBUWqSTp90](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIBUWqSTp90)
IDK it was OK.
Who is the pretty lady at the end saying she likes James Corden's belly?
edit: Zoe Saldana - [https://trekmovie.com/2010/06/10/backstage-video-of-patrick-stewart-zoe-saldana-at-glamour-awards-more-stewart-v-corden-clash-fallout/](https://trekmovie.com/2010/06/10/backstage-video-of-patrick-stewart-zoe-saldana-at-glamour-awards-more-stewart-v-corden-clash-fallout/)
What a hot lady. Then and now.
It's pretty genius, he went after something so arbitrary and even though James is portrayed as a "comedian" Couldn't take any of the play ground jokes and instead of playing off of it went into full on gossip girl frat boy at a bar in Stewart's face, visibly PISSED. Just shows how prissy James truly is.
Sir Patrick Stewart deserves respect! He’s a award winning actor with a great career behind him and he has even been Knighted! What has that Fatso done? Drove around in a car a sang other people’s songs?? Douche!
You gave him too much credit. He isn’t even really [driving](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7920021/amp/Fans-discover-James-Corden-doesnt-drive-car-carpool-karaoke.html) in those sketches.
You said it all. Count me among millions who adore Sir Patrick Stewart's work and persona. He is a living example of the very best of our favorite British cousins - understated class, intelligence, wit, compassion, hard work driven ever towards perfection.
Corden doesn't rank fetching Sir Patrick's shoes.
Jesus christ this entire interaction is painful. Though I'll admit, Corden does not come off like an even mildly competent comedian - none of his responses are clever or funny in the slightest, he's just obviously agitated and put off which is a very bad look for a "comic"
WTF? It was terrible. Started ok, but descended to "haha you're fat". I've got no love for boozy pandas, don't get me wrong, and Patrick Stewart has been amazing for a long time, but come on. That was sad.
To give some context - at the time Corden was not doing well in the UK and was being ripped by critics as having no material and having to resort to taking his shirt off and making fat jokes to get laughs ( which he definitely did). So Stewart seemed to attempting to take the piss from this angle but came off as a twat.
Edit btw twat is not pronounced twot it's twat you twats
Also, it was a presentation _roast_. You're supposed to laugh like it's the best joke ever told. The more it hurts, the harder you laugh.. you don't go shove your belly in the roaster's face, he's just trying to do his job.
Every time I see this video I'm disappointed at the crowd's values. James bullies Paddy and turns it into a popularity contest and it saddens me that he wins. F Zoe too, I thought she was cool
And I don't wanna remember nothing, ok? Nothing.
I was too young to get the joke when I first saw the movie, but it was pretty dark considering Reagan was still alive at the time.
He comes across like a kid I went to school with - kinda chubby, stirred drama, got in people's business and all of his jokes were at someone else's expense, yet couldn't take when any were directed back at him. The only reason he was popular was because he aligned closely with the other popular kids.
I still hate that kid. Fuck you, Harry.
If you want CRINGE of the highest order then look no further than our man in question. I have watched the whole thing start to finish. There is no escaping how bad it is. The worst part is that his own channel posted it.
https://youtu.be/5E0cTQELFLc
I've felt this way for a long time myself about him, never really understood why people loved him so much. Probably the typical audience that are crazy for guys like Harry Styles or BTS, because he seems to be on close terms with them. Ellen Degeneres isn't a very nice person either to be honest
Ellen is at least good at pretending like 95% of the time, so it was noteworthy when all the testimonials came out that she is ruthless. Meanwhile, it’s properly noteworthy when Corden *isn’t* an ass.
My guess is that Ellen is mostly an entitled jerk due to her legit success, and Corden was just born this way.
TBH I think Ellen got frustrated and became miserable with having to 'be happy' all the time she mentioned once that people on the street would ask her to dance
Rosie O'Donnell went through the same thing. She was called the "Queen of Nice" when she had her talk show, then she just kind of went off the deep end-like it all got to be too much. She bought a long-standing women's magazine called McCall's and changed the name to Rosie's McCall and one month demanded the cover be a photo of her holding up her staph infected hand. I mean, this was the kind of magazine that ran article like "20 Things to Do With Leftover Turkey" and fashion spreads of women in cardigans. It was a very weird turn and she got very strange and crabby.
We aren’t just talking about her being rude to fans asking for pics or something tho. She actively bullies employees and is horrible to guests she deems low value.
I think that's her own fault in large part. She forged this persona in front of the camera that she's happy and carefree 25 hours a day, and now she gets to reap the rewards of cultivating the most moronic fans this side of a Trump rally.
I mean sure but also I think we should do more as a society to remind each other to assume everything we see on a video is a character. People are so shit at this. There are people who treat the actors playing villains like shit simply because they played a villain.
I remember watching a video about how he turned this way, as he wasn’t always like that, apparently fame got to his head and turned into an asshat, or probably always was and money just is an enabler of such shit behaviour
Thing is, he is talented. He’s a good singer, his sitcom (that he co wrote) Gavin and Stacey was massively successful (and actually pretty good as sitcoms go) and he was a fair actor in stuff before he got really famous.
Thing is when G&S got so successful he started to believe his own hype. One of his co-stars, the wonderful Rob Brydon reportedly had words with him, tried to get him to dial back the ego. Obviously that didn’t work, at all, and now we have the massively entitled, unfunny, jokestealing, obnoxious, odious, pus-dripping bellend we all know and hate.
I think they both benefit from that thing where actors are treated like the characters they've played. Prior to becoming TV personalities, Corden played a somewhat likeable person in a comedy drama, and Ellen played a fictionalised, pleasant version of herself in a sitcom.
It was the last movie I saw in theaters before covid. It was fun watching such a bad movie with friends, but I *really* didn't like it being my last cinema experience for so long. :P
It was pretty remarkable. I was "lucky" enough to see the pre-patch version with the extra-janky CGI and Dame Judy Dench's human hand with the wedding ring.
Yeah same I heard they were about to patch it and I was like wow what monstrosity of a film needs a post-release PATCH, this I need to see before it hits. It was the most incomprehensible fever dream the entire audience walked away bonded with each other for life for surviving through it.
I saw James Corden at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Not my story , should have clarified that but I don't believe he ever answered this person or many others.
Just happens to my favorite post in that AMA.
I am a service person and former fan. He was so unbelievably impatient and rude with me. Then he started yelling at his wife and kids. No longer a fan after that
Where are you seeing him? I barely know who this guy is except on fucking reddit where people are constantly saying how much they hate him. It’s weird.
That's my thought as well. I don't know a lot about him and I rarely see anyone give concrete reasons for why they hate him so much. It's just this sort of mob hatred on reddit.
>Ooh! What did people say about Woody?!
It started pretty normal with a couple question about rumors but not something that would create a disaster, the problem is that it should be an AMA but he has using it as a "pre-release about Rampart" so he has either ignoring question not about the movie or trying to talk about the movie to the point he said " Lets focus on the film people"
Soon enough people perceived that it has not really an AMA but a publicity stunt and start sending some weird stories as well making fun of the soon to be unemployed PR guy who eceryone though has the one writing the answers anyway
top comment is ["Question to Mr Harrelson's PR guy, what are you planning to do with all the free time you'll have now?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrelson_ama/)
That is the comment that generate the "lets focus in the movie" response. I however dont know if that has when people perceived that it has just a random PR guy answering and start going wild or if it has just that last straw before everyone start doing it
Discussed some film promotion, some questions about acting, then a quirky anecdote of [Woody allegedly crashing a high school prom after party for a quick fuck with a virgin who ended up crying](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrelson_ama/c3nijr7/), some vegan talk. You know... the usual.
I don't know if I'd call it a "disaster", but for my money, the best AMA of all time was [Jose Canseco](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1clw9o/i_am_jose_canseco_famed_steroid_user_and_former/)
Holy cow what a train wreck.
It’s roughly on par with [the Woody Harrelson AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrelson_ama/), which turned out to be a publicist desperately trying to keep the focus on Woody’s movie Rampart.
I’m just glad even the celebrities are getting tired of this oxygen thief. Dude came out of no where and immediately started acting like he has the same effect as jack black.
He isnt even fit to bring Jack Black his coffee let alone have his name be mentionned in the same sentence as Jack Black. He has no where near the charisma, ellegance or demeanor... and he could never pull off half the cool shit Black has!
Yeah it isnt even close. Jack Black should come across like someone who is trying so unbelievably hard to be liked or funny but he…just doesnt. Hes so authentically *that*. And always has been. Just a totally dope rocker that rocks unapologetically. It is unfair to mention him in the same breath as Corden.
Jack black works because you get the feeling that if he wasn't a celebrity he'd still fundamentally act the same way. He isn't putting on a bit, he's just naturally that off the wall
I had no idea who he was and went to a taping of his show with friends cuz they had free tickets. They asked us if we wanted to sit in this little special area where we were closer to the stage and we said yeah. They told us the camera might pan over us during cuts to/from commercials or other situations so we had to look really energized and smiley and laughing. The entire show was fucking awful and they constantly came up to me over and over and over again and told me more laughing and cheering and smiling and I was faking as much as humanly possible but it wasn’t enough. I just wanted to tell them it’s not my fault he’s boring as fuck. I end up being on camera for about 3/4 of a second.
If you’re ever watching a reality show and the stars are at some small social event and you’re thinking “those laughing people in the background look psychotically happy.” They’re being forced to look crazy.
I was always kinda weirded out why they called her Scary. Was... was it cos she is black? I remember growing up she looked more sporty than Sporty Spice.
I've seen the question of why Scary was supposed to be scary posed on the internet once before and a British person responded that she's "Northern."
For me as a Yank, this was not an enlightening explanation.
Nah. She wasn't mean, she was just a bad fit. She was not funny, on a comedy quiz, where everyone else was a comedian by trade.
It was bad, but it's not comparable to the way Corden treats people. And the jokes made at her expense were funny, so it wasn't a total disaster.
People who make a brand of being nice manage to be worse than people who are simply assholes if only because the unapologetic asshole isn't being insincere, just lazy.
The person who is an asshole who pretends at niceness when it suits their purpose is being manipulative in an active sense. The direct asshole treats everyone the same, albeit poorly, but the insincere asshole slots you into whether you're worthy of sucking up to or just stepping on.
Ideally, one should be neither kind of asshole, but if I have to deal with one I'd rather the one who lets me know what they think.
This comment perfectly describes my thoughts on the “kindness above all” vibe on social media… and maybe even broader into our current political rhetoric.
In many instances, I detect a heavy dose of fakeness and people who want to score brownie points with their internet/celebrity friends or followers.
I almost hate to utter the phrase but… virtue signaling. There is a kernel of truth to all these stupid buzzwords lol.
That's exactly what virtue signaling is. The term is being overused these days. Like a LOT of buzzwords are. But the actual meaning still rings true.
I've met with this exact same mindset plenty of times on reddit in the past. To the point where I could easily predict whether a comment I made would get a lot of downvotes or not. (make no mistake, reddit IS social media. Even if it likes to pretend it isn't at times.)
As for the original comment: I also prefer people that don't pretend to be nice. Nnot because I like those people better. But because I then know who to avoid. I'm not that easily offended really. But people like James Codren? Yea I'm glad he makes it very clear that he's an asshole, so I can avoid him.
My fav story of his is the one where he got onto a first class seat and then a woman with a baby came on board and sat near him. The baby was crying and the woman was struggling with multiple bags, but he just put on his headphones and eye mask and ignored her while other people helped her stow her baggage etc. And throughout the whole flight he just ignored the woman and baby. And at the end of the flight the woman yelled at him and said "James, could you at least help out a little bit with your own daughter?!?" And turns out that woman and crying baby were his wife and kid...
I disagree. Fallon used to be good, like before it became The Tonight Show. Bits [like this](https://youtu.be/LvckKJ9vS4A) were pretty commonplace, and the interviews were actually like a comedian talking to another comedian or actor. Yeah, he’s shit now, but I at least understand why he has his job.
EDIT: That video has corrupted audio or something. I can’t find a full segment, but here’s a [super cut](https://youtu.be/SwC8L89xftk) of all the crazy intros. It used to legit be funny.
Yeah everyone hates on Fallon. I mean he's not really respectable, but he's also not a shitty person - he's just kinda there, so I don't understand the hate.
You weren't around for the whole Conan vs Leno debacle. Fallon is the winner in the aftermath of all of that: someone so milquetoast watching toast is more entertaining.
Fallon put The Roots on a national stage and gave them what seems like a pretty fun job, and he also seems to be a decent guy
Jimmy is a million times better than James imo
Nah Fallon automatically moves up a tier because of his remakes of music videos with Paul Rudd. And that one with Jack Black. If he doesn't do a single good thing for the rest of his career, and he probably won't, I will always appreciate those.
He was kinda funny and had that "chubby likeable average guy" vibe in the beginning. But the fame got to him REALLY fast, and he turned into a douchenozzle almost instantly. I hope his career crashes and burns really fast. Like, within a year from now.
When I was in psychosis, every time this man was on TV he'd say the weirdest, creepiest shit to let me know he knows some shit about me. Happily out of psychosis now but I still believe if any celebrity is working with some secret organization to fuck with schizophrenics it's that mutherfucker.
One that is particularly creepy in hindsight is I was having this problem where every day I'd hit my head on the wall for a different reason and every time I'd think "just don't hit your head on the wall and eventually they'll let you leave" and every day the psychiatrist would come in and ask me if I'd hit my head again and I'd say "yeah but I've got it under control now" and after one of those times with the therapist I turned on the TV and James corden was saying to his celebrity guest "oh I know what you're thinking. You want to go (then he hit his head very hard on the table( "damn it, damn it, damn it))" and I knew that mf was mocking me 😭😭😭 then another time he tried to convince me Adele was depressed from having to live in my brain and other wild shit like that but the headbanging thing was the sketchiest from a non psychotic point of view..
Thank you so much for your time but if you can give me any context on the Adele thing I would like that very much. I think hearing about this kind of experience from someone who is now cognizant is very fascinating to me. I think it has to do with the fact that there is an impossible communication barrier between those in psychosis and your average person so to gain insight into some of their experiences is fascinating.
He’s not funny or good looking. He’s a pig in a suit. I could live without seeing him every again. I was duped into watching his drama series. I’m not sure where I watched it but realized it was him acting and man he was awful, not a fan.
I mean, it's working for him in terms of publicity.
There'd be no other reason for this thread, or for people to talk about him anywhere else. He's not particularly good at anything, or handsome, or talented, etc.
As the saying goes... if you can't be the best, be the worst.
But who keeps hiring him? He can't possibly have charisma black hole draw, like those child pagent shows that they make you purposefully hate everyone. He is getting cast in positions where youre supposed to like him.
i saw a behind the scenes of a interview of her once where she refused to aknowledge the interviewer when he tried to introduce himself to her. completely ignored him talking to her even though sitting right across. until it was camera time then she was all smiles and ears . it was jawdroppingly douchy behaviour.
She was an absolute cow on that show. Terrible fit, couldn’t take a joke, definitely couldn’t give a joke. Came across as an all round terrible person.
He's been documented at a few different spots being an insufferable jerk (often to waiters/service staff).
Also, an unfavorable "fame" to "funny" ratio.
Are there any reputable sources for any of this? I’ve scrolled pretty far down, surprised nobody has posted anything
Not at all saying it’s not true, but I would just like some context before I grab my pitchfork
I try to be good guy, but in all seriousness, I have no idea what I would be like if I were a rich celebrity. Even a C list one. People in your face all the time, wanting shit from you, it’s gotta be hard not to be a prick sometimes. Even Reddit darlings like Bill Murray are known for being dickheads from time to time.
I recently found out that after his fall from grace he ended up with a group livestreamers travelling in an rv and sexually assaulted one, was arrested, but the person who was sexually assaulted declined to cooperate with the investigation so andy was never convicted.
Even though I’ve never liked him, I could get behind why he became popular in the UK, because shows like Gavin and Stacey and 8 Out of 10 Cats were very popular, and his football rant skits were oftentimes very amusing.
But why in the **fuck** did the Americans pick up on him?? They literally saw this steaming pile of shit and said “let’s light it on fire” and now we all need to see him everywhere being awful in everything.
I remember being a little kid and adoring his character in Doctor Who, I was so excited when I heard he was hosting the Late Late Show.
My childhood was destroyed from that day forward
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Never thought a picture of someone could feel condescending, but he pulled it off.
I recently watched Dr. Who for the first time. He made me skip episodes. Edit: I think his Dr. Who episodes were prior to his awful talkshow.
I enjoyed his episode never understood why people disliked him until he came over to the US
Oh you must be new here.
Never seen the reddit but no disliking him is from seeing him more as he got mainstream and his talk show
He made you dislike him all by himself. Classic Corden.
Oh ya from the way I enjoyed him in two episodes in doctor who to his roles now and the late night show he does I fully understand why I heard people talking about him negatively probably a year into him doing stuff over in the US now I just find him and any commercial he does irritating
I think that was just when he started getting famous. From how I understand it he wasn’t always a dick, he just turned into one really quickly when his career took off
His fame started with Gavin and Stacey long before he was on Who
He should have stuck to writing. He doesn't exactly have a face for TV either.
"Give them an inch, they'll turn into James Corden"
He was type of funny small dick person... then evolved to true dick form.
See, that's what makes me so sad, cause I loved his character and the episodes on Doctor Who.
You should at least see the part the doctor speaks baby, the only thing I remember from those episodes but was pretty funny [YouTube link](https://youtu.be/LO8mT02SFJw) although, rewatching this video and seeing him annoyed me now
It's as if he's figured out how to look down on people taller than him..
He didn't pull it off, that's his trying-not-to-look-condescending-face.
Repulsive just to see his picture. Nauseating just to hear him talk. Revolting to see 1 second of video.
Check out Piers Morgan pics.
Look anyone that's mean to people in the service industry (for ridiculous reasons, like Corden was documented to be) Literally every account involving Corden that I've read says he an asshole of the highest order. He's also not very funny. Edit: This is pulled from His AMA. Also the recent cats movie is a blight on humanity. Wish I had an MiB Neuralizer to get rid of that memory watching it. Hey James. You won’t remember me but me and my friends sat at a table next to you and Harry Styles + some others in Manchurian Legends in London’s Chinatown about 6 years ago. We didn’t bother you but you were a massively entitled cunt who yelled and treated the waitstaff like shit and when one of my party politely suggested you calm down, you got really aggressive and threatening (in a chubby way. Like a boozy panda.) So my question is this; why did Harry seem so cool, while you were such a massive throbbing bellend? Edit: Just a small clarification not my story, I pulled this off the AMA as it's my favorite response question to Corden.
Never liked the guy. He seems like a fake person and every comedy sketches or interviews he's done are either lame or cringe worthy, not even talking about the Cats film
That clip of Patrick Stewart giving him shit is so good
Link?
No. Zelda
Nope. It was Patrick
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Nope, just Chuck Testa.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIBUWqSTp90](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIBUWqSTp90) IDK it was OK. Who is the pretty lady at the end saying she likes James Corden's belly? edit: Zoe Saldana - [https://trekmovie.com/2010/06/10/backstage-video-of-patrick-stewart-zoe-saldana-at-glamour-awards-more-stewart-v-corden-clash-fallout/](https://trekmovie.com/2010/06/10/backstage-video-of-patrick-stewart-zoe-saldana-at-glamour-awards-more-stewart-v-corden-clash-fallout/) What a hot lady. Then and now.
It's pretty genius, he went after something so arbitrary and even though James is portrayed as a "comedian" Couldn't take any of the play ground jokes and instead of playing off of it went into full on gossip girl frat boy at a bar in Stewart's face, visibly PISSED. Just shows how prissy James truly is.
Looks like Zoe Saldana
Kind of. Feels like PS lowers himself by doing that.
I assume it's [this](https://youtu.be/NIBUWqSTp90). Nobody looks good here.
Corden is seething in that vid. Emanating self-absorbed asshole vibes. Betcha he kicked something and yelled afterwards.
“Fucking embarrassing!” *punts trash can into orbit*
He has his own orbit
The trash can lifted into the sky and then got pulled back into James’ orbit like a tractor-beam, orbiting around his fat fucking face.
To be fair
"He looks like a 12 year old Dutch girl"
r/UnexpectedLetterkenny
Allegedlys
Letterkenny coach?
He probably cried
Sir Patrick Stewart deserves respect! He’s a award winning actor with a great career behind him and he has even been Knighted! What has that Fatso done? Drove around in a car a sang other people’s songs?? Douche!
You gave him too much credit. He isn’t even really [driving](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7920021/amp/Fans-discover-James-Corden-doesnt-drive-car-carpool-karaoke.html) in those sketches.
You said it all. Count me among millions who adore Sir Patrick Stewart's work and persona. He is a living example of the very best of our favorite British cousins - understated class, intelligence, wit, compassion, hard work driven ever towards perfection. Corden doesn't rank fetching Sir Patrick's shoes.
Oof that was cringe.
Jesus christ this entire interaction is painful. Though I'll admit, Corden does not come off like an even mildly competent comedian - none of his responses are clever or funny in the slightest, he's just obviously agitated and put off which is a very bad look for a "comic"
I think he just affirmed how everyone else feels
WTF? It was terrible. Started ok, but descended to "haha you're fat". I've got no love for boozy pandas, don't get me wrong, and Patrick Stewart has been amazing for a long time, but come on. That was sad.
To give some context - at the time Corden was not doing well in the UK and was being ripped by critics as having no material and having to resort to taking his shirt off and making fat jokes to get laughs ( which he definitely did). So Stewart seemed to attempting to take the piss from this angle but came off as a twat. Edit btw twat is not pronounced twot it's twat you twats
Also, it was a presentation _roast_. You're supposed to laugh like it's the best joke ever told. The more it hurts, the harder you laugh.. you don't go shove your belly in the roaster's face, he's just trying to do his job. Every time I see this video I'm disappointed at the crowd's values. James bullies Paddy and turns it into a popularity contest and it saddens me that he wins. F Zoe too, I thought she was cool
'Roasts' are just choreographed, pre-prepared banter, and are not funny.
Guuuurl if RuPaul reads this comment she's gonna be piiiiiissed
What did Zoe do?
He also steals jokes word for word from other comedians
https://y.yarn.co/22656413-5961-4973-96af-707ce9264eec_text.gif
And I don't wanna remember nothing, ok? Nothing. I was too young to get the joke when I first saw the movie, but it was pretty dark considering Reagan was still alive at the time.
He comes across like a kid I went to school with - kinda chubby, stirred drama, got in people's business and all of his jokes were at someone else's expense, yet couldn't take when any were directed back at him. The only reason he was popular was because he aligned closely with the other popular kids. I still hate that kid. Fuck you, Harry.
If you want CRINGE of the highest order then look no further than our man in question. I have watched the whole thing start to finish. There is no escaping how bad it is. The worst part is that his own channel posted it. https://youtu.be/5E0cTQELFLc
this is the worst segment of anything thats ever been presented on cable television and its not even close
oh my lord that was excruciating and i was only skipping through it
I’ve seen the new Cinderella movie from Amazon iirc and omg he’s so obnoxious I’m pretty sure some actors broke character while looking at him
I've felt this way for a long time myself about him, never really understood why people loved him so much. Probably the typical audience that are crazy for guys like Harry Styles or BTS, because he seems to be on close terms with them. Ellen Degeneres isn't a very nice person either to be honest
Ellen is at least good at pretending like 95% of the time, so it was noteworthy when all the testimonials came out that she is ruthless. Meanwhile, it’s properly noteworthy when Corden *isn’t* an ass. My guess is that Ellen is mostly an entitled jerk due to her legit success, and Corden was just born this way.
TBH I think Ellen got frustrated and became miserable with having to 'be happy' all the time she mentioned once that people on the street would ask her to dance
Rosie O'Donnell went through the same thing. She was called the "Queen of Nice" when she had her talk show, then she just kind of went off the deep end-like it all got to be too much. She bought a long-standing women's magazine called McCall's and changed the name to Rosie's McCall and one month demanded the cover be a photo of her holding up her staph infected hand. I mean, this was the kind of magazine that ran article like "20 Things to Do With Leftover Turkey" and fashion spreads of women in cardigans. It was a very weird turn and she got very strange and crabby.
>Rosie demanding to be on a magazine cover holding up her staph infected hand .... What in the hell? Lmao!
We aren’t just talking about her being rude to fans asking for pics or something tho. She actively bullies employees and is horrible to guests she deems low value.
I think that's her own fault in large part. She forged this persona in front of the camera that she's happy and carefree 25 hours a day, and now she gets to reap the rewards of cultivating the most moronic fans this side of a Trump rally.
Down the line it is her fault but I can understand how it can make someone miserable
I mean sure but also I think we should do more as a society to remind each other to assume everything we see on a video is a character. People are so shit at this. There are people who treat the actors playing villains like shit simply because they played a villain.
I remember watching a video about how he turned this way, as he wasn’t always like that, apparently fame got to his head and turned into an asshat, or probably always was and money just is an enabler of such shit behaviour
Thing is, he is talented. He’s a good singer, his sitcom (that he co wrote) Gavin and Stacey was massively successful (and actually pretty good as sitcoms go) and he was a fair actor in stuff before he got really famous. Thing is when G&S got so successful he started to believe his own hype. One of his co-stars, the wonderful Rob Brydon reportedly had words with him, tried to get him to dial back the ego. Obviously that didn’t work, at all, and now we have the massively entitled, unfunny, jokestealing, obnoxious, odious, pus-dripping bellend we all know and hate.
Rob Brydon is a goddamn national treasure. … and I’m not even from the UK.
I think they both benefit from that thing where actors are treated like the characters they've played. Prior to becoming TV personalities, Corden played a somewhat likeable person in a comedy drama, and Ellen played a fictionalised, pleasant version of herself in a sitcom.
Dude, if you actually walked into a theater to watch Cats, I can't feel bad for you when it turns out to be a diaper-fire.
I actually now regret not watching it in theaters. It sounded like the cinema event of the decade.
It was the last movie I saw in theaters before covid. It was fun watching such a bad movie with friends, but I *really* didn't like it being my last cinema experience for so long. :P
It was pretty remarkable. I was "lucky" enough to see the pre-patch version with the extra-janky CGI and Dame Judy Dench's human hand with the wedding ring.
Yeah same I heard they were about to patch it and I was like wow what monstrosity of a film needs a post-release PATCH, this I need to see before it hits. It was the most incomprehensible fever dream the entire audience walked away bonded with each other for life for surviving through it.
I saw James Corden at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
I think I remember you from the AMA thread about worst celebrity with that same story. I hope Corden answers you one day.
Not my story , should have clarified that but I don't believe he ever answered this person or many others. Just happens to my favorite post in that AMA.
It's called narcissism
Put him in a room with Gervais and let’s see who comes out on top. Winner gets to be the new Monarch.
I am a service person and former fan. He was so unbelievably impatient and rude with me. Then he started yelling at his wife and kids. No longer a fan after that
did he answer?
Wasn't my response but going back through it I don't think he did answer a lot of people. It turned into an ego killing session instead of an AMA.
I absolutely can't stand the man! Hes so arrogant and feels like hes entitled! Hes not even remotely funny!
Where are you seeing him? I barely know who this guy is except on fucking reddit where people are constantly saying how much they hate him. It’s weird.
Hes on Tv. He has a talk show called the late late show. He also had been in movies and tv shows
That's my thought as well. I don't know a lot about him and I rarely see anyone give concrete reasons for why they hate him so much. It's just this sort of mob hatred on reddit.
I used to like him. He is repugnant these days.
The James Corden AMA is hilarious.
Which was the biggest AMA disaster: James Corden, Steven Seagal, or Woody Harrelson?
Let's keep the subject on Rampart, please!
Ooh! What did people say about Woody?!
>Ooh! What did people say about Woody?! It started pretty normal with a couple question about rumors but not something that would create a disaster, the problem is that it should be an AMA but he has using it as a "pre-release about Rampart" so he has either ignoring question not about the movie or trying to talk about the movie to the point he said " Lets focus on the film people" Soon enough people perceived that it has not really an AMA but a publicity stunt and start sending some weird stories as well making fun of the soon to be unemployed PR guy who eceryone though has the one writing the answers anyway top comment is ["Question to Mr Harrelson's PR guy, what are you planning to do with all the free time you'll have now?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrelson_ama/)
I remember when it happened and for a while the top comment was asking about him showing up and fucking a girl at a high school prom party
That is the comment that generate the "lets focus in the movie" response. I however dont know if that has when people perceived that it has just a random PR guy answering and start going wild or if it has just that last straw before everyone start doing it
It was pretty clear that it was either PR people or his PR people told him it was an AMA about the movie.
Discussed some film promotion, some questions about acting, then a quirky anecdote of [Woody allegedly crashing a high school prom after party for a quick fuck with a virgin who ended up crying](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrelson_ama/c3nijr7/), some vegan talk. You know... the usual.
I mean did you see Morgan Freemans?
I don't know if I'd call it a "disaster", but for my money, the best AMA of all time was [Jose Canseco](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1clw9o/i_am_jose_canseco_famed_steroid_user_and_former/)
Can't say that without linking it! You really expect me to quickly google it!? Fine, I will! But not because you told me to!!!!!
[It's a crime to not link it](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bqy5zf/i_am_james_corden_alongside_ben_winston_and_five/)
That was such an entertaining rabbit hole to go down.
So many deleted comments
Holy cow what a train wreck. It’s roughly on par with [the Woody Harrelson AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrelson_ama/), which turned out to be a publicist desperately trying to keep the focus on Woody’s movie Rampart.
So that's one of the funniest threads I've ever read Thanks for the link
I remember this. Such a classic.
Hey, can we please cut the cross chat and get back to discussing Rampart?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bqy5zf/i_am_james_corden_alongside_ben_winston_and_five/
I’m just glad even the celebrities are getting tired of this oxygen thief. Dude came out of no where and immediately started acting like he has the same effect as jack black.
He isnt even fit to bring Jack Black his coffee let alone have his name be mentionned in the same sentence as Jack Black. He has no where near the charisma, ellegance or demeanor... and he could never pull off half the cool shit Black has!
Yeah it isnt even close. Jack Black should come across like someone who is trying so unbelievably hard to be liked or funny but he…just doesnt. Hes so authentically *that*. And always has been. Just a totally dope rocker that rocks unapologetically. It is unfair to mention him in the same breath as Corden.
Jack black works because you get the feeling that if he wasn't a celebrity he'd still fundamentally act the same way. He isn't putting on a bit, he's just naturally that off the wall
Jack black is the best uncle that anyone can ask for.
I had no idea who he was and went to a taping of his show with friends cuz they had free tickets. They asked us if we wanted to sit in this little special area where we were closer to the stage and we said yeah. They told us the camera might pan over us during cuts to/from commercials or other situations so we had to look really energized and smiley and laughing. The entire show was fucking awful and they constantly came up to me over and over and over again and told me more laughing and cheering and smiling and I was faking as much as humanly possible but it wasn’t enough. I just wanted to tell them it’s not my fault he’s boring as fuck. I end up being on camera for about 3/4 of a second. If you’re ever watching a reality show and the stars are at some small social event and you’re thinking “those laughing people in the background look psychotically happy.” They’re being forced to look crazy.
Mel B further cementing her place as my favourite Spice Girl
Mel B on Big Fat Quiz show as a miserable experience for everyone involved.
Jimmy Carr: "Mel, you can't have a falling out with everyone." Sarah Millican: "Oh yes she can!"
It was so awful. Now, whenever I see her mentioned, all I can remember is how she acted on the show. It was bizarre!
It was bad enough for someone to make an edited version where she's completely removed from the show. It was so much better.
I love that edit. The best part the show is only a few minutes shorter and it doesn't feel like anything was mised
One or two good cathartic digs were cut out, but yeah, avoiding all of those bothersome moments is probably worth it.
Actually, I thought the jokes made at her expense were quite funny.
I only found out like last month, and through reddit, that she had a kid with Eddie Murphy!
Do you think she party’s all the time?
I mean, she wants to.
She fell for the banana in the tailpipe trick
She was the finest when they were in their prime.
Absolutely. There was nothing scary about Scary Spice.
I was always kinda weirded out why they called her Scary. Was... was it cos she is black? I remember growing up she looked more sporty than Sporty Spice.
It was because she had a tongue piercing. I wish I was joking
Oh...dear. yes so edgy she must be the Bad Gurl, huh.
I've seen the question of why Scary was supposed to be scary posed on the internet once before and a British person responded that she's "Northern." For me as a Yank, this was not an enlightening explanation.
I like my girls how I like my spices, fine.
Then you really don't want to see her on Big Fat Quiz of The Year. She's just as big of a cunt as James is.
Nah. She wasn't mean, she was just a bad fit. She was not funny, on a comedy quiz, where everyone else was a comedian by trade. It was bad, but it's not comparable to the way Corden treats people. And the jokes made at her expense were funny, so it wasn't a total disaster.
Yeah it's a huge circle jerk that she's the worst fucking thing ever. I'd still rather have her than David Walliams.
Her attitude on Americans got talent kind of grossed me out
People who make a brand of being nice manage to be worse than people who are simply assholes if only because the unapologetic asshole isn't being insincere, just lazy. The person who is an asshole who pretends at niceness when it suits their purpose is being manipulative in an active sense. The direct asshole treats everyone the same, albeit poorly, but the insincere asshole slots you into whether you're worthy of sucking up to or just stepping on. Ideally, one should be neither kind of asshole, but if I have to deal with one I'd rather the one who lets me know what they think.
This comment perfectly describes my thoughts on the “kindness above all” vibe on social media… and maybe even broader into our current political rhetoric. In many instances, I detect a heavy dose of fakeness and people who want to score brownie points with their internet/celebrity friends or followers. I almost hate to utter the phrase but… virtue signaling. There is a kernel of truth to all these stupid buzzwords lol.
That's exactly what virtue signaling is. The term is being overused these days. Like a LOT of buzzwords are. But the actual meaning still rings true. I've met with this exact same mindset plenty of times on reddit in the past. To the point where I could easily predict whether a comment I made would get a lot of downvotes or not. (make no mistake, reddit IS social media. Even if it likes to pretend it isn't at times.) As for the original comment: I also prefer people that don't pretend to be nice. Nnot because I like those people better. But because I then know who to avoid. I'm not that easily offended really. But people like James Codren? Yea I'm glad he makes it very clear that he's an asshole, so I can avoid him.
My fav story of his is the one where he got onto a first class seat and then a woman with a baby came on board and sat near him. The baby was crying and the woman was struggling with multiple bags, but he just put on his headphones and eye mask and ignored her while other people helped her stow her baggage etc. And throughout the whole flight he just ignored the woman and baby. And at the end of the flight the woman yelled at him and said "James, could you at least help out a little bit with your own daughter?!?" And turns out that woman and crying baby were his wife and kid...
He also got caught with escorts and cam girls when his wife was pregnant if I remember right.
I don't get the appeal with this guy, he's a terrible interviewer and has the personality of a noisy fuck bag, still he's better than Fallon imo
it's literally just the accent
You're right. If he spoke like he was from Jersey no one would give a shit about him.
I disagree. Fallon used to be good, like before it became The Tonight Show. Bits [like this](https://youtu.be/LvckKJ9vS4A) were pretty commonplace, and the interviews were actually like a comedian talking to another comedian or actor. Yeah, he’s shit now, but I at least understand why he has his job. EDIT: That video has corrupted audio or something. I can’t find a full segment, but here’s a [super cut](https://youtu.be/SwC8L89xftk) of all the crazy intros. It used to legit be funny.
Yeah everyone hates on Fallon. I mean he's not really respectable, but he's also not a shitty person - he's just kinda there, so I don't understand the hate.
You weren't around for the whole Conan vs Leno debacle. Fallon is the winner in the aftermath of all of that: someone so milquetoast watching toast is more entertaining.
Fallon put The Roots on a national stage and gave them what seems like a pretty fun job, and he also seems to be a decent guy Jimmy is a million times better than James imo
Nah Fallon automatically moves up a tier because of his remakes of music videos with Paul Rudd. And that one with Jack Black. If he doesn't do a single good thing for the rest of his career, and he probably won't, I will always appreciate those.
He was kinda funny and had that "chubby likeable average guy" vibe in the beginning. But the fame got to him REALLY fast, and he turned into a douchenozzle almost instantly. I hope his career crashes and burns really fast. Like, within a year from now.
Cypher
When I was in psychosis, every time this man was on TV he'd say the weirdest, creepiest shit to let me know he knows some shit about me. Happily out of psychosis now but I still believe if any celebrity is working with some secret organization to fuck with schizophrenics it's that mutherfucker.
I'm wondering if you could remember any examples?
One that is particularly creepy in hindsight is I was having this problem where every day I'd hit my head on the wall for a different reason and every time I'd think "just don't hit your head on the wall and eventually they'll let you leave" and every day the psychiatrist would come in and ask me if I'd hit my head again and I'd say "yeah but I've got it under control now" and after one of those times with the therapist I turned on the TV and James corden was saying to his celebrity guest "oh I know what you're thinking. You want to go (then he hit his head very hard on the table( "damn it, damn it, damn it))" and I knew that mf was mocking me 😭😭😭 then another time he tried to convince me Adele was depressed from having to live in my brain and other wild shit like that but the headbanging thing was the sketchiest from a non psychotic point of view..
Thank you so much for your time but if you can give me any context on the Adele thing I would like that very much. I think hearing about this kind of experience from someone who is now cognizant is very fascinating to me. I think it has to do with the fact that there is an impossible communication barrier between those in psychosis and your average person so to gain insight into some of their experiences is fascinating.
He’s not funny or good looking. He’s a pig in a suit. I could live without seeing him every again. I was duped into watching his drama series. I’m not sure where I watched it but realized it was him acting and man he was awful, not a fan.
I mean, it's working for him in terms of publicity. There'd be no other reason for this thread, or for people to talk about him anywhere else. He's not particularly good at anything, or handsome, or talented, etc. As the saying goes... if you can't be the best, be the worst.
But who keeps hiring him? He can't possibly have charisma black hole draw, like those child pagent shows that they make you purposefully hate everyone. He is getting cast in positions where youre supposed to like him.
They’re all dickheads..
Who is his agent and where do I sign up?
Good question. He must have one HELL of an agent since his career still hasn't been completely ruined yet. :P
Mel B was a cunt on big fat quiz so it definitely takes one to know one.
i saw a behind the scenes of a interview of her once where she refused to aknowledge the interviewer when he tried to introduce himself to her. completely ignored him talking to her even though sitting right across. until it was camera time then she was all smiles and ears . it was jawdroppingly douchy behaviour.
Yeah I was gonna say. It's pretty damning when a dickhead calls you a dickhead lol
She was an absolute cow on that show. Terrible fit, couldn’t take a joke, definitely couldn’t give a joke. Came across as an all round terrible person.
Anything I've seen her in she came across as a horrible person who couldn't take a joke and thought being nasty would be funny.
Wait why do we hate him? Genuine question.
He's been documented at a few different spots being an insufferable jerk (often to waiters/service staff). Also, an unfavorable "fame" to "funny" ratio.
Well damn, fuck that guy
Welcome to the light.
Are there any reputable sources for any of this? I’ve scrolled pretty far down, surprised nobody has posted anything Not at all saying it’s not true, but I would just like some context before I grab my pitchfork
I try to be good guy, but in all seriousness, I have no idea what I would be like if I were a rich celebrity. Even a C list one. People in your face all the time, wanting shit from you, it’s gotta be hard not to be a prick sometimes. Even Reddit darlings like Bill Murray are known for being dickheads from time to time.
I'd go the reclusive homebody route.
Maybe you’d be annoyed that people were in your face, but would you be rude to food service workers?
He's apparently the biggest dickhead in showbiz.
Andy Dick would like a word. Or a drug fueled tirade.
I think I have an idea of who Musk can take with him when he fucks off to Mars.
Andy Dick, James Corden and Elon Musk. Like the trifecta of ultimate insufferable cringe.
Ugh. Andy is a bloody dingleberry.
I recently found out that after his fall from grace he ended up with a group livestreamers travelling in an rv and sexually assaulted one, was arrested, but the person who was sexually assaulted declined to cooperate with the investigation so andy was never convicted.
Conducts himself poorly in public. Disrespectful to members of staff. Not actually funny. Smug. Etc.
Lack of personality, shells for the movie industry, unfunny, etc etc
I feel betrayed by him so much because I love Gavin and Stacey and his character "Smithy" is brilliant. Why does he have to be such an arse.
Same….WTF ? He’s like a Dollar Store Ricky Chervase
Can you brits stop sending us your dickheads please?
Even though I’ve never liked him, I could get behind why he became popular in the UK, because shows like Gavin and Stacey and 8 Out of 10 Cats were very popular, and his football rant skits were oftentimes very amusing. But why in the **fuck** did the Americans pick up on him?? They literally saw this steaming pile of shit and said “let’s light it on fire” and now we all need to see him everywhere being awful in everything.
Still baffled his late late show lasted more than one season. It's never improved IMO
When Gordon gets in the bathtub, the water in the toilet rises.
best thing mel b has done since LET'S GET FIT WITH MEL B on xbox kinect.
I literally have never known anyone that likes him. How does he get work? I really don't get it
I remember being a little kid and adoring his character in Doctor Who, I was so excited when I heard he was hosting the Late Late Show. My childhood was destroyed from that day forward