I always tend to give writers the benefit of the doubt in these things. Twitter being called a Town Square is a widely used (and bad) analogy. But the "guitar lessons" bit is just too on the nose to be an accident, so yes, it was probably "borrowed" from Gervais. Now whether the writer knowingly reused the joke, or whether it just lodged in the back of their brain and came out in a session is something else. I can believe that a writer might honestly think that it was an original idea rather than from a four year old comedy routine.
There's a famous story about a packet of biscuits eaten at a railway station that Douglas Adams related in his Hitchhikers' novel, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. Adam's claimed that it had actually happened to him, but it had appeared in films and other works on multiple occasions. Maybe it happened in real-life as well? Maybe not. Snopes has an article about it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pinched-cookies/ Adam On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 1:26 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Not to pile on James Corden, about whom I have few strong feelings pro or > con, as I have seen very little of his work (mostly the clip of him driving > through Liverpool with Paul McCartney, which I like). But he was caught > telling a monologue joke about Twitter that was almost word for word from > Gervais’ 2018 Netflix Special. > > Gervais’ speculation that Cordon had no idea, and just approved and used a > joke brought to him by his writers, sounds right. Unaddressed in this > article is, was the writer fired? Isn’t something like this about as bad as > it gets for a late night comedy writer? > > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/02/james-corden-ricky-gervais-joke/ > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BYia7shMRVJB%3DYs5D3qUjMBTBFd1ZC7TZ%2BWFvY8PtmnQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2BYia7shMRVJB%3DYs5D3qUjMBTBFd1ZC7TZ%2BWFvY8PtmnQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGAp55i2zEyAz5cBL67shUt1%2BXfpEAN3C4btKWRCiin6Bw%40mail.gmail.com.
