Also, it should be stated--and I have no feelings either way towards British Jimmy--that he is a figure who seems to generate either much love or much hate. It seems as though those who prefer to be called "queer" these days hate him because he's a straight man who likes musical theater. I think the other criticism is that he tries too hard. It also seems that there are Brits who hate him for simple overexposure--once he made it big with "Ned and Stacey" and the play "One Man, Two Guv'nors," he was hosting every awards show and seemed to be on TV constantly in the UK. There is something about him that rubs people the wrong way, and it seems especially interesting because he has done more for musical theater exposure on television through his show and hosting the Tonys than anyone since Rosie O'Donnell was doing a daily talk show. Perhaps it will be a good thing for him that he is ending his run on "The Late Late Show" and can figure out some new paths to go in his career.
Mark Jeffries [email protected] On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 8:40 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGAp55i2zEyAz5cBL67shUt1%2BXfpEAN3C4btKWRCiin6Bw%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/CAJ_uKi-dcorGfab7EW-jMZJLpJ0ynj0kPZwtrBsrKCZHV1WRiw%40mail.gmail.com.
