The Daily Show: Ears Edition - ICYMI - James Corden on Hosting "The Late Late Show" and Having a Blast at the Tony Awards

Episode Date: December 14, 2019

"The Late Late Show" host James Corden talks about the origin of his wildly popular Carpool Karaoke segment, his love of theater and hosting the 2019 Tony Awards. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Please welcome, James Corden! Finally, finally. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be here. Finally, I am beyond excited to have you here because like you have come in and genuinely changed in many ways. The people perceive not just late night but television. So I am beyond excited to have you here because like you have come in and genuinely changed in many ways the people perceive Not just late night, but television because I remember when you started on the show Everyone was like oh who's this guy? He's starting at like 1237 at night and what's this thing gonna be and

overnight you took what was once considered a fringe time slot and turned into the biggest explosion Thanks to your ideas including Carpool karaoke Have like? Has like? Has that? that? that? that changed? that changed? that changed? that changed? that changed? that changed? that changed? th you? th you? that changed? th th th th th th? th? th? th? th? thuu? th? th? thuu thi? thi? thi? thi? to to to to to to to to to th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi? thi? thi? thi? thi? thi? thi? to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to toe toe toe toe toe toe toe thi. thi. thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thanks to your ideas including Carpool Karaoke. Have like, yeah, like, like, has that changed the way you see the medium as a whole? I don't think so. I think we always thought that's what we were going to do when we were going to try to, you know, we didn't know that it would, it would, we had no idea that it would or could happen as quickly as it did, but our, I mean, essentially,

my ego won't allow me to recognize that I'm making a show that airs at 1237 at night. If I think about that too long, I'll just really get depressed. So we were like, well, there's nothing we can do about that, so we can hang on, wait the internet, we'll use that. And so we only really think our that that that that that that thiii- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi-o, thi---------s, th-s, th-s, th-s, th-e, th-e, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi-n. thi-I-a-n't, thi-a-a-a-a-s, thi-a-a-a-a-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. the. the nothing we can do about that, so we can hang on, wait, the internet, we'll use that. And so we only really think of our show as not really being in a time stop. We think of it as well, it launches at that time and people can find it whenever they want to, whether that's years down the line or days or the next morning on their journey to work, lunch break, it's th........ th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. than. than. than. thrown. thrown. thr-and, thi. thi. thr-a. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, than. And, than. And, thi. And, thi. And, thr. And, thrown. And, theea. And, thea. And, thea. And so, thr. And so, thi. And so, thi. And, th about making shows like this right now in this particular time Definitely and here's the thing. It's not just about time. I think it's also about time. I think it's also about time.

You know your show was one of the first that really blew up on an international level the same way everywhere you went. People were talking about carpal karaoke they had lot of people don't know this, you guys struggled to get people on that show. Oh we couldn't get anybody. Yeah we couldn't get I mean honestly. Now everyone's like James when am I coming on your show? It's kind of lovely but we couldn't I mean honestly I really I really always believed in the idea. I always thought this I think this is a good idea. thi. thi. this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a good. I this is a good. I this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a this is a good I this is a good I this is a good I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I idea. Yes. But there's quite an interesting game actually you play with the audience. If everybody in the audience, if everybody now, just in your own mind, don't say it out loud, just a new do it Trevor, just think of a think of a recording artist, a living recording artist. Has everybody got one? They said no. And they said no. And it's not a lie. It's true, absolute truth. And so then we we, we, and it, and it, and it, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was, and it was just, and it was just, and it was, and it was, the the their, their, their, their, their, their, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, and it was just, and it was just, and it was just, and it was just, and it was just, and it was just, and it was just, the the the the the the the the their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their,'s the true, absolute truth.

And so then we, we, and it was just a chance meeting with Mariah Carey's publicist and she was about to put some new dates on in Vegas. And I showed her a clip of me doing it in a sketch with George Michael that I'd done at home for a comic relief. And, and she loved George Michael and Mariah Carey was like, if it's good enough for George it's good enough for me and that was it. And nobody thought that it would ever become the thing that it's kind of become, but it's kind of, it's crazy. It really is amazing. I mean it's gone from just being musicians to politicians. I mean Michelle Obama has done it, you know, you've been in a car. Everybody, I mean everybody look at this list, Paul McCartney, you know, you've had Tom Hanks on the show, you've had, everyone, it's become this thing that is

larger than life. The next step you do realize is you and the Pope in the Pope Mobile. And you just can, you can only sing the one song. I would love that. I would absolutely love it. My man. I would love it. If he's watching and I think he is. And if he's not watching this, he'll be watching the Tony's on Sunday. So we'll talk, we'll really get it. I would love nothing more than to do it with the Pope.

That's something that I've loved about your show is that it really is an expression of all of your talents, right? A lot of people were surprised. I remember the first few times carpal caryoic really blew up. People were like, well, this James Cornyn guy can almost sing. And it's like, no, no, he can really sing. Which is shocked people, because there's some artists who've come in and been like, I'm gonna sing with this funny guy, and they're like, wait, he's hitting the notes. And that's why you have won Tony Awards, because you are an actor. Yes, we know you as a host, but you're an actor, you're a performer, and you've loved theatre

your whole life. Yeah, I mean, I'd never really hosted, I used to host a show back in the UK, which you came on actually, but that was my only real time hosting anything, but really what I'd ever do is be in plays or I would write, you sitcoms and things in the UK. I never thought that I would never even enter my brain in the same way that I don't think get into yours in any way that you think oh I would host a daily show in America. It feels too far away. It feels too far.

It's out of reach somehow, you know, and I think we both had that feeling, because we essentially got announced at basically the same time, right? And it was both who the hell are these guys. Yes, I remember this. And we both had to really deal with that in that own way. Yes, definitely. But, yeah, I would love to go back and act at some point and go and I would love to go back and act at some point and go and do a play again. I miss it, I the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their thoes. I'm, thoes. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th.... Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha', tha', tha', tha', tha'. Yeah, tha' try and go to the theater as much as I can, I'm going to go tonight and I miss it. I miss it hugely, but at the same time I feel in no place where I want to stop this kind of glorious journey that I'm on at the minute.

I love it. I don't know what I've done to sort of deserve such memories. You know what I mean? That's the th th th th th th. But the Tony's is like an expression of a world that you've adored for a long time. This is your second time hosting. What's impressive is that you're doing the Tony's and you've done the Grammys. It feels like you have more fun at the Toneys. The Grammys are fun, but it feels like you have more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more more their more their more tha more tho tho tho tho there. That's the first real big difference between the Grammys and the Tony's is everybody wants to be there and they're thrilled that they're all doing this. No one's going, I didn't fucking win, what, you know? So it's a very, very supportive community. That entire community of Broadway, they are, these are a load of people who are squeezed into 12 blocks.

Yes. Back-to-back theaters and they know each other and their friends. And these are people who eight times a week, like, look, you think you work hard, I think I work hard, but like, when you're doing a play or a musical, eight times a week, with one day off, that is absolute graft. And the reason I want to host the Tony's and the reason I want to really try and make it the best show I can is I believe that per square meter there is no room on earth that holds as many talented people as that room does.

And it's a show where, and I think, are you just want to celebrate these people who are so gifted, they are so talented th. th. th. th. th.... And th. And their their th. And their th. And their, th. And th. th. th. th. thi. toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, toe, to to to to to toe, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the th. the th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. the. the. the. thean thean thean thean thean thean the thean thean thean toean toean toe. toe so talented, that they put on a show every day. And in a world where we are living increasingly on our phones and tablets, iPads, all those things, we are all searching for a live collective experience and experience to be together. And these are the people that provide that. So we're really going to try and make the best and biggest show we can. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I th. I th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. th. th. th. thi. th. th. thi. thi. that's th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And to th. And to th. And to. And to. And to. And to. And to. And to. And to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. th. the th. th. th. th. the th. And th. And the are the people that provide that. So we're really going to try and make the best and biggest show we can. I mean, it's terrifying.

I've had real moments this week. I thought, oh, I should have just left it at the one I did were Hamilton, and that was a real success. You know, I should have just gone out there. But I really hope we're going to stop at nothing to make it a celebration of a group of people that I think at the absolute minimum deserve to be celebrated on television at least once a year. I'll tell you this, I've never seen James Quarden not do something at 110 percent, so it's going to rock man. We'll see it the show.

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