US speak present host Andy Cohen has claimed James Corden ripped off an iconic function of his set on the British comic’s personal US speak present.
Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live set includes a bar – one thing no different speak present had, till one appeared on The Late Late Show With James Corden,New York Post experiences.
“I think there has been a traditional idea of what a late night talk show is, and I would argue that Watch What Happens Live redefined what the late night talk show is,” Cohen, 54, informed celeb restaurateur Bruce Bozzi on a current episode of his Table For Two With Bruce Bozzi iHeartMedia podcast.
“[WWHL] was the first bar on late night [then] James Corden got a bar.”
The Bravo govt producer, whose present first aired in 2009, then stated, “James Corden kind of wound up…” earlier than Bozzi accomplished his sentence by saying: “Ripping off your set.”
“There you go,” Cohen quipped again. “I am so glad we’re still going. That [the show] is, like, great, copy my set … go with God.”
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It’s not the primary time Corden, 44, has been accused of following one other comic. He got here beneath fireplace final month for seemingly lifting a joke – nearly phrase for phrase – from fellow British comic Ricky Gervais.
Corden addressed the saga on Twitter, watering down controversy over the obvious joke theft: “Inadvertently told a brilliant Ricky Gervais joke on the show last night, obviously not knowing it came from him. It’s brilliant, because it’s a Ricky Gervais joke. You can watch all Ricky’s excellent specials on Netflix.”
Later, Gervais informed BBC podcast Headliners there have been no onerous emotions concerning the comedic gaffe, saying he informed Corden: “Don’t worry about it.”
“Whatever you think of James Corden, there is no way he knowingly ripped off my joke and thought he’d get away with it,” Gervais stated.
Elsewhere in Cohen’s interview, the long-running host received candid with Bozzi about feeling unnoticed among the many different late evening tv hosts.
“I don’t feel totally part of the [late night television] group and I have been on late night TV for 13 years,” he stated.
“Years ago [in 2015], there was a big photo shoot that Vanity Fair did of all of the late night talk show hosts and they left me out of it, but they added in James Corden who wasn’t even on the air yet and Trevor Noah who had just started.”
Cohen – who had been on the air for seven years at that time – famous that famed journal editor Graydon Carter later apologised to him.
“Graydon later said, ‘You know what, you were right, you should have been in that,’” Cohen stated.
In addition to WWHL, Cohen is gearing as much as host a New Year’s Eve particular on CNN with greatest pal Anderson Cooper. However, on account of Cohen’s behaviour throughout final yr’s dwell broadcast, the community has determined to restrict his ingesting this yr.
Ryan Seacrest, who has been a longtime host of ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, not too long ago stated he was in help of CNN’s resolution.
“I don’t advocate drinking when one is on the air,” the American Idol host informed Entertainment Weekly on Monday.
“I don’t know how that started as a tradition, but it’s probably a good idea [to scale back], CNN.”
Seacrest, 48, added: “There’s some pretty respectable people or at least one, right? I think there’s a serious journalist and then a friend of mine who has a lot of fun, but it’s probably a good idea.”
This story initially appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission
