James Corden should fuck off

A bit more detail:

Speech Debelle was booed by fans of Take That last night (November 25) when she attempted to rap the band's 1993 hit 'Pray'.

The Mercury Prize-winner was jeered off-stage at the launch of the boy band's new video game, SingStar.

Debelle, real name Corynne Elliot, reportedly upset the 500-strong audience with her cover, and when they booed, she said: “I'm a rapper. I don't do Take Shit.”

Her reaction prompted host and star of Gavin and Stacey James Corden to respond, saying: “That was shit, anyone can rap”.

― The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Friday, 27 November 2009 15:28 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

both of them should fuck off anyway

http://broken-tv.blogspot.com/2009/03/comedy-showdown-ii-horne-and-corden-and.html

^this is still great

I watched G&S last night and laughed quite a few times, although mostly at the bits with Gavin and comedy Welsh people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIqHE-_qORU

Just saw the actual clip - excruciating. Debelle's a mess, and makes the tactical error of calling the band she's supposedly celebrating "Take Shit" but then Corden is such an obnoxious, bullying shit that you have to sympathise with her despite yourself.

nothing about that entire thing is defensible but debelle is pretty much AS indefensible as corden...argh

defending constituent parts of the indefensible

His "rap" is better than hers.

"Nobody disses our four boys"

WTF have they just come back from Afghanistan or something?

yeah, armed with loudspeakers

everything about that clip is just horrible. noone comes out with any credit and they all need launched to the moon on a rocket.

You guys are treating this like a goof, but the fact is, the whole episode really cast a pall over the "launch of Take That's new SingStar game."

Truly this is Britain's typically lame answer to Kanye West vs Taylor Swift.

Yeah the Speech Debelle thing is excruciatingly bad but, come on, it's Take That karaoke, who cares? But James Corden is a massive bullying cunt and, no matter how bad Speech Debelle's own record is I'm willing to bet she's never put her name to anything as awful as that Corden & Horne sketch show.

Classic. I wish there was more booing at things.

saw this guy in a corridor this week.....basically the worst possible side of bbc, this blokey fucking salt of the earth bullshit that has infiltrated sport/news/comedy

being a fat spotty unfunny twat isn't easy...unless you're james corden

his blokeyness seems really false as well. he seems very stage school. also he's an unfunny fucking cock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EFwRcmKDhU

James Corden is funny enough in his own head that it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

That is honestly one of the most depressing five minutes of anything I've seen all year, up til and including "Coming up next, we've got Remi Nicole!"

The BBC run this ad at the moment wherein they solicit the viewers opinions about programming, and the ad specifically asks for your views on "BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4". They don't mention BBC3 at all, presumably because a) they don't give a shit what anybody thinks about it, b) the target audience mostly can't write, and c) they're committed to giving cunts like Corden money somehow and they might as well do it on some shitty satellite channel that nobody watches.

i find it sort of depressing that there are apparently enough people out there who rate what he does for him to have a profitable career. who are these people and what the hell do they enjoy about his existence? :(

He speaks for "ordinary people" innit? Like a comedy version of that twat Chris Moyles.

that vid with becker is just embarrassing, he's just a fat clown.

I remember some kind of report from a few years back that said the Beeb wasn't meeting the needs of white working class males or something, and I guess Corden is part of their ham-fisted patronising response to that.

This banned tango ad campaign was the apex of Corden's career, probably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y1Ce0jr3hg

It's quite amazing how bad BBC3 is, especially given that E4 has made a decent fist of being a specialist youth-oriented channel and has thrown up some terrific, non-patronising TV (the Inbetweeners and Misfits being the most recent examples). BBC3 has given us the great Being Human and not a lot else.

(Okay I will begrudgingly accept that Gavin & Stacey has had its moments but I'm reluctant to give Corden any credit for those)

Pulling was an uncharacteristically great BBC3 show, I thought, but hardly anyone watched it.

You would hope that the Beeb could use BBC3 to try out a more diverse range of programmes, even within the remit of populist stuff aimed at a 16-30ish age group which I guess is the channel's purpose. So either there are very few people with interesting ideas out there, or the people in charge of commissioning have got a stupidly patronising view of the audience. Guess which one I reckon is the answer?

Ideal, Nighty Night, and the Mighty Boosh are the only other programmes I can think of on BBC3 that I've watched/liked. Along with the odd episode of Family Guy, and also Torchwood which started off on BBC3.

Pulling is certainly one of the best comedy shows of the decade I'd say. But yeah, in general BBC3 is complete plop and E4's recent stuff (as Matt mentions) pisses all over it.

I remember some kind of report from a few years back that said the Beeb wasn't meeting the needs of white working class males or something, and I guess Corden is part of their ham-fisted patronising response to that.

Not seeing how Corden is mean to appeal to "white working class males", isn't he aimed more at students?

He is the comedy equivalent of Oasis - he appeals to the spectrum running from students to white van men. Also the hating rappers thing.

I don't know, I just can't imagine geezers down the pub discussing the latest Corden & Horne

Corden & Horne no, because I think even people who like him would accept that's rubbish. Gavin & Stacey yes.

Of course it might be that "white working class males" is lazily interpreted by some BBC dude as "dumb lads".

I think you might have got it there. I don't know anything about Gavin & Stacey, so that's my contribution to the debate over. Other than the fact that he comes across to me as a fat unfunny drama school fuck and not as some kinda Peter "I'm right working class, me" Kay salt o' the earth type

I'm not a fan - but strive not to be size-ist in my critical thoughts about him.

btw I thought Lex would be telling everyone not to be so sour?

I try not to be size-ist, but 99% of his "comedy" is based on the fact that he's fat

James Corden should fuck off

seriously

I feel that I'm avoiding a lot of potential rage this evening by deliberately not watching Sport Relief.

I mistakenly went on to BBC1 when it was on, saw some kind of sports celebrity masterchef horrorshow, in which Alan Hansen was pretending to have a sense of humour, and quickly switched over.

i was thinking of finding this thread and posting 'this fucking guy is fucking everywhere' but yeah

I'm not entirely sure whether getting to stand up "in character" in a room full of people and tell Kelly Holmes she doesn't deserve a damehood just for running round a track is just show-off wish fulfilment, mildly entertaining, an indulgence of your status to allow you fire off some comedy zingers in a more ostentatious way than just doing stand-up, or just basically being a rude cnut to people's faces just because you can.

Is this guy really fucking everywhere? I've more or less managed to avoid him since he was in Fat Friends about a million years ago, apart from his twatty little outbursts when drunk which occasionally make the news.

That sounds like it's up there with Peter Kay fucking up Parky's last proper show. It's the "pretending to be a complete tosser but actually underneath I'm really a complete tosser" school of "comedy".

See also: Chris Moyles.

Fat Friends was actually pretty good eh?

such a twat. hate this guy.

Probably the least credible example for the "you're just jealous" argument. Used to mention Mark Owen as an example of a successful and popular man no one appears to hate, sadly that defence could now be fucked.

I hated Mark Owen before it was popular to do so.