James Corden should fuck off

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.

in work everyone LOVES this guy, they showed his jenson button sketch on our big screen at our end of day meeting last week. admirably one guy said "am i the only one who hates james corden", heroic and brave intervention.

such hate for him, such curiosity as to his actual appeal - what excuse did your colleagues give ronan?

I liked him quite a bit in Cruise of the Gods, tbh.

I thankfully missed the Sport Relief thing, but heard that it was pretty unpleasant. There's something really ugly about dishing out these (very, very unfunny) insults to people who have to 'take it in good part' cos it's for charidee.

I've heard via someone who worked with him in History Boys that IRL he is every bit as much a relentlessly boorish tool as you could imagine.

Credit where it's due, I thought he was great as the voice of the mouse in The Gruffalo.

tbh, I don't really understand the hatred. I laughed a couple of times during the sports relief thing, although I admit I wasn't really paying attention, maybe he killed a kitten or something when I wasn't watching?

There's something really ugly about dishing out these (very, very unfunny) insults to people who have to 'take it in good part' cos it's for charidee.

I think there's a consensus out there who now dislike him for the Kelly Holmes diss, where they previously liked him.

Way to go dude, and what a time to do it!

(tbf, I didn't see the bit, but was told about it)

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".

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didn't see this but it opens the door a little to me not hating peter kay

thought he was a prick at the speech debelle/take that farrago, though she hardly showered herself with glory that night too

(xpost) in the sense of "not hating Mussolini as much as Hitler"?

just thinking about the idea of the world cup song with dizzee rascal makes my piss-boil and my blood convert itself to paint stripper.

weird how dizzee rascal and james corden feel so similar now.

he can fuck off out of Dr Who as well.

I (controversial opinion ahoy) don't mind him as an actor, so am quite sure he'll be fine in Doctor Who, it's not like he's writing his own part or anything. (I remember saying this plenty re Catherine Tate as well, and that turned out OK all round)

he'll find a way to make me hate him. he always does.

I remember saying this plenty re Catherine Tate as well, and that turned out OK all round

ayayay

Catherine Tate is the old granny she plays, minus 40 years, basically.

Used to dislike Corden but recently watched all 3 series of Gavin & Stacey and really liked it and him (hides).

Gavin & Stacey is perfectly watchable but so gentle that I find it kind of infuriating.

I like the gentleness (if that's a word) of it. Ruth Jones and Rob Brydon the absolute best things about it.