Our first guest is a Tony and Emmy award winning actor
and the host of The Late Late Show.
Please welcome my friend, James Corden.
How are you?
Hi, pal.
How you doing?
Are you well?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm very well.
I feel like I should apologize, because Andy was texting me.
He always texts me during your monologue.
Some of the stuff that he--
we talk a lot about sports.
And that's-- I didn't always know.
I thought he was joking when he did that.
But it really is every show.
During the monologue, that's when he does it?
Yeah.
Then I'll text him back during my monologue and--
I hope you have a job for me, James.
Do you have anybody like that James on your staff
that you find doesn't pay attention
during the time you're on stage?
Are you joking?
It's every single person who works here.
No, I was just there a few weeks ago.
Everyone is hanging on your every word.
Everyone adores you, and everyone
is there and supporting you.
Well yes, you think that.
And then you remember that, oh yeah, they're
all being paid to be here.
So sometimes I'll think I'm really funny.
And then I realize I'm not.
I even have buttons.
Have you seen this?
I have buttons for if I don't--
if the crew don't laugh, I've got it all sorted out.
You need to get one of these.
So if I tell a joke and no one laughs, I just go--
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah.
I have one, but they took it away from me
because I was cheating.
So yeah.
Hey, the last time you were on you
were doing a show, actually your show, from the garage.
Is it all cleaned out now or is it
ready to go back into production again?
No.
We've finally taken it down, but that really only
happened in the last 10 days maybe.
No, maybe three weeks ago, we took everything down.
So it was really in there for quite a long time to the point
where I'd actually forgotten that it was there.
It's quite embarrassing if you've
got a sort of makeshift television studio
but with pictures.
It was pictures of me all over the walls with like, you know,
Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga and stuff.
And I forgot it was there until an Amazon delivery
arrived at the house.
And I said, I said, I'll open the garage door.
And I'll meet you there on the intercom thing.
So I had forgotten that this was in the garage.
So the garage door opens.
I'm waiting in the garage with like pictures of me everywhere.
And I could tell the guy was thinking,
this man has lost his mind.
I don't think he knew I had a TV show.
I don't think he'd ever seen me before.
He just thought I was an absolute weirdo these photos
of myself all around my garage.
Yeah.
And it was then that I thought, we need to pack this away now.
That's hilarious that's hilarious.
Hey, now you know, the one thing that we're all
looking forward to is next season,
hopefully having an audience.
But you've got to be looking forward to Carpool Karaoke,
because you haven't been able to do that.
When do you-- do you have an idea
of when you can do that again?
I don't know really.
We wonder when someone will tell us when it's OK.
I don't know.
I'm hopeful for the end of summer or autumn time
that we'd be able to do it again.
It feels like there's a whole raft of artists
that we are desperate to do it with.
You know, I've had the most incredible last few years
or whatever, but I don't know.
We seem to work in the strictest building and maybe on Earth.
So my cast stage manager is nodding as I do this.
He's going, yes we do.
So I hope so much that we'll be able to do it
before the end of the year.
I hope, you know.
Yeah.
You've had so many people.
Tell everybody what happened when you had Stevie
Wonder on a few years ago.
Well Stevie Wonder was, I think, a real turning point
for that segment on our show.
Because it was incredibly moving.
And we came up with this idea.
And I didn't tell my wife.
And we thought maybe that it'll be
fun if Stevie would call Julia, my wife, and sing,
I Just Called to Say James Loves You.
And I didn't tell her that he was going to call and he did.
And what's on TV is really moving.
I couldn't help but be overwhelmed with it.
I just was--
So much of my life, I just think,
if this was an auction prize, you know,
this would go for millions of dollars.
Stevie Wonder is going to call your wife and sing,
I Just Called to Say James Loves You.
You know, I don't know what I've done
to deserve so many memories.
What I didn't know is when I got home,
my wife Julia was actually in a bathroom stall at a restaurant
when the phone rang.
So I had this gorgeous image of her just
being completely overwhelmed with emotion.
But she was just literally in a toilet at a restaurant
as he was singing this love song down the phone.
And I'm glad I didn't know that at the time,
because it was so moving when it happened in real life.
That's hilarious.
Rock out, man.
Rock out.
We're back with James Corden.
These Gucci ads that you did are so fantastic and so clever.
It's Harry Styles, Diane Keaton.
Who else?
There's a few people that did it with you.
Awkwafina, Serena Williams, Sienna Miller, Dakota Johnson.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was real fun.
Whose idea was that?
It was Alessandro Michele, who's the real,
you know, the fashion director at Gucci.
And he had this idea where he wanted
to make a sort of mock talk show with all these guests, called
the beloved show.
And yeah, I was just--
I was overwhelmed to be asked to do it.
It was odd.
I shot it at the same time as I was
sort of becoming a partner with Weight Watchers, which
is now known as WW.
And I really thought at the time,
I must be the only person doing a Gucci campaign and a WW
campaign at the same time.
Those two brands-- those two brands
don't normally cross paths.
They don't.
That's two Gs and two Ws.
Yeah.
You don't see it.
I have to say you look great, speaking of Weight Watchers,
or WW.
Thanks.
You've lost 25 pounds?
25 pounds down, yeah.
Fantastic.
It might be 23 after the weekend, but I'm still trying.
Now listen.
I know, because I've talked to you about this,
that you hate exercising.
You'll do anything that-- most people don't like exercising.
We started something here on the show, where, after rehearsal,
every single day--
and there's not a lot of us here, because of COVID.
But the people who are here, the whole crew,
we all get down on the floor, and we do as many push ups
as we possibly can for as long as we can.
It's been a very bonding thing.
So we want to challenge you and your crew,
next year, to see who can do the most push ups.
And are you up for that?
Well, do I have to do it?
Yeah.
Well that does change things.
No, I think we'd be--
I think we would be up for that as a crew.
I think we've got some real fit guys here.
We've got like-- we've got two guys, Robin Gahler
and Terrence, our photographer.
I saw Terrence with his shirt off once.
He had his shirt off, because he was
getting changed into something we were doing on the show.
And his body was so ripped.
I looked at him, I thought--
my only thought was, technically, we're
the same species.
But I'll give it my best.
I'll try a-- I'll try a push up.
Sure.
All right.
Yeah.
We'll do it next season.
We'll see.
We'll get it going and give it some time.
And then we'll have a--
I think it's a good challenge.
It's a bonding thing.
We really love doing it.
We started doing it a while back and we do it every day.
Well I'll be lighter by then, so hopefully I'll
have done another 20 pounds.
And then I'll just at least be able to do five.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, it's a start.
We'll be back.
More with James after this.
We're back with James Corden.
That was a clip from your new movie, Peter Rabbit
2, The Runaway.
So this was your second time playing Peter.
What happens this time?
Well, it's an evolution from the first one.
And really the heartbeat of the film
is if you keep telling a child that they're naughty,
and they're bad, and to stop, then at some point,
they just think that that's who they are.
And that's really what happens to Peter in the film really.
He takes some wrong turns, but, you know,
the film is about love and family.
And how those things will always be the anchor in your life.
And it's really fun.
It's really funny.
If you enjoyed the first one, you'll
definitely like this movie.
If you didn't like the first one,
you should go see it anyway and just see if you change.
Because once you've bought a ticket, it still works.
Exactly.
I know from playing Dory that you
have to record these extra noises,
like if you're running or being scared or something.
How is that for you?
Well, they save it all until the very end.
I don't know if that's what they did with you and Dory.
So you spend about half an hour just going,
blah, ugh, oww, uh, [PANTING] ah, wah, yah, ahh, like that.
And then it really does take it out of you after a while.
Yeah.
It does.
And they could literally make you do anything.
That's the crazy thing, the power that they've got.
They could just go, OK, now, can you
just pretend you're sitting down on a block of ice.
And then I could feel them just going, this isn't in the film,
but it'll be fun to see him do it.
Yeah.
What would that sound sitting on a block of ice?
Do you know what?
That actually did happen to me.
That's a true thing.
I went to an audition when I was 15, at casting,
for a Danish yogurt, yogurt as you would say.
And the director, completely true story, said to me--
he was a very artsy guy, and said, OK,
James, what I want you to do is pretend you are not clothes,
you are completely naked, OK?
And you are sitting down on a block of ice,
but it must not be comical.
But I look back on this day and I think, why didn't I just go,
you're not looking for me.
I shouldn't be here.
Before you know it, I'm like in there going [SIGHS]
And he's going, no, this is too comical.
It needs to be very serious.
And I'm like, what kind of yogurt are you selling here?
But you know, these are the things you do.
Oh my God.
I never heard that story.
That's hilarious.
Oh, I love you.
I miss you.
I hope to see you soon.
I can't wait to see you soon.
I really am so happy to be here.
And I hope I get to come back again before you stop,
because we're going to miss you so much.
We really are.
I've loved every single time I've
come over to the show every single time I've been there.
I remember the first time.
To tell you this, completely true,
I mean this from the bottom of my heart.
For the first time, I think our show had been on the air
maybe five months, six months.
And I got this email saying, Ellen,
wants you to come on the show.
And honestly, I was like oh, wow, that
means I might have made it.
Because that was all I ever used to think was like,
one day, I'll get to be on that show.
And we're going to miss you so much.
And I hope to come back and see you.
Goodbye.
And I hope to have a drink with you in the meantime.
Yes you will.
I love you.
I love you so much.
Peter Rabbit 2, The Runaway is in theaters
in the US on June 18th.
We'll be back.
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