The space was clearly too tight for a proper late-night show, but there was something fun and DIY about that episode that gave me early David Letterman vibes combined with a heavy dose of Graham Norton. In that episode and his in-studio ones, Corden committed to putting all of his guests together on the sofa, one of the things that has always made Norton’s U.K. show such a fun hang and that generally worked on, too. I liked how Corden was experimenting with the form and improvising a bit.
The thing is, that’s sort of what he promised CBS executives he would do. In an interview earlier this week with, Corden recalled the feedback he gave to CBS when they asked him what they should do with the time slot that once belonged to Craig Ferguson. “I said I think you’ve got an opportunity to have an hour there that embraces the internet,” he said. “Make a show that launches at 12:37 but people consume and watch all day, because that’s how that audience are consuming their content now.
This stunt highlights both Corden’s greatest strength and biggest flaw rolled into one. He’s not afraid to play the heel when the comedy requires it. The way he and Whitehall pester the other panelists is very high school: annoying yet funny at the same time. But the commitment to preplanned bits is also there. And by the time Corden gotLet’s talk more about how he and Fallon YouTube-ified late night.
Even when guests had been prepped ahead of time, there was still that sense of spontaneity in a lot of late-night conversations, and the sense that surprising things could happen that weren’t under the control of the host or the publicists micromanaging their clients. Just one example of many: Cheron national television in 1986. Generally in those days, things didn’t feel quite as overtly scripted.
Corden was correct to recognize that by the mid-2000s, people were no longer consuming “late night” late at night anymore. He also was smart to think about how his show might work in the YouTube era. But the focus on games and silly sketches, onand elsewhere, has wound up pushing late night further from its original principles. Instead of creating a relaxing, organically evolving experience where anything could seemingly happen, Corden started forcing “the anything” to happen.
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