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“My mother's Short, but then so then why then to take Amazon, for example, with a show like The Grant Tour, which they have paid a huge amount of money for, are they going to put up every Friday night at 9 o'clock? Because they're trying.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What will happen is people will ultimately just start scheduling things the same way as television. Now they will live all week.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Coming out. We're taking those moments Have we taken the season finale of friends? So, ultimately, what happens, or the season finale of Seinfeld, or the West Wing, and what happens is I go, oh my God, did you see it? And you go, no, I'm on episode 11. Don't tell me what happened. Okay, let's not talk anymore.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All that's left and award shows, but. I don't know if that's a great thing I don't know if we should be very proud of ourselves.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That what happens is when are you just going to happen upon a different Point of view, and coming back to television, my worry is What is it meant for? Is it not a time where me, my dad, my sister, my son will gather together and Happen upon something”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Real people. No, no, I get that, but I feel like I'm hearing from more points of view than ever before on everything. Like that you have access to, say, a Breitbart and a Washington Post and a New York Times and you have access to everything.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“See, I would argue because I hear from more people than ever before. Now, I say I'll tweet something an anti Trump thing or something like that. Obviously, you have to be living in San Francisco. It's part of your duty. San Francisco citizen. And I will hear from thousands. Now, I have a large following. You have a very large.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you go I'll pick this up And whether it's the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily News, the Guardian, you're picking it up and you go, oh, this is a different point of view to mine.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Those friends of yours, not those people who live down the street, that ultimately it closes in and it closes in and you never, ever, when are you ever just going to happen upon something? So what you used to do was you'd sit down on a train or on a park and someone would have left a newspaper.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, no, but I'm not talking about networks. It's a different thing. It's a personal thing. This following idea. When you're making a choice to follow that radio DJ, that television guy, that podcast.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. That's not a lie. Your point of view Sure, but don't you think that ship has sailed a long time ago? I mean, the disaggregation of everything and that Walter Cronk had been dead forever and the idea that there were three networks, DBS, ABC, and NBC is”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That someone could lie and your feed will be full of ten other people that you follow going no he didn't that's not a lie she did this ignore that and it reaffirms your point of view and you're reaffirming theirs and that I think is ultimately quite a worrying scenario sure”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hillary Clinton's this he did that it used to be that a politician would go on the television and if they lied Walter Cronkite or whoever was interviewing would go you lied and we the people would go they lied that is and you're gone that's it you lied you didn't pay taxes you're gone but what happens is now in a world of following only like-minded people”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You should watch this. Your suggestions. You should watch this. And at no point is it open to other things, which is ultimately, and oddly, it's odd that you should mention The Circumstance that we're in right now, but I think lots of people, and you will meet them as much as I will meet them talk about and go, I don't even understand how Donald Trump is even. Got to this position, and I do believe that that is due to social media. Because ultimately all of us will follow like minded people. So, your feed, my feed will be full of liberal people who feel the same as we do. And that's the same the other side of the line. So if you are reading”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But my worry In the world right now of Netflix and Amazon and Hulu. And the only thing I really worry about I think sometimes when you look at Netflix, Amazon Hulu, YouTube, or that whole world is that it gives the illusion and it gives a feeling of ultimate choice. Of absolute freedom of choice, but my worry is that is it actually making the world a narrower place? Is it actually blinkering you to just staying in your lane?”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's fascinating because if you travel anywhere else, everyone's doing what I'm doing, which is really like if you go to Japan, China, everybody is glued to, they are not glued to the bigger screens. They are glued to these smaller screens in a way that it's a real shift.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do. If you're going to watch House of Cards. Bloodline or transparent, you know, if you've got the choice between television screen and phone.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you think working in Hollywood that people do think like that here now more and more? Or is it, because it's been a struggle for Hollywood to get into the idea that people are watching anywhere. I watch almost all my TV shows on this broken iPhone here, which is interesting.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, so no, we rarely think about the screen in the format of the size or whatever, but mostly wherever people want to, we just want to make a show that... that can travel wherever people are going.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really? I think because you know, I watch movie trailers on my phone and feel as moved. Or as excited as if I'm in a movie theater”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. In the car. Yeah, it does. In an environment that we're in, in an environment that we sing our songs in. An environment which is without cameras and audience and all of those things. And that's what I'm most.”
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“And she does when she's sat in that car. And the same for Chris Martin or Stevie Wanda. And so there's a feeling of that people just, you're hopefully, I think, showing Very much”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think the truth is there's an intimacy to it. Like the songs of the thing which people would know, and they are the very much the glue. Hold it together, but the thing I'm most proud of in them is the interview element in it because I do think you See people Like, I've known Adele for 11 years. I've seen her on any number of television shows, I don't know if I've ever seen her look quite so relaxed.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then there's a car in front of me and a car behind, and one car that just sort of floats. And so we're sort of driving in a kind of cushioned bubble, if you like, and we try and drive in a straight line as much as we can and away from the sun”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean, who knows if that will happen with this, but what we try to do is ultimately not do it very often. We've done... We've done 200.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, slowly and surely, yeah, but. I mean, yeah, I'm incredibly proud that in such a sort of short time here that we've sort of... Created something which is”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we were like, right, that's all well and good. But unless someone says That day will never come. And God bless Mariah Kerry for. Having the vision and the gumption, and to be quite honest, the balls to do it.”
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“And they didn't know me. They didn't know that. And they were like, well, no, we'll wait. And everybody would just say, well, we'll wait and see.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is not a show that we were going to the biggest artists in the world. And the late late show on CBS was not normally a door that they would pass by, you know”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we were like, oh, this is, yeah, that's an idea. An idea we were absolutely certain would work. If we could get someone to do it, which we couldn't.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Bits that define our show, and so myself and the exec producer, Ben, who's my best friend, who also directed that sketch that we were talking about just then, we were sat and we were thinking about the location of the show, me moving to LA. LA people talk about traffic, carpool, carpool lanes. And it just sort of landed, it just arrived. And we just sort of went”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dust Is there, and then it's gone, you know, right? And if you think about David Letterman's show, you're in the top 10 lists, stupid Petricks, or J Leno with J-Walking or Jimmy Fallon with Thank You Notes and Lip Sync Battles or Seth's show with a closer look.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And thank you, and people just really responded to it. The whole sketch, but that moment, those moments in particular, people were like, oh, I love that. The truth is, when you come and take on a show like this, you're just looking for, you're searching for what are the moments, what are the bits that will define our show? Right. Because if you don't have stuff that defines the show. What are these shows? You know, they're just sort of”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we had done a sketch for a charity at home called Comic Relief. Back in two thousand ten where a part of the sketch was involved me and George Michael in a casting in wham songs.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You've read it for years. Any human heart. A sequence of letters And it's beautiful And then the most recent book I read was a book by a brilliant author called Danny Wallace. Join me, which is really good”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, yes, I know that our digital team look a lot at Facebook and how we're doing on Facebook and things like that. Twitter and Snapchat don't.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it's a pure thing where you know if something's a hit, you know if something works. And you know if it doesn't, and we look at that's just the numbers that we look at.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“About relevance and not about ratings, it's just what is relevant. And I find ratings are sort of odd thing because You don't know and I don't know, and Kevin Spacey doesn't know how many people watch House of Carts Yet you, I, and he would never ever Disagree that it isn't a hit.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Starting block. So for us on our show, the time slot we're in, which like our time slot is not about ratings, it's about relevance”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Our show, we are simply at the mercy of a big football game or a big primetime drama or the news or our lead in. That's it. That's it. Whereas it's a level playing field.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because it's the only true number. Like, our show airs at 12 37 at night Our competition is people choosing to fall asleep. You know?”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he turns up and goes, yeah, he turns up and says, Well, he's playing all this old music, man. And I'm like, wait, are you challenging me to a better then, better now riff off? And then we'll have a certain. It's just what can, and I think. I don't know how many people should we have a look and see how many people have watched it. Hang on. We never look at our ratings”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And mostly it's just thinking, well, it's looking at the list of guests and thinking, well, what can we do? What will be fun? Like we had a singer on last week called Sean Mendez, who's incredibly popular, brilliant singer, good sport. And we decided to do a bit where he would interrupt the show. Because I play a lot of 90s RB on the show, somewhat ironically, but also, you know, you can't beat like Moncell Jordans. This is how we do it.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we'll get it to a place that when the guest walks in the door, we're already figured out. We're already 80% there so that they would never feel like, oh my God, why have I even agreed to do this? This is a disaster, you know?”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, no day is really the same But well I'll go straight after this and I'll go in and sit with the writers and normally I would be there now and we'll look at the news and we'll look at what we want to say at the start of the show. What's an angle on that? That's a funny thing about this. And then it will become either meetings about today or meetings about tomorrow or maybe meetings about next week. At the end of the show, after we wrap the show tonight, me and a few of the crew are going to rehearse something for not next week, the week after.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so when you're doing this every night, we're going to get to how you evolved into the one that's gotten you very well known because it's sort of gotten enormous in that way. When you work with your team writers, explain what you do all day, like how you get it together, how you bring it together now, how it's a modern talk show done.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And just every guest thinking, well, what can we do? What's a thing we can do that's either stupid or Silly, funny, or interesting or fun. And it's just got to tick one of those five, really.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's going to bring guests out one at a time. Well, let's bring all our guests out together. Let's bring them all out of the same time because Try and create a feeling of sorts of dinner party, an organic conversation. Bring our audience closer his shows in a Broadway theatre Where would you go after a Broadway theatre? You might go to a restaurant. You might go to a cabaret bar, you might go to a jazz club or let's bring our seats closer, little small Tiffany lamps in between Reggie Watts and his band being just incredible in that, you know, and you just try to Form it as organically as you can in a way that would feel like an organic process. And then it's about thinking, well,”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look, you could tune into our show tonight, and there'll be elements of it that are very, very the same, you know, as everyone because What we always wanted to do was just to evolve slightly, like just the very nature of you know, we would think about our show and we would think, well, we're on after Stephen Colbert's show, and Stephen's gonna be.”
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“It's not that, it's just got to be good and it's got to present because our show is a talk show. So very often it will be me and someone else. You've got to present them in a way. That people haven't really seen them before.”
2016-10-10 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'The Late Late Show' host James Corden · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT