And we got talking about “Late Night,” and I told them how incredible I thought Stephen Colbert’s appointment was and how swiftly they dealt with it.
And I had gone to Les and the then-president, Nina Tassler, to explain why. So I was going to play that role on Broadway, which I was of course very much looking forward to, and CBS had asked if I’d write a show for them, and I had said no. Great musical - Zero Mostel was in the original. And I was going to go back to New York and do a musical called “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” … But he saw the play and went home and started sort of Googling me and said, “How should we get this guy on our network?” And I’d shot a film called “Into the Woods,” and I was writing a new show for HBO. And unbeknownst to me, one day a man called Les Moonves, who is the CEO of CBS, came to see that play, and he tells this story much better than I, so it feels a bit indulgent if I tell it. And then I did a couple of things that weren’t very good, and then I wrote another show for the BBC called “The Wrong Mans,” which was also part-financed by Hulu, and then I went back to New York to do a play called “One Man, Two Guvnors,” which is a big slapstick farce. Which in the United Kingdom is essentially … We started with about 500,000 viewers and when we ended it three seasons later we had like 14 million. And then I wrote a sitcom called “Gavin & Stacey” for the BBC, which to everybody's surprise started on a very small digital channel called BBC 3 and ended up on BBC 1. And I'd worked at the National Theater and done a play in New York called “The History Boys,” which did very well. I worked with directors like Mike Leigh and Shane Meadows and people like that. and I’d done a few plays and a couple of films. I mean, I’m an actor first and foremost and I worked in the U.K. So talk about how you got to “The Late Late Show” and then we ’ ll talk about sort of the phenomen on you ’ ve created there.
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You have a hugely varied background in theater and on the BBC and TV shows and things like that. People don ’ t know as much about your background. So we ’ re going to talk tech in a minute, but let ’ s talk a little bit about you. It ’ s like Stockholm Syndrome in Silicon Valley, you know what I mean? I just abuse them and it works for all of us. I only talk to geeks and VCs, so it ’ s really nice to talk to a regular person.
I ’ m so thrilled to have you! We like having a TV person here every now and then. You ’ ve probably seen his “Carpool Karaoke” videos in which he drives and sings with celebrities ranging from Adele to Lin-Manuel Miranda to Michelle Obama. , since March 2015 he ’ s become something of an internet celebrity - I don ’ t know if he ’ d call himself that - thanks to “The Late Late Show’s” many viral videos. Originally a theater and TV actor based in the U. Kara Swisher: Today in the red chair I ’ m in Los Angeles talking to James Corden, the host of “The Late Late Show” on CBS.
If you like this, be sure to subscribe to Recode Decode on iTunes, Google Play Music, TuneIn and Stitcher. Below, we’ve posted a lightly edited complete transcript of their conversation. You can read some of the highlights from their discussion at that link, or listen to it in the audio player above. On a recent episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, “The Late Late Show” host James Corden recounted how he chased after a drone that spied on his family.
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