James Corden’s biggest controversies from Balthazar restaurant behavior to Weintstein jokes

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ask any of the women who watched him take a bath.” open image in gallery James Corden speaks onstage during the amfAR Gala Los Angeles 2017 The actor’s jokes about the disgraced Hollywood film mogul were met with harsh reprisals from the likes of Anthony Bourdain and Rose McGowan, who alleges that Weinstein raped her. On 31 October, Corden told his Late Late Show crowd: “When you see Elon Musk talk about Twitter, he does this thing where he goes, ‘Well, it’s the town square.’ But it isn’t, ‘cause if someone puts up a poster in a town square that says, ‘Guitar lessons available,’ you don’t get people in the town going, ‘I don’t wanna play the guitar! You don’t have to get mad about all of it.’” open image in gallery James Corden and Ricky Gervais The joke was practically identical to one Gervais made in his 2018 special Ricky Gervais: Humanity. Corden addressed the subject hours later, writing on the Late Late Show’s official Twitter page: “Inadvertently told a brilliant Ricky Gervais joke on the show last night, obviously not knowing it came from him.