{"id":1720668,"date":"2022-11-01T20:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720668"},"modified":"2022-11-01T20:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T00:03:29","slug":"james-corden-responds-after-clip-of-him-telling-ricky-gervais-joke-almost-verbatim-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-corden-responds-after-clip-of-him-telling-ricky-gervais-joke-almost-verbatim-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"James Corden Responds After Clip Of Him Telling Ricky Gervais Joke Almost Verbatim Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjames-corden-responds-after-clip-of-him-telling-ricky-gervais-joke-almost-verbatim-goes-viral%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720668&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">James Corden<\/a> just issued a public statement after a mash-up of him telling a joke went viral, with fans accusing him of ripping off fellow comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ricky-gervais\">Ricky Gervais<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLate Late Night\u201d host admitted that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/comedy\">joke<\/a> came from Gervais first.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInadvertently told a brilliant Ricky Gervais joke on the show last night, obviously not knowing it came from him,\u201d Corden shared on Twitter. \u201cIt\u2019s brilliant, because it\u2019s a Ricky Gervais joke. You can watch all Ricky\u2019s excellent specials on Netflix. J x.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Inadvertently told a brilliant Ricky Gervais joke on the show last night, obviously not knowing it came from him. It\u2019s brilliant, because it\u2019s a Ricky Gervais joke. You can watch all Ricky\u2019s excellent specials on Netflix. J x<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Late Late Show with James Corden (@latelateshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/latelateshow\/status\/1587487965462155265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The replies on his confession tweet were limited to mentions only.<\/p>\n<p>Corden was responding to the compilation user Paul Anthony made of Gervais telling the joke along with the late night host telling it. \u201cPlagiarism? I don\u2019t know what people are talking about, these two jokes by @JKCorden and @rickygervais are barely similar,\u201d he wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulFI9\/status\/1587396813199495169\">caption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The joke is about someone putting up an ad offering guitar lessons on a public bulletin board and then becoming angry because they don\u2019t personally want to take lessons. It was done as a comparison to Elon Musk taking over Twitter.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Plagiarism? I don\u2019t know what people are talking about, these two jokes by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JKCorden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JKCorden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rickygervais?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rickygervais<\/a> are barely similar <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9kYOHiOiLj\">pic.twitter.com\/9kYOHiOiLj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Anthony (@PaulFI9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulFI9\/status\/1587396813199495169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cElon Musk talks about Twitter and goes \u2018Well it\u2019s the town square.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018But it isn\u2019t.&#8217;\u201d Corden said during his monologue. \u201cBecause if someone puts up a poster in the town square that says \u2018guitar lessons available\u2019 you don\u2019t get people in the town going \u2018I don\u2019t want to play guitar! I want to play the piano.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell then that sign wasn\u2019t for you!\u201d Corden says in his bit, while Gervais also says, \u201cFine, it\u2019s not for you then. Just walk away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within a few hours, the clip had two million views. Gervais addressed the incident on Twitter but has since deleted his tweet. The original joke came from Gervais\u2019 2018 stand-up special \u201cHumanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many followers pointed out that Corden wasn\u2019t likely the person who wrote the joke, but rather one of the \u201cLate Late Show\u201d employees was responsible for copying Gervais.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many people blaming Corden for this as if he writes his own jokes. He has a whole team of writers on that show. Obviously one of them ripped it off. Joke wasn\u2019t even very funny,\u201d one person <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArtyFrayn\/status\/1587415727732318210\">observed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Corden is very unlikely to have written this bit himself: this snafu is a good opportunity for him to take responsibility &#038; not throw the person who wrote his script under a bus,\u201d another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RupertMyers\/status\/1587419329158586371\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Corden just issued a public statement after a mash-up of him telling a joke went viral, with fans accusing him of ripping off fellow comedian Ricky Gervais. The \u201cLate Late Night\u201d host admitted that the joke came from Gervais first.\u00a0 \u201cInadvertently told a brilliant Ricky Gervais joke on the show last night, obviously not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1720671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}