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Hey there, fellow venthooligans! Welcome to another Thursday night edition if the IVH, the first one for April. I've been at the beach since last week. Today was spectacular, sunny all day. Lots of the other days were a wild mix of weather, offering me a lot of time to read. In Monday's IVH, Eileen B posted
I really want to like James Corden's new show. Truly. Craigy Ferg is one of a kind, so I get the show will never be the same.
Honestly, so far? I just can't stand the hyperactive energy level ... Corden is so squealy. I keep hoping he'll settle the fuck down, but he just gets more high strung. And louder! Watching him feels like being trapped at an office party by the boss, an obnoxious loud-talker.
Worse, the band only escalates the noise level. It's late late night, so quit screaming!
Her comments are similar to others I've read. I decided to take a look around the internet and see what other critics are saying. From
Paste Magazine
What The Late Late Show with James Corden is and what it will be probably are not exactly the same thing. Television shows, especially ones with the opportunity to tweak things with such frequency as a late night talk show, change a bit here or there. That being said, it is already abundantly clear that this latest iteration of The Late, Late Show will be vastly different than the show Craig Ferguson was doing. The personalities of Corden and Ferguson, and their approaches to being a late night host, seem almost diametrically opposed. To put it in the clearest way possible, which is to say to frame it as an analogy to 80s movies: Ferguson is a gremlin, and Corden is a mogwai.
Ferguson was a wry, rabble-rousing gentleman who seemed mostly interested in amusing himself, and if others were also amused so much the better. His barebones show mostly was him messing around with his gay robot skeleton sidekick while a pantomime horse pretended to snort cocaine. It was wonderful, but it was also admittedly idiosyncratic. The modern late night talk show, following the lead of the meteoric rise of Jimmy Fallon, is the talk show equivalent of a jovial chap bellowing to a crowd, “Is everybody having fun!?” Corden works in this vein.
CBS’ selection of James Corden reflects the new realities of late night, in which a viral video in the morning may be worth as much as strong ratings. Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel are competing for a young, online audience not with the old tricks of the trade — monologues, interviews, skits — but with goofy segments that are ready-made for viral consumption.
Example: David Beckham and James Corden's sexy underwear commercial. I thought it was funny.
There's more to read, but I'm running late, and you can get the gist of the comparisons.
Tonight guests will be: Jeff Goldblum and Rick Schwartz
On Letterman: Kelly Ripa, Aasif Mandvi and Fat White Family
Here's last night's show: