Originally Posted by Kromm:
“I wonder why you have to ask. At the very least the poster is someone not from the UK. But also not someone who watches much contemporary British TV (panel shows, reality shows, comedies), since Corden and Whitehall are all over those.
But... The Late Late Show is for American audiences. And so it's not surprising or wrong that these two are not known. Cordon has barely broken America, via the movies, and Whitehall has zero US footprint, other than people who go out of their way to watch BBC America and/or online versions of other British shows. I don't think Whitehall plays American comedy clubs, so really there's no avenue to know him.
Corden tries hard on this show, but really he's not even a fraction as good as his predecessor, Craig Ferguson, or his current channel-mate, Stephen Colbert.”
No, he's not. But given the fact that current American television is tripe, it's no wonder he's been renewed by CBS.
I barely know who James Corden is so I'm mystified by his presence on USTV, I just do not understand how someone so hopelessly bad at presenting landed a show on CBS?
simon_vale, since so many Americans have been watching faux reality shows for so many years, their IQs have dropped to the point where they find this guy enjoyable. Sad, is it not?