James Corden Admits He's Not Authentically Himself On 'Late Late Show'

James Corden is preparing to depart from his late-night talk-show, and it’s clear he’s letting his guard down.

It was announced in April 2022 that the British actor, singer and comedian will depart his beloved talk show, “The Late Late Show with James Corden,” ahead of summer 2023.

He recently appeared on “NBC10 Boston’s Today” and revealed that he’s not the “real James Corden” on TV.

Rather, he’s “performing” and “playing a character” while appearing on ‘The Late Late Show.’

“I guess I see it all as a performance, really,” he admitted. “I see it all as a character that I’m sort of playing.”

He’s definitely a skilled actor having appeared in several movie-musical adaptations including, “Into The Woods,” “Cinderella” and “Cats.”

Corden is also famous for creating his “Carpool Karaoke” and “Crosswalk the Musical” series, which are big performances in it of themselves.

He put his “performance” on TV statement into perspective saying, “Like, it would be odd if I got home and opened the fridge and was like, ‘Look who’s here tonight! Stick around, we’ll be right back!'”

While Corden is leaving his late-night talk-show, he’s not leaving TV screens.

His current project is titled, “Mammals,” an Amazon Prime Video series.

The British star explained the difference between hosting a talk show and a video series is “the time” it takes to film them.

“Our [Late Late] show is an hour a day,” Corden explained.

While explaining what it takes to shoot “Mammals,” he said, “This entire series is two hours and forty minutes.”

In recent months, Corden has been at the center of restaurant etiquette controversy and joke stealing.

Last year, he was called out for horrid behavior toward restaurant staff at Balthazar, with the restaurant’s owner calling him out publicly.

In October 2022, he was called out for stealing a Ricky Gervais joke and using it on ‘The Late Late Show.’

The entire bit sounded eerily similar exactly like a bit Ricky Gervais told back in 2018.

“If someone puts up a poster in a town square that says ‘guitar lessons available’, like you don’t get people in the town going: ‘I don’t want to play guitar! I want to play the piano you piece of s**t’! Well that sign wasn’t for you,” Corden said. “It was for somebody else! You don’t have to get mad about all of it.”

Here is how Gervais’ 2018 bit goes, “That’s like going into a town square, seeing a big notice board and there’s a notice – guitar lessons – and you go, ‘But I don’t want f***ing want guitar lessons.’ Fine, it’s not for you then, just walk away. Don’t worry about it!”

Everything from Corden’s pacing of the joke to his mannerisms were nearly identical to Gervais'.

In fact, “The Office” star actually sounded off about the similarities between the sketches.

Gervais quote tweeted ‘The Late Late Show’s’ tweet, which has since been deleted, and wrote, “the bit about the town square advert for guitar lessons is brilliant.”

A fan responded to the British comic asking, “Didn’t deliver it like you though. I assume he asked to use that joke?”

Gervais replied, “No. I reckon one of the writers ‘came up with it’ for him. I doubt he would knowingly just copy such a famous stand-up routine word for word like that.”

If you don’t know, every television talk show has a group of writers who help write jokes, sketches and segments for the show.

So, it’s highly possible one of Corden’s writers or even a group of writers were responsible for ripping off Gervais.