James Corden's 'jokes' about Harry Weinstein...

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I'm horrified. Anyone else seen the footage? I genuinely like James Corden, or at least I did when he did Gavin and Stacey. What on earth was he thinking?!

was that Emma Watson, champion of women and campaigner for gender equality I saw laughing uproariously in the audience?

I am not necessarily defending EW here, but that footage was from 2008. I am quite a bit older than her and my views on many things, including feminism, have changed drastically in the last 9/10 years. To be honest, I might well have laughed at that sort of shit 10 years ago, especially if I was 18 years old and in a room of people much older than me who were all laughing as well.

Watching that Keira Knightley footage again, I think the point of JC's joke was to be self deprecating, in that of course he would never get to shag someone as beautiful as KK. It could have worked, but again he just went about it all wrong and took it way too far.

He's just not a very good comedian really is he?

To make a self-deprecating joke that didn't also humiliate KK would have been rather easy. Eg 'when you see her speech, just remember that the real reason she's not here is that she couldn't trust herself to keep her hands off me'. Something like that.

"Anyone who defends someone who thinks it's funny to get cheap laughs out of sexual abuse needs to ask themselves if it was thier daughter would be so damm funny?"

Do they? So if they haven't got a daughter......?

Yes, what if the joke was on them?

Can't fucking STAND the guy. Sexist, unfunny, egomaniac.

The thing is Youcan I don't think James Corden does self deprecating.

I don't either. Plain men who see their sexual stock rise when they become famous can often be the most arrogant and most convinced of their devastating allure.

Yes! I saw Emma Watson and thought the same thing. But then, she’s just a “face” in terms of her work. I dint see her as a serious campaigner for gender equality.

She clearly thought it hilarious though 😐😐😐

Bertrand
I dont either but by the simple fact that I am a human being its not a huge leap for me to think its a shit thing to make jokes about.

I can imagine an 18yr old in a room full of the people she had to work with or wanted to work with laughing along with everyone else so as to fit in. She was really just starting out as an adult actress then and young and impressionable.

I would hope that if that was today she wouldn't laugh but who knows?

Papafran

No way has JC had affairs. Who the hell would shag him??

What an absolutely vile comment

Yeah, THAT's the vile comment. Not the jokes about rape or 'hanging out the back' of Kiera Knightley. Well done. Maybe we shouldn't point out that HW is also physically repulsive because it may be seen as 'fat shaming', eh?

I don't view any of his comments on HW or Keira Knightley anything other than utterly revolting, it was clear from this discussion that few with a brain cell would differ.

My point was though that the above comment was equally repugnant, and would be if applied to a male or female. The notion above that if JC or HW were slimmer any of this would be more palatable is ridiculous. Are there words not offensive enough that we need to resort to these type of insults? So yes, I stand by the "vile' comment as I do theirs....

That comment wasn't about his physical attractiveness, though, or his size. As pp have explained (and I misunderstood too) it was more to do with how unlikely it would be that someone would want to shag a man who thinks it's ok to joke about sexual abuse of women.

Recognising that is neither vile nor repugnant.

All I could think about when listening to his comments was how much he looks like Harvey Weinstein.
And There’s a lot of sanctimony around all this though isn’t there. The HW stuff was an open secret for decades yet now everyone is furiously virtue signalling. This - a thousand times. See Seth Macfarlane’s joke at the 2013 Oscar ceremony.

Not to mention all the other men who haven't been exposed yet.

I wonder if an actor with a habit of beating up ladies of the night is shitting himself at the moment?

Carrie there was a story yesterday about an accusation against an unnamed oscar winner.

I wonder if it's the same one...

Good on Seth Macfarlane! Did you notice all the knowing laughter in the room? I am so very disappointed in Streep, and disgusted by Donna Karan, won't be buying her perfume again