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?!

I think Frankie Boyle can be very clever at shining a light on people’s prejudices. But it’s a very tricky line to walk and he has fallen quite a few times.

I don’t get the sudden hatred of JC -topical jokes have always been made at these events and it was st HWs expense although he committed the ultimate comedy crime of not being very funny.

Frankie Boyle has an intelligence that the small minded JC has no idea of.

By that I mean that FB could articulate his humour in a really challenging way. Not that all are easy with.
JC is just horrible bantz.

i don’t get the sudden hatred of JC - I don’t think it’s sudden. A lot of people already disliked him so feel even more strongly about his bad taste in this incident.

I'm still getting through this thread, so this may already have been posted...

i don’t get the sudden hatred of JC

It’s not sudden. I’ve always thought he was a wanker.

Sexual harrsssment of a young vulnerable woman is no laughing matter either. Making a joke of an older predatory man confining a young woman in a hallway and jerking off in front of her isn't remotely funny whichever way you phrase it. JC thought it wasn't a big deal and was something to laugh at. Threatening young women if they didnt pander to your sexual desires isn't funny either but he made light of that too.
Nobody else on entertainment shows touched that subject with a barge pole because there was no way to talk about it other than to condemn it. JC thinks he is so popular he can do anything and he will be seen as 'quirky cherky british dude' he was wrong.

Frankie Boyle has an intelligence that the small minded JC has no idea of. They're both arses.

I’m another person who’s baffled by his rise to stardom.

I loved Gavin & Stacey, Smiffy was the least likeable character and pretty unfunny. Never liked JC or found him funny, so always assumed Ruth Jones wrote all the good bits!

I’m another person who’s baffled by his rise to stardom.

Yeah, Tony award-winning actors are usually talentless oafs...

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They might be interested to hear the public's view on their 'star'

Slimthistime - the way that he put his need for fame before anything else, and silly things like a Richard & Judy phone in where he pretended that bullies broke his arm so he could speak on the phone/tv left a sour tast tbh. The whole act is worked on just a little bit too much, which I hadn't properly noticed until I read his words. He thinks he's too good for anything else. It only went up to Gavin & Stacey, but I certainly won't be reading any further.

In fact I actually threw the book in the (non-re-cycle) bin in an act of defiance. I'd taken it to sell at a car boot, but talked myself out of a sale as told the buyer that it wasn't a pleasant read.

Interesting, thanks Kate.

His jokes were not funny and were ill judged. He should apologise properly instead of this “I didn’t mean to offend” non-apology shite. I can’t help but feel though that lots of comedians make inappropriate jokes about offensive matters and there’s no outcry about it.

Also, Patrick Stewart publicly going on about James Corden’s belly was a dick move. I don’t think either of them came out of it well.

You see while I don’t like JC I don’t think his career needs to be destroyed

Perhaps people would be better saving this vitriol for HW who - let’s face it - is likely to get away with this and continue with his comfortable life even if he is ‘disgraced’

The jokes were awful and he's a dick. I've never been a fan of James Corden though. Gavin and Stacey was good but then it was an ensemble piece with lots of great characters so he was diluted. Am baffled by his popularity.

People sit in moral judgement about someone they don't even know, and yet they feel the right to say the most vile things about that person. And yet they think they're morally superior! How does that work?

Agree with this. The hatred spewed on here towards JC is just nasty, with irony being that those doing so hypocritically believe they're occupying a virtuous moral high ground! I'm no JC fan, but anyone would think he was HW himself, not someone who made some ill judged jokes about him.

As others have said, I don't see how humour references a subject, doesn't mean they support what's being referenced!

Well, I've never told rape jokes or mocked victims of sexual assault - let alone been paid for doing so - so am feeling quite comfortable up here on the moral highground.

Plus, who knew finding jokes like this unpleasant and criticising the person who made them was hypocritical? The things you learn on MN!

I loathe James Corden - always have. This does not surprise me in the least. He'll hash a joke out of anything. How he's so popular is beyond me.

JC thought it wasn't a big deal and was something to laugh at.

Yes, this is it. When the woman that this happened to came out and said this had happened, she wasn't doing it in an 'and it was totes hilarious' way. But that is what JC turned it into. He totally diminished that woman's horrible experience by making a joke out of it. Twat.

I see Kirstie Allsopp has defended him on Twitter. Very disappointing

No matter how many rape jokes you post, hackmum, it doesn't make joking about rape ok.

"Hardened feminist", my arse.

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Exactly there is never ever going to be a 'funny rape joke' no matter how intelligent you claim to be to 'get it'.

*Suburban and Willow
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Completely agree.

And if the woman who it affects are telling you it isn’t funny that’s your only bench mark.
None of this clever shit about being ‘edgy’ or ‘ironic’ or ‘pushing boundaries’. Some things in life are off limits. Go and get your cheap laughs elsewhere.

Even Gavin & Stacey contained jokes about sexual assault. One that stood out for me was Smithy saying he wanted to go to a foam party so he could feel up girls without them knowing it was him. As someone who’s been sexually assaulted at a foam party, I went off him instantly - there’s no way I could see any humour in that.

Equally the ongoing jokes about ‘Lucy’ his teenage girlfriend were disgusting.