History Funny / TheLateLateShow

--> ''(on being asked if he ever hit on Creator/LivTyler's friends)

-->'''Seth:''' Why perform in front of a live audience when you can perform in front of half a dozen Lift and Uber drivers?

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=423&v=n8t9yJIKkvM This installment]] with Creator/RachelBloom, Creator/JoshGad, [[Series/DowntownAbbey MichelleDockery]], and Charlie Puth has this little gem:

--->'''James:''' Was that even insulting? Were people like: "Yes! Don't show YOUR face!"

--->'''James:''' I would be distraught if someone said "I'll tell you how we can make you a star, James: ''cover that up''."

--->'''James:''' I would be distraught if someone said "I'll tell you how we can make you a star, James: cover THAT UP."

--->'''James:''' I would be distraught if someone said "I'll tell you how we can make you a star, James: cover THAT up."

--->'''[[spoiler:Justin]]''' ''(to the paparazzi)'' He lives his life in a fishbowl, man!

-->'''Nick:''' ''(discussing his brother Joe's song "Cake by the Ocean")'' [[CaptainObvious It's about sex!]]

-->'''[[spoiler:Justin]]''' ''(to the paparazzi)'' He lives his life in a fishbowl, man!

* "Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts" with Creator/ChristinaApplegate and Creator/MilaKunis. Come her second turn, Kunis is given a choice between eating a cow's tongue or trying to explain the plot of ''Film/JupiterAscending'' (and, for that matter, [[TakeThat why she took the job]]). [[spoiler:She chooses to eat the cow tongue when she finds that even she can't figure it out, to the horror of James and vegetarian Applegate.]]
-->'''Mila:''' It has to do with...the human desire for...[[spoiler: Aw, fuck it. ::eats the tongue::]]

-->'''Jimmy:''' Why are you sweating when you say this?...I like to see what a person looks like when they lie, like, right on camera.

** The Broadway edition, with Creator/LinManuelMiranda, [[Series/ModernFamily Jesse Tyler Ferguson]], [[Theatre/PorgyAndBess Audra McDonald]], and [[Series/ThirtyRock Jane]] [[Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt Krakowski]]. They all "awww" when [[Theatre/{{Rent}} "Seasons of Love"]] comes on, and Ferguson takes [[Theatre/LesMiserables Marius's friendzoning of Eponine]] to another level.

** SelenaGomez convinces him to take a detour and ride a rollercoaster. Watching James [[{{Corpsing}} corpse]] while attempting to sing "Come and Get It" on the coaster is pretty funny (especially since Selena is relatively chill).

* The final show of 2015 features a cold open, where James, dressed as Santa Claus, walks around CBS Television City singing "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" with lyrics rewritten to reflect the fact that it's the final show of the calendar year. He gives out gifts to people who clearly aren't thrilled about getting them. At one point, Santa!James interrupts the taping of a scene of ''TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'', and while singing, hands each of the two actors (in this case, Scott Clifton, who plays Liam Spencer, and Jacqueline [= MacInnes=] Wood, who plays Steffy Forrester) a gift, much to their confusion. He then crashes the set of ''ThePriceIsRight'', where he kisses host Drew Carey on the cheek before hopping into a golf cart, and driving away. An enamored Drew calls after him, "I love you, Santa!" Santa!James also walks through ''The Late Late Show'' control room, where many people are already passed out from so much drinking; even the Steadicam operator passes out.

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[[folder:Craig Ferguson's Run]]
When Creator/CraigFerguson said what's on his mind (which is frequently), it tended to go here.
* December 7th, 2009: Craig finds out how highly he rates in a Canadian magazine's poll for "which late night talk show host would you sleep with" (he leads with a whopping ''74%''). Now normally, this would go in the Awesome section, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o726idYsV2c but then Craig does this at the end of the show.]]
** Also from March of that year, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtKPs4l7S-c Craig seduces the viewer.]]
* July 31, 2009: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkgNW2woueE This sketch]], which is basically a storm of SeanConnery jokes but manages to get impossibly funny. "I'm STANDING on water and I got a HAT on top of my HAT!"
* September 4, 2009: [[http://youtu.be/yNMxm-oMptw?t=16m27s This email]] from "Joe Bob" in Hicksville, Kentucky...and Craig's response to it.
* Early 2010: "Look, you try doing [[Series/TheLateLateShow my job]] and not talking about [[TheTonightShow all the crap]] that's going on at Creator/{{NBC}}!"
* Also in early 2010: You know how they'll have a clip from the show the guest is on to promote just before they bring out the guest? Well, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOo_2GBaY5o this is the best clip Craig's ever seen.]]
* April 14, 2010: Somebody screws up the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdIxAAe_64w Angela Lansbury]] RunningGag.
* June 15, 2010: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU0I2rhhcaM The Stan Lee interview.]]
* July 19, 2010: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSO6Xl92Rl4 This Mary Lynn Rajskub interview, with Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the secondary chair.]] If ever there was a foursome fit to do a great show together, this grouping of Craig, Jeffrey, Mary Lynn, and Geoff might just be it.
* August 3, 2010: Somebody screws up the Angela Lansbury gag [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRFxxGtgW1Q again.]]
* Fall 2010: During a Tweetmail segment, Secretariat comes out ''and the costume starts falling off the guys who are inside the thing''. So what does Craig do? He brings the thing out '''three more times!'''
* October 15, 2010: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfCaxb2yB60 Craig and]] [[Series/DoctorWho a Dalek.]]
* January 6, 2011: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj7e7_Uz4Fk interview]] with Creator/AlexKingston. Rabbits. Just...rabbits. Wow.
* May 19, 2011: Craig and Geoff's exchange in [[http://youtu.be/Wag4hFAiEEs this Tweetmail segment.]]
* July 19, 2011: Geoff's response when asked if he ever smoked.
-->"Actually I did smoke once...then I died. See? See? Creator/{{CBS}} cares."
* September 5, 2011: Geoff comes back from the Labor Day weekend a bit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-qyByBFvgo tipsy.]]
--> '''Geoff''' (slurred): Did you see that horse, man? That was crazy!
* A recent episode featured a monologue discussing Dick Cheney's new book. Geoff claims that he's a big follower of politics, so Craig asks him if he's Republican or Democrat.
-->"I'm a gay robot skeleton."
* November 10, 2011: LarryKing (of all people) fills in as Geoff's temporary personality and voice. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGAcA3h30o#t=98s entire Letters segment]] was a ''riot'', and even Craig had a hard time keeping it together.
-->'''Larry King Geoff:''' I walked the streets of Manchester when I was a human, when I was a normal Jew, just walking the streets. I was not a robot.\\
'''Craig:''' This is either the worst or best idea I've ever had in my ['''[[SoundEffectBleep ¡AY CARAMBA!]]'''] life.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfdSXtcHdMM Any Craig Ferguson]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV1PSsA7i3I interview with]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POegaih8ijg Melina Kanakaredes]].
* February 9, 2012: Craig finally gets to interview Music/WeirdAlYankovic. Craig expresses how much he's wanted to have him on, and Al replies "I wouldn't have known! Nobody called!" Upon hearing this, Craig turns to [[ButtMonkey his producer]] and says '''"You sack of [[[SoundEffectBleep TOOTSI FROOTSI]]]!!"''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmsCoRB6cmM Honestly, the whole interview belongs here]].
* February 25, 2012: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14xCnTWmtTM#t=6m00s "I JUST SAW MYSELF ON THE MONITOR."]]
* May 16, 2012: Craig visits his old school and comments on some graffiti. (See SoundEffectBleep on the main page.)
--> '''Craig:''' And it seems like the children enjoy the same style of artwork that we enjoyed when we were little, too. You see, this is a ''(haggis!)'', these are ''(whiskey!)'', this is ''(breenge!)'' flying ''(shortbread!)'' *{{beat}}* ''(Shut yer face!)'', this individual's ''(Dumbledore!)''
* June 27, 2012: Geoff and Craig do impressions of each other during the monologue.
* August 29, 2012: It's the third episode on Craig's new set at Studio 56 and in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYcFp__uIg Tweets and E-Mails]] segment, a person asks why Secretariat's barn area is shown with daylight and the city behind Craig's desk is nighttime.
* Whenever the audience seems to be getting a bit emotional over some of the remarks he makes towards his sidekicks, Craig will assert that they're merely conventions of the show to make everything funnier. Eventually reaches it's peak after a variant of the "What Did We Learn on the Show Tonight, Craig" intro didn't do well with a lot of people. It went roughly like this;
-->"We had to change that one. Because a lot of people didn't like the fact that the cat ascended to Heaven. ''It's not a real cat.'' It's a ''drawing'' of a cat. [Geoff] is an appliance, [Secretariat's] not a real [¡AY CARAMBA!] horse! '''''I DON'T EXIST!'''''"
* March 15, 2013: Before the show the producer, Michael, made a joke to the effect of "You know how yesterday was PiDay, well today's Friday", so Craig spends a third of monologue just shitting all over Michael for trying to be helpful.
* April 8, 2013: Craig has an epic {{corpsing}} episode when he tries to tell a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LVWGvKhuhA cat joke during the monologue.]]
* September 9th, 2013: ''"Series/ThePriceIsRight and my penis are very different of course! One's been around for over 50 years but Drew Carey made it bigger than ever....."'' Craig doesn't even ''finish'' that joke.
** Followed up by a pseudo-ImagineSpot where Craig shows what ''The Late Late Show'' would look like if ''Secretariat'' hosted. Secretariat simply comes out from the entrance and makes a mockery of Craig's mannerisms. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxJQnjKrYU4 Should be seen to be fully appreciated.]]
* November 2, 2012: A cold open gets derailed when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbuHXR2O2XU SECRETARIAT starts corpsing!]]
--> '''Craig''': (laughing) I can hear the horse laughing!
* Anytime Cool Old Legends like Creator/BettyWhite, Creator/JulieAndrews, Creator/DonRickles, or Creator/RobinWilliams visit the show. Every. Single. Time.
** Betty's appearance on Craig's third-to-last show, especially the climax: she dances with a someone in a pink baby hippo suit while a choir sings "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas".
* March 6, 2014: Josh Robert Thompson [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjfEhESvpdU cracks Craig and himself up]] with his [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent bizarre voice]] for Philly Cheesesteak shop owner Serge.
* When Drew Carey hosted on April Fools Day 2014, one of the tweets asked where Drew first met Craig. Drew deadpanned "[=ChristianMingle=]".
* Anytime Craig makes a comment about the [[SarcasmMode high quality production and content of his show.....]] and immediately cracks up laughing.
* Craig gets irritated when the producer tries to flag him down for saying "vagina." Craig says words similar to slang terms for "penis" in the interview at least twice, then taunting the producer by saying, "It's a real word!" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7bdkGvHvbY]].
* The final segment of Craig's tenure on ''The Late Late Show'' goes straight towards the GainaxEnding route. It squeezes references to three other shows' finales into about three minutes, including [[spoiler: ''Series/StElsewhere, Series/{{Newhart}}'' (featuring a Bob Newhart cameo!), and ''Series/TheSopranos''. According to this skit, the whole show was just a terrible dream by ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow's'' Mr. Wick, who wakes up in hysterics next to ''Drew'' (in ''another'' cameo!). They finally get back to sleep as Music/{{Journey}}'s "Don't Stop Believing" plays, while the camera does a slow zoom into a snow globe, featuring a tiny Craig, Geoff and Secretariat - before the abrupt cut to black.]] It's a strange but oddly befitting way to finish up Craig's tenure with the show.
** ''Series/TheColbertReport'' had a remarkably similar ending, [[spoiler:revealing itself to be a 9-year-long ''[[Series/TheDailyShow Daily Show]]'' segment]]. This happened ''the day before'' Craig's final show. Whether this was an intentional shout-out or a total coincidence, it makes both endings funnier.
* The very last Tweetmail ever read: ''[[spoiler: "Craig, I just started watching your show on Monday!"]]''
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[[folder:James Corden's Run]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tGFjrNAYDw "Police Stakeout"]] with Creator/MelBrooks. It's funny enough as it is (a ''Your Show of Shows''-ish sketch about two cops who are so caught up in their conversation they miss the bank heist going on right behind them), but what makes it funnier is Brooks' constant BreakingTheFourthWall, from his entrance (popping up from under the car seat to applause, which he breaks character to acknowledge), to a comment after he fakes a light punch on James ([[CaptainObvious "I didn't hit him that hard"]]), to eventually telling James outright that the sketch makes no sense ( to which James responds that [[AudienceWhatAudience he doesn't know what he's talking about]]).

*** James is stunned when one of the questions for Khloe Kardashian is whether or not she believes OJ did it. [[spoiler:Perhaps to avoid being sued for slander - even though it feels like a clear answer ([[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment and that's all we're saying about it]]) - she eats the frog eyeball.]]

** Adding to the funniness is that Kunis is [[TheStoic not all that freaked out]] by the odd foods (that is, until [[spoiler:[[{{Squick}} James eats the cat brains]]]]) while Applegate is trying her damnedest [[BrainBleach not to vomit]] the whole time.

** At the beginning of the Music/{{Sia}} segment, James finds her -- wearing her trademark BlindingBangs wig -- [[BlindMistake stumbling aimlessly around a sidewalk and requiring almost a minute of help getting into the car.]] The joke being that James has asked her ''if she can help him get to work.''

* Creator/EddieRedmayne's [[OhCrap reaction]] when James shows [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53eXxUp4PyM a clip]] of him singing [[Theatre/{{Cats}} "Memory"]] from their high school days.