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2004 guest hosts

  • Questionable Casting: Former NFL player-turned-sportscaster Ahmad Rashad was an interesting choice.

James Corden's run

  • Broken Base: Of the They Changed It, Now It Sucks! variety. A lot of Ferguson's fans were less than amused with Corden's spin on the show, and have been upset about it since it started. Others picked up the show with Corden and couldn't be happier.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • During an appearance, Gordon Ramsay let slip that he and his wife were expecting their fifth child, eliciting cheers from the audience and hearty congratulations from James. Tana Ramsay would later suffer a miscarriage.
    • One "Audience Q&A" segment had James responding questions from "audience members", the joke being that the questions had barely anything to do with the show (the audience members actually being staff members, some of which would actually appear in their actual roles during the pandemic episodes). One of them is a waiter asking if James was satisfied with how he attended him once, with his and James's reactions implying that the past experience had been less than pleasant. In 2022, a restaurant owner publicly accussed Corden of being abusive towards his restaurant's staff, so much so that besides going public with his complaint, he banned Corden from life from his establishment.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • The Hell's Cafeteria parody skit where Gordon Ramsay holds Julie Chen's head between two slices of bread.
      Gordon Ramsay: WHAT ARE YOU?!
      Julie Chen: An idiot sandwich.
      Gordon Ramsay: IDIOT SANDWICH WHAT!?
      Julie Chen: An idiot sandwich, Chef Ramsay.
  • Tear Jerker:
    • Of the happy variety, "That Could Be You" at the Tony Awards. James narrates how when he was a boy, seeing theater inspired him because it told him that he could also be onstage. He then proceeds to sing through a dozen musicals, starts with inspirational Jean Valijean and ends the number with a group of children of various diversities, who then turn into the Tony nominees.
    • August 5, 2019: The US has seen multiple mass shootings in the past several years, but in this weekend, there were two separate shootings in El Paso and Dayton, so James simply started the show with a montage of other openings where he'd offered sympathies to the victims of other shootings before sharing sympathies to the victims of these latest shootings. The ongoing weariness of James both in the opening montage and this night's opening are palpable.

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