James Corden has addressed accusations he copied a joke made by Ricky Gervais, saying he delivered it “inadvertently.” The host of the US talk show The Late Late Show gave a monologue during Monday’s episode addressing Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and told a gag which viewers noted was almost identical to one from Ricky's 2018 stand-up show Humanity.
Many viewers - including Ricky, 61 - took to social media to draw attention to the similarities. In the joke, James says: “When you see Elon Musk talk about Twitter he does this thing where he goes, ‘Well, it’s the town square’. “But it isn’t.
“Because if someone puts up a poster in a town square that says ‘guitar lessons available’, you don’t get people in the town going, ‘I don’t want to play the guitar! I want to play the piano, you piece of s**t!’”
