
James Corden has been in hot water this week over accusations he “stole” a joke from Ricky Gervais. Now, a 2017 claim that he copied a joke by Noel Fielding has resurfaced.
On Monday (31 October), the host of The Late Late Show had made a quip in his monologue about Twitter not being a town square, as the platform’s new owner Elon Musk had called it, saying: “It isn’t, ’cause 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 wanna play the guitar! I wanna play the piano, you piece of s***!’”