James Corden

I’ve heard this type of stuff about Corden before. Apparently he’s an entitled snob and acts like a jerk to working people.

There’s also that story about him on an airplane (which is prolly buried in the comments there), which is wild.

There’s also a new round of “BC is ugly” going around, started by some Wanda fans. People are so exhausting sometimes. 🙄

If people don’t know you’re being funny, then your bit isn’t funny. It’s one thing to slag off on a peer but another when you do it to a service worker. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Let me explain: When I was young and in a new job, an older co-worker that I was helping, Linda, asked me to phone our manager, Bill,  with some information he needed from her. When I told him that I had the information he wanted, he interrupted me and asked why Linda hadn’t called him. I explained that I was helping out and she asked me to do it. I then tried to continue to tell him the information, but he interrupted again. He screamed at me “That’s unacceptable! I asked Linda to call me with this! She had no business getting someone else to do it for her!” 

As I stood there holding the phone, listening to Bill screaming at me, I thought “What a jerk! Who cares if it’s me or Linda? This man is horrible!” Being young and new, I wasn’t really in a position to talk back, so I was waiting for him to finish yelling so I could apologize and tell him that I would have Linda call back. I was so disappointed, though, because a friend had told me that Bill was such a nice guy, and yet not to me! I had heard that he was hilarious and fun to work for, and always pulling pranks on people . . . 

And then it occurred to me that he was joking! So I laughed, and Bill laughed at the other end of the call, and I became one of his prank stories he had become famous for. 

Years later, I ended up in the building where Bill was a supervisor, and all the secretaries had their desks out in the open, in front of their bosses’ offices. He once went through a phase where whenever a secretary left her desk, he quickly went over to her computer and put in an embarrassing screen saver. Of course, she sometimes wouldn’t discover it until hours later, when she wasn’t there, and a crowd had gathered around her desk to laugh at the message scrolling across her computer screen. No one ever saw him do it, but he happily took the credit and all the laughter.

I have lots more examples, but that was a lesson I learned many years ago. I always treat a supposedly rude person as if they’re trying to be funny. It’s a lot less stressful, and even if I’m wrong at times, I’m right at times, too. 

Ellen also received a lot of bad press about her treatment of her staff. I guess a lot of people in the entertainment business just make a lot of sacrifices to keep their job. There is just too many people wanting their job that they just tolerate the abuse.

But he apparently was abusing people in another industry!