10 James Corden Moments That I'm Now Side-Eying In Light Of His Recent Behavior

    His costar and sister reportedly had to confront him about his behavior.

    Ryan Schocket
    by Ryan Schocket

    BuzzFeed Staff

    Interestingly enough, James Corden is no stranger to making headlines. He's currently trending over alleged behavior that got him banned from a restaurant.

    James Corden onstage with Patrick Stewart
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    That said, let's get into some of his most notable headline-making moments:

    1. Well, for starters, James made a bunch of headlines this week after New York restauranteur Keith McNally took to Instagram to ban James Corden from Balthazar after he was reportedly rude to his staff:

    2. When he delivered what many on social media considered an offensively stereotypical depiction of a gay man in Prom:

    James as Barry Glickman looking shocked in a scene from Prom
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    James — who is straight and married to Julia Carey — plays Barry Glickman, a gay man and Broadway actor.

    3. When he had to drink a fish smoothie because he couldn't name two of his cameramen:

    CBS

    During a segment of Spill Your Guts, Jimmy Kimmel said, "Name two of the cameramen in this room." James joked, "It's a different crew tonight" because he couldn't, and had to drink a fish smoothie.

    4. When he faced backlash for this joke about BTS:

    jin’s earth @legendaryseok

    FOR THOSE WHO DONT KNOW WHATS UP W JAMES CORDEN

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    CBS

    The video with the joke has since been removed from YouTube.

    5. When his "Spill Your Guts" segment featured Asian food as one of the options and called it disgusting:

    CBS

    One of the "punishment" options for the segment was balut, which is a fertilized duck embryo and is considered a delicacy in some Southeast Asian countries. People pointed out how James' segment often features Asian food in a negative light and even created a petition with more than 47,000 signatures to have the "Spill Your Guts" segment removed. James later amended the segment.

    6. When his Gavin & Stacey costar Rob Brydon had to confront him about his "brat" behavior:

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    Brydon said he told James, "Look this is a bit awkward to say, but I'm just hearing these things about you, and you've got to know that the way you behave has an effect on people." Brydon also said James' sisters told him to stop being a "dickhead." James shared he did go to therapy to work through this, so kudos for that.

    7. When this writer called out James for reportedly advocating AGAINST pay increases for late night writers:

    "I'd like to state once again for the record that I went to a WGA meeting for only late night writers, and James Corden showed up without any of his staffers to advocate for a lower pay grade for late night writers"
    @jackamtheshow / Via Twitter: @JKCorden

    James responded to the now-deleted tweet, writing, "Jack, I went to the meeting because I was invited, like you were, like every writer on my show was. What you’ve written here is completely untrue. I asked if there could be a new writers program for people who have interned for a year on a show and want to be writers." 

    8. When he cut off Adele's Album of the Year speech during the BRIT Awards:

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    James said, "I can't believe I'm about to do this." Then, Adele faced the audience and gave the middle finger to the whole situation.

    9. When he and Patrick Stewart got into it in this extremely awkward moment, where they both exchanged some pretty low blows:

    DKG @dennis_k_g

    @VanityFair Since James Corden is trending, time to bring this old clip again! 😂

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    Glamous / Twitter: @dennis_k_g

    Patrick said James apparently gave off a holier-than-thou attitude, and then they got into this now-infamous fight.

    10. And lastly, when James made this joke about Harvey Weinstein's victims:

    pamela @bvwygf

    james corden? the same man that made these jokes about the abuse harvey weinstein put his victims through? idk if we should trust what he says a joke is https://t.co/K7Iv0OuYhB

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    amFAR / Twitter: @bvwygf

    James later apologized on Twitter: "To be clear, sexual assault is no laughing matter. I was not trying to make light of Harvey’s inexcusable behavior, but to shame him, the abuser, not his victims. I am truly sorry for anyone offended, that was never my intention."

    What do y'all make of these moments? Let me know in the comments below!