James Corden's Crosswalk the Musical

Good One

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

James Corden is the host of The Late Late Show on CBS. He and Jesse walk through the history of one of the show's recurring segments, Crosswalk the Musical which is...well...a musical in a crosswalk. Initially a performance of Grease in front of The Late Late Show's Los Angeles studios, the segment spread to the streets of London and New York City and featured hit musicals like The Sound of Music, Hair, and Beauty and the Beast, to name a few. James recounts some behind the scenes stories and talks about the spirit of The Late Late Show. Follow James on Twitter and watch him on The Late Late Show weeknights at 12:37a/11:37pC on CBS Also included: Late Late Show Head Writer Ian Karmel looks back on pitching Crosswalk the Musical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast.
0:04.0	Vulture's Good One Podcast is sponsored by Visible.
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0:12.0	SP is up to 5 megabits per second on
0:14.4	Verizon's 4G LTE network for just $, a podcast about jokes. I'm your host,
0:34.6	Volcher Senior Editor Jesse David Fox. Each episode a guest picks a joke from
0:38.8	their career to play and discuss how it came together. And we find joke loosely because for different people in the
0:44.5	comedic arts a joke can serve a different purpose depending on what they need.
0:48.4	For late night hosts, like this week's guest, Late Late Joe hosts James
0:51.9	Corden,
0:52.7	there are joke jokes he might tell as a monologue
0:55.1	or what have you, but there are jokes that take
0:57.3	the form of segments that can be returned to
0:59.3	ever so often, whatever that show needs such a flavor.
1:03.0	This episode will be talking about such a segment.
1:05.0	Crosswalk, the musical, in which the show puts on a musical in the crosswalk by the studio,
1:10.0	or sometimes Broadway or the London streets.
1:12.9	I should note a functioning crosswalk,
1:15.2	with real cars and everything.
1:17.1	However, it's not just a stunt.
1:18.9	Each installment and there have been 10 released since this recording.
1:22.0	It's paired with a sort of making of documentary
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