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Today on Happy, sad, confused James Corden, on the end of his late-night run and his new series, Mammals.

Hey guys, I'm Josh Harrow. It's welcome to another edition of Happy, sad, confused.

Man, we've had a really exciting run lately on the podcast with first-time guests that have been on the list for quite some time and that really fits the bill with James Corden.

I've had a long, interesting kind of relationship with James over the years that you're going to come to learn about in the course of this conversation and I'll give a little context in this introduction too.

Way back when, yeah, let's just get right to it, shall we? Because this is a fun story that I've told often but maybe not publicly until now, but since James mentioned it in the course of the conversation, I'll mention it here.

So way back when eight plus years ago, James Corden, this, I wouldn't say up-and-coming actor, he was already a Tony winner and he was really revered thanks to roles and things at the time like into the woods and roles on stage.

There's like history boys, I mean so many great performances, but he was still kind of a unknown quantity when it came to being a talk show host and he was plucked out of the acting world to host the Layla Show and it was an exciting, interesting choice by CBS that clearly worked out for all involved.

At that time, I actually did have some conversations with the Layla Show about joining the team over there when they were just starting up and it was a really exciting potential proposition which kind of, I wouldn't say culminated, but it was certainly punctuated by me meeting James out of all things the Golden Globes on a red carpet.

It just gets weirder and weirder. He was very kind to me and was very flattering and we had a couple chats about potentially joining the show in some capacity and it would have meant a lot of different lifestyle choices including moving to Los Angeles, including kind of sacrificing the on camera portion of my career at the time.

So for a variety of reasons I decided to stick it out in New York and ride the wave that I was on and here we are, eight plus years later it was a really interesting full circle moment to meet up with James as he's coming to the end of this journey now and beginning a new one.

I don't know where I'm at in my journey but it continues and it evolves and I'm very pleased with I think how both of our lives and careers have gone and this was a great chat.

We never honestly had this kind of conversation or really any significant conversation in the interminute years so it was a treat.

This was recorded at that 92 NY and it's on the occasion not only of the end of his late show, late late show to be precise which is coming in just a few months but also with the debut on Amazon Prime of a really fascinating new six episode series called Mammals.

James is front and center and it's a really as we say in the conversation it's a hard show to summarize suffice it to say comes from Jez Butterworth who is an extraordinary playwright playwright and screenwriter.

James Gordon is at the center of it and it is about a man who is at a crossroads himself in his relationship suffering some loss suffering some betrayal and really having to make some big choices.

Surrounded by a really fascinating cast everyone from Sally Hawkins the Tom Jones of all people is in the show big swings in the show throughout different kind of tonal shifts but it will keep you guessing and will keep you involved I guarantee and it's six episodes guys it's on prime give it a shot and it reminds you what a fine actor James is not only in the comedic and musical space but as a dramatic actor too.

I'm really excited to see James return to acting in a full fledged way I'm sure he's going to be doing stage work again I hope he does it in New York so I can see him in person here but you know kudos to him on a really stellar run so this was a really fun exciting opportunity to meet up with him and to look I'm also like a student of late night I grew up revering everyone from Conan and Letterman and to see it evolve and to see the new wave.

It was a treat to kind of pick his brain a little bit of how he's been able to achieve what he has. So a really fun one James Corden on the podcast today the usual reminders folks if you want to watch this you can watch it right now on youtube.com slash Josh Harowitz subscribe to our page so you don't miss a thing if you want the early access and the discount codes and all the fun stuff go to patreon.com slash happy sad confused follow me on social media Joshua Harowitz those are all the big reminders right I'm sure there's a lot of fun.

You just you're here for the James Corden chat. I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I did. Here is James Corden at a really pivotal exciting moment in his life the end of one adventure in the beginning of another here's me and James.

Hi guys. Thank you all so much for coming out on this rainy New York night you're in for a treat this is of course our latest edition of happy sad confused live I love doing these up 92 and why with a homegrown audience as a New Yorker it pleases me to know and and it really pleases me because this is the first time guest on the podcast a gentleman I have such admiration for because

what for the last eight years I believe he's been making it look easy night after night he's coming to the end of a phenomenal run as the host of the late late show but in addition you know he is a phenomenal actor of stage and screen a Tony award winner

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