James Corden does an AMA on Reddit with disastrous results (for James Corden)

[Chriddof]

An "AMA", for those of you who don't know, stands for "Ask Me Anything". In other words it's a sort of real time Q&A which happens on Reddit in their own dedicated subforum (or sub-Reddit as they're called there). Every so often various celebrities do these - Bill Murray took part in a famous one where he talked about the Garfield movies amongst other things. Anyway, about three days ago Corden started up an AMA along with his production team, and they managed to answer about five questions before people were very specifically calling Corden out for trying to convince the WGA to pay talk show writers less (that's the highest voted one at the top). There were also loads of people just calling him a cunt as well, obviously. It's not being reported about in the usual sorts of sites as far as I can see, so here is a link.

Some choice highlights:

Remember that time James Corden showed up to a private WGA meeting to advocate for a lower pay grade for late night writers... What was that all about?

My brother's girlfriend played one of your videos on my YouTube account and now it keeps recommending more of them to me. Do you know how to get it to stop doing that?

Don't care about you being an asshole really, but this AMA taught me you're also a filthy anti-union scab. My question is do you think anybody will care when your miserable career finally withers?

Is there any chance of bringing back Craig Ferguson instead?

Have you ever considered being funny or likable?

Do you guys feel bad for lifting Robert Llewellyn's format?

James, How does it feel being only liked for Gavin and Stacy, a show where the best bits were clearly all Ruth Jones?

To everyone: how come theres seven of you and you only answered 3 questions? was this for a bit on the show?

I saw a league of their own filming live, [he] threw multiple tantrums over minor things at the production staff, with him being incredibly rude to them, which made the other regulars seem very awkward like it was usual, between each take the other celebs would be chatting amongst themselves - bantering about, James was glued to his phone. At the end of the filming people got up to go get pictures with James and he massively kicked off shouting at people to go away and to go back to their seats and the few he did let have pictures with he was moody as.

Hi James, thanks for doing this AMA. I'm an aspiring comedian looking for some advice to make it big in the industry. You are a big source of inspiration for me so it would mean very much me if you replied. Also, is it true that you are an asshole?

Further info about the WGA thing is in this Twitter thread, along with Corden's justifications.

[chveik]

someone beat you to it I'm afraid

https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,73325.0.html

[Chriddof]

Gah.

[The Lurker]

someone beat you to it I'm afraid

https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,73325.0.html

Yeah but something like this is definitely worth a repost.

[amnesiac]

I prefer this thread, much more attention to detail

[up_the_hampipe]

I prefer this thread, much more attention to detail

Fuck you.