James Corden responds to allegation he copied a Ricky Gervais joke

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James Corden says he inadvertently told a joke originally made by fellow British funnyman Ricky Gervais.

Some viewers of The Late Late Show With James Corden took to social media to point out that a joke Corden made during his monologue on the October 31 episode was almost identical to one made by Gervais in his 2018 stand-up show, Humanity.

Cordens joke was poking fun at Elon Musks takeover of Twitter.

When you see Elon Musk talk about Twitter he does this thing where he goes Well, its the town square, Corden said. But it isn’t because if someone puts up a poster in a town square that says guitar lessons available, you dont get people in the town going I dont want to play the guitar! I want to play the piano, you piece of s**t!

The Twitter joke made by Gervais was almost identical.

Its like going into a town square and theres a notice for guitar lessons and you go, But I dont f**king want guitar lessons, Gervais said.

Gervais responded to a Twitter user who wrote Didnt deliver it like you though. I assume he asked to use that joke?

No. I reckon one of the writers came up with it for him, Gervais tweeted. I doubt he would knowingly just copy such a famous stand up routine word for word like that.

On Tuesday Corden tweeted, Inadvertently told a brilliant Ricky Gervais joke on the show last night, obviously not knowing it came from him.

Its brilliant, because its a Ricky Gervais joke, Corden wrote. You can watch all Rickys excellent specials on Netflix.

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