British People Are Petitioning For James Corden To Stay In The US
It describes Corden's absence as the UK's one "beacon of hope".
After hearing that James Corden was planning on returning to the UK next year, British citizens have decided to take matters into their own hands — and start a petition.
The English talk show host announced earlier this year that he was planning on leaving The Late Late Show during the first half of 2023. But more recently, we heard that he’s planning to move back to the UK when he’s done.
The news has obviously alarmed his compatriots, one of whom has started a petition in an attempt to block his return.
“Eight years ago, James Corden left the UK for the US to work on [The Late Late Show],” begins the petition. ‘Since then, we’ve had to collectively deal with the impact of the Tory government, Brexit, and COVID-19.”
It then refers to the absence of James Corden as a “slight beacon of hope”, describing the comedian as a “gargantuan twat”.
“But now he’s leaving [The Late Late Show] and is returning to our British pastures. So I beg you, if you do one thing today, please, I implore you to sign this petition.”
The petition adds: “If he really has to return to the UK, can we stick him on some little uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland?”
This isn’t the first time Corden has been the subject of an online petition: an earlier one titled ‘Keep James Corden Out Of Wicked The Movie’ amassed over 100,000 signatures after the actor turned up in the musicals Cats (2019) and Cinderella (2021).
About a year ago, Corden also delivered a segment on The Late Late Show depicting orientalist renderings of East Asian food, stirring up racism against Asians and Asian-Americans at a time when discrimination against those communities was already on the up. The segment stopped featuring Asian food after a petition amassed more than 45,000 signatures.
In that same year, he did some air thrusting at perplexed commuters at an LA pedestrian crossing — while dressed in a rat costume, naturally.
At the time of publication, nearly 500 people have signed the petition.
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