We Should Probably Start A Petition To Get Lin-Manuel Miranda Hosting ‘Carpool Karaoke’
This is it. This is as good as it gets.
I don’t watch ‘Carpool Karaoke’ much. I get that it features a bunch of famous people and it can be fun to watch them dick around. I like seeing Adele rapping ‘Monster’ as much as the next person. I’m only human. But, generally speaking, the enjoyable element of it is outweighed by the segment’s contrived chase to spread itself all over my Facebook feed and eventually get its own spinoff show.
On a related note: why is James Corden still pretending this is truly them just driving around and sporadically abducting famous people? Gwen Stefani did not just bump into George Clooney and Julia Roberts for a discussion on the true meaning of ‘Hollaback Girl’, this isn’t how the world works, you’re all filthy liars.
That point notwithstanding, The Late Late Show‘s latest instalment has momentarily changed my mind. In anticipation of the Tony Awards next week, the show’s host James Corden hung out and sang showtunes with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and stage and screen actors Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Audra McDonald and Jane Krakowski. If each week featured a bunch of jolly theatre nerds and Lin-Manuel Miranda getting so genuinely into it they’re closing their eyes and pulling their hair I would be totally on board.
Here’s Lin-Manuel Miranda doing the full version of ‘Alexander Hamilton’ (when people laughed at him over the idea of a hip hop show about the founding fathers) because shh, I don’t need a reason.