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ladies and gentlemen uh what I'm about to say might shock you I am from Great Britain yeah I'm British that's it I mean there's really nothing I can do about it do you know what we call Thanksgiving in Britain Thanksgiving obviously we have a lot of British people who work here the British feeling of the show definitely infused into the Americanized late night television show come on Phillip let's go and teach these ghastly Ruffin's manners I think we're lucky cuz we've got such a good mix of American sense of humor here and British sense of humor we
want to be warm we want to be funny and we want to be silly say oh thank you for helping me get to work and you say off so all of those things whether it's Monty Python or the office they're all things that kind of influence our comedy and hopefully gives us quite a broad upill the global nature of this show has been very beautiful and it is a very British show in America there's no doubt about it James is who James is James we've got carpul karaoke yeah maybe I can do English tea on the 405 English 405 but of course we've had to adapt of course I've had to remember to say elevator and trunk and soccer even though you know kills me a little bit inside I now know more names of British
football teams than I ever thought I would see what we got the amount of football conversations that happen on this show I don't know anything about football we've messed up many times by scheduling field shoots or sketches when West Ham's playing the way it works here because we're 8 hours behind England it means that matches on in the middle of a day so often we'll stop production or stop meetings to sit and watch West Ham or Arsenal for two hours so it complicates our shoots a little bit one of the things that was great for James really playing up that sort of stranger in a Strange Land we get to watch him learn La together and I think that sometimes can be a conduit for the
viewers too I got a hand it to James as a British person hosting a show in America the number of actors he needs to know about that were never part of his life is remarkable hey what's your name Chris you're going to have to be a lot more specific you got to come about comedy and how to do the show from a different point of view and I think that's always helpful for starting a new show and making it feel different and fresh I'm also lucky enough to have both of my parents with me here tonight I love the fact that James is able to bring his parents into the show and into the comedy of the show my dad comes down for breakfast wearing a t-shirt that just says with a body this good who
needs hair it's lovely to see his parents and remind you that he's you know a kid from high Wickam thank you for being here thank you for making the trip I really appreciate it for everything but Margaret and Malcolm have just become a huge part on the show just cuz they're really funny come on hurry up I want one of these in the bedroom they have this endless joy and Delight whether they're at the superbow or a haunted house whether a gig or whether they're in our studio whatever it is they're quick they're funny they're sharp but they're also just the most lovable wonderful people you got to want be a kiss one of the real highlights was going in the Chang room going in the changing rooms I had to
cover my eyes it was too much for me I wasn't used to it put a towel on I'm sorry I'm not used to such specimens of men if there's one rule in television Margaret's laugh will save any peace once she starts laughing it does not matter what else is happening you're going to have a pretty good piece on your hands little did we know then that it would take us further a field finish yes he threw me down there however devastated anyone who works on The Late Late Show may be that the show is ending no one is more devastated than Malcolm and Margaret you put that ja M no stop no anytime James's dad gets to play in the band that's always fun on the saxophone my dad Mr Malcolm Cordon is
here it'll always be in my memory that I mixed with those wonderful people who are so talented and gifted are you Ginger Spice I am oh man those trips when we taking the show to London are just great it's just been brilliant that's you all right let's do it here we go London baby all right London just great and mostly I've loved it just for the team and the Gang and the spirit of it taking the show home to England every year has been one of the most beautiful experiences of this entire show to go back to London and kind of in a way show off what we do there and bring our friends and family along is really special to us so to be able to bring them to our show and say look this is what we do in Los Angeles
look it isn't it fun and isn't it aren't we lucky to do it what are you doing here you come all the way to London when we first announced it I think that we had 1,200 tickets over four shows and we got 1 million requests it's just such a sense of Pride for me to bring this big show back I mean I think there's huge challenges bringing a show overseas in every single way turning a Methodist Church into a TV studio was pain in the ass London was hard London was is hard it was really hard we just need the biggest stars the biggest shows biggest music performances the biggest bits and there's just a lot of pressure yeah it's Madness absolute Madness that is all happening in this studio we got some
work to do but it starts tonight I think the camaraderie was kind of like incredible there some of the biggest comedy pieces we've ever done in the history of the show happened during those weeks and everybody wants to do their best in a week like that London we just throw everything against the wall so a lot of it was hard but 100% worthwhile the team really wanted to do a cross swap walk in London and Sir Ben Kingsley was going to be there he agreed to it you know crosswalk mared Poppins but I don't think he fully knew what he was getting into let's go and fly a kite my favorite London memory I think oddly was going to Paris doing lay Rob in Paris was I think the culmination of that bit it is so perfect
we're doing a show one of my favorite sketches I think we ever did was shot in London and that was Tom Cruz it was called Tom's Cruz on the river chames Cordon or tames Cordon it's Tom's Cruz the river TS on the river tames Cordon I mean it doesn't make any sense the title it was a great sketch and the idea that we were in London on a boat with Tom and he's pouring cocktail drinks into Ian carmel's mouth I think that's probably one of the highlights of my entire time doing the Late Show let alone being in London there's no Maverick without Goose that's right the coolest thing that happened in London was getting to see Paul McCartney Caro karaoke with a thousand other people being in the room at Central Hall Westminster watching
that audience watch Paul McCartney's carpool for the first time was incredible I think that's going to be one of those lasting memories for everybody it's just been a really beautiful thing to do and we all felt very emotional that last night of the last London shows with everybody singing and everyone together doing an American show in London it was something so poetic and beautiful about it so those trips back to London were always really special it's just been great it's been magic I've just loved it's time we're taking off Reggie take home yeah wo
yeah here we go sometime to get you on the
