Opinion by Molly Roberts: No more Mr. Nice Guy — or maybe James Corden was never so nice to start with.
Corden did not go into the kitchen and cook the omelet himself. Instead, he received free champagne as reward for his complaining. And his exile from power-brunching paradise was only temporary. McNally says the disgraced proved “magnanimous” with a prompt and profuse apology, so “All this overblown and now blown-over drama raises the question:was any of this so big a deal? The assumption, you’d think, is that celebrities are tantrum-throwing brats by default.
“Carpool Karaoke” is charming because you don’t expect Justin Bieber to be singing to himself in a car the same way you do when you’re zooming off to work and manage to make all the stoplights. You expect him to be singing onstage to thousands of starry-eyed fans. The point is pleasantness, but it’s also approachability. Corden has to embody this cheerfully casual ethos. That he could by all appearances as easily be a humble math teacher as a hotshot movie star is the point.
You need to believe that this is the kind of guy who might really need to carpool to work. This is the kind of guy who’d wait cheerfully in traffic or in line for a table — and the kind of guy who’d just ignore a hair in his food or a little bit of egg white in his wife’s fussy omelet.
Maybe this is a warning to all the stars whose livelihoods depend on illusion after illusion — that while down-to-earthness is plausible as a coincidental personality trait, it’s unsustainable as a brand. Or maybe it’s a warning to everyone tuning in that it’s silly to care about who those starsA while back, a discerning city-dweller saw an SUV on the Los Angeles streets — the Range Rover of “Carpool Karaoke” fame, with host and guest sitting chummily up front.
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