James Corden Responds to Accusations of Stealing Ricky Gervais' Joke

James Corden has responded after he was accused of stealing a joke from Ricky Gervais.

On the latest episode of The Late Late Show on Monday night (October 31), James told a joke that was very similar to what Ricky said in 2018.

Here’s Corden‘s joke, told last night: “If someone puts up a poster in a town square that says ‘guitar lessons available’, like you don’t get people in the town going: ‘I don’t want to play guitar! I want to play the piano you piece of s**t’! Well that sign wasn’t for you. It was for somebody else! You don’t have to get mad about all of it.

Here’s Ricky‘s joke, told in 2018: “That’s like going into a town square, seeing a big notice board and there’s a notice – guitar lessons – and you go, ‘But I don’t want f***ing want guitar lessons. Fine, it’s not for you then, just walk away. Don’t worry about it!”

Ricky has already shared his thoughts on the joke.

Click to the next slide to see what James Corden said in response to accusations…