Andy Cohen Doubles Down on Annoying Claims That James Corden Copied ‘WWHL’ Set — But ‘Better’

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Still not over it? Andy Cohen has further explained his controversial comments after alleging that The Late Late Show With James Corden had copied his Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen set.“The truth is, all talk shows kind of feed off each other, and I think Watch What Happens Live owes a great deal to The Graham Norton Show, “ Cohen, 54, told The New Yorker in an interview published on Sunday, February 19, referring to the British chat show hosted by Graham Norton. “I think, in my early years of Watch What Happens Live, I was much more prone to jealousy and insecurity, and I had a different attitude about it than I do now.”He continued: “I feel like, now, if I could say anything to myself in the early days of Watch What Happens Live, I’d be, like, ‘Dude, take a breath.

Stay in your lane. Everything’s fine.’ And so I think that I just feel grateful to be doing it, which, again, sounds very Scientology or whatever.

But, like, I am [grateful].”The Missouri native has hosted his eponymous Bravo talk show since July 2009, nearly six years before Corden’s CBS program debuted. (The England native, 44, took over The Late Late Show from Craig Ferguson.)“I’m not a comedian [and] I think [WWHL is] a different type of talk show,” Cohen said during a December 2022 episode of the “Table for Two With Bruce Bozzi” podcast. “I think there has been a traditional idea of what a late-night talk show is.

I would argue that Watch What Happens Live redefined what the late-night talk show is. [We had] the first bar on late-night, [and then] James Corden got a bar.