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the quarantine era of the show was
difficult
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kovid was coming we could sense it
everyone was talking about it but we of
course only thought it would last a
couple of weeks we had a big week the
week before we went out now horn was
here he was doing four performances a
sketch he had one performances where
he's literally walking through the
audience I remember that week so well we
were all kind of like hearing about it
James and I were sat in his office and
on the news it was like okay we're
shutting down the country America at a
standstill tens of millions of people
stay home because of the coronavirus
schools businesses and public places are
forced to shut down we went from
something that was a news topic that we
spoke about to something that was a
national emergency and changing the way
we lived it's been a scary time
without an audience so earned from like
no audience
to like no crew to not being allowed in
the building in like three hours I
remember we had a text chain with the
other show Runners of late night all of
the late night shows actually talking to
each other and trying to figure out how
can we do
shows we're all going through the same
thing together and even if nothing feels
particularly funny right now where you
can at least talk and that's helpful and
important and I remember a real turning
point in the thinking of it was don't
think about what you can't do because
what you can't do is irrelevant it's
just going to frustrate you what can we
do how can we make the best possible
show it pivoted pretty quickly to
figuring out how to create a show in
James's garage but we didn't want to ask
anyone to put themselves in danger that
we weren't willing to do so that ended
up being me and Tim mancinelli the
director and Robin Galla the producer
like emptying James's garage out and
carrying stuff down into his basement
and Lou Travy coming in and building a
little set Robbie
rub it yes oh hi Robbie the technical
challenges of of covid were immense you
know we're taking what's a long tried
and true facility of cameras and
switchers and things like that and
putting basically a zoom into James's
garage the speed in which we had to
adapt and the talents of the people
we've surrounded ourselves with to
figure things out and the fact that we
could just rise to an occasion that very
Uninvited very unwelcome occasion but
figure out a way to make a television
show during that period the first idea
that we had was to do a show called home
Fest which essentially was to try and
get the biggest artist in the world to
perform from their homes and and I had
this this thing I said to Ben I was like
let's try and bring everybody together
to keep everybody apart welcome to
me on what is without question one of
the strangest specials uh I'm ever
likely to make the idea was that we
could feature artists that were going
through the same thing everybody else
was going through they're on lockdown
they're stuck in their homes and get to
the absolute Global nature of it because
tonight we really just wanted to make a
show to try and bring some joy and some
music into your home that home show was
was a raw show it was so unknown and I'm
here on my own with just these three
cameras I can show you my view here this
is what I can see
we pushed everything out it's all behind
that curtain and now it's just you and
it's me for the next hour plus some of
the biggest artists in the world are
going to join us and we had Andrea
Bocelli in Italy that was suffering so
bad at the time we had BTS Boys in South
Korea we had Dua leaper in London and it
was essentially like we're all isolated
right now we're all going through
something but actually watching home
Fest showed our viewer that they weren't
alone and I think that was what was
really lovely about that show because we
absolutely will get through this
we will and that's why we wanted to make
this show to try and share
in these feelings together share music
that we love with people that we love
and then James at his desk in that
garage there was something quite
Charming about it something quite honest
about it that's where we held our show
for the next two or three months
we're here we're doing it I mean Ian is
there a worse setup for comedy than what
we're doing right now no this is as bad
coverage shows were probably some of the
hardest shows we ever did we still
wanted to entertain we still wanted to
do games but none of these things have
ever been tried the great thing about
late night we have to react to
whatever's happening whether that's good
or bad and how do we make the best of it
I felt the worst for James having to do
a monologue to no one I can't imagine
that was a lot of fun you know safety
comes first
comedy comes second so keep that in mind
as we head into today's headlines I mean
that those weeks doing the show in my
garage were they it was horrible it was
just so Bleak because also the news that
you were getting every day was so Bleak
we're all going through something and
you're just trying to keep everybody
employed
sorry now I've got that out the way I
hated every waking second of the garage
shows yeah I'm just going nowhere just
like always but now I'm in my garage
going nowhere couldn't you honestly
believe that this is on TV
probably the low point of my time uh on
James's show is uh that period where we
were all at home with too much time on
our hands and James hired a bunch of
people to either be Frozen or Frozen it
was a great illustration of people using
a pandemic to no it was actually a
horrible illustration of people using a
pandemic to entertain are you frozen or
are you posing
Frozen
oh there we go Josh you're good at this
so there was a lot of stuff we did
during the quarantine era of the show
that was like good for quarantine and
now looking back on it you're like oh
four months we've been doing this and I
got to tell you it hasn't got any easier
welcome back now you might be wondering
you know what's going on why is the door
opening what who's what's going on I
don't think there were great shows but
there was something beautiful in the
fact that we were doing them okay guys
how you doing hey
I think we did the best with what we
could
but
I just remember thinking we've got to
get back in the studio as soon as we can
it's showtime let's do this
good it's all good I think nobody could
have been more excited than James
probably that he got to do the show back
in the studio even though it was going
to be different than how we did it
before after four months away it's so
nice to see so many people in the studio
again our camera crew Mark Joel Jimmy P
look at Pete
look up here I never thought I'd be this
happy to see Pete in lieu of an audience
we needed there to be some atmosphere in
the room and so we all decided just to
be in the room together and we'd be the
audience for James do you want to do the
headlights no
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Lawrence joins you the headlines no no
all right well
yeah we're doing them
I was like we have to be the group of
friends that people can't meet up with
at the pub people are at home they can't
meet up with their friends where we will
be those friends what's your ultimate
sandwich yeah
we haven't got time
what I think the last thing that this
show should become is a group of friends
chatting about something
happened and it just became kind of
magic in here nice shirt tonight Pete
thanks we're looking at here sharks fins
up baby baby yeah
I think it unlocked the part of James
that I had known for eight years that a
lot of America had not gotten to know
the show that it was for the first 20
minutes in those shows back in the
studio in govid were the thing that I
always thought the show would be who's
had the worst first date in this room
what do you think oh CeCe go on uh a guy
took me to see Schindler's List on our
first date
and he had already seen it
building these characters of the crew
Pete and Mark and Joel and Susan and
Susan and like finding these things that
just became us so oh my God we're doing
it we've done 866 shows for you at home
this isn't for you this is for us it
kind of reminds me of like sitting in a
green room after a show with other
stand-up comedians I'll wrestle you now
I know you'd wrestle me now but I'm not
wrestling you now
why
and for me it was like a dream because
for half an hour to 45 minutes every
night like I could go out there and just
like joke around with like a bunch of my
good friends I'm genuinely losing my
mind look at what we're doing and then
they put that on television which is
insane I would be shocked if anything
that happened in the last 45 minutes
gets on television tonight
we did like covering ourselves in glow
sticks and turning all the lights off
and dancing and chucking a shrimp into
Ian's mouth Ian you want a shrimp
I would laugh so much what's happening
on the show right now is so great
because you are teetering on the knife's
edge of Sanity it felt weirdly dangerous
because you really didn't know where the
conversation was leading and like all of
a sudden James was calling Oprah this is
madness
foreign
Oprah
hello is that Oprah
it's Oprah Oprah it's James Corton oh
man it was such fun the relationships
that were created in that moment that I
would I would treasure it every day
viewers were also excited to know what
was going on with this group it was kind
of incredible what's been going on here
guys
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and you explain who wait here oh my God
I know this sounds ridiculous I
genuinely think some of those shows were
our best shows in terms of like are we
doing something that no one else can do
yes at 100 we should do a week of shows
from a cruise ship only if I can share a
room with Pete
nobody checks our bags when we get on
post covered we've held on to the
looseness that we discovered during that
kovid less audience no audience garage
show period so there's this like really
upsetting moment that always happens is
like you're saying something we're
interacting then you know he comes over
and he brings the mic but then he
decides when you're done so like maybe
you'll
I think the way that we do the monologue
now I really plays to my strengths far
better than it did when I would stand on
a mark and tell these jokes and stuff
we've added a new noise we've added a
new noise to the thing listen to this
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defined a lot of what our show is today
the interaction James has with his team
crew the banter the relaxed part one who
thinks there are more doors in the world
okay and who thinks there's more Wheels
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okay there's no way there's more Wheels
you're sitting on five Wheels
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forget it
we've held on to certain things and ways
of doing things that we would have never
ever known about never been forced to
learn about had we not had the
experience of 2020 2021 that all came
from covid and was a really good
addition to the show but it was
something that we had to learn by going
through that pandemic from the absolute
bottom of my heart this has been the
strangest
and oddest and hardest year at points
but coming in here and sitting down and
talking to everybody here has been
without question the best part of most
of my days and I will I will always
cherish
this feeling that we've created in here
I mean it I will I will I will miss it
hugely
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