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[English]

thank you

hey gang how are you

um thanks for this here's the news

I've I've signed a new

contract with the Late Late Show

um

and it will be my last contract that I

signed as the host of this show

um

and the show will stop

in a year's time

there's two there's too many things to

say there's too many things I'd like to

say it's too much

love

for real as we come to the end of it I

am

unbelievably sad that it's coming to an

end but also full of understanding why

the time might be right to bring it to a

close and just thankful for the amazing

times we've all had it's set I'm sad the

show's ending it's been such a great

experience and it's such a wonderful

group of people I'm so proud of all the

work we've done here and I'm like

impressed by James so like walk away and

move on because it's not easy to do

always always known that one day I will

be stood here for the last time I think

all good things need to come to an end

that if you go on forever

you lose what makes you special it's

very rare in television that you get to

call your own shots and I think it's

really

amazing that James he's going to go no

no that's it I've done my time gratitude

is is the word that comes across first

you know eventually I think you'll think

about the Legacy that we've left in late

night which is you know 70 years worth

of television and like the show's gonna

stand out that phrase in The Late Late

Show won't exist on CBS anymore it is a

franchise that's been around for 30

years it's always sad to wind down a

franchise and even though it's ending I

think that it deserves its spot in the

history of the format The Late Late Show

starring Tom Snyder

[Applause]

28 years ago I was at the very first

Late Late Show with Tom Snyder and now I

will be at the last Late Late Show with

James Corden Tim has directed every

every single episode of The Late Late

Show we've got an 80 job with Tom Snyder

was ad for Craig Kilbourne then became

deck director of Craig Ferguson and is

now the director of this show right now

I feel so fortunate to have been on this

show for so long I mean I put 28 years

into the show and started at the bottom

and now to be fortunate enough to direct

the show and to spend the last eight

years with the most talented people the

people here the environment that's been

created is far greater than anything we

have ever put on screen this is a real

family unit of people who really love

working here they love each other it's a

really beautiful experience that I think

will be hard to rival the fundamental

thing that I will miss more than

anything I've got to go to work with

absolute friends and make friendships

that I will carry the rest of time TV is

one of those jobs where when you're in

production it's kind of unlike many

others because it's so intense doing a

late night show is like sprinting a

marathon it is exhausting and it is like

never ending you're working with people

all hours day every day for so many

years so it's obviously very sad and to

say goodbye to all these people because

it's been such a family for so long

we're not leaving today we still have a

year to go and I am we are all

determined to make this the best year we

have ever had making this show we are

going to go out with a bang that's going

to be carpools and crosswalks and

sketches the thing as we're coming to

the end of the show it's hard to believe

that we're here already but I think it's

really really important how things end I

think it's really important that things

end in the manner that they began 48

shows ago

so I guess it's just how do we make sure

that these last 48 shows are like the

best ones we do and we just do

everything that we can do to make these

shows as memorable as they possibly can

be that's what today's about a way to be

away from the studio and to really just

put these Brilliant Minds together and

think about what we can do James has

done a lot of things that Tom Cruise

to a musical you my boy are in

the theater James would integrate Tom

Cruise into the musical make him do like

a tap okay well there is something

really funny in the theory of that I've

done loads of you like I've jumped out

of planes I've done this I've read and

I've done this I've done that now it's

time for you to do stuff that I like and

it's like all that stuff we will perform

live in The Lion King

it's it's just crazy I mean you have

Maverick standing there like giving you

two days to shoot a lion king thing

we're not young what

Tom Cruise is someone who pushes us to

be the best that we can because he wants

everything to be as good as it can be

and it's time for our last adventure

together and I

there's really no need for us to be

friends after you've finished it you

look me in the eyes and tell me I'm

wrong when Mission Impossible 17 comes

out you're not gonna you're not gonna

think of me now you're not gonna think

of me you're going to be off base

jumping with bow and yang it is

he's one of the stars that puts so much

into it that it really makes everyone be

on top of their game and we want to be

the best we can for him and he's the

best he can be for us

you all have brought so much joy to so

many people you're so enormously

talented and I always have an incredible

time and I'm telling you this is not the

end of our creative relationship

he's a mate I mean he's amazing I love

you too

so we should also think about some of

our like Classic Bits carpool and be

like who haven't we done yet as we'll do

Bad Bunny we'll do that when I was ex

James is there a crosswalk you want to

do before it ends I'm Singing in the

Rain we're looking oh yeah

the other day

is Hollywood yeah it's about Hollywood

crosswalk is one of our biggest and most

ambitious pieces that we do when it

first started there's an idea by our

co-head writer Ian Carmel which was

let's just put on a show on the

crosswalk crosswalk started as like a

small production it was like James a few

other actors leather jackets and like

not a whole lot of props and over the

years it's evolved and evolved and we've

had Stars such as Will Smith and the

cast of Beauty and the Beast and Adina

Menzel running out onto a crosswalk

singing songs in front of actual traffic

and then running off across walking we

flew to Paris Indiana we've done it in

New York London like it's become like a

gigantic bed it's funny and big and

ambitious and everything we've tried to

do and it's so much fun to produce it is

the fun

crosswalk the joy we have

had making magic pushing the envelope

it's just been a dream come true and I'm

so thankful for James Corden and your

huge vision and the entire team

foreign

[Applause]

we're here to tell you you can't just

leave a talk show another life goes on

WE James and then what follows is like a

grilling about leaving late night if

we're gonna let you leave we need to

know you'll keep our sacred secrets and

then what do you know you know that we

don't actually read the books we know

that we've never watched any of the

movies you know that we don't find any

of the jokes funny the fake laugh we all

have for when a guest tells a story that

isn't funny

maybe they cut off a finger

I have as many as we wanted in that

sketch sort of the late popping on

Darkness you can shoot them all over the

place yeah I think it's brilliant God

did speak to me and he told me I don't

need to be in this bit it's essentially

the sketch we did on episode one where

James is like learning how to video

What It Takes probably not but it's the

end of it now you're leaving and this is

what happens to you it has been an honor

to share this time slot with you for the

last eight years you have done so many

inventive things with this format that

nobody did before and you're really

going to be missed it was great having

you in this family I always like this

song you did at the end of episode one

yes and I think that might also be an

effective sweet way of ending the 1237

version of our show on our last day my

name is James Corden and tonight's who

dreams came true to look like I can play

piano and to host this show for you so

good night

thanks for watching

that's our show

it feels a bit like you know when you

watch those like slow motion videos of a

crash test dummy where you absolutely

know what's coming but it's still like

25 shows away or whatever

so like the damage is sort of going like

this and you're like oh you're about to

have a real impact something's coming

it's going it just takes ages before

their face like and then suddenly they

just go

it feels like that you're like

strapped in

looking at everyone you love and you're

driving the car that's how it feels I'm

really really just trying to keep it

together realize what a privilege it is

to say goodbye in the manner that we are

right now I'm really proud that we went

100 for the entire run of this show from

day one starting with Tom Hanks doing

roll call to you know the very last show

where we have Tom Cruise doing The Lion

King it has been

100 miles an hour I think the last show

will say it all it will be exactly

like the first it will be

entertaining

joyful

and everything

[Music]

foreign

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
thank /θæŋk/ A2	verb - to express gratitude
show /ʃoʊ/ A1	noun - a television program verb - to display or present
host /hoʊst/ A2	noun - a person who presents a show verb - to present a program
stop /stɑːp/ A1	verb - to cease or end noun - an end or halt
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - strong affection or liking verb - to have strong affection
sad /sæd/ A1	adjective - feeling sorrow
gratitude /ˈɡrætɪtjuːd/ B2	noun - thankfulness
legacy /ˈlɛɡəsi/ B2	noun - something left to future generations
family /ˈfæməli/ A1	noun - group of related people or close friends
talented /ˈtæləntɪd/ B1	adjective - having natural ability
proud /praʊd/ A2	adjective - feeling deep pleasure in achievements
amazing /əˈmeɪzɪŋ/ A2	adjective - astonishing or wonderful
experience /ɪkˈspɪriəns/ A2	noun - knowledge from doing or seeing things verb - to go through something
adventure /ədˈvɛntʃər/ A2	noun - an exciting experience
joy /dʒɔɪ/ A2	noun - great pleasure
ambitious /æmˈbɪʃəs/ B1	adjective - having a strong desire to succeed
privilege /ˈprɪvəlɪdʒ/ B2	noun - a special advantage
joyful /ˈdʒɔɪfəl/ B1	adjective - full of joy
franchise /ˈfræntʃaɪz/ B2	noun - a series of related television shows
impressed /ɪmˈprɛst/ B1	adjective - admiringly affected

Key Grammar Structures

• I've signed a new contract with the Late Late Show

  ➔ Present Perfect

  ➔ Used to talk about actions completed at an unspecified time before now, with relevance to the present. In the sentence, ""I've signed"" indicates that the action occurred recently and affects the current situation.

• the show will stop in a year's time

  ➔ Future Simple

  ➔ Used to make predictions or statements about future events. In the sentence, ""will stop"" expresses a certainty about what will happen in the future.

• I am unbelievably sad that it's coming to an end

  ➔ Present Continuous

  ➔ Used for temporary actions or ongoing processes happening now. In the sentence, ""it's coming"" describes a process that is currently underway towards an end.

• it's been such a great experience

  ➔ Present Perfect

  ➔ Used to describe experiences or states that started in the past and continue to the present. In the sentence, ""it's been"" emphasizes the ongoing relevance of the experience up to now.

• I'm so proud of all the work we've done here

  ➔ Present Perfect

  ➔ Used for actions completed in the past but connected to the present. In the sentence, ""we've done"" refers to past work that contributes to current pride.

• Tim has directed every single episode of The Late Late Show

  ➔ Present Perfect

  ➔ Used to indicate completed actions with emphasis on the result or experience up to now. In the sentence, ""has directed"" shows Tim's achievement across all episodes.

• we're not leaving today we still have a year to go

  ➔ Present Simple

  ➔ Used for general truths, habits, or fixed situations. In the sentence, ""have"" expresses a current possession or state of time remaining.

• making this show we are going to go out with a bang

  ➔ Going to Future

  ➔ Used for planned future actions or predictions based on current evidence. In the sentence, ""are going to go"" indicates an intended strong finish.

• it's such a wonderful group of people

  ➔ Present Simple (Linking Verb)

  ➔ Used with linking verbs to describe states or qualities. In the sentence, ""it's"" links the subject to a description of the group's quality.