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[English]

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

[Applause]

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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[Applause]

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

[Applause]

okay there's no way there's more Wheels

you're sitting on five Wheels

[Applause]

[Laughter]

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

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
quarantine /ˈkwɒrəntiːn/ B2	noun - a period of isolation to prevent the spread of disease
pandemic /pænˈdemɪk/ B2	noun - a disease epidemic occurring worldwide
lockdown /ˈlɒkdaʊn/ B2	noun - an enforced stay-at-home order
audience /ˈɔːdiəns/ A2	noun - a group of listeners or viewers
crew /kruː/ B1	noun - a group of people working together
garage /ˈɡærɑːʒ/ A2	noun - a building for storing vehicles
studio /ˈstuːdiəʊ/ B1	noun - a place where broadcasting is done
perform /pərˈfɔːrm/ A2	verb - to carry out an action or role
adapt /əˈdæpt/ B2	verb - to adjust to new conditions
entertain /ˌɛntərˈteɪn/ B1	verb - to amuse or provide pleasure
challenge /ˈtʃælɪndʒ/ B1	noun - a difficult task or problem
difficult /ˈdɪfɪkəlt/ A1	adjective - needing much effort or skill
funny /ˈfʌni/ A1	adjective - causing amusement
bleak /bliːk/ B2	adjective - depressing and gloomy
react /riˈækt/ B1	verb - to respond or behave in a particular way
magic /ˈmædʒɪk/ A2	noun - something seemingly supernatural
beautiful /ˈbjuːtɪfl/ A1	adjective - pleasing to the senses
insane /ɪnˈseɪn/ B2	adjective - mentally ill or extremely foolish
relationship /rɪˈleɪʃənʃɪp/ B1	noun - a connection or association
cherish /ˈtʃerɪʃ/ B2	verb - to hold dear and protect

Key Grammar Structures

• we had a big week the week before we went out

  ➔ Past Perfect (had + past participle)

  ➔ The phrase "had + past participle" (e.g., "had a big week") is used to describe an action that occurred before another past action ("before we went out").

• everyone was talking about it but we of course only thought it would last a couple of weeks

  ➔ Past Continuous (was/were + -ing)

  ➔ The phrase "was talking" and "thought" shows a past action that was ongoing ("was talking") and a past belief ("thought").

• we went from something that was a news topic to something that was a national emergency

  ➔ Parallel Structure (from...to...)

  ➔ The use of "from...to..." creates a clear contrast between two states or conditions.

• it's been a scary time without an audience

  ➔ Present Perfect (has/have + past participle)

  ➔ "It's been" (present perfect) emphasizes that the scary time started in the past and continues to the present.

• we're all going through the same thing together

  ➔ Present Continuous (am/is/are + -ing)

  ➔ The phrase "we're going through" indicates an action that is happening now and has ongoing relevance.

• don't think about what you can't do because what you can't do is irrelevant

  ➔ Subordinating Conjunction (because)

  ➔ The conjunction "because" introduces a reason or explanation for the main clause ("don't think about what you can't do").

• we had to adapt and the talents of the people we've surrounded ourselves with

  ➔ Relative Pronoun (who/whom/whose/which/that)

  ➔ The relative pronoun "which" refers back to "the talents" and connects it to the clause ("we've surrounded ourselves with").

• the first idea that we had was to do a show called home Fest

  ➔ Relative Clause (that)

  ➔ The relative clause "that we had" provides additional information about "the first idea."

• we pushed everything out it's all behind that curtain

  ➔ Passive Voice (was/were + past participle)

  ➔ The phrase "it's all behind" uses passive voice to emphasize the result ("behind that curtain") rather than the action.