Late night TV is full of overachieving hosts: Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon are locked in a battle for ratings dominance (while Colbert is simultaneously locked in a snark battle with President Trump); Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the 2018 Oscars (despite this year’s controversial telecast); and James Corden is apparently trying to become the third-busiest man in showbiz behind Ryan Seacrest and Chris Hardwick.
In addition to hosting this year’s Grammys — and next year’s, for that matter — Corden has a number of high profile TV shows (one for Snapchat, no less!) and movies in the works, all with varying degrees of buzz. But while Seacrest and Hardwick have crossed from ubiquity into full-blown overexposure, Corden has managed to avoid that air of omnipresence that makes his rivals seem like they’d show up to a door opening. Read more…
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