James Corden directly apologizes to Ricky Gervais leaving no grudges

• James Corden has directly apologized to Ricky Gervais.
• Ricky said that he believed a scriptwriter had written the copied lines.
• The After Life actor added that he did not regret reacting to the incident.

Ricky Gervais and James Corden have no grudges toward one another, as Corden directly apologized to Gervais for using his joke on television.

The host of Late Late Show has already issued a public apology for stealing a joke from Ricky’s 2018 stand-up special Humanity in a monologue on his late-night US television program.

And now admitting that he has directly apologized for the event, the After Life actor has said that he said, “Don’t worry about it” and believed a scriptwriter had written the copied lines.

Asked if Corden had directly contacted him, Ricky told the Headliners podcast, said: ‘He did. I said “Don’t worry about it”, I said “if your writers were in the back of the room when I was warming up and you got it out there before I did it on Netflix…”, but whatever you think of James Corden there is no way he knowingly ripped off my joke and thought he’d get away with it.’

Asked if he regretted reacting to it, Ricky added: ‘No, because I’m allowed. I didn’t how it had happened. And I thought it was funny. I thought it was absurd that it was such an obvious rip-off.

‘But again I don’t know how he got to it because the writer must have walked him through and said “Do this and do that”. Or he saw it five years ago and completely forgot about it and thought he’d made it up. That can happen as well.’

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