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All these hosts did was take the fact that people like to watch celebrities being silly, and ran with it. Whether these videos deliberately follow all three points generally found in viral content – 1) Being positive, dwelling on positive issues and ideas, 2) Evoking a strong emotional reaction (joy, fear, anger), and 3) Being practically useful – I don't know.Jimmy Fallon's lip-sync battles, say, are definitely positive at face value. And considering their comment sections, they must evoke a great deal of joy. But number 3 is where I struggle. I struggle to understand who could find them practically useful except for other talk show hosts. If there's anything to applaud in all of it, it's Kimmel's – and now Corden's – success in overcoming the rule that viral videos cannot just be made to a formula.Yes, it helps if you already have a massive following prior to putting content on the internet, but almost all of these videos reach eight-figure hits, compared to clips of actual conversation, which usually peak at a much smaller six-figure number, sometimes seven. For example, 54 million people watched Emma Stone miming to DJ Khaled, while only 1 million watched segments of her interview.
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Piers Morgan, you can tell, is trying to reinstate the heavily-researched old format that doesn't pussy-foot around questions that we want to hear and that the guest doesn't. And for all his many other negative features, he deserves credit for that. He also gives the same treatment to soap stars as he would A-listers. But I think Life Stories employs too much of a weird, three-act structure to make it seem genuine. It's the rise to fame and fortune, the problems in the wilderness years and then the eventual solace. It feels prescribed.Maybe it's down to a dearth of good hosts. There's the complaint that the talk show gig is just something that presenters now feel necessitated to tick off their bucket list – not something they personally invest in, but merely another stage on which they can show off. It worked out averagely well for Charlotte Church and Kris Jenner, poorly for Ricky Gervais, Michael McIntyre, Joan Rivers, Adam Carolla, Lily Allen, John McEnroe and, most notoriously, Chevy Chase. Their talk shows, like countless others, fizzled out fast.So will Corden's last? He seems to be adhering to the new rules: his producers know what immediately clicks with social media users. If Corden uses Arnold Schwarzenegger to act out his films in six minutes, then Arnie succeeds in poking fun at himself and Corden is supplied with easy material for his YouTube channel. It's shallow, but relatable. Most of us haven't starred in a blockbuster, but we've all sung karaoke. No one's on a pedestal and everybody's a winner, right?WATCH ON VICE SPORTS: The Fat Jew Show
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