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James Corden faced a choice when he hosted the first episode of his “Late Late Show” since last week, when he became the center of controversy after a New York restaurant owner accused of abusive behavior towards its staff.
The hilarious “Carpool Karaoke” chose a little bit of both, though he admitted he was “disgusting” and made a rude comment to a server who brought his wife a poorly prepared meal at Balthazar, which the owner Keith McNally described on Instagram. published last week.
“When you make a mistake, you have to take responsibility,” Corden said in the opening of his CBS show that aired Tuesday morning.
The TL; DR’s recap of the drama surrounding the late-night host began last Monday, when McNally, who has a reputation for being a provocateur, announced on Instagram that he had banned Corden from his Manhattan bistro across from Paris, Balthazar. The restaurateur detailed two instances in which the comedian had allegedly abused his staff, including a recent visit during which Corden was said to have yelled at a server during his wife’s meal, an egg yolk omelette that was not had done as instructed.
James Corden sent an egg yolk omelet, so we tried to make one
Corden, McNally said, had sent the omelet because it contained a small amount of egg white. The kitchen made the dish again but brought it out the wrong side again, causing Corden to scream. “You can’t do your job! You can’t do your job!” Corden said, according to McNally, citing a manager’s report on the incident. “Maybe I should go to the kitchen and cook the omelette myself!”
Hours after McNally’s initial post, however, it all seemed copacetic when he posted that Corden had apologized and was welcomed back.
But the peace was short-lived: In an interview with the New York Times published Thursday, Corden appeared to deny the allegations. “I’ve done nothing wrong, on any level,” he said, prompting McNally to restore his flesh. “If he goes one step further and apologizes to the 2 servers he insulted, I will let him eat free at Balthazar for the next 10 years,” McNally wrote.
In his opening monologue on Tuesday, Corden offered a more innocent account of the scene than McNally had suggested. He said his wife specified that the omelet be made with all egg yolks because she has a “severe allergy,” which they had explained to the waiters.
Corden said his wife was served food she was allergic to and sent without any static. “As his meal went wrong on the table for the third time, in the middle of it, I made a sarcastic and rude comment about cooking it myself,” he said. “It’s a comment I deeply regret.”
Corden also offered an explanation for his initial denial that he had done anything wrong, indicating that he had done some thinking about the incident. “Because I didn’t yell or scream or insult anyone… I’ve been walking around thinking I didn’t do anything wrong, but the truth is, I did,” he said. “I made a rude comment, and it was wrong. It was an unnecessary comment. It was rude to the server.”
Corden said he called McNally to talk about it and thought they had “cleared the air … in private.” But, he said, “at the time, the story was out there and people were upset.”
The late-night host, who is leaving his longtime gig next year, indicated he might take McNally up on the offer of free meals.
“I love this restaurant, I love the staff there, and I hope they let me in one day, so when I go back to New York I can go there,” he said. “And apologize in person, which is something I will absolutely do.”
Later in the day, McNally acknowledged Corden’s “kind” mea culpa, and once again all hatchets seemed buried. “It takes a real man to do this,” McNally wrote in an Instagram post Tuesday afternoon. “I’ve behaved much worse than Corden in the past, but I wasn’t man enough to apologize.”
McNally said he had lifted a ban on Corden from dining at Balthazar and instead, apparently jokingly, imposed one. “I’m going to ban myself from Balthazar for 2 weeks,” he wrote. “People who live in glass houses…”
This story has been updated.
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