So I guess the first question is: How did you manage to book Adele? It’s not like she’s doing a ton of media appearances, especially now that the album is so massive.
Adele was actually in L.A. when we were planning [Late Late Show] back in January and February of last year, and James and I saw her a little bit. We said to her, “We’d love to do something with you on the new show.” I don’t think we’d even thought of “Carpool Karaoke” then, but we were hinting very heavily how much we wanted her to do the show. She and her manager, Jonathan Dickins, were very sweet. They said, “We’re not doing anything until the album comes out, but the album will come out at the end of next year, and then we will do something with you guys.” When that happens, you sort of go, “I don’t know if that will ever happen.”
So when the time came, I dropped Jonathan a line and said, “You remember when you said you would do something at the start of the year?” And instantly, they came back and said, “Yep. We did. We’re doing it. What would you like to do?” We said we’d love to do “Carpool,” and amazingly, they replied, saying, “Okay.
December 21, 12:30 at this address. Does this work for you?” I was like, “Oh my God, that can’t be right. Has someone hacked my email?”

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You shot it right after you went on your winter hiatus for Late Late Show, right?
Right. James and I were
back in the U.K. for Christmas and the New Year. We both flew back an extra day earlier, as soon as the last show was done.
And we filmed it on a Monday. It was raining, as it always is in our beautiful, beloved U.K.
How long did you film?
We had an hour penciled in for it. But she was having a great time, and James was having a great time. And in the end,
we filmed for a couple of hours.
Seriously?
Yes. She’s a remarkable woman. She is the biggest star, I would say, in the world right now. But yet she’s the most down-to-earth, lovely girl you could meet. I used to produce the Brit Awards when James hosted it, and she was on it a couple of times. I was always struck by how wonderful she was, even then. You sometimes wonder if success will change someone, but it wasn’t with her. She’s as wonderful as you would hope she would be.

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So how did those two hours get cut to 14 minutes?
Well, the first cut of the segment was 54 minutes. The way it usually works is, I ask my editor to go through it and get rid of all the bits — them pulling over, getting in or out of the car, or the stuff that’s too private — that would never make it on TV, and then just leave me with the core stuff. Usually, we’re taking it down from 30 minutes to, like, ten. And on this occasion, my co-exec producer Rob [Crabbe] sat down and watched 54 minutes.
We could’ve made an entire episode of it.
Why not air all 54 minutes?
I think you’ve got to be sort of strict with yourself, and kill things that you love. There were some amazing, amazing bits in there. But we chose what we felt was the best 14, 15 minutes.

Is there any chance you might carve out a second installment based on the leftover footage?
It’s a good question. We talked about it. We said, “Should we do another one?” Because we could have filled another one with Adele. But I think that you’ve got to not take advantage of things, and not make people feel like they’ve seen enough. The best television always leaves you wanting more. That even comes down to a bit on a late-night show. If you do too much of that bit, people go, “Eh, I’ve seen it now.” So in the same way Adele wrote 50 songs for her album and chose the best ten, we did an hour of “Carpool” and chose the best 14 minutes. If it’s not going to be as good as the first one, I don’t think you should do a second one.
Was James at all worried about getting too into the singing with Adele? I mean, he’s a great singer in his own right, but Adele is sort of this special being. He wouldn’t want to sing too loudly, right?
That’s such a good question, because that’s literally the thing James and I spoke about on the way to shoot it. There’s something so precious about Adele’s voice, you don’t want to ruin the moment of Adele singing it. So, yes, he did think about that. And I think it’s just right. There are moments where he doesn’t join in, and there are moments where he does. It just adds to the joy. When he’s not singing, he’s admiring this genius gift. In the end, it was like watching two old friends have a blast.

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You’ll be airing a special show on the night of the Super Bowl. Did you consider holding Adele for that broadcast?
We did. We considered that. But we could’ve never used 15 minutes on a Super Bowl show. It would’ve meant making Adele ten minutes. That’s the first thing. Second of all, it’s going to be a very crowded time then, with all sorts of other things going on for Adele. And it’s very obviously Christmas in London [during the Adele “Carpool”] … It just seemed like coming back the second week of the year with this would be a very cool thing for people to see. But we did debate it. And then we got another booking for “Carpool,” and we felt that was more suited for that date.
I’ve always wondered: How does James not get into an accident doing this? He’s really driving that car.
Well, first of all, we don’t take routes that are difficult. He’s also got two of our cars ahead of him, and three cars behind him — essentially, a convoy. So he’s moving at under 20 miles an hour, and we don’t let any other cars around him. The second thing is, the cameras are tiny. They’re about the size of your knuckle, and they’re [stuck on] the windshield. So it doesn’t really distract his view. That’s how we do it.

Were there any highlights for you during the production of the Adele segment?
Seeing Adele sing “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls was a pretty amazing moment. When you hear her talking passionately about the Spice Girls, and then see her and James singing, it was both a funny and delightful moment of television. And then when they did “Someone Like You,” the producer who works with me all the time at Fullwell 73, Carly Shackleton … she was sat next to me in the car [behind Corden and Adele]. We were watching them belt it out, and I started to hear this sniffing. I turned around, and she’s in floods of tears. Buckets and buckets of tears. I said, “Carly, what is it?” And she said,
“I can’t help it. It’s just amazing. She’s beautiful.” Adele just touches those chords.

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