James Corden Goes From Late-Night Comedy to Kosher Butchering
Comedian James Corden (left) slicing steaks at Western Kosher in L.A. Image by Screenshot/CBS
By Liza Schoenfein June 24, 2016
When I watched James Corden host the Tony’s last weekend, I didn’t imagine that the next time I saw the British comedian he’d be wearing a kippa and an apron in a kosher butcher shop, ringing up sales and cutting up steaks.
Then I saw this hysterical video. As part of a running sketch called “Take a Break” on his Late Late Show, Corden stopped by Western Kosher in Los Angeles and offered to take over for the young man working the checkout counter, who’d been at his shift since 7 a.m.
Corden proceeds to scan and bag groceries before being sent to work with the butchers in the back. He even drives a forklift behind the store, wishing everybody a Gut Shabbes as he goes about his various tasks.
The whole thing’s hysterical. Watch it here:
Liza Schoenfein is food editor at the Forward. Contact her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter, @LifeDeathDinner
It’s our birthday and we’re still celebrating!
We hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, we’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s independent Jewish news.
This week we celebrate 129 years of the Forward. We’re proud of our origins as a Yiddish print publication serving Jewish immigrants. And we’re just as proud of what we’ve become today: A trusted source of Jewish news and opinion, available digitally to anyone in the world without paywalls or subscriptions.
We’ve helped five generations of American Jews make sense of the news and the world around them — and we aren’t slowing down any time soon.
As a nonprofit newsroom, reader donations make it possible for us to do this work. Support independent, agenda-free Jewish journalism and our board will match your gift in honor of our birthday!
Support our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
