“I’ve had good days.... and bad months.” Brilliant man

"Good days, and bad months" this hit so hard and so true

Funny how James thinks bullying is bad, yet he gets canceled for being a bully.

Being fat is literally one of the few problems you *can* run from.

“I’ve had good days and bad months...” if that isn’t the truth.

"I've had good days and bad months." Story of my life.

Shame is harmful, but on the other end of the spectrum is complacency. We've become too complacent with obesity and it's skyrocketed. Over 70% of Americans today are overweight or obese. Shaming people is not the answer, but some things need to change because millions of people are dying every year.

I'm fat but people like bill give me motivation to lose weight

I love how he was serious and funny in the same tone.

"I've had good days, and bad months" Someone actually put my life into words

Bill was 100% accurate. You don't have to be cruel re: extra weight but it's bizarre that people have become so sensitive to basic facts. I spent years struggling with my weight but I never tried to convince myself that I was healthy. We shouldn't protect someone's feelings at the expense of their physical health.

For those who are not aware of it, James Corden is now appearing in ads for Weight Watchers

"If making fun of fat people made them lose weight there'd be no fat kids in schools and I'd have a six pack by now" Wise words!

James is pulling the “I’m not angry just disappointed” card. Bloody brilliant

Bill Maher’s point was that we should not say that being fat is ok. USA has a serious problem with junk food and overeating....it’s extremely urgent to address this.

Fat shaming worked for me as a teenager, it really motivated me. People vary

Best line: "We don't all have a sense of superiority that burns 35,000 calories a day."

“I’ve had good days and bad months” most accurate description of dieting I've ever heard

I agree with James I don’t think fat shaming really works, But I don’t think we should make being fat seen as something that is ok and healthy, when it really isn’t.

To all the commentators that agree with James, Bill wasn't shaming anyone. He just stated the truth. Americans as a whole eat far too much and get far too little exercise...which has dire effects on health. He drew a great parallel to his own bad habits. Everyone acknowledges that smoking and/or drinking alcohol negatively affects the health ...which is why people are encouraged to abstain or moderate their use of those substances. Encouraging people to adjust their eating habits is the same thing.

"Believe me ,I can see a d***". Well shaded James👏👍

I know its not the point of this clip but I've been waiting for James to reference Lesbian Vampire Killers on this show for years. It's one of the best bad films there is.

So is this retort the basis for ‘fat-splaining’ aka trying to rationalise obesity as a culturally acceptable way of life? I don’t get how somebody could rationally argue such a point?

Bill is completely right

“We don’t all have a sense of superiority that burns 35,000 calories a day.” IM DEAD

1:42 Really thought he was gonna say cats

Let me explain something... I'm an emergency medicine physician, I also have an active pituitary tumor. The pituitary tumor causes me to be overweight. Not everyone who's overweight, isn't exercising, eats to their hearts content, or has a poor diet! As for myself, that's simply untrue. I also see so many people in my work, who are affected by illness, or take needed medication which actually causes them to be moderately to significant overweight. So, let's avoid undue ignorance and forego Bill Maher's advice. Skip any shaming of another human being, for any reason, and be kind to others. You never know their struggles!

Shaming does work at times

And James was so polite and made it so clear that he understood Bill’s intention, when he had every right not to do that and simply respond to him

When he said "I've got good days and bad months" I felt that

I'm fat.....and I'm with Bill

seems yer playing it real safe here - but overall you missed bill maher's message.....

Bill Maher seems like the kind of guy who would tell someone on their period to "just hold it."

I didn't know the British knew how to throw shade for 7mins straight without missing a beat. But he kept it classy tho. What a legend

Being obese is a costly to an already strained healthcare system. These are the facts.

shame works. just the way it is

When he talked about a bad film choice as the vampire film you know this episode was before Cats

"Bullying makes the problem worse " James tell him....

Bill was referring to fat models on magazine covers, acceptance of it.

After living in Asia I got used to friends pointing out when I had gained too much weight. Its a good thing, because its easy to kick the can down the road if the people that care about you are not there to remind you that its important. Its not the same thing as bullying / harassing fat people.

"While you're encouraging people to be careful about what goes into their mouths, just think a little bit harder about what comes out of yours." Very, very well said.

“id like to present exhibit A” 😂😂😂😂

I thought bill was right to be honest

Empowering. I am 330 pounds and my doctor fatshames me all the time by saying I am prone to diabetes and my LDL is too high.

People assume that fat people don't know they're fat, WE DO! And everyday is a constant battle. Thank you James for shedding some light on this.

"When you are encouraging people to think about what goes into their mouths, just think a little harder about what comes out of yours" Wow, that's it in a nutshell, well done James for not just striking back indiscriminately but replying with such eloquence and wit.

People need to take responsibility for their health. If you are fat and develop diabetes, heart problems etc, it was on you to lose weight in the first place. Your feelings won't protect you from diabetes and heart disease.

If Bill Maher went to the gym or a park & worked out he would see plenty of people with weight issues working out.

"If making fun of fat people made them lose weight, there'd be no fat kids in schools"... damn, I felt that one. Every fat kid gets picked on, but some of us didn't make it out alive.

“A sense of superiority that burns 35,000 calories a day” LMAO 😂 WHY

You should have listened to what Bill said. Rather than going on a rant.

I feel like James was so so sooo close to making good counter points but they were weak

“When you’re encouraging people to think about what goes into their mouth, just think a little harder about what comes out of yours!”....James Corden 2019

“We don’t all have a sense of superiority that burns 35,000 calories a day.” I’m deceased!!!

After all this... signs a deal with Weight Watchers...

"Childhood obesity is directly linked to poverty" So what's the adult millionaire's excuse for being fat?

The only thing shame accomplishes is keeping people from getting help.

He actually called fat shaming what it really is: bullying!

Really the issue is glorifying obesity when medical issues caused by unhealthy eating and obesity literally kills people MORE than drugs and alcohol combined.

You shouldn’t shame or bully anyone, but you also shouldn’t enable bad habits. If someone I loved was dealing with obesity, I would certainly speak up and try to help them. We all know the long term health consequences of being overweight, and I wouldn’t want to see a loved one go through all that pain.

That was THE MOST: Honest, heartfelt, kind, gentle, and polite comeback I have ever heard! CORDEN ROCKS!!!

The most politest, British slap back ever

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but science is not." - Bill Maher

My nephew came out of the womb with an insatiable appetite. He was literally a fat infant. My sister said he would breastfeed an inordinate amount of time. He was a chubby kid until he went away to college and started working out and lost all the weight.

People should listen to Bill’s response of James’ response on Rogan last week.

James: "While you are encouraging people to think about what goes into their mouths, just think a little harder about what comes out of yours." Me: OOOOOOOHHHHHH SSSNNNNNAAAAPPPPPP!!!! As if I needed more of a reason to adore James Corden.

I’ve come to realize obesity is like an addiction and therefore an illness, and according to experts it absolutely is. Losing weight has been the most difficult thing in my life. But I’ve made it partway through my journey. 270lbs at my max for 6’0” male. I’ve lost 55lbs in that time. Calories in, calories out.

Time for you to film an update...

" We both host the second most popular shows on our network". .DEAD

"...while you're encouraging people to think about what's going into their mouths, just think a little harder about what comes out of yours."

Bill Maher wasn’t fat shaming. Saying being fat is unhealthy isn’t fat shaming. Get over yourself.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a MASTERCLASS in how to strawman your opponent's argument while simultaneously taking the moral high ground to make it seem like you're a right, true, virtuous person, while the other is rude, mean-spirited, and uninformed. You, too, can woo easily convinced people to your side on any issue and get them to believe any viewpoint, even against opponents with actual facts, statistics, and sound logic. No longer do you have to inform yourself on the issue, or even know what you're talking about. After all, informing yourself is a thing of the past! Just follow these five simple steps :) 1) Surround yourself with people who will clap and cheer for basically anything you say (like this moment here 2:57, where James admits that he's made little progress in his effort to lose weight), thus giving the illusion of mass approval of your ideas regardless of their logical consistency. 2) Instead of looking at your opponent's argument in full, pick out and isolate only a few parts of their argument that, without the context that you intentionally omit, sound much worse than they are and make them much easier for you to attack. Lie outright about the argument your opponent is making, present a caricature of their argument to your gullible audience, and then attack the caricature instead of your opponent's actual argument (classic strawman). After all, your opponent is armed with sound reasoning and actual statistics, and trying to tackle a well-built argument is hard! We don't want hard, we want easy! Finally, attempt to get ahead of criticism of this exact ploy by making a vague and indirect call to go watch the original video where your opponent makes the argument, but without providing a link to that video in your video's description and knowing full well that barely a slim fraction of your audience would ever actually see it. 3) Discuss your own struggles with the issue, act as a victim of bullying, and sprinkle in self-deprecating humor to garner further sympathy and social approval, and to show that you too struggle with the same issues as many of your own audience do, thus appearing as more relatable and further winning them over to your side despite the fact that, thanks to your wealth, you have far more options and opportunities to fix your issues than they theirs. Then leverage your self-victimization and social approval to cast your opponent as a bad person. Attempt to get ahead of criticism of this ploy by claiming that you understand that your opponent is well-intentioned, and then continue to use the aforementioned strategy. Connecting yourself with the issue, regardless of how flimsy your connection is, also comes with the benefit of making it appear as though you are qualified to speak on the matter, even if you're not (acting as if being fat qualifies you to talk about America's obesity epidemic is like saying that being a drug addict qualifies you to discuss the war on drugs). 4) Of course, in reality you know nothing of the issue and have no idea how it should be solved, but you have to make it seem like you do. How can you make yourself appear smarter on the issue your opponent if you don't offer solutions to the issue? There's an easy answer to this. Simply make brief and vague references to ideas to solve the problem; ideas that are vague enough so that you don't actually have to give any details on them, but specific enough to make it seem like you do in fact know how to solve the problem to the untrained and unobservant. Now remember, you are casting yourself and people like you as victims here, so none of these solutions could possibly have anything to do with self-responsibility. Therefore, you want to make sure that your proposed solutions have absolutely nothing to do with you or people like you actually getting up and taking action to solve your own problems. Present your solutions in a way that puts all the responsibility on others! Can't be a victim if you have any agency over the situation, right? And thus, you maintain your illusion. 5) Revel in your newfound social approval! Congratulations! You're now a good person, and everyone loves you. Even if you didn't actually help to solve the problem, let's make sure to keep in mind that it's social approval that's important here, not actually solving problems. Leave the actual bricklaying to others! Just get what you can out of the situation and go. And hey, don't forget to knock over a few bricks on your way out :) And trust me guys, this absolutely works, as absurd as it may seem. Just look at the highest upvoted comments in this comments section. And for those who actually do want to see Bill Maher's *actual* original argument, it can be found here. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etNkh6SVzquqnmQ.html

I love the way James handled this; it’s very mature.

That was a poignantly beautiful response to a cruel monologue of Bill Maher’s. Thank you, James.

Bill Maher is correct. Being obese is not healthy and should not be celebrated. That’s not fat shaming. That’s truth.

Bill is completely right.

Wow I can’t believe someone with a huge platform actually used it for unselfish reasons, to send a positive message.

You handled this scenario like a true gentleman. I tip my hat to you sir.

I am overweight, and yes, fat shaming in a form needs to come back. My sister is overweight and one of her own kids talked about her eating and drinking habits which took a lot of guts and when asked why he is saying things like that his reply was, "Because I love you and am concerned with your health." Just calling someone ugly cause your fat is one thing, but giving a 450 lb person a look for eating at an all you can eat place that need to sit one chair per cheek, or the ones that use the mobile carts at stores that are there for the OLD people. Now the infrim are walking around hanging onto carts where maybe if these overweight people would actually push a cart and walk could be a solution to their issue instead of making it worse by being even lazier. At the VERY LEAST if you say fat shaming has to go away, then so do all these fat promoting, overweight models showing, "Look how brave I am to show my fat body that most everyone is actually repulsed by, but in today woke society most will comment how good I look and adore me and it is okay to re,main this way."

I've watched both this and Bill's clip so I could make a reasoned, judicious decision, which is....you can make an talk show audience applaud wildly at any position.

“ we’re using this term fat shaming, we’ve come up with a name for it but let’s be honest fat shaming is just *bullying* ” 🥺👏🏼

I’ve got to disagree with James here. With all due respect, I have to say Lesbian Vampire Killers was amazing.

I'm reading Ian Karmel's book, "T-Shirt Swim Club", and had to look up this clip. Well done!

You can educate all you want, but you have to actually exercise…

This is why everyone loves James Cordon.

we don't need to be fat-shaming, but instead, we need to be supporting healthy life choices.

Love this. Please do another before you leave. Dig the Michigan shout out :)

"Accessible" health care is not driving obesity. There are medical conditions, but the folks on 'my 600 pound life'... didn't get that way because there was a 2 week wait for a doctors appointment.

"I've had bad good days and bad months". My life in a nutshell..

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but health is science.” Thought I would bring that amazing statement over here.

James is overly nervous, you can tell by his whole demeanor and the way he laughs here. Though he is an experienced actor and show host, he can’t hide it.

I’m a compulsive over eater and, like you, have been on every diet imaginable until I stopped lying to myself. “I’ll just get this package of cookies and have a couple evert day or better, I’ll have a bowl of ice cream every evening.” That is the biggest bunch of bull that ever got sold. There will never come a time when I eat two cookies if there are a dozen in the house nor will there ever come a time when I will eat half a pint of ice cream. And once I stopped lying to myself that I could I went on my last diet. I still eat cookies...I get one and take it home for dessert or I stop and get a scoop of ice cream because compulsive over eaters are satisfied with what ever is there...if it’s a scoop or a half gallon it must be finished. So honey, when you whine that fat shaming makes you go to the freezer and get a pint and eat it I have to ask....what’s it doing in your freezer? It’s there because you’re still lying to yourself that you can handle it.

I have never seen someone this sensible and organized while talking. It was needed. Thank you.

I like how he countered him while acknowledging the health risk and seriousness behind the issue.

Fat shaming is wrong, but so is fat normalizing.

As an former obese, I can tell you being fat is not healthy makes your life harder and shouldn't be promoted to kids. It is not ok nor normal

Amazing message! More people should watch this video. When I was 16, I was very bulimic and very slim. I defeated my bulimia and now weigh 20kg more. I eat healthy, do sports and feel good. Nevertheless, there are people who say to me: In the past, you looked much healthier. I think that the look does not necessarily reflect the health of a person.

“If only someone with a platform who knows what it is like to be overweight would speak up about this. Oh, wait. That would be me.”

Fat Shaming is not the answer. Not fat shaming is not the answer. The answer is to be the best person you can be and to encourage others to do the same.

Fat Farms in the 1970s meant - a place to lean down get in good shape. Today Fat Farms - Jelly Donuts for everyone.