Watch James Corden parody ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ on ‘The Late Late Show’
The sketch "captures the band at work with Gary Thump, the Beatle you never heard of until now..."
By Tom Skinner
James Corden has spoofed ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ in a new sketch for ‘The Late Late Show’ – check out the video below.
The actor and presenter sent up the new Peter Jackson documentary, which delves into the creation of the Fab Four’s 1970 album ‘Let It Be’, during last night’s episode (December 7) of his US chat show.
“You may have seen the fantastic ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ documentary series on Disney+, but the new Gary Sessions captures the band at work with Gary Thump, the Beatle you never heard of until now,” a description of the parody reads. “What could have been…”
The ‘Gary Sessions’ combine real footage from the three-part doc with clips of Corden as Thump – aka the fifth Beatle – who is seen donning a faux blonde moustache and holding a gold Flying V guitar.
“Then it goes to E,” Paul McCartney instructs his bandmates in the clip. Stubbing out a cigarette, Thump responds: “Where’s – hang on, where’s E? Whoa whoa whoa, there’s a lot of notes here Paul, hang on…”
Thump goes on to injure his finger before introducing his mysterious friend, Sri Sri Jean Michel Van Space Cat. “Before you ask – yes, I’m in a cult,” Corden’s character tells The Beatles. Later, we see the group working on the ‘Let It Be’ title track.
“You know what, Paul? ‘A’ for effort, but Let It Be, Let It Shmee. Honestly – if you’re looking for a banging tune, this isn’t it,” Thump interjects before offering his own suggestion for a song, ‘Jerry The Jolly Yogini’.
You can watch the full ‘Late Late Show’ sketch above.
Sharing a snippet of the parody on social media, Corden wrote: “Apparently The Beatles: Get Back doc left out a key figure.”
Meanwhile, Peter Jackson has defended the lengthy runtime of ‘Get Back’ in a recent interview. (It’s 468 minutes long in total).
“I felt acutely – and this is the Beatles fan part of me kicking in – anything I don’t include in this movie might go back in the vault for another 50 years,” Jackson told NME.
“I was seeing and hearing these amazing moments. I thought: ‘God, people have got to see this. This is great. They have to see this.’”
In other news, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr paid tribute to George Harrison on the 20th anniversary of his death last week (November 29).
‘The Beatles: Get Back’ is available to stream now on Disney+.