“This is a beautiful room,” the Gavin & Stacy creator said onstage. “It’s a beautiful night here in L.A. So beautiful, Harvey Weinstein has already asked tonight up to his hotel to give him a massage.”

And only a few days had passed before the 46-year-old apologized for poking fun at a serious situation.

“To be clear, sexual assault is no laughing matter,” Corden wrote on X (formerly Twitter) amid the ongoing backlash. “I was not trying to make light of Harvey’s inexcusable behavior, but to shame him, the abuser, not his victims.”

“I am truly sorry for anyone offended,” he continued, “that was never my intention.”

More recently, the Into the Woods star found himself fighting allegations that he exemplified unacceptable and “abusive” behavior to staff after restaurateur Keith McNally shared that he banned him from one of his New York City restaurants.

“James Corden is a Hugely gifted comedian, but a tiny Cretin of a man,” McNally wrote in an October 2022 Instagram post. “And the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago.”