Name: 最後的深夜秀第 2 章 - 拼車卡拉 OK (The Last Late Late Show: Chapter 2 — Carpool Karaoke)
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It's one of the most indelible bits now in late night history.

這是深夜歷史上最難以磨滅的片段之一。

委婉語氣表達希望、渴望

When we were developing the show, we were really looking for something that would be exciting and different and really like just grab the bull by its horns.

當我們在開發這個節目時，我們真的在尋找一些令人興奮、與眾不同的東西，就像抓住公牛的角一樣。

We knew that we needed like some bits, tent poles in a way that you could hang the show on.

我們知道，我們需要一些零碎的東西，比如帳篷杆，可以把節目掛在上面。

傑伊-雷諾（Jay Leno）有亂穿馬路的行為。

Letterman had stupid pet tricks and top ten lists.

萊特曼有愚蠢的寵物把戲和十大排行榜。

Fallon had lip sync battles and thank you notes.

我們當時想，我們的專長是什麼？

We were very aware that no one knew who James Corden was.

我們非常清楚，沒有人知道詹姆斯-柯登是誰。

And we realised that if we were waiting for people to come to us, they never would.

我們意識到，如果我們等待人們來找我們，他們永遠不會來找我們。

We were just showing the writers some different things that I'd done at home.

我們只是向編劇展示了我在家裡做的一些不同的事情。

And Ben and I had done a couple of sketches that were quite successful for Comic Relief.

本和我曾為 "喜劇救濟"（Comic Relief）做過幾個小品，相當成功。

He had this character Smithy that he played on a sitcom that he wrote called Gavin and Stacey.

他在自己編劇的情景喜劇《加文與斯泰西》中扮演了一個角色史密斯。

And he'd got in a car with George Michael and George Michael at the time had just come out of jail.

他和喬治-邁克爾上了一輛車，當時喬治-邁克爾剛從監獄出來。

Comic Relief，他們需要我現在就進去。

So we had this really funny idea that bizarrely George Michael agreed to, that James would pick George Michael up from jail and drive him to his meeting.

於是我們有了一個非常有趣的想法，奇怪的是喬治-邁克爾也同意了，詹姆斯會把喬治-邁克爾從監獄裡接出來，然後開車送他去見面。

And James had put on a Wham song and they'd sung it together.

詹姆斯放了一首Wham的歌，他們一起唱了起來。

它真的真的引起了人們的共鳴。

We started to think, well hold on a sec, maybe, because we can't get people to come to us, maybe we go to them and maybe they drive around and they listen to their music and they sing along.

我們開始想，等一下，也許，因為我們無法讓人們來找我們，也許我們可以去找他們，也許他們會開車四處轉轉，然後聽著他們的音樂，跟著一起唱。

And I had just so happened that I had watched Curb Your Enthusiasm the night before where Larry picks up a hooker on his way to baseball so that he can go in the carpool lane to get there quicker.

前一天晚上，我正好看了《遏制你的熱情》（Curb Your Enthusiasm），拉里在去打棒球的路上勾搭了一個妓女，這樣他就可以走拼車道，更快地到達那裡。

Ben said, what if you were driving the biggest stars in the world and you need them to help you get to work to beat the traffic?

本說，如果你駕駛的是世界上最耀眼的明星，你需要他們幫助你趕在交通高峰期上班，你會怎麼做？

然後他走了出去，砰的一聲關上了門。

So we had this firecracker of an idea which allowed us to go and get people to be on the show and hear their hits and have a great chat with them.

是以，我們有了這個火花四濺的點子，讓我們可以去找人上節目，聽聽他們的名曲，和他們好好聊聊。

Well then, we couldn't book a soul for it.

好吧，那我們就一個人也訂不到了。

Carpool Karaoke was a hard concept to get across to people.

拼車卡拉 OK 是一個很難讓人接受的概念。

You want me to sit in a car and then sing along to my own songs while driving with a guy that I don't really know anything about on a show that hasn't been on television yet.

你想讓我坐在車裡，和一個我完全不瞭解的人一邊開車一邊唱我自己的歌，而這個節目還沒上過電視。

So we spent two months before the show came out pitching everybody carpool karaoke and everybody said no.

所以我們在節目播出前花了兩個月的時間，向所有人推銷拼車卡拉 OK，但所有人都拒絕了。

Think of anybody you like in the whole world in music, if they're alive, they said no.

想一想全世界你喜歡的音樂人，如果他們還活著，他們會說 "不 "嗎？

I had some friends at Epic and they asked if one of their newer artists could come and do a showcase for us.

我在 Epic 有一些朋友，他們問我能否請他們的一位新人藝術家來為我們表演。

We had employed more and more people and so we decided to have a pizza night out on the balcony.

我們僱用了越來越多的人，是以我們決定在陽臺上舉辦披薩之夜。

Laura Swanson was there and she was the head of Epic Publicity at that time and was really close with Mariah Carey and James pitched her the idea.

勞拉-斯旺森當時在場，她是 Epic Publicity 的負責人，與瑪麗亞-凱莉關係非常密切，詹姆斯向她提出了這個想法。

I took her into my office and I played her me and George Michael singing in the car and I said, this segment will be brilliant with Mariah Carey.

我把她帶到我的辦公室，給她播放了我和喬治-邁克爾在車裡唱歌的畫面，我說，這個片段和瑪麗亞-凱莉在一起一定會很精彩。

And she said, well, Mariah Carey does love George Michael so if I could show her the George Michael clip then maybe she'd do it because she's got a greatest hits album coming out.

她說，瑪麗亞-凱莉很喜歡喬治-邁克爾，如果我能給她看看喬治-邁克爾的片段，也許她就會做了，因為她即將推出一張最受歡迎的專輯。

Laura said, alright, let me call Mariah and I think she called her right then and she said yes.

勞拉說，好吧，讓我給瑪麗亞打個電話，我想她當時就給瑪麗亞打了電話，她答應了。

In that moment it changed the trajectory of the entire show, no question.

毫無疑問，那一刻改變了整部劇的軌跡。

Well I know she said yes to it without fully understanding what it was because when James got in the car with her she didn't want to sing.

我知道她答應了，但並沒有完全明白是什麼意思，因為當詹姆斯和她一起上車時，她並不想唱歌。

I'm not singing today, I was up all night.

And it's so funny because she didn't even really know what the bit was.

這太有趣了，因為她甚至都不知道那是什麼。

Her publicist just said, go on, you should do this, it'd be great.

她的公關就說，去吧，你應該這麼做，那會很棒的。

I remember thinking no one's told Mariah Carey what this is because I can remember you got in the car and said, I'm not singing today.

我記得我在想，沒人告訴過瑪麗亞-凱莉這是什麼，因為我記得你上車後說，我今天不唱歌了。

And I was like, that is a big part of it.

我當時就想，這是很重要的一部分。

I just kept trying to wear her down with a sort of youthful exuberance.

我只是一直試圖用一種年輕氣盛來消磨她。

It's a new car so I don't know how to change the radio station but we can...

這是一輛新車，所以我不知道如何更改電臺，但我們可以...

We got such a chill, great version of Mariah.

我們得到了一個如此冷酷、偉大的瑪麗亞版本。

It wasn't destined to go viral, she just was having some fun.

這並不是為了傳播，她只是覺得好玩。

I remember having fun with you in the car.

我記得和你在車裡玩得很開心。

Once she was in the car and those hits play and she's singing along to them, there's something sort of irresistible and joyful about it and that's James Corden's ability to extract the best of people when they're sitting together in that car.

一旦她坐進車裡，那些熱門歌曲響起，她就會跟著唱起來，有種無法抗拒的快樂，這就是詹姆斯-柯登的能力，當他們一起坐在車裡時，他能把人們最好的一面都挖掘出來。

You have to remember we are a show that no one knows who we are and within four days that Mariah Carey clip had 14 million hits.

你必須記住，我們是一個沒有人知道我們是誰的節目，而瑪麗亞-凱莉的片段在四天內就獲得了 1400 萬次點擊。

And 14 million hits for a brand new show like ours is sensational.

對於我們這樣一個全新的節目來說，1,400 萬次點擊率是非常了不起的。

And suddenly we were like, oh we could be onto something here.

我們突然覺得，哦，我們可能發現了什麼。

And immediately became clear why it was special.

You never get to hear your favourite artist singing their big hit songs.

你永遠無法聽到你喜愛的藝術家演唱他們的熱門歌曲。

And it was just so relatable because we all sing Mariah Carey in our cars and so to see Mariah singing her own songs in the car was just immediately incredible.

我們都會在車裡唱瑪麗亞-凱莉的歌，所以看到瑪麗亞在車裡唱她自己的歌，簡直太不可思議了。

I don't think any of us would have been here if you hadn't said yes to Carpool Karaoke before this show aired.

如果不是你在節目播出前答應了 Carpool Karaoke，我想我們都不會在這裡。

We obviously are like forever grateful and loyal to Mariah for doing this.

顯然，我們對瑪麗亞這樣做表示永遠的感激和忠誠。

Carpool Karaoke might sound like a bit of a harrowing thing for your brand new hosts to do.

對於全新的主持人來說，"拼車卡拉 OK "可能聽起來有點令人頭疼。

Driving around LA of all places and driving around incredibly famous people all around town not really knowing where they're going.

在洛杉磯的所有地方兜風，繞著城中的名人兜風，卻不知道他們要去哪裡。

And it was very difficult for people to kind of wrap their head around it.

But once people saw what it was, people were clamouring to do it.

但是，一旦人們看到它是什麼，人們就會爭先恐後地去做。

The sooner you realise that you're Adele.

The reason why it really took off was because suddenly you were away from cameras, you were away from publicists, you were away from managers, make-up artists, security.

它真正興起的原因是，你突然遠離了攝影機、公關人員、經理、化妝師和保全。

It was just James and that person in a car isolated.

只有詹姆斯和那個人被隔絕在車外。

So we would be getting these unbelievable interviews with these mega stars that you'd never usually see being as relaxed and easy going as that.

是以，我們會採訪到這些令人難以置信的巨星，而你通常不會看到他們如此放鬆和隨和。

But also singing a minute of all their greatest hits.

但也唱了一分鐘他們所有的名曲。

What was the carpool that surprised you most?

Because there's been some bloody brilliant ones and a few **** ones obviously.

因為有一些非常出色的作品，顯然也有一些 ****。

Stevie Wonder changed it a lot because I think when he did it, other artists were like...

史蒂夫-汪達（Stevie Wonder）改變了很多，因為我覺得當他這樣做的時候，其他藝術家就像...

Well if Stevie Wonder's done it, I'll do it.

史蒂夫-汪達做到了，我也要做到。

Because this is making me feel a bit uneasy.

When Stevie Wonder did carpool, Stevie Wonder's greatest hits suddenly was in the top ten on iTunes.

當史蒂夫-汪達（Stevie Wonder）進行拼車時，史蒂夫-汪達（Stevie Wonder）的熱門歌曲突然進入了 iTunes 的前十名。

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