--- title: Cobie Smulders Shuts Down Childbirth Jokes on James Corden description: Cobie Smulders shuts down James Corden, Mark Duplass and Judd Apatow about childbirth canonical: https://time.com/3971552/cobie-smulders-childbirth-james-corden/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-24T18:52:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:30.995Z og:title: Watch Cobie Smulders Swiftly Shut Down Childbirth Jokes og:description: Yes, Cobie. Yes. og:url: https://time.com/3971552/cobie-smulders-childbirth-james-corden/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Cobie Smulders Swiftly Shut Down Childbirth Jokes twitter:description: Yes, Cobie. Yes. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Cobie Smulders Swiftly Shut Down Childbirth Jokes by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 24, 2015 6:52 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 24, 2015 6:52 PM UTC On Thursday’s episode of _The Late Late Show_, guests Cobie Smulders, Judd Apatow and Mark Duplass got into a discussion about childbirth with host James Corden. (We imagine this topic came up because Smulders stars in the upcoming pregnancy-themed movie [_Unexpected_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4145304/).) “Now, we all have children here,” Corden begins. “Guys, were you present at the births of your children?” Smulders remains pretty quiet during the ensuing conversation, which mostly revolves around whether or not the men “looked” during childbirth. “I didn’t go down and look,” Corden says, “because my Uncle Robert said it’s like watching your favorite pub burn down.” Soon enough, Smulders finally chimed in: “You guys know what I was doing? I was pushing a baby out of my vagina.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3971552/cobie-smulders-childbirth-james-corden/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3971552/cobie-smulders-childbirth-james-corden/"},"headline":"Watch Cobie Smulders Swiftly Shut Down Childbirth Jokes","datePublished":"2015-07-24T18:52:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:30.995Z","description":"Yes, Cobie. Yes.","url":"https://time.com/3971552/cobie-smulders-childbirth-james-corden/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3971552/cobie-smulders-childbirth-james-corden/","name":"Watch Cobie Smulders Swiftly Shut Down Childbirth Jokes"}}]}] ```