--- title: Watch Stephen Colbert and James Corden Shoot CBS Promos description: The Sweater Boys can't do it too well canonical: https://time.com/4029500/stephen-colbert-cbs-james-corden/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-10T15:44:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:31.742Z og:title: Watch Stephen Colbert and James Corden Shoot Failed CBS Promos og:description: They're the Sweater Boys og:url: https://time.com/4029500/stephen-colbert-cbs-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 Stephen Colbert and James Corden Shoot Failed CBS Promos twitter:description: They're the Sweater Boys twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Stephen Colbert and James Corden in Failed CBS Promos by [Ian Goldstein / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ian Goldstein / Entertainment Weekly Sep 10, 2015 3:44 PM UTC by [Ian Goldstein / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ian Goldstein / Entertainment Weekly Sep 10, 2015 3:44 PM UTC On Wednesday night’s episode of _The Late Late Show_, James Corden showed viewers that he and _Late Show_ host Stephen Colbert had actually shot some promos for CBS. Despite trying skateboarding and even riding digital bikes together, Colbert and Corden just couldn’t quite perfect any promo. One of the highlights of the sketch included the two hosts putting on wigs and sweaters for CBS’ fake new drama series _The Sweater Boys_ in which Corden warns: “Rhode Island … beware.” Already, Colbert and Corden are a classic team — like Simon and Garfunkel, Woodward and Bernstein, Ben and Jerry, and as Colbert suggested: “Your mother and a punch in the face.” _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/10/stephen-colbert-james-corden-failed-network-promos-cbs) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4029500/stephen-colbert-cbs-james-corden/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4029500/stephen-colbert-cbs-james-corden/"},"headline":"Watch Stephen Colbert and James Corden in Failed CBS Promos","datePublished":"2015-09-10T15:44:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:31.742Z","description":"They're the Sweater Boys","url":"https://time.com/4029500/stephen-colbert-cbs-james-corden/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","stephen colbert","celebrity","james corden","The Late Late Show with James Corden"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ian Goldstein / Entertainment Weekly"}],"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/4029500/stephen-colbert-cbs-james-corden/","name":"Watch Stephen Colbert and James Corden in Failed CBS Promos"}}]}] ```