--- title: Watch Stevie Nicks and James Corden Sing About Clown Craze description: Is Taylor Lautner or Zach Galifianakis to blame? canonical: https://time.com/4522690/james-corden-zach-galifianakis-clown-song/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-07T16:20:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:26.129Z og:title: Watch Stevie Nicks and James Corden Sing About Clown Craze og:description: Is Taylor Lautner or Zach Galifianakis to blame? og:url: https://time.com/4522690/james-corden-zach-galifianakis-clown-song/ 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 Stevie Nicks and James Corden Sing About Clown Craze twitter:description: Is Taylor Lautner or Zach Galifianakis to blame? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Stevie Nicks and James Corden Sing About Who's Really to Blame For Clown Craze by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 7, 2016 4:20 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 7, 2016 4:20 PM UTC [Clowns](http://time.com/4517916/stephen-king-clowns/?iid=sr-link3) are scaring some Americans right now, but on _The Late Late Show_ on Thursday night James Corden joked that they found the culprit with the help of detective than Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks. Corden and Nicks followed the clues and realized that either Taylor Lautner or [Zach Galifianakis](http://time.com/4504137/hillary-clinton-between-two-ferns-zach-galifianakis/?iid=sr-link1) were behind the frightening wave of [creepy clowns.](http://time.com/4519937/clown-sightings-craze-south-carolina/?iid=sr-link5) Lautner claims he has had a fear of clowns since childhood, but Galifianakis has actually played a [clown](http://time.com/4518456/scary-clown-sighting-attack-craze/?iid=sr-link1) on his FX television show _Baskets_. To make their case, Nicks and Corden laid out the evidence in their preferred medium—song. House musician Reggie Watts laid down a beat as they sang to show that they were “down with the clown.” Watch below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4522690/james-corden-zach-galifianakis-clown-song/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4522690/james-corden-zach-galifianakis-clown-song/"},"headline":"Watch Stevie Nicks and James Corden Sing About Who's Really to Blame For Clown Craze","datePublished":"2016-10-07T16:20:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:26.129Z","description":"Is Taylor Lautner or Zach Galifianakis to blame?","url":"https://time.com/4522690/james-corden-zach-galifianakis-clown-song/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Late late show","clowns","james corden"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"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/4522690/james-corden-zach-galifianakis-clown-song/","name":"Watch Stevie Nicks and James Corden Sing About Who's Really to Blame For Clown Craze"}}]}] ```