If anybody thinks about it, "drag" is an unflattering depiction of women, and should be considered at the same level as "blackface," a parody of Blacks. Or, "yellow face," where a guy like Jerry Lewis puts on weird skin-tones, adds buck teeth and gets his eyes taped down to a slant.
It's one thing for the giddy fat boy to play his silly "car karaoke" games. Effeminacy is bad enough as some kind of twisted statement on masculinity. But you can argue that Corden can't help it. He reached puberty and started that affectation of talking in italics, mincing about, and getting tubby because he wished he was Hattie Jacques.
Now, it seems he has to be ridiculous in "drag."
He'll tell you that he's only making fun of himself, a Broadway-obsessed effeminate man who happens to be married, and can't be the woman he wants to be or go hang with gay men as he seems to delight in doing.
A more honest female impersonator would be Jimmy Fallon, who intentionally insults women when he dresses up as an inarticulate, foolish Millennial chick.
Corden in drag, drag being a way of insulting women for being women, and being a self-parody for not being able to be one...either way, it ain't funny.
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