I bet James gets tons of requests, like, "Please do an episode where Mike gets the sh*t beat out of him repeatedly."
He's just really unlikable in that Ryan Seacrest, "You haven't done anything wrong to me, specifically, I just really want to smash your face in" kinda way. Y'know? Of course, on certain episodes he really is a smug and annoying prick, but he's just kinda punchable in general.