Jeremy Clarkson has a comic persona which he has created and adopts on television, rather like the Pub Landlord (Al Murray), Mrs Merton (Caroline Aherne), or Alf Garnett (Warren Mitchell). This character is edgy, boundary-pushing, creative, and sometimes outrageous; it challenges received wisdom. Clarkson has made a huge world-wide success of this persona, and good luck to him. Let's not confuse all this with the real performer. An actor is not the same as the role.
And this for me is why Clarkson and his sidekicks have had their day, they are just not very good actors and the script remains the same.
I'm really surprised at the 'love in' with Clarkson on this forum, particularly as it's his decision that there is no motorcycle content on the show despite both his co-presenters being keen bikers(probably to do with not being able to source a big enough helmet to fit this vastly oversized helmet and he resents the fact that the general public can buy a motorcycle that will embarrass his Mercedes PMT or whatever he drives today for less than the price of a Top Gear cold buffet). He is an egotistical buffoon who says things for effect and the show has become increasingly unbearable over the years with their choreographed 'challenges' and scripted storylines. I do, however, have an idea for a replacement show although I do believe it would be a limited run. It involves him, Piers Organ, Katie Hopkins and Janet St Porter in a fight to the death, winner being hung from the gonads/nether regions in front of The Houses of Parliament with the whole series being watched through the eyes of the Gogglebox cast.
Doh! think clarkson think helmet. :smile:. his top gear days are over, could be a good documentary presenter tho
Im fairly ambivalent about the man, he's a windbag but i find it easy to ignore him but sorry pete he and his 'stage persona' are about as edgy as a doughnut
Isn't part of the BBC's remit to produce "educational and informative" programmes as well as entertainment? Isn't that how they defend the licence fee? Personally I find Top Gear a lot more entertaining, educational and informative than the vast majority of what the BBC produces. All those hackneyed old-fashioned sit-coms : same old z-list actors, same old "with hilarious consequences" scripts - dire ! If you don't like Top Gear that's fine - just don't bother watching it... Don't like Clarkson? That's fine too - each to their own... Like I said, just don't bother watching...
That floppy haired fool wouldn't stand a chance, Richard (the hampster) Hammond would rip him apart, like one does to an empty toilet roll.
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For future reference, on a scale of shitness, is it shitier than the UK version or not quite as shit?
