Jeremy Clarkson suspended

Renegade Mechanic

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Ah now! Clarkson himself made the point years back they have no real impact on sales. As for the haters yes you are getting your wish but at what cost? Do you want to live in a world that the opinion writers on the Guardian approve of?

87,000 signatures https://www.change.org/p/bbc-reinstate-jeremy-clarkson

He only said that to get Rover off his back

Tarzana2

Skylinehead wrote: »

And yet, you've still decided to write quite a lot on him. Odd.

Shall we tease this point out a bit more, or is that it?

I've, what, five posts in this thread? Hardly excessive. One of them explains how I happen upon Clarkson a bit now, despite generally avoiding him. I used to also watch Top Gear, as it used to be enjoyable. But I grew weary of it. So, yes, I have an opinion on it. And?

There'll always be people that take everything he says seriously and believe him and get outraged. Clearly he's out to rile them. But many people see that he's out to rile these people and find it tiresome and think he gets way too many column inches. The Beeb won't drop him though, as this thread shows, he clearly still very popular. And the people who like him seem to think they're the only ones who understand why he acts like he does. Er no, lads, it's really, really obvious to many.

Adamantium

Its funny the things you can remember and stick with you.

I always remember the time when Bat out of Hell was closing in on the spot for the No1 Driving song from their viewers.

Clarkson ends the segment "If you vote for Meatloaf, we can not guarantee the safety of your house".

Harry Palmr

So then it was all about tae not being ready.

YFlyer

Clarkson should pull the plug on the show and go to ITV or C4.

lertsnim

sebbplatter wrote: »

Who's Stuart Lee? Any relation to Stewart the stand up comedian?

Oh ****. Now I've been told off by the spelling police.

Lapin

KwackerJack wrote: »

Bloody get over it! Were so politically correct now that its laughable!

If he left he would be snapped up in a heartbeat by someone else and the BBC would lose millions! So what if he said this that and the other. There are more worrying things than Jeremy mouthing off.

Ever hear of freedom of speech? If you don't like that chap then don't watch him, simple really!

if you want a review on a ford fiesta use Google!

I love the show, it the highlight of my week after a hard week in work to put the feet up, chill out and watch the funniest s*1t that goes on...and the amazing cars too

Spot on.

TheLastMohican

An upper-class twit who has captured a naive young audience. Six months in the slammer with an over-sexed Bubba should do the biz.

Tarzana2

KwackerJack wrote: »

Ever hear of freedom of speech? If you don't like that chap then don't watch him, simple really!

Well, I don't think anyone on this thread said he shouldn't open his pie hole and let stuff spew forth if he so wishes. He can do, and does do.

But this "Durr, if you don't like, don't watch" guff. Why bother with any kind of criticism so? Anyone in the public eye leaves themselves open to it. It's kind of unavoidable.

I personally do avoid him as much as possible despite once liking Top Gear. I just find him a bit tiresome now. Not outrageous, just tedious.

Controvagonk, indeed. (thanks for that, Charlie )

Oh and my replies to this thread mean he has really riled me up, yes. Just thought I'd preemptively stick that in there before some genius comes on here and posts it.

Lyaiera

Haha, foreigners and poor people! Am I right?

Mesrine65

drdidlittle wrote: »

Some say he used the "N"word

Some even say he used the "W"word

All we know is that he is suppended

Hang on...stewards enquiry

Has he been suspended, suppended or upended

I'm very

Tarzana2

I'm not the biggest Stewart Lee fan but his bit on Top Gear is fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CnMQ4L9Pc

The first 25 seconds or so pretty much sums up Clarkson.

BlaasForRafa

TheLastMohican wrote: »

Six months in the slammer with an over-sexed Bubba should do the biz.

Ah so that's what made you the way you are.

RayM

Top Gear's getting a bit stale anyway. It probably wouldn't do any harm to get rid of Clarkson and May and Hammond. They could replace them with Nick Griffin, Nigel Farage and that guy who let off a nail bomb in a gay pub in Soho in 1999.

Choodefat

If he annoys people, well then he achieves his goal...along the lines of
'no publicity is bad publicity...'

Tarzana2

Choodefat wrote: »

If he annoys people, well then he achieves his goal...along the lines of
'no publicity is bad publicity...'

That does seem to be how he and, rather depressingly, the Beeb thinks. I'd imagine the show still gets good ratings so tis here to stay!

Brendan Bendar

omerin wrote: »

It really sickens me to see a fellow member of the proletariat being victimised and bullied by management. Is there anything we can do?

Clarkson and the idiots who support him are past their 'sell-by'.

Tired jaded and irrelevant.

Time to move on, in my opinion.

LordSutch

Here's hoping that Top Gear reopens on Channel 5/Channel 4 or 'Men with Motors' in the coming months with a politically incorrect 1970s totty inspired makeover!

Cue Clarkson, Captain slow, plus Hammond being chased by Benny Hill type lassies riding red vespas with the lads In a 'suped up' open top beige Austin Allegro, fitted with a suggestive number plate O:-)

Goodbye BBC, hello some other channel.

The lazy rat

Clarkson is a bitter ageing alcoholic. The Patagonian saga should have seen him in jail for incitement of hatred. He really does believe that being a brit entitles him to belittle others. I try to like him but I can't.

DoYouEvenLift

The three of them play off each other perfectly, take one of them out and it ruins it all. If they replaced him with a new guy, the new guy would just be out to prove himself and end up looking like a tryhard bellend.


The last couple of seasons have seemed so fake and scripted anyway, I always knew they put it on to make it better and more dramatic but it was never as bad as the last couple of seasons.

knucklehead6

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

The three of them play off each other perfectly, take one of them out and it ruins it all. If they replaced him with a new guy, the new guy would just be out to prove himself and end up looking like a tryhard bellend.


The last couple of seasons have seemed so fake and scripted anyway, I always knew they put it on to make it better and more dramatic but it was never as bad as the last couple of seasons.

this season has actually been quite good.

Davidth88

knucklehead6 wrote: »

this season has actually been quite good.

IMO this season had become a total parody, what on earth was the 20mins of rubbish about Peugeot about for example, and the article about Rallycross was brilliant until they brought Clarkson and Hammond along to basically look stupid.

Clarkson in particular has run his course TBH,

Shrap

Yay! Delighted he's finally shot himself in the foot. In recent years he's been like the fella who you make a point of avoiding in the bar before he wears the ear off you whinging about the way he's so constrained by the "liberal left agenda", not once realising that middle aged men who act like the kid who's always in trouble in primary school are not that endearing, and never were. He bores the head off me, and Hammond is just as odd. Also hasn't got much past primary school one-up-man-ship conversation. May is just boring. Nice, but boring.

Between the three of them, Top Gear has descended into farce, although it seems to appeal to "the lads" (term used in this case to describe the kids in primary school that stood back gleefully watching the kid always in trouble and winding him up to do more stupid stuff).

Shenshen

Good. In my view, he should have been put out to pasture a few years ago.

The show used to be funny, but in the last couple of seasons it looked tired, over-acted on a bad script and basically just playing to the lowest common denominator.
Clarkson used to be funny, but he's lost "funny" years ago and now is just trying to get a reaction - any reaction.
I don't care about racial slurs or punching producers, but him being on telly desperately trying to portrait himself as not being an ageing, bitter prick and failing in every single show - it's not funny, it's turning into car crash TV. And not in a good way.

Tzardine

Mark my words Clarkson will not be sacked. Suspending him is an exercise to appease the producer he tried to hit.

Top gear has a worldwide audience of 400 million viewers apparently and is a massive cash cow for the BBC. They are not going to mess around with this by getting rid of him. A very large percentage of the viewers tune in because of him.

Shenshen

Tzardine wrote: »

Mark my words Clarkson will not be sacked. Suspending him is an exercise to appease the producer he tried to hit.

Top gear has a worldwide audience of 400 million viewers apparently and is a massive cash cow for the BBC. They are not going to mess around with this by getting rid of him. A very large percentage of the viewers tune in because of him.

I'd be really curious how many have by now tuned out because of him....

suicide_circus

The show has definitely lost its spark. The same gags are cropping up too often and the scripted banter isnt what it used to be.

Tzardine

Shenshen wrote: »

I'd be really curious how many have by now tuned out because of him....

Less than 400 million 😃

ZiabR

Deleted User wrote: »

Maybe now Top Gear can become a show about cars again.

Hasn't been a show about cars for 5 years... Fifth Gear is actually a better show.

laurenhiggins

And on that bombshell ... Bring clarkson back

Dempsey

logik wrote: »

Hasn't been a show about cars for 5 years... Fifth Gear is actually a better show.

Then go watch fifth gear if that's what you want to watch

Brendan Bendar

Chocrealo wrote: »

What makes someone "relevant"?

Someone who gives value for money and is an asset to whatever line of business they are in,would be a good start,I would suggest.

kneemos

Don't get the whole racist thing to be fair.
Slagging is one thing but some of it is plain racist.Not very endearing.

BeerWolf

FactCheck wrote: »

This always looks so childish. If they don't want to print the word (fair enough) at least just say something like "a racial slur". Don't block out the word like we're playing Wheel of Fortune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwrUkeYxUF0

:pac:

Dravokivich

Skylinehead wrote: »

And yet, you've still decided to write quite a lot on him. Odd.

Not really, what's odd is posting in a thread about a presenter who's usually rather critical of various topics, in response to someone who is critical of the presenter, saying they shouldn't bother posting if all they are going to do is be critical.

conorhal

Halloween Jack wrote: »

To quote stewart lee, 'Jeremy Clarkson has two daughters.... And I hope they go blind...'

Yeah but Lee is the 'right kind of controversial' AKA a liberal one, like Roman Polanski (rapist) or Sean Penn (wifebeater).

drdidlittle

Mesrine65 wrote: »

Hang on...stewards enquiry

Has he been suspended, suppended or upended

I'm very

Type in haste.........cringe at leisure 😟

syklops

kneemos wrote: »

Don't get the whole racist thing to be fair.
Slagging is one thing but some of it is plain racist.Not very endearing.

Exactly which bit is racist?

fryup

Polo_Mint wrote: »

Clarkson is an absolute legend and is what makes Top Gear

Without him there is no Top Gear as he cant be replaced so they are at a stalemate.

exactly

Topgear is Clarkson and Clarkson is Topgear

Falcon L

I've been a huge fan of Top Gear since 'legs' Rippon first brought it to us. In recent years I've spent too much time cringing at the antics of the presenters. The rest of the show has been grand overall, but wrecking perfectly good cars for what passes as entertainment never sat well with me. The recent Peugeot segment where May and Clarkson bounced their cars off a building. That wasn't funny in any way. What was the point they were trying to make in doing this?

The last show was quite good, ruined slightly by a very unfunny appearance of Clarkson and Hammond in the rally-cross piece.

Bottom line, for me, is that if Top Gear is dead, Clarkson killed it. :mad:

kneemos

syklops wrote: »

Exactly which bit is racist?

The N word.
The "slope " comment.
Most of it is harmless slagging in fairness but when he comes out with comments like these you have to wonder where he's coming from.
Though he does usually give high praise to whatever country they're in at some point in the show.

Akrasia

Are the simpsons racist because pretty much every time they leave America, the country they visit is nothing but a million stereotypes

They can't mention Ireland without showing a drunken fighting leprechaun for example

'Liberalism' is hyper sensitive to 'offensive words' and often misses the joke.

Actions speak louder than words. If Clarkson was promoting closed borders or discrimination against gay people or women or black people or if he was involved in political campaigns that were targetting minorities for discrimination, then fair enough, he deserves to be criticised for these practises. As it stands, Clarkson is probably just a guy who thinks its funny to make 'inappropriate comments' and enjoys the reaction he gets from trolling 'liberals'.

syklops

kneemos wrote: »

The N word.
The "slope " comment.
Most of it is harmless slagging in fairness but when he comes out with comments like these you have to wonder where he's coming from.
Though he does usually give high praise to whatever country they're in at some point in the show.

There is a well known nursery rhyme which uses the word. When he was saying it he was pointing at a car not a little colored child.

Most of the population didn't know that slope was a negative word.

Come to think of it, why did you refer to the first one as the N word and not the second one as the "S" word?

Skylinehead

Dravokivich wrote: »

Not really, what's odd is posting in a thread about a presenter who's usually rather critical of various topics, in response to someone who is critical of the presenter, saying they shouldn't bother posting if all they are going to do is be critical.

If you'd actually read his comment and mine, you'd notice that Tarzana finds Clarkson dull. I'm just a bit curious why you'd write a fair bit on someone who bores you.

darkdubh

Like certain other BBC presenters of the past he thought he was untouchable.Top Gear has become an embarrasment with its unfunny jokes and staged "banter".It stopped being a show about cars years ago.

20Cent

Suspended why hasn't he been arrested for assault?
Punching someone because your food isn't ready, psycho.

kneemos

syklops wrote: »

There is a well known nursery rhyme which uses the word. When he was saying it he was pointing at a car not a little colored child.

Most of the population didn't know that slope was a negative word.

Come to think of it, why did you refer to the first one as the N word and not the second one as the "S" word?

Apart from probably getting banned the N word is a vile expression,no right minded person would want to say or write it.Slope is not on the same scale in fairness.
It did strike me at the time that these guys had more than likely worked their asses off to build the bridge,to get referred to in that manner was unfortunate.

You can rationalise and make excuses for anything,bottom line these words are racist.

sh1tstirrer

fryup wrote: »

exactly

Topgear is Clarkson and Clarkson is Topgear

Clarkson is an idiot.

Generic Dreadhead

syklops wrote: »

There is a button on the top right hand corner of your remote. It turns off the telly. If you dont like a particular program you can turn it off, or you can change to one of the 70 billion other channels you have.

Just in case you didn't know.

And on that note, nobody ever spoke about a TV show they didn't like again.

lee_baby_simms

Sad that we live in an age where a publicly funded institution with a prestigious history such as the BBC are so dependant on a knuckle dragger like Clarkson. He's the golden goose and, even worse still, he knows it.