Jeremy Clarkson slams TV bosses..Funny read

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Originally Posted by BeansBeansBeans

I wouldn't say I disliked him but as Jan Yeo says he's ubiquitous and boring.

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A little bit too outspoken and politically incorrect for you, BBB?

He says what he thinks. End of. And thats why I like him.

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Originally Posted by Bezza

A little bit too outspoken and politically incorrect for you, BBB?

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I don't find him very outspoken or politically incorrect. He just has an extremely limited comic repetoire and it has become boring. Stewart Lee does a brilliant bit about TG as part of his latest show. Now he is funny.

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Originally Posted by Bezza

A little bit too outspoken and politically incorrect for you, BBB?

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I think it's very sad that being 'politically incorrect', which is just a euphemism for 'xenophobic, sexist, homophobic and boorish', is now considered such a high form of humour. And he's not all that 'politically incorrect' either - most of his views are deeply conventional right-wing nonsense that one hears all the time I think it's a shame that so many people in Britain, a country with such great traditions of humour and comedy (and which are thankfully still maintained by many excellent individuals who are mostly left-wing and liberal), should find the inadequate rants of a motoring journalist so amusing.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I think it's very sad that being 'politically incorrect', which is just a euphemism for 'xenophobic, sexist, homophobic and boorish', is now considered such a high form of humour. And he's not all that 'politically incorrect' either - most of his views are deeply conventional right-wing nonsense that one hears all the time I think it's a shame that so many people in Britain, a country with such great traditions of humour and comedy (and which are thankfully still maintained by many excellent individuals who are mostly left-wing and liberal), should find the inadequate rants of a motoring journalist so amusing.

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It says a lot about the sad state of the UK when someone can so easily gain popularity with opinions which with all due respect are just ****. I don't mind Clarkson on Top Gear and as part of the team he works but he's nothing more than a pisspoor motoring journalist at best with his stupid "Brakes made out of Wispa wrappers" type analogies.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

It says a lot about the sad state of the UK when someone can so easily gain popularity with opinions which with all due respect are just ****. I don't mind Clarkson on Top Gear and as part of the team he works but he's nothing more than a pisspoor motoring journalist at best with his stupid "Brakes made out of Wispa wrappers" type analogies.

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The thing is, those sorts of analogies used to be quite fresh and funny, but it's all he seems able to do, and he's been doing it for years across seemginly endless platforms, and it becomes dull.

I'd even admit that his non-PC (for want of a better phrase) outbursts used to be quite spontaneous and fresh in an "I can't believe he just said that!"
sort of way, but now it seems to be a scheduled part of the show. Right, here's the news, and now I'm going to needlessly and witlessly offend gays / Germans / environmental campaigners to keep the target audience happy.

Yes he seems to just say stuff because that's what he did in the past and it's just silly.

Still, he did once punch Piers Morgan so there'll always be a place in my heart for him.

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Originally Posted by BeansBeansBeans

Still, he did once punch Piers Morgan so there'll always be a place in my heart for him.

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Lay off the guy! He's a national treasure then! :p

Clarkson for PM!

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

He's going over old ground with that quota thing, barely a week goes by without him mentioning it in one of his publications in some way. .

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Quotas need all the abuse they can get, they are an idiotic creation.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

a country with such great traditions of humour and comedy (and which are thankfully still maintained by many excellent individuals who are mostly left-wing and liberal),.

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So you are telling me that most comedians you like are complete idiots with no understanding of life, besides their crazy little world where they live in that has nothing to do with reality?