Ive never really liked Jeremy Clarkson ...

Anyone with a brain can understand that that wasn't his view. He simply was playing with the issues... He said before he said the remark that offended everyone something like "the strike was brilliant, he could drive into London the streets were empty of cars and buses"

It was clearly a tounge in cheek comment, on another day he would be saying he wants all Greens to be put in a caravan and sunk near France, we all know what he is like, and that there is little or no intent in anything he says

If we had to censor JC, we would have to censor just about every comedian and ditch most dramas on the TV
 
cambsno said:
IF anyone was genuinely insulted or offended by it they should really go out and get a life. I think it was just people jumping on the bandwagon.
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Exactly There are times when I watch something on tv if i don't like it or find it offensive I just turn over the channel and forget about it, you have to be extra sad if you feel you have to phone up the bbc and complain. I mean come on its not like at school when you would complain to the teacher because billy called you a name we are all big enough to just get on with life.
 
Pretty sure Clarkson described how motorcyclists should be murdered with wire strung across where they rode some time ago and only a few eyelids were battered.

Wonder how carefully calculated this was - I'm sure it will do a lot more good than harm to sales of his Christmas DVD.
More annoying it really was a non-event if you take it in context. But that wouldn't sell papers.
 
Funny how no one picked up on John Bishops comments on yesterday's one show about eating dogs and going to battersea dogs home for a BBQ.

Oh yeah, it's because it was a comedian making a joke,not a tv presenter.
 
TCR
Have to agree with you there.

In general, this is a lot of tosh. Blown up by a few into something it was clearly not.

For those that are offended, go watch the whole thing. The only thing JC was mocking was the PC stupidity of Britain today.
 
Spuff said:
It's strange - I came across Stewart Lee's late night comedy program relatively recently and was hooked pretty much straight away. The late night rambling monologues, whilst not unique are pretty scarce these days and a good antidote from the "assault on the senses" style of say Michael McIntyre and to a lesser extent John Bishop.

But the few reviews of Lee that I've now read seem to back up the love him/hate him reaction expressed here. I would agree that he appears self-satisfied but then assumed that was all part of his act.

I'd use the analogy that it's nice to sit down every now and then and listen to a 30 minute Pink Floyd track and put away the Now That's What I call Music 80.

Then again I like Clarkson too. :thinking:
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I was right with you there, until the last line.
However, much as I dislike Clarkson, I couldnt care less what he said/meant, being, as he is, a boil in the armpit of humanity

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As usual the media and other fools don't listen or read the entire transcript of an interview and just slice and dice to make up a story

If you had taken the time to read up on what was actual said, then JC has said and done nothing wrong or offensive at all, the end part of the transcript is VERY important.


Matt Baker: Well, on that note of balancing an opinion, of course those are Jeremy's views.

Alex Jones: Only Jeremy's views.

Jeremy Clarkson: They're not. I've just given two views for you.
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TCR4x4 said:
Funny how no one picked up on John Bishops comments on yesterday's one show about eating dogs and going to battersea dogs home for a BBQ.

Oh yeah, it's because it was a comedian making a joke,not a tv presenter.
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:plusone:
 
The thing about this whole story is that the quote out of context sounds does sound bad and if you hadn't seen the full show and therefore the full quote it would be easy to jump to conclusions and get offended.

Its very easy for something anyone says to get quoted out of context, I'm sure I could search through anyone's posts who's been here a while and produce a small selection of selected quotes to make them appear to have an opinion that they don't actually have. Unfortunately, it happens all the time even more when someone has an agenda.

What is even more scary is that even normally intelligent people fall for it when what the quote matches a preconceived idea the quote simply reinforces that idea and so they don't question it. Sometimes this leads to miscarriages of justice and people get hurt, fortunately in this case the BBC appear to seen sense, the sad thing is that not everyone is as lucky as Clarkson.
 
Hey-ho, a couple of British Comedy Awards for Stewart Lee.
 
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