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The BBC has apologised after Jeremy Clarkson declared that he would like to see striking public sector workers "shot" in front of their families.
The Top Gear presenter made his comments on BBC's The One Show on the evening of Britain's biggest public sector strikes in 30 years.
He said of the strikers: "I'd have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families.
"I mean, how dare they go on strike when they've got these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living."
He also said if a train hits a person on the railway it should cary on as the person is obviously dead, and by stopping seriously delays passengers journeys.
Anyone else think he has lost the plot.
I dunno. Somebody here was calling him a god the other day.
Clarkson. Cock.
hes just a sad old giffer trying to grab some headlines
Wasn't offended but it did remind me that I hate myself for liking Top Gear. Buffoon.
good to be in the headlines with a Christmas DVD out...!
I think it was Oscar Wilde who once said "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." Jezza in controversy shocker, just as his new DVD comes out.....
Clarkson is a sad old caricature.
Has become self -parody
beat me to it Martyn....
Charlie Brooker on twitter
I hope the BBC don't sack Jeremy Clarkson. Imagine how much he'd go on about it. It'd be like hurling ****er fuel into a prick engine.
So that's what all the fuss was about. Turned on the TV to see the presenters behaving like they were chairing a phone in with 5 Star.
Clarkson trolls for a living.
Its tongue in cheek ffs....stop getting your knickers in a twist!
He's always been a sad male chicken, anyone else would have been sacked long ago but I suspect he almost single handedly funds the BBC so this won't happen in a hurry.
I reckon he knows his days with the Beeb are numbered, they need to cull some of their big 'stars' to save money, and he's just making himself more attractive to Sky producers....
The last series of Top Gear really was quite weak. It's definitely long in the tooth and needs an overhaul. Clarkson is probbly more than aware he's had his innings, so will be looking for pastures new if he's got any sense.
Its tongue in cheek ffs.
It's lazy bollocks from a cock monkey....
Good case of fame has gone to his head! totally full of himself.
Strangely killing people is not funny for most normal people.
Think you will find he was joking. Hard to believe I know but some people actually have a sense of humour
Elfin + Martyn = yer answer for his behaviour
You lot are obviously too uptight....likely public sector workers stressing over your pensions 😉
Think you will find he was joking. Hard to believe I know but some people actually have a sense of humour
He might have been joking, but he's not funny, which is why it all falls flat.
I think he was trying to joke, but that doesn't really count as a sense of humour, does it?
I am sure he feels horribly embarassed about it though.. sometimes our mouths run away with us, but we aren't all on live telly.
I reckon he knows his days with the Beeb are numbered, they need to cull some of their big 'stars' to save money, and he's just making himself more attractive to Sky producers....
Wasn't he saying on the radio this morning that Top Gear generated huge revenues for the BBC?
Attention seeking whoring at its worst. Best to have ignored it.
am sure he feels horribly embarassed about it though
He will be when tj has a go at him....
Anyone else think he has lost the plot.
No. He just likes the idea of people listening to his voice/opinion.
You can't go on a prime-time 7pm show and be crass. It's gonna bit you in the ass (see what I did there? 🙂 )
Ha Clarkson rules, y'all who don't get it need corrective soh surgery, lobotomy should do it.
Good for him. His humour never fails to offend the humourless.
The man is a complete dinosaur,it was not that long ago he thought jaguar and honda were great because they did not make diesel cars.
nobody's laughing anymore
regardless of that clip .....he is a massive bell end.
You're either a tosser like him or you're not.
[url= http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/8444/response/21737/attach/html/3/RFI20090361%20final%20response.pdf.html ]2009 viewing figures[/url], couldnt find 2011.
You lot are miserable bar stewards.
join pistonheads then
You lot are miserable bar stewards.
But without their frothing his humour wouldn't be half as funny. [i]They[/i] are the secret of his success. 🙂
His humour never fails to offend the humourless.
Now that [i]is[/i] funny. 😀
But without their frothing his humour wouldn't be half as funny. They are the secret of his success
Oh my aching sides. Have you ever thought of taking up a career in comedy?
(Btw I'm not laughing [i]with[/i] you, I'm laughing [i]at[/i] you. 😆
Please continue; you're marginally more entertaining than this Jean Claude Van Damme film on Channel 5 atm...)
Why not make a complaint to the police about him inciting violence
🙄
He (and top gear) earn MASSIVE amounts for the BBC.
Not sure if it still is, but quite recently it was by far the highest earning show the BBC produce.
Can't see them packing him off to Sky to "save money" ???
Not sure how that would work really.
He's a gonk. And increasingly so these days.
Not sure how that would work really.
Clarkson is replaceable. Quite simple really.
Not even frothing in the slightest. I actually enjoyed watching them two generic safe hands who host the show squirming and apologising for him. Just don't find him funny.
In a world where somebody being offended is more important than the statement they were offended about he used to be quite entertaining. Now he's just.....I don't have the word
Clarkson is replaceable
Without him Top Gear would flop.
Without him Top Gear would flop.
Doubt it, just watch the American one.3 bufoons as opposed to 2 bufoons and an arse.
All that the viewing figures show is that around 10% of the population are mentally retarded and shouldn't be allowed to have children.
You're advocating forcible sterilisation of the mentally retarded?
Isn't that advocating a hate crime?
Quick. More frothing!! 😯
Joking or not, he really is the fat, boring uncle at all the weddings I've ever been to.
Sad old tosser. Pitiful.
"Doubt it, just watch the American one."
Yeah, it's not very good 'cos the hosts are boring.
Hurrah!
Let's celebrate being ignorant and offensive, and let's give thanks for this display, and enjoy the fact that lots of people in our country actually like ignorance and offensiveness on their tvs at teatime.
...and you wonder why the country is ****ed?
Maybe I was only joking, but as I wasn't being very funny you weren't to know that.
I think Jeremy Clarkson should be stood in front of his family and executed.
It's plagiarism I know but surely according to some of you I'm on the way to a comedy/TV presenter career?
He's built a career from picking up on mass-societies' problems, making extreme statements on them, making waves and raking in a living from it.
I'm just bored of him now and if anyone thinks the last season of Top Gear was good then we'll have to differ. The vietnam by ped show was worth his wage.
I think his humour is very base, unsophisticated and crass - with his naff and tired jokes on such things as the German invasion of Poland & gay jibes. On the evolutionary comedy tree he’s not that more advanced than Jim Davidson and his Chalky jokes.
Maybe I was only joking, but as I wasn't being very funny you weren't to know that.
Really?
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I think his humour is very base, unsophisticated and crass - with his naff and tired jokes on such things as the German invasion of Poland & gay jibes. On the evolutionary comedy tree he’s not that more advanced than Jim Davidson and his Chalky jokes.
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Im just disgusted that people actually watch The One Show
I think he intends to be funny and sometimes is - however its all to predictable and lame and he is very careful not to go too far
He is a part of the ghastly chipping norton set along with rebekka wade elizabeth Murdoch and so on
...and you wonder why the country is ****ed?
I don't think it is. I'd say that places like Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sierra Leone are probbly a fair bit worse off really, in the general scheme of things.
But I sort of see what yer saying.
I think Clarkson should be stood in front of his family and have fresh poo thrown at him, in his face and mouth and everything.
Then we could all have a good laugh and see how good his sense of humour is. 😀
Thing is - much as I don't like him, he can be interesting and he is actually a very good presenter. I just wish he'd do less of the stupid mucking about. He has to face up to the fact that he's not Frankie Boyle.
Stick to cars and engineering.
I think his humour is very base, unsophisticated and crass - with his naff and tired jokes on such things as the German invasion of Poland & gay jibes. On the evolutionary comedy tree he’s not that more advanced than Jim Davidson and his Chalky jokes.
Precisely.
His fans also often repeat what Jim Davidson's fans used to say, "he's only having a laugh"
If I were in the public eye I'd rather be loved by some and hated by others than liked by all. This way I could get 'us' to do my fighting against 'them'.
He's just curly haired Marmite.
I do feel dirty for watching the one show.
Maybe we should put him on a motorbike and get him to ride through some cheesewire..
He'd soon whinge and moan if the Beeb reduced his pay, let alone took away pension rights.
Engineering?
Top Gear without clarkson wouldnt work.
Not in the same way it does now.
Anyone who thinks it would clearly doesn't watch it.
(and also doesn't know that Clarkson has part Ownership of the Top Gear brand through his company Bedder 6)
He's joking very deliberately. I'm sorry but if it's not obvious then you shouldn't be watching TV/going on the internet/going outside.
Whether he's funny or not is irrelevant, it was quite obviously a joke so you can either laugh if you like it or turn over if you don't.
I didn't think it was funny but that's because it wasn't funny.
Personally I had far more issue with that bloke who was interviewing him. On one hand he's not shaved for a bit to show how cool he is, on the other he's got a wool jumper, round collared short and a tie on. Make your mind up dude.
There was another stupid program on before it by the way where daily mail readers email in about the things they hate.
These things were along the following lines....
STRIKES
RACISM
CYCLISTS
MILKMEN
Sorry? cyclists and milkmen rate in the moan-worthy stakes against racism? Really? Get a grip you stupid old tossers, grow up before you die.
An uptight bunch or what!
Lighten up people its nearly xmas!
grow up before you die
Maybe live before you die might be more apt, or get some real problems.
I didn't take what Jezza was saying seriously. But didn't find it funny. Can I still go outside tomorrow? I'm confused. As if I was going to change channel when that cardigan wearing man was apologising on someone elses behalf.
Clarkson's unreconstructed male, middle aged version of laddishness is intended to shock and at the same time appeal to middle England.It's dull, unoriginal, repetetive , and rarely funny.
But no more offensive than the post modern irony of so called hip and trendy comedians.
They're all just trying to make living...
An (allegedly) adulterous coward with the mindset of Bernard Manning and the journalistic skills of Chris Moyles.
People who like him secretly read The Daily Mail. And agree with it.
A perfect example of the 'dumbing down' of broadcasting and the celebration of public ignorance.
A vile, hateful excuse for a human being.
"I mean, how dare they go on strike when they've got these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living."
i do love hearing a multi millionaire privately educated gent telling me about my gilt edged lifestyle and how hard he works.
He is just not funny is my main problem with him.
A vile, hateful excuse for a human being
Come on Rusty, don't hold back
The BBC is required by statute to be balanced. It decides to air many lefty comedians/media personalities so Clarkson is required to balance them. He has the added advantage that other countries want to watch his show. It is a win win.
Think you will find he was joking.
You know up until I read that, I had thought that Clarkson [i]actually[/i] wanted to have people shot, properly like, as in "dead" ...... in front of their families. So you can imagine my relief when I read that.
It's informative stuff like that which keeps coming here.
I bet he's weally worried about what a forum of folk who worry about meeting their exes, wonder why their seat tube breaks when they centre punch it, argue endlessly about bollox, read the Guardian, ride with only one speed, love tight fitting spandex, have the sense of humour of a physics teacher, pour their heart out over all and any minor swerve life chucks at them to a bunch of... well all of the above..
Yep I bet he'd be really concerned.
I don't understand why everyone gets so wound up by what he says
He does it to annoy people and wind them up. It should be in one ear and out the other.
ernie
off topic
but we all got a letter of thanks and lots of praise for all our sterling efforts from our government minister right after the budget announcement....
I hope he dies on the same day as Thatcher.
Always liked those two for one offers.
Just indulging in a little post modernistic, Clarkesoneque 'humour'.
Not funny, is it?
You dont have it RS, Clarkson would have used the term BOGOF to appeal to fans of toilet humour.
Think you will find he was joking.
I think that woman on the tram is using a similar defence.
Lighten up people its nearly xmas!
I only weigh nine and a half stone, and I'm not a Christian. 😐
I think that woman on the tram is using a similar defence.
get a grip
ernieoff topic
but we all got a letter of thanks and lots of praise for all our sterling efforts from our government minister right after the budget announcement....
Please accept a sincere thank you from me too.
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