Did anyone watch Top-gear last night,oops Mr Clarkson and co were pretending to be lorry drivers and were each presented with a lorry to drive
during the programme Blobby Clarkson had trouble finding his gears:loopy:, definitely the ones that control his brain why else would he rant " Lets murder a prostitute".

The stupid moron did he not know that Donald Sutcliffe was a lorry driver who by chance murdered several prostitutes, looks like the Beeb's in for it again .Programme repeated on Weds evening

Did anyone watch Top-gear last night,oops Mr Clarkson and co were pretending to be lorry drivers and were each presented with a lorry to drive
during the programme Blobby Clarkson had trouble finding his gears:loopy:, definitely the ones that control his brain why else would he rant " Lets murder a prostitute".

The stupid moron did he not know that Donald Sutcliffe was a lorry driver who by chance murdered several prostitutes, looks like the Beeb's in for it again .Programme repeated on Weds evening

I think he probably knew exactly that, which is why he was saying it.

If you hate him so much, why watch the show?

I love Clarkson he's amazing, great at winding people too by the looks of it.:hihi:

I love Clarkson he's amazing, great at winding people too by the looks of it.:hihi:

I know, the last thing anyone should do is take him seriously - I certainly don't think he takes himself seriously!

Me and the OH were rolling in the aisles at the murdering prostitutes joke, and the look on Hammonds face was very funny.

Me and the OH were rolling in the aisles at the murdering prostitutes joke, and the look on Hammonds face was very funny.

I have to be honest so was I, must have hurt like hell hitting that wall though!!!

Did anyone watch Top-gear last night,oops Mr Clarkson and co were pretending to be lorry drivers and were each presented with a lorry to drive
during the programme Blobby Clarkson had trouble finding his gears:loopy:, definitely the ones that control his brain why else would he rant " Lets murder a prostitute".

The stupid moron did he not know that Donald Sutcliffe was a lorry driver who by chance murdered several prostitutes, looks like the Beeb's in for it again .Programme repeated on Weds evening

Pot, kettle, black?

The lorry driving prostitute killer was Peter Sutcliffe.
I don't think he killed them 'by chance' either - he meant it!
I thought Clarksons comments were quite amusing.

Thought last nights Top Gear was rather funny.

Although I couldnt believe what Clarkson did it was daft mind you he hurt himself in the process just like the last time he tried that.

Maybe think again Jeremy next time you play daredevil.

I am just coming out of a period of dislike for Clarkson, I think seeing him in a recent interview with Wossy disappointed me a little bit.
Having watched him lately I have started to like him again.

Pot, kettle, black?

The lorry driving prostitute killer was Peter Sutcliffe.
I don't think he killed them 'by chance' either - he meant it!
I thought Clarksons comments were quite amusing.

Personally i think it was in bad taste, but if others think it was funny
i hope none of thier loved ones are ever murdered or maybe they will just roll around laughing about it. Hallibut thanks for correcting my error of course your right,not always but on this occasion you are.

Personally i think it was in bad taste, but if others think it was funny
i hope none of thier loved ones are ever murdered or maybe they will just roll around laughing about it. Hallibut thanks for correcting my error of course your right,not always but on this occasion you are.

i think you need to lighten up a tad :roll:

i think you need to lighten up a tad :roll:

Just airing my views that's all. I don't expect everyone to agree with them .

I thought it was hilarious.

some of you are just prudes.

As someone else said, they're always like this so why watch it in the first place if you know this?

The thing is...
I hate cars, but I love the programme.
It's always so watchable. I can't think of any other prog which I watch, where I have a particular dislike of the subject.
Those comments were dodgy considering the current/recent climate re. TV presenters, but amusing nevertheless.

Could this be another Jonathan Ross saga? :rolleyes:

Did anyone watch Top-gear last night,oops Mr Clarkson and co were pretending to be lorry drivers and were each presented with a lorry to drive
during the programme Blobby Clarkson had trouble finding his gears:loopy:, definitely the ones that control his brain why else would he rant " Lets murder a prostitute".

The stupid moron did he not know that Donald Sutcliffe was a lorry driver who by chance murdered several prostitutes, looks like the Beeb's in for it again .Programme repeated on Weds evening

I thought it was a classic line! You should repeatedly contact the daily mail until they do a Brand and Ross on Top Gear then it can be replaced with dross!!

Ithen it can be replaced with dross!!

Or strictly come dancing.......:hihi:

I thought it was hilarious.

some of you are just prudes.

I don't think so ,but i do care how someone may be offended by the comments made especially if they have had a family member murdered .I enjoyed the programme it was OK, the comments were not but if you thought they were funny good for you .

.........You should repeatedly contact the daily mail .........

Don't worry.
They probably have done:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082712/BBC-new-standards-row-Clarkson-jokes-truck-drivers-murder-prostitutes.html

Don't worry.
They probably have done:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082712/BBC-new-standards-row-Clarkson-jokes-truck-drivers-murder-prostitutes.html

At least the comments under the story have a sense of perspective.:thumbsup:

Don't worry.
They probably have done:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082712/BBC-new-standards-row-Clarkson-jokes-truck-drivers-murder-prostitutes.html

A spokeswoman for the BBC said that within hours of the show being aired the corporation had received 188 complaints.

Given the incredible amount of complaints that appeared after the Brand/Ross incident hit the press any bets on how high this will rise :rolleyes:

I don't think so ,but i do care how someone may be offended by the comments made especially if they have had a family member murdered .I enjoyed the programme it was OK, the comments were not but if you thought they were funny good for you .


Christ.

I can't imagine you could watch any single TV program that has any form of humour in it with out being offended if that's the case!

Christ.

I can't imagine you could watch any single TV program that has any form of humour in it with out being offended if that's the case!

You can have humour without it being offencive.Obviously other viewers found Clarkson's comments to be in bad tastes ,it's probably only the wanna be boy racers thought it to be funny.

You can have humour without it being offencive.Obviously other viewers found Clarkson's comments to be in bad tastes ,it's probably only the wanna be boy racers thought it to be funny.

I found it amusing (in fact almost spat coffee over the room) and I have never driven in my life and don't intend to ever drive, so there goes your theory! In fact, much like Mattym stated, i don't care much about cars but love the show for the presenters.

Yes the pun was in bad taste, but that is Clarkson all over. As for anyone trying to compare it with the other recent scandal - well, that would be true if Clarkson had actually phoned up one of the victim's families and quipped the pun.

You can have humour without it being offencive.Obviously other viewers found Clarkson's comments to be in bad tastes ,it's probably only the wanna be boy racers thought it to be funny.

I hate boy racers and I found it funny. Humour can cause offense and still be hilarious.

I hate boy racers and I found it funny. Humour can cause offense and still be hilarious.

Indeed it can. In fact it is sometimes the shock-factor of "I can't believe they said that" which catches you in a laugh. Look at films such as the delightful In Bruges this year for some cracking examples of wit which border on offensive. One of the funniest films of the year in my book.

I actually found Sundays edition of Topgear to be quite funny, although you could say Clarksons joke was a little bad taste.

Now i want to know what the hell is the English Collective of Prostitutes

People who phone in or write to complain.....i hate them with a passion.

I wonder if it would have been more offensive, or indeed if he might not have said it in the first place, if Sutcliffes victims had been say, nursery nurses, instead of prostitutes.

The point of the joke was precisely the fact that it is ridiculous to suggest that lorry drivers murder prostitutes, although it works as everyone knows Peter Sutcliff was an infamous lorry driver. The joke works simply because it's outlandish. There's this type of homour everywhere - you could watch most Simpsons episodes and say 'Grandpa's depiction isn't funny, there are some real old people who genuinelly have been terrorised by teenagers,' 'Mr Burns having a heart attack isn't funny, my own Dad died of a heart attack,' 'Homer is violent towards his son, which is offensive to children who have suffered domestic abuse,' and so on. Humour usually does have a target. I think people need to make sure the target group (in this case lorry drivers) actually need protecting before they start fainting with the awfulness of it all.

Clarkson will be safe. I think the Beeb will issue an apology and that will be that.

The new top gear series is brilliant if anyone saw it on Sunday!

Brand and Woss are puerile idiots. Clarkson, on the other hand, can be funny at times.

That was a very silly and insenstive thing to say.

Lorry drivers murder ordinary women as well...like the teen French hitchhiker who was picked up by a British lorry driver and brutally murdered about 8 years ago.










Taken from the Telegraph..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3374093/Jeremy-Clarkson-in-new-BBC-standards-row.html

:)

It was a funny if close the bone comment. It was bound to annoy the reactionary types which is why he would have said it.

They can all be funny at times, only difference is with Clarkson it's also painfully scripted.

Brand and Woss are puerile idiots. Clarkson, on the other hand, can be funny at times.

Hmmm.... It's all subjective. I personally think Clarkson is vile, and can honestly say I have never found even a small smile playing on my lips when watching/listening to him.

The BBC's response is spot on.
200 complaints??? People really should start getting lives.

Clarkson is great and best of all he is from Yorkshire :thumbsup:

Original thread here. (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=415999)

Did anyone watch Top-gear last night,oops Mr Clarkson and co were pretending to be lorry drivers and were each presented with a lorry to drive
during the programme Blobby Clarkson had trouble finding his gears:loopy:, definitely the ones that control his brain why else would he rant " Lets murder a prostitute".

The stupid moron did he not know that Donald Sutcliffe was a lorry driver who by chance murdered several prostitutes, looks like the Beeb's in for it again .Programme repeated on Weds evening


Are you one of the 200 prats who complained?

This has become a current media favourite. It drives me mad when the media, despite their general unimoprtance in the scheme of things, suddenly whip the general public into hysteria over issues that are largely small considerations and therefore convince us that they are actually important. Grrrrr!

Also, humour is a very subjective thing. However, relatively little humour involves fluffy nice topics where no-one gets hurt or is humiliated or has fun poked at their gender, race, religion, cultural traditions or relatives.

Bloody hell. Why can't we laugh at stuff that is a bit dark anymore? If you don't find it funny, that's obviously fine but do we need to ban all controversial humour?

Madness.

Hmmm.... It's all subjective. I personally think Clarkson is vile, and can honestly say I have never found even a small smile playing on my lips when watching/listening to him.

Oh, come on mardyarse :hihi:

You've never smiled at his jokes in Top Gear, especially his comments about the Germans?

Or read his online column on the Times website...?

slickwitch - I think you'll find that madness is a highly emotive and sensitive area and the cavalier way in which you bandy the the term around will be found highly offensive by those with a social conscience.

Oh, come on mardyarse :hihi:

You've never smiled at his jokes in Top Gear, especially his comments about the Germans?

Or read his online column on the Times website...?

His collumn is awful, and his jokes in Top Gear are painfully scripted, even the ones about Germans. I used to like Top Gear when i actually believed it was spontaneous banter.

Oh, come on mardyarse :hihi:

You've never smiled at his jokes in Top Gear, especially his comments about the Germans?

Or read his online column on the Times website...?

Well, I dislike him intensly, so don't actively seek him out, but if he pops up on some chat show or whatever, i find him repulsive, smarmy, arrogant and grossly offensive. Sorry.

I even think he looks like he stinks of BO masked by too much cheap aftershave :gag:

By the way, did I mention I don't like him? At all?

I even think he looks like he stinks of BO masked by too much cheap aftershave :gag:

I respect your comments... lemme guess, you voted for Tony Blair too? :hihi:

slickwitch - I think you'll find that madness is a highly emotive and sensitive area and the cavalier way in which you bandy the the term around will be found highly offensive by those with a social conscience.

I was using Madness as an example by referring to the way the eighties popular group were once a symbol of controversial and anarchic music making and are now reduced to having their front man selling fish fingers.

God Tricky, you nutter.

Harld anything isn't scripted any more. Then when it's not and it goes off on one people complain!

People just like moaning..

I respect your comments... lemme guess, you voted for Tony Blair too? :hihi:

Now there's a clean living chap who would never joke about murdering prostitutes.

Very fragrant too, I believe.

Harld anything isn't scripted any more. Then when it's not and it goes off on one people complain!

People just like moaning..

Stop moaning about it though. It doesn't help.

Whilst I understand, why people like, Jeremy Clarkson, what I really CAN’T STAND, is the way he talks, by EMPHASISING, every other word, and pausing, in stupid places. The thing, he thrives on, is that if you don’t like him, you must be over-sensitive, which in my case, is not the case, I just think, hes a git.

Has the world not learned that when Clarksons lips are moving, people of a delicate nature should put their fingers in their ears and let the rest of us have a titter?

Rather than endlessly bleating about how offended they are the complainants should just leave their TV off and spend the rest of their lives listening to Radio 4 where they're assured that their sensitive morals won't be offended. Leave Top Gear for people like me, who have a sense of humour.

Although, they'll probably think that when they refer to Dogger on the shipping forecast that it's a reference to illicit car based sex :roll:

Rather than endlessly bleating about how offended they are the complainants should just leave their TV off and spend the rest of their lives listening to Radio 4 where they're assured that their sensitive morals won't be offended. Leave Top Gear for people like me, who have a sense of humour.

Although, they'll probably think that when they refer to Dogger on the shipping forecast that it's a reference to illicit car based sex :roll:

And that Rabbi Blue is not called that because he's cold you know!

I saw it but didn't really get the reference. How many lorry driving prostitute murderers have there been? Or is there one really famous one?

Peter Sutcliffe springs to mind.

I saw it but didn't really get the reference. How many lorry driving prostitute murderers have there been? Or is there one really famous one?

There was the Yorkshire Ripper and one from a couple of years ago in Ipswich apparently who killed 6 women.

Looks like another of the BBC's overpaid idiots is for the high jump.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3374093/Jeremy-Clarkson-in-new-BBC-standards-row.html

When you click the link you'll find that the title of this thread and the OP are blatantly mis-leading :rant:

Despite liking Jeremy Clarkson, you'd got my hopes up that the bbc had built a trebuchet on Beachy Head and were planning to catapult a selection of tv presenters into the English Channel :hihi::hihi::hihi:

Harld anything isn't scripted any more. Then when it's not and it goes off on one people complain!

People just like moaning..

I'd like to see more unscripted stuff on TV too but you unfortunately we don't seem to get much of it even on Top Gear any more. I can't believe how obviously scripted the show has become.

You're right though that people are waaaaaaaay too moany and need to get a life or simply learn to switch off or turn over when they come across something they don't like on TV.

I can understand why people who have to deal with such events frquently treat it relatively light-heartedly to relieve the stress... Try and laugh about it or go crazy, type of attitude... But to me it's sad that the general public is expected to find such references humourous when they focus on abject misery and tragedy in someone else's life.

It's even more sad that some (many?) do indeed find such infantile attempts at humour amusing.

I can also understand why they may be uttered by a presenter, struggling to say something, anything, in the heat of the moment but what I totally fail to comprehend is how some evidently certifiable idiot, thought that it was ok to broadcast it, particularly so soon after the recent monumental BBC goof!

I can understand why people who have to deal with such events frquently treat it relatively light-heartedly to relieve the stress... Try and laugh about it or go crazy, type of attitude... But to me it's sad that the general public is expected to find such references humourous when they focus on abject misery and tragedy in someone else's life.

It's even more sad that some (many?) do indeed find such infantile attempts at humour amusing.

I can also understand why they may be uttered by a presenter, struggling to say something, anything, in the heat of the moment but what I totally fail to comprehend is how some evidently certifiable idiot, thought that it was ok to broadcast it, particularly so soon after the recent monumental BBC goof!

Ok. A challenge. Point me towards an example of humour that doesn't potentially offend someone on some level.

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Ok. A challenge. Point me towards an example of humour that doesn't potentially offend someone on some level.

The context is important though. Clarkson works for a public broadcaster.

If I go to a local comedy club, pay a fiver and find it offensive, so be it.

However, I expect all of Peter Sutcliffes victims families will be thinking again about whether their license fees are really worth it.

Ok. A challenge. Point me towards an example of humour that doesn't potentially offend someone on some level.


I'm guessing that the complainers haven't seen Frankie Boyle. Offensive-yes, in bad taste-yes, funny-yes.

The story has even got into Aussie newspapers
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/comments/0,22023,24599569-2902,00.html
quoting an article from the Daily Mail.
For once I agree with Rich

Folk complaining about Clarkson and/or Top Gear must have too much time on their hands (I know, let's email a complaint to the BBC!!).

Unless you've been asleep for the past 20 years Top Gear has totally changed its format and certainly for the better.

To watch the programme and to complain about a Clarkson comment is a bit like me buying Playboy International and finding myself offended by the nudity.

Ok. A challenge. Point me towards an example of humour that doesn't potentially offend someone on some level.'Offensive' jokes about tight Scotsmen, the strange ideas of the Welsh, the dumb Irish, ethnic minorities etc., aren't quite in the same juvenile joke league as those that poke fun at horrific and tragic events that have befallen others, even as in this instance, generally rather than specifically.

For example, would you as a parent (although I don't know if you are), be amused by a joke about a slag-heap shifting and engulfing a primary school... If you had been one of the parents in Aberfan (http://www.agor.org.uk/cwm/themes/events/aberfan.asp) who sent their children off to school in the morning and never saw them alive again? I ask because these are the kind of 'jokes' I am disgusted by... And jokes about this circulated at that time.

Folk complaining about Clarkson and/or Top Gear must have too much time on their hands (I know, let's email a complaint to the BBC!!).

Unless you've been asleep for the past 20 years Top Gear has totally changed its format and certainly for the better.

To watch the programme and to complain about a Clarkson comment is a bit like me buying Playboy International and finding myself offended by the nudity.

Hardly. Playboy International isnt funded by the public.

Hardly. Playboy International isnt funded by the public.

And it's impossible to listen to, or watch everything which is.

I really don't see what the fuss is about. It's no worse than what he usually comes up with, and wasn't a personal attack.

Oh dear, I'm going straight to hell, I found it very funny. :D

Simple, if you don't like Clarkson and/or top gear, then turn over, its not rocket science, i for 1 like him and took the remarks for what they were, in jest, nothing more or less, the main point of that part of the program was in fact to show the viewer how hard being a lorry driver it actually is, and they did in fact say this, so i effect sticking up for them, please everyone, get a grip and some perspective here

Me and the OH were rolling in the aisles at the murdering prostitutes joke, and the look on Hammonds face was very funny.

This is a joke that's been running in the letters page of Viz for ages.

It's just black humour. Some people will be offended, some won't. That's comedy for you.

Oh dear, I'm going straight to hell, I found it very funny. :D

Can I cadge a lift then cos I thought it was hilarious.
People need to lighten up a bit!

Hardly. Playboy International isnt funded by the public.

No; but I'd know what to expect were I to part with my cash and purchase such publication.

(That's if it's still going of course, *cough*.....)

No; but I'd know what to expect.

It's Clarkson on Top Gear. Are you telling me it was all came as a huge shock!!

It's Clarkson on Top Gear. Are you telling me it was all came as a huge shock!!

Eh?

I said that if I were to buy Playboy International then I'd know what to expect. I could hardly then complain and say I was offended by the nudity, could I?

So anyone who has seen Top Gear over the past 10 years or so would know what to expect and I'd guess 90% of its viewers turn on to hear Clarkson's comments.

Can you imagine how many complaints Auntie would have received by now if Jeremy Clarkson was on Ross's wage?

you'd got my hopes up that the bbc had built a trebuchet on Beachy Head and were planning to catapult a selection of tv presenters into the English Channel :hihi::hihi::hihi:

Now there is a TV programme I'd gladly pay my licence fee for.

Are you one of the 200 prats who complained?

No i wasn't and haven't, so i guess that makes you a prat for getting your theory wrong.

I saw it but didn't really get the reference. How many lorry driving prostitute murderers have there been? Or is there one really famous one?

Apparently Lorry driver Steve Wright was jailed in February for killing five prostitutes in Ipswich (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7707641.stm).

FFS though. This is Top Gear. Anyone watching it should know exactly what sort of humour to expect. It's not like it's a new programme. It's getting to the stage in this country where you can't even joke about things any more, without someone moaning.

I didn't even realise TopGear was meant to be funny. I thought it was about driving cars badly, boys toys and and stuff, which is why I never watch it.

Although I did know Clarkson writes a column for one of the gutter press papers, the Sun or something. Obviously, he's going to be an offensive oik, otherwise they wouldn't employ him, would they?

There was the Yorkshire Ripper and one from a couple of years ago in Ipswich apparently who killed 6 women.

All the others just haven't been caught yet.I think it's true to say that when there is a prostitute murder the police head straight for the truck stops on the A1.I also think that Victorian weirdo Jack the Ripper was a horse and cart driver. Incidentley,the joke has it's origins in the hilarious (and deeply offensive) Viz magazine in the 80's.I don't remember anyone making a fuss about it then.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article5081378.ece

I think James May summed Clarkson up well on 5 Live.

"We did put it through the compliance lot and they said it was okay. Lorry drivers are free to go and kick Jeremy's head in if they see him by the side of the road.

"It's Jeremy. He's being bombastic. I don't think for a moment anyone imagines that he actually means it. He doesn't really believe that all lorry drivers murder prostitutes or that they should. He's being deliberately fatuous. It's what he does."

I really dislike Jeremy Clarkson and change channel whenever I see him on the box.
As much as I would love to find fault in the joke he made, I really don't.
I actually think it's extremely sad that so many people complained about it.
IT IS A JOKE!
It's black humour, people seriously need to get over it, soon everything will become taboo on the BBC, and that would be tragic.
I don't like Clarkson and don't watch Top Gear, but I for one feel that if his programme is popular- and as far as I know it is- then by all means keep showing it, I don't mind my money being spent towards it.
If he had said something really outrageous- and made it clear that he actually meant it, ie, for those who don't get the difference, IF IT WAS NOT A JOKE-, then yes I would want him to be banned.
But we're miles away from that!

I really dislike Jeremy Clarkson and change channel whenever I see him on the box.
As much as I would love to find fault in the joke he made, I really don't.
I actually think it's extremely sad that so many people complained about it.
IT IS A JOKE!
It's black humour, people seriously need to get over it, soon everything will become taboo on the BBC, and that would be tragic.
I don't like Clarkson and don't watch Top Gear, but I for one feel that if his programme is popular- and as far as I know it is- then by all means keep showing it, I don't mind my money being spent towards it.
If he had said something really outrageous- and made it clear that he actually meant it, ie, for those who don't get the difference, IF IT WAS NOT A JOKE-, then yes I would want him to be banned.
But we're miles away from that!

Very well said!


Just to add that Top Gear is one of the most exported programs so from the point of people moaning about license payers money being spent on it, I think it makes a massive profit!

Apparently Lorry driver Steve Wright was jailed in February for killing five prostitutes in Ipswich (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7707641.stm).

FFS though. This is Top Gear. Anyone watching it should know exactly what sort of humour to expect. It's not like it's a new programme. It's getting to the stage in this country where you can't even joke about things any more, without someone moaning.

It is coming up to the anniversary of when they died though. I can't imagine anybody on making any jokes around 9/11 and getting away with it.

But hey, they're only prostitutes. :rolleyes:

There were jokes about 9/11 immediately after that terrible day. Its a form of release much like the emergency services use when they joke about awful events. Gallows humour, is it called?

I actually like Jeremy Clarkson, though I don`t watch Top Gear. He has done other programmes which I enjoyed.

The lorry drivers remark was not a good move, especially now, and I think he may well come to regret it.

It is coming up to the anniversary of when they died though. I can't imagine anybody on making any jokes around 9/11 and getting away with it.

But hey, they're only prostitutes. :rolleyes:

Yes, but the show is made months in advance, so at that time, it wouldn't have been "coming up to the anniversary of when they died...".

It is coming up to the anniversary of when they died though. I can't imagine anybody on making any jokes around 9/11 and getting away with it.

But hey, they're only prostitutes. :rolleyes:

The BBC have already kindly issued a statement explaining the joke and how it is funny. Can't be bothered to see if it has already been posted in this thread so here it is:

The vast majority of Top Gear viewers have clear expectations of Jeremy Clarkson's long-established and frequently provocative on-screen persona.

This particular reference was used to comically exaggerate and make ridiculous an unfair urban myth about the world of lorry driving, and was not intended to cause offence.

Clarkson's sense of humour is deeply ironic, which means it can be interpreted wrongly when taken at face value.

im gutted cos i missed it but heard my husband laughing off his head people need to lighten up
does anyone know if it gonna be repeated

It should have been repeated tonight at 1900 on BBC2; however, they have taken it off the schedule. It's still available on BBC Iplayer, where I have just finished watching it. I found it amusing, and really do not see what the fuss was all about. If it was not for Ross and Brand, who Clarkson had a pop at several times; I doubt anyone would have been offended by the remarks that he made. I don't see or hear anyone complaining about him taking the fun out of Yorkshire folk.

I feel this will be an on going tread after the jonathan ross & russle brand incident. Even if something is said, in any context people (viewers of the program or not) will be compelled to call for heads to be rolled if they deem it to be even in the slightest bit offensive to anyone.

What would I myself have more of a problem with, some joker on the TV who makes me laugh (I say this as a non lorry driver, but I dont think my mind would change should I be one) or a large majority who acts in a way which imo degrades the whole country by complaining about things which I bet in 99% of the time does not affect them in the slightest.

I compair it to the work place, where you say have 10 people who all do a great job, yet you get the odd one which reports anyone an everyone for every second they are late, it does nothing for moral and causes much more controversy by doing so.

Top gear is the funniest show I have ever seen.
It is the funiest show of all time....... after the D-Generation/Late Show.

I don't care if people don't like the jokes.....did anyone see the 'mother in law' jokes on Eastenders too? They were damn funny too

Why do these people who complain watch the programs in the first place?!? I have visions of 1000's Blanch' (ala coronation street), just trawling through every TV schedule to see what they 'might' be able to complain about :rolleyes:

People get murdered/insulted or laughed at every single day on TV. Should we ban every TV program/film/documentorary that opens the subject/s?

Get a bloody life or turn over to watch antiques roadshow (hopefully there is no war memorabilia on show to open the whole killing debate again), you miserable sods.

jokes are funnier if they can possibly cause offence...... I'm a blonde Aussie and I'm the butt of many a joke. :hihi: