It’s been a week or so of narrow minded unenlightened pre-historic men and their attempt at humour. And now the spotlight is on that sexist offensive crappy frat boy club known as Top Gear. The latest racist spew has got them into trouble. Top Gear is the ghost of “laddism” we being haunted by the hideous sight by the 3 ghouls, Clarkson, Hammond and May.
Think the comic Stewart Lee gets it right when he says that Richard Hammond is like the hanger-on for the school bully (Clarkson) who stands there echoing his mate, while May just holds their coats. That’s the sum total for this sad middle-aged middle-class pathetic testosterone fuelled show depicting a group of men having an extended mid-life crisis.
I wouldn’t mind the show if they ditched the oppressive boys club male bonding mentality and “let’s take the piss out of people we don’t like by being as racist, homophobic and sexist cos we are only joking and it’s people like you who don’t understand humour”…. And the BBC is all mealy-mouthed with its apology (well, this is the channel that gives us racist stereotypes branding it as humour called, “Come Fly With Me”…
But then the Top Gear “lads” get away with their offence time and time again.
What would be funny if those 3 hideous ghouls vacated my telly, disappeared to a some isolated island and leave them there. And more importantly, where there is no signal to make television programmes. Or even better make them wear “Community Payback” bibs where they can clean the crap off the streets under strict instructions that they cannot utter a word while everyone who is offended by the three stooges can go up to them and make fun of them…cos, you know….it’s only a joke…and sticks and stones and all that….
Here’s Steve Coogan on them and he aint happy either.
Plus Stewart Lee on why he hates Top Gear
When I heard that Top Gear had apologised to Mexicans I thought, ‘When are they going to apologise to everybody else.’ The Stewart Lee clip is excellent.
‘When are they going to apologise to everybody else.’
Quite *chuckles*….
I’d completely forgotten that these comments were made during the middle of an episode where they were taking the piss out of Australians.
It was a light-hearted joke.
Mark,
I’ll tell you what makes me laugh: rich, middle aged white men. They really crack my sides with their hilarious assumption that it’s the rest of the world that’s strange and ridiculous looking. That almost gives me a hernia, it makes me laugh so much…
What grates the most is the usual, lazy retort that “you dont have to watch it and you can change channel if you dont like it”. I wish there was a similar option when it came to funding Clarkson and his twatty programmes via the TV licence,
which is the point I’m making here:
http://mymarilyn.blogspot.com/2011/02/cliches-of-2011-4.html
Brilliant! I,ve never really sat down & watched Stewart Lee Before.
It has become embarrassing to watch the fat, balding Clarkson and Co., acting like retarded twenty-somethings. Time for Top Gear to go to the scrapyard. However, it has been my observation that Clarkson usually says something particularly offensive and impolitic when he’s got a book coming out or similar. Anybody know if this is the case? Has the balding buffoon got a new tome on the bookshelves that he wants people to notice and is out to generate a little publicity for himself?
A lot of people can’t think of a good word to say about Clarkson these days.
But I can.
Twat.
…acting like retarded twenty-somethings
Yuck, the ‘R’ word – exactly the sort of word that Clarkson would use.
Agree with you Tim
Huh? “Twat” is politically correct but “retarded” isn’t?
Personally, I think they tried too hard to offend people – not just a remark – but to me it just seem to keep going on and on and on…