All Posts Tagged With: "Richard Hammond"

AUNTIE applies boot to Jezzers' Aris

The BBC are hinting that they may, at last, throw out Jezzer, his lads and their dreary boys’ toys show. TOP GEAR has been a boring, repetitive act of automotive onanism for years and Jeremy Clarkson’s a worn out old Pranker.
He’s been making the same jokes, prodding the same shibboleths, reiterating the same un-PC mantras for years. They were funny-ish ten years ago. Now they’re just a yawn.
James May, reluctantly to give him credit, has shown in other programmes that he can be a good, inquiring presenter.
But the little fella, Hammond is as thick as porker’s poo and dull as a bucket of skimmed milk, as the chat-show folk discovered when they had him on after his silly crash. Where on earth did the BBC find him?

Even more puzzling is the BBC’s discovery of the blubber-lipped, dimwitted, monotoned, unfunny, unattractive fatty that they have thrust on us – just to show who’s in  charge – in the form of Adrian Chiles -one of their most inexplicable recent discoveries. I guess it is – laudably, of course – to demonstrate their fairness in offering equal opportunities to blubber-lipped, montoned, unfunny, unattractive, overweight, dimwitted fatties.

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Clarkson – overhyped, overblown and overbudget

Yesterday’s Vietnam edition of Top Gear on BBC2 was one of the least entertaining, least informative travel programs I’ve ever seen. The idea that the chaps might have to ride into North Vietnam on a bike painted with stars-and-stripes to remind the people there of having the shit bombed out of them 40 years ago was so pathetically feeble and plain ill-mannered, I don’t imagine it raised a titter anywhere in the land. But poor old Clarkson (who, I know, is a nice guy from his choices on Desert Island Discs) has created a persona for himself of such dimensions his studied un-PC-ness has got way out of hand. Now Top Gear’s producer is grumbling that the BBC will have to cut his budget. May I suggest that the easiest way to cut costs at Top Gear would be to axe the two puerile tossers with whom Clarkson is forced to work. May is a bumbling oaf and Hammond is the most witless little git on telly. Are there really people out there that love them? Je ne croix pas.

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