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Wacky, you said parts of Top Gear are faked...

Top Gear is produced by a separate production company, so the BBC cannot "sack" them - it has to sack the whole show.

I thought the problem was that the Mexican Ambassador acted all huffy about it. If he had pointed out the ludicrous nature of a group of presenters that are wealthy, sit around driving cars and giving their opinion call an entire nation LAZY. When Lazy could really define them, and their particular brand of humour - THEN it might have worked.

I would have turned the joke on them...
 
I like the way they picked their first choice of star in a reasonably priced car after the controversy hit, Jonathan Ross.
 
My fingers teetered over the #2 key on my remote control at 8pm tonight, until I read that he was on it. How is it that Jonathan Ross is on tv tenfold more now he doesn't have a fucking tv show?! GRAAHGRGH
 
whisky said:
The same Steve Coogan who had a comedy italian character, and who regularly pokes fun at geordies and people from norfolk?
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The difference between the fictional character of Alan Partridge making ignorant statements and the presenters of Top Gear doing so is that when Alan does it the joke is on him, we're not agreeing with what we're saying, we're laughing at how out-dated and ridiculous his views are. Whereas when Richard Hammond does it I can ony assume we're supposed to think "oh that Richard Hammond, he's so cool, Mexicans ARE funny, hahaha, gypsies!"

Unless it was all some clever meta-commentary on the Sky Sports shit (I don't watch Top Gear!)
 
In a very strange in the Observer yesterday, Steve Coogan has commented:

On Hammond
He reminds you of the squirt at school as he hangs round Clarkson the bully, as if to say, "I'm with him". Meanwhile, James May stands at the back holding their coats as they beat up the boy with the stutter.
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Full article here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/feb/05/top-gear-offensive-steve-coogan?intcmp=239

Do you think he may have seen the Stewart Lee sketch? Or maybe he asked permission...
 
I don't give a toss about all the drama generated this time. The fact of the matter is that Top Gear is one of the best shows on television and absolutely hilarious to boot.
 
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