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bull3964 posted:I'm now wondering what impact this is going to have on BBC-A and their original programming. Top Gear was their ratings cash cow and I'm sure it funded a lot of things like Orphan Black. I wouldn't be surprised to see them drastically scale back their original programming after this. They still got Sherlock and Doctor Who and we still got dumb teenage girls, so they'll be fine.
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FiftySeven posted:You know, I have seen a lot of strange stuff on the internet over the past two decades or so, but I don't think anything has ever come close to being as bizarre and unexpected as that article. Piers Morgan actually defending Clarkson, what a strange world we live in. Posting this in the PYF Unnerving poo poo thread... Joking aside, that's about the most  thing I've read regarding this whole situation, and it's coming from a man who Jeremy Clarkson punched. I wonder if it's not that Clarkson goes around punching people, but rather that people genuinely would like to be punched by Clarkson.
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CommieGIR posted:Let's be honest: Has there ever been a British show that the US did better? The Office.
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CommieGIR posted:Apparently I just don't watch enough American TV. I'm mostly joking. I think any TV has the chance to be good regardless of it's origin.
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Jack of Hearts posted:James May is a demonstrably better chef than Gordon Ramsey, I'd like him to have his own cookery show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDlMLqdvHzI
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Lost it in the first video: "Oh yeah, we're also going to be using all the normal... cooking poo poo."
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:James' shepherd's pie recipe is delicious. I'd pay good money for a The Trip style show where he and Clarkson drive around various countries in locally-made cars before James cooks dinner and the pair of them drink wine until they fall over. That last part was how Clarkson got in trouble though.
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Double Bill posted:I'd watch the hell out of a show where Hammond cycles through various metropolitan areas and swears a lot. Yeah, I'm just starting to bike to work and I can totally understand the "angry cyclist" archetype.
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Philip J Fry posted:About even with his gun handling, I'd say. He had cleared the chamber and was checking the barrel for obstruction. It's a legitimate technique but more safely done with a cleaning rod.
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spog posted:Seems that the moniker 'Mr Angry' is one that he has honoroubly earned. I'm just hoping they auction off parts of the set
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When James May laugh it's the best loving thing. One of my favorites is at 6:52 when Jeremy's bauhaus caravan drat near gets blown over. I laugh just THINKING of that one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll2RRuD_N0U
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Bigsteve posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32431956 quote:Earlier this week, Shillinglaw stressed there was no ban on Clarkson returning to the BBC, despite director general Tony Hall's decision to fire him last month, saying "a line has been crossed". You can feel the backpedalling.
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Fo3 posted:Wilman is very good. Top gear was good because it discovered James May (top gear was poo poo before May came on). As this thread has shown, people would watch May doing anything. Don't forget he was the resident American-poo poo presenter.
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Ariza posted:You're very dumb and probably shouldn't comment on comedians anymore, as it's obvious you have no idea how they function. I love going to see comedians where I feel obligated to laugh because otherwise the crowd would beat you up. This is how I felt when I watch Rogan.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I want to see more of Edd getting pissed off when he has to prep a loving Bentley for a complete color change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwgTHwCTZQ 
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angryhampster posted:My god that drive would be absolutely miserable. Coast to coast across the US is about the same distance but would at least be entertaining some of the time. It's not insignificantly shorter; you get a better view of the ocean as well. 
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T1g4h posted:Good god, that's absolutely beautiful. Yeah; also, any time I look out at the ocean, I always think about what the next landfall would be in that heading. It's stunning to think, off that coast, the next land is Antarctica.
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Un-l337-Pork posted:Is there a more perfect fit than this show? Everyone in the US downloads this illegally, right? Because there is no legal way to download or even watch it (the current series)? Also the BBC store on YouTube let's you buy the episode. Handy when YouTube was the only legal streaming site in Afghanistan.
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Mooseykins posted:It does seem that way, and yet Tiff Needell and Vicki Butler-Henderson are actually pretty good presenters and are seasoned racing drivers. Maybe it's just a bit too serious, there's not enough loving about and doing silly stuff with cars. That's the difference. They're too dry, they don't entertain, they only inform. We don't watch top gear to see a presenter do things that are within our means; we watch it to see if a supercar can beat a small plane across Europe.
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Mooseykins posted:Vicki annoys me, I'm not sure why though. I'd like to skull gently caress her and tell her not to talk with her mouth full. I think that would make me feel better. I think you're actually one of those PornHub commenters IRL.
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Mustache Ride posted:I...uh... It's two hours of drunk may playing a recorder and cooking in the top gear lab.
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RhoA posted:Good get, but it's not going to save the program. @rmstitanic great news, now we're allowing life boats to be launched at capacity!
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Idk if Chris Evans will be that bad, just didn't know he was into cars and wondering how he's gonna have time to do top gear and all the upcoming marvel movies...
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Data Graham posted:That could actually work. Make it more like SNL with cars. That could seriously work, imho.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:He's a nagging, hectoring, moralizing, unfunny, holier-than-thou killjoy of a comedian that for some reason internet leftists are in love with. As an internet leftist myself, I find his popularity unexplainable since his personality is pretty much the same as a dowdy old Lutheran Sunday School teacher who never laughed at anything in her life. I wish this was me. That guy just bugs me as a "comedian" or otherwise. He hates completely, and his work seems to border on complete sociopathy. Every time I ask why he seems to be so engaged in forcing me to accept a viewpoint instead of doing an act, I get "YOU JUST DON'T GET HIGH LEVEL BRITISH HUMOUR," in response, instead of a context clue or something. The man is so unfunny his show is literally called a comedy vehicle -- maybe that's the high level comedy: the irony in intentionally misleading the audience into thinking there was any comedy to be had; and that a largely popular act of his was berating a motoring show.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:What, being a complete unfunny and highly punchable oval office? I'm imagining the weirdst nerd in school doing this schtick, "HAHA you fuckin' bullies! I WANTED you to punch me in the face, y'all got played!"
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Preoptopus posted:OOOH is he the guy that went off when clarkson yes.
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Everyone knows the best comedians are the ones where you must laboriously explain their act and defend them from criticism. That's why Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard, Lenny Bruce, Sam Kinison, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, and Louis CK are considered so mediocre; everyone knows they're just too "jokesy" and "humorous." Hannibal Buress posted:Wait, wait, wait. Comedic jokes? As opposed to all the other types of jokes that are out there. Am I missing out on a genre of jokes?
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88h88 posted:What even is humour? Whatever the opposite of your posting is.
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I have friends who are comedians, who try every loving day, very hard, not to end up being an "ironic" act like Stewart Lee -- they may be awful comedians right now, but they actually put some loving effort into engaging their audience instead of some beyond-the-looking-glass anti-humorist schlock, attempting to ape the style of Andy Kaufman, but failing to commit fully and only playing the puppetmaster-defense when their schtick isn't working. Jerry Lewis never glanced over at the audience to say, "Don't worry, I didn't ACTUALLY hurt myself," and it's baffling and patronizing to have an act that says "I'm pretending to be more upset and sardonic than I actually believe," try to convince me that's the case only when the audience doesn't laugh. There's nothing clever or funny about that; you're my endless loving font of schadenfreude, because you refuse to understand that even if Stewart Lee could be considered a comedian, that form of comedy would be completely lost on the person who would watch an hour of cock-jokes revolving around cars.
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Make your own thread about Top Gear: how hard could it be?
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Humphreys posted:This is great. Thanks! don't read the comments the guy ruins the act
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You Am I posted:Well that ends an era. I liked the small touches to the segments, like the Fiat badge changed to "FAT", the cars being in barns, the hacksaw job on the Frontera and the graphics on May's Pajero TURBOACTIVE
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Sandbagger SA posted:I started watching the final season on amazon and the Patagonia special was pretty great. It was one of their most memorable specials in my mind. It was beautiful, touching, funny and surprising.
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CannonFodder posted:Executive Producers: 15 clones of Piers Morgan. I would unironically watch this
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HolyDukeNukem posted:He's not the Stig, but he is the non-copyright infringing version of the cousin of the Stig!
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