Jeremy Clarkson's "The World According To Clarkson" is one of Penguin's "best books of its kind to be published in recent years"

Lorry drivers cool with jokes about murdering prostitutes shocker.

See? The lorry drivers come out to defend one of their own.

What did you dandy fops do to support our RusseLl?

COLIN ROBERTSON
Deputy TV Editor
ANOTHER day — another edgy comment on the BBC.

But there’s a difference. Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross’ prank on Andrew Sachs was outrageous as he did not deserve it.

Yet Clarkson’s remarks can easily be filed in the drawer marked “joke”.

Some don’t get it. But if stars start avoiding edgy gags to please them, that really would be a joke.

News International newspaper defends News International newspaper columnist, News at Ten...

Nobody is gunna vote Russell Brand as PM, that's why.

so much hypocrisy in all this, i think my head's gonna explode

More than 500 people complain now.

Only another 29,500 to go

how to reconcile desire to see Clarkson suffer with fact that making jokes about lorry drivers killing women is 100% funny

you know, i saw this on monday and was pretty disturbed by it. i mean, clarkson's obv a cunt, but... joking abou a murder seems about a million times more offensive than making a joke about having had consensual sex with someone's granddaughter.

What murder was he joking about?

the murder of the Earth, by man and his carbon-spouting machinations

joking about a murder seems about a million times more offensive than making a joke about having had consensual sex with someone's granddaughter.

you do mean, of course, calling up a specific murder victim's grandad on air to mock him about it?

That's more Radio 2 than Top Gear

This murder(er), I thought.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38496000/jpg/_38496473_sutcliffe_bbc_238.jpg

Nah, lorry driver as murderer is pretty strongly held in UK folklore, hence the Viz strip "Laurie Driver"

Well you thought wrong (xp)

Wasn't that guy in Suffolk a lorry driver as well?

i was thinking specifically the guy muyrdering prostitutes in Norwich a couple years back? xp yeah that one

He had been a lorry driver, but not at the time of the murders. Listen Dom, he's knows his sick humour.

Listen to Dom

Not wanting to get all Clarkson, and wanting even less to agree with anything Jimmy Carr says, but the latter is absolutely OTM about everything in this country at the moment feeling like going to school and being told off for breathing. I'm fed up with it.

SOMETHING MUST BE DONE

Let's ask David Cameron what he thinks should be done about the evil Clarkson

"That Clarkson nicked ma bike frae ootside Tesco's, the cunt..."

OK, so we know what Bobby Gillespie thinks of him

"Aye but its wreckage looked beautiful and punk rebel against the sunset o' rock an' roll an' that..."

mccustos in the house

"See yon Clarkson, he's a right Tory Nazi right enough but he's goat some nice Allman Brothers rarities..."

The only solution is to ban jokes

"Holl'! Nae way, big yin, if ye ban jokes then Andy Cameron'd huv tae become a fulltime recording artist and the last Primal Scream album sold fuck all as it is! And whit aboot Mr. Abie, whit wid he dae?"

good luck usa!!!

USA is A-OK

Can't believe I changed my name and I'm still banned from I Love Cricket.

LJ = the Captain Bligh of Cricket Boards

can't believe anybody cares about being banned from a cricket board.

Dude I'll take watching cricket over watching Spurs.

just bought yourself a ban from spurs board.

Or "I Love the Championship", to give it its full title.

imma ask to have the use of 'The Church'

No way! Where will people go for their "pretending Ask Chaki never existed" needs then?

i'll have a rolling thread.

bet you wished you weren't banned now.

Look, I know you Poms dumped your undesirables here about 200 years ago. But please don't think you can dump Clarkson on us now.

Kind Regards,
Australia

I would love to believe this exists. Even more so because we would be able to do an A1ex Macpherson/Jeremy Clarkson compare and contrast.

― Matt DC, Monday, October 8, 2007 4:09 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

one is an obnoxious tory-boy with opinions4u and the other is... oh blah-blah you get it.

why the fuck did jeremy clarkson get to write the notes for "selling england by the pound" in the genesis reissue box set? I appreciate that he likes the album but they could have done better than that.

they could?

I have some friends who enjoy the 'motoring' show Clarkson hosts, but I think it's due to the fact that any random comments he makes don't sound serious because they're coming from an elitist british dude hosting a show about cars and he just ends up sounding precocious.

I just think the BBC should offer equal airtime to a show where 3 Marxists review new guns or something.

lol Geir's favourite album of all-time

(Actually, I really like it too)

"Marxist Marksmen"
BBC do that irregular "3 Men In A Boat" programme AKA "Griff Rhys Jones gets a bit tetchy then loses his temper while Rory McBeard hides behind his beard and Darrah O'Brien looks on with his mouth open in disbelief" - does that partially make up for it?