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

darragh - doesn't look like you are on enough meds. Take care of yourself.

Don't know why people bother with this "ILX, must do better" shite, as if any of it really matters.

We have to uphold the standards set by the good old days..

basically, lol @ UK's attempt at culture wars

everybody otm inc me and xyz but are we having any fun yet

Well, I am.

Admittedly, that's over there

now then, now then

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2995106/Astonishing-remarks-Gear-affair-senior-BBC-boss-claims-Clarkson-like-Savile.html

Clarkson will be on Sky within a few months, the front page of yesterday's Sun couldn't nudge and wink much more obviously in that direction. It's all fun and games until we realise he'll be popping up repeatedly during every ad break in every Premiership game for the rest of our lives.

I really hope that, sans the Top Gear format, Clarkson falls flat on his face and into obscurity. I'm guessing it won't happen, but it would be headswimmingly satisfying if it did.

Saville is like Clarkson, in the sense that he is allowed to get away with it because he draws notoriety and ratings. So for the BBC to sack Clarkson is telling me they have learnt their lesson.

No chance of obscurity for such a playmate of the PM, but don't think Clarkson could get anywhere near the same audience as he does on BBC for anything and adverts don't give him the free reign he's used to. Maybe he's in a better position than most to launch his own online-only show.

yeah but even though he's an unrepentant loudmouth racist apparently prone to violence, nobody is claiming him to be among the most notorious rapists in recent history and to conflate his crimes with those of saville is at best unnecessarily hyperbolic and at worst a pretty serious insult to the dozens of saville's victims.

the comparison is poor and that it serves no one in this

Xp

Its why I said "in the sense...". Obviously throwing punches and racist remarks and not liking reggaeton isn't on the same level as Saville.

However I do see this whole thing as a post-Saville test for the BBC. Post enquiries and all. They've already failed as he should've gone after the racism but its a case of better late than never.

No chance of obscurity for such a playmate of the PM, but don't think Clarkson could get anywhere near the same audience as he does on BBC for anything and adverts don't give him the free reign he's used to. Maybe he's in a better position than most to launch his own online-only show.

― nashwan, Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:22 (17 minutes ago)

good points

I think he's too lazy for that, though.

Will be lol to see what his pitiful lickspittles do in his absence though.

Both the other presenters also present other things...

Not exactly setting the heather on fire though are they?

may will do alright as long as there's a demand for someone who straddles the divide between blokey and nerdy. i've no idea what hammond's appeal is supposed to be.

He's there for the laydeez.

He seems to be the only one of them who can talk about cars without any insight any more. Remember cars?

bbc shd launch a magazine show about cars

fronted by Noel Edmonds

mr. Blobby as the silent test driver

Both Clarkson and Sky would make a shit ton of money out of whatever they chose to do together, so I doubt audience in itself is a particularly pressing concern.

Noel Edmonds won't work. feet won't reach pedals.

Bullying of subordinates a cherished organisational principle at Murdoch outfits as well

He could, in time, become an advisor to Cameron.

When I say in time, I could mean, ooh, five minutes?

Almost certainly considers himself a bigger fish than Cameron.

That's ridiculous, there is no job Cameron could give him that would pay him anywhere near the amount of money he'd be looking for. Even if he had any expertise that would be relevant to anything Cameron might care about, it's hard to imagine how making that association professional would benefit the PM in any way. Even among natural Tories who like Clarkson, Cameron would look grey and timid in the same way he does alongside Boris, and one Boris Johnson figure is enough.

True fact: at the age of 10, I was in a school performance of The Wind In The Willows with Clarkson. I played Mole to his Toad. We did it semi-improvised. I wore a black polo-necked sweater. He was quite the am-drammer in those days. It's been downhill for us both ever since.

In a sense you were present at the birth of a legend - his entire life spent chasing that thrill.

Wow (xp)

like the sound of your beatnik mole, casting of clarkson almost too prophetic to be true

there's def some easy dirty money and the chance to get your quotes mangled beyond recognition by the Mail or whoever in that

pics or didn't happen

topgear.com, which is more closely tied to the magazine than the show, currently has an article about the Land Rover Discovery Sport in which Nigel Farage "and his ilk" are mocked for their xenophobia. Oh brave new world...

Officially sacked now.

Although <A href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11494513/Jeremy-Clarkson-sacked-by-the-BBC-official.html";>the statements</a> involved are such fucking fawning bullshit: we didn't want to fire him, of course, last thing we would have wanted, hands are tied - a miracle no-one blames Elf and Safety gone mad.

Dean Burnett @garwboy 44m 44 minutes ago

I don't pay my license fee for the BBC to go around telling millionaires that they can't punch producers!

Additional to the Mole/Toad thing, we both auditioned for Radio 4's adaptation of the Jennings & Darbyshire books. Not only did Clarkson get the gig, but he also got to play the character with my actual real life surname. I loved those books. So jealous.

I thought the BBC statement was smartly done actually - it makes sure that the given reason is only the assault and not all the other factors that his fanboys absurdly claim were behind it.

Yes, as straight-forward as it gets, really.

lovin these Young Clarkson stories mike t-diva, best thing to come out of this.

Yes that BBC statement was good although it should have elaborated on the reasons for the assault (no hot food, whatever else it was)

If it's an unprovoked assault than the "reasons" behind it are irrelevant, it's an unprovoked assault and that's all you need to say. Everyone knows why Clarkson threw his toys out of the pram, the statement doesn't need to mention it.

Louise Mensch clearly after the gig:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/louise-mensch-weighs-in-on-jeremy-clarkson-fracas-saying-sacking-evidence-of-wimpy-british-culture-10133601.html

most wimpy thing about it is all these imbeciles throwing their teddies out of their prams cos their toy car programme got stopped

Well, presumably the producer involved has not lost his job, so my guess is that if Louise Mensch is after the gig, that's probably not the way towards it.