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

From Mensch to Liddle to Brendan O'Niell, the amount of red herrings, strawman arguments and general fuckwitery emanating from the right-wing press in reaction to Clarkson's sacking is pretty astonishing.

How timely: tonight's Radio 4 Any Questions is being recorded in JC's old prep school in Doncaster (where we were classmates, and where a framed photo of JC in Jennings & Darbyshire still hangs): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05n1lrs

My mother was relating to me with astonishment that JC is (only) 2 years older than me.

That is indeed an astonishing fact, I can see why you posted it.

i can't believe that mark g is 78!

I can

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs15/200H/f/2007/079/f/a/Jeremy_Clarkson_by_darkdreamfae.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32331218

oh the irony in his tweet.

Has to be done... well, doesn't have to be but it's gonna be:

Jeremy Clarkson >>>>>> Sue Perkins

challop gear

You are joking, I hope?

it's a pun, not a joke

Bakeoff>>>>>>>>Top Gear

sue perkins is a goddess

You've lost it, darragh

I'd prefer Sue Cook, as a cheeky reference to Clarkson's Partridge.

Yeah Tom D has possibly been in the unseasonable sun a bit too much.

Not at all! I have actually watched an episode of "Heading Out" from start to finish.

How does it compare to the Clarkson-written sitcom?

dunno how anyone can muster an opinion about sue perkins one way or the other...

raw sex appeal can't be rationalised

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/18/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-car-show-bbc

The outspoken star also revealed he had been told he probably had cancer two days before the fracas with Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon, although he has since been given the all-clear.

I'm having Monty Python flashbacks

What do you mean, punching me in the face like that?
Excuse me, I have a cancer.

The outspoken star also revealed he had been told he probably had cancer two days before the fracas

That was a very irresponsible tweet, whoever did that >:-[

if clarkson gets his own thread id like to submit that tom dude from countryfile as someone worth further consideration

Thomas John Gillespie Heap was born on 6 January 1966, and is the son of John Arnfield Heap, a former scientific adviser who became the head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Polar Regions Section (from 1975-1992), and Margaret Grace Gillespie Spicer,[1] known as 'Peg',[4] the daughter of Captain Sir Stewart Spicer, Baronet, of the Royal Navy.

is he one of those adorable toffs or one of the nasty ones?

he's fucking rabid imo its astonishingly entertaining

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/Chris-Evans-to-lead-new-Top-Gear-line-up-2016-06-16

UK people, who is Chris Evans and is this a positive or negative casting?

well I'd answer that but

It would be seen as negative whoever they picked, but they're playing it pretty much as safe as they can - veteran presenter with solid track record for relatively inventive entertainment shows on TV (at least 20 years ago) and radio.

I mean Dale Winton had first refusal but

Sorry, didn't intend to exclude our Irishes from answering. Oops.

xxp considerably more polite and less expletive-riddled than my putative response

Formerly egotistical motormouth DJ/TV personality who seems to have mellowed a bit in recent years. Recently reprised his once-popular TV show TFI Friday for a one-off special which turned into a Top Gear audition half-way through (driving round Top Gear test track, taking presentation lessons from Clarkson, interviewing Lewis Hamilton, talking guff about cars). Probably the obvious choice. He's laddish and is childishly enthusiastic about fast cars (which he owns a lot of, I believe). He used to give good* telly of the Top Gear type -laddish, jokey, idiotic banter - in the 90s.

xpost

* ymmv on whether this is actually good, but it was certainly popular

He was married to Billie Piper

Only thing I've seen him on recently is presenting the One Show, following a video segment all about a marmalade festival, catch on to the name of the town it was held in and started going on about how they have a marmalade festival there.

i will say this - he was great on GLR before getting The Big Breakfast. not had much time for him since, but his early radio stuff was fun.

Clarkson, Hammond, and May have signed to Amazon Prime for new show, along with executive producer Andy Wilman.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34267821

jez, seeing his annual 'RESULTS DAY' calendar notification, strapping in for a huge day online pic.twitter.com/swcvIqYeLF

— Niamh McIntyre (@niamh_mcintyre) August 15, 2019

he later received an n and a t to display alongside his c and u

Jeremy Clarkson’s daughter has written a book and it looks hellish pic.twitter.com/7gPFrmmvwm

— various jams (@VRSJMS) May 7, 2020

karen clarkson

Can I speak to someone in charge of untimely deaths?

Top post:

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.

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 11:22 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

‘dear no more page 3’

timely!

tbf, the book came out over three years ago. The fact that this is the first time anyone has noticed it exists points to how successful it was.

soulless eyes like black holes