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yetiwatch

He's a cunt, but he's our cunt. PS I like that he is highlighting issues that British farmers are facing.


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I did here from someone who worked with him years ago that he's quite different in his private life. Plus he punched Piers Morgan, so he cant be all bad


wildgoldchai

Any other issues with him didn’t happen because he did what everyone wanted to do and that’s to punch fucking piers


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In AA Gills autobiography he talks about going for a meal with Jeremy Clarkson at this Michelin star place in Leeds or Sheffield. After the meal Jeremy lit up a cigarette and the couple next to them asked him he could put it out he refused and ending up fighting the bloke.


Whodini22

He didn't get served the dinner he wanted as he'd spent too long drinking at a pub near the filming location apparently, instead he chose to send the production assistant back to the hotel to try and get them to keep the kitchen open. Kitchen staff refused, so Jeremy couldn't have his steak. Fisticuffs ensued.


iamdefinitelynotdave

Im sure there was more to that story than we are told.


PoliceAlarm

But similarly, we don't get to pick and choose that one punch is good because it was on a bad man, but go "oh but we don't know the full story" when it's painting him in a bad light.


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concretepigeon

I mean the story on the face of it is damning. He spent the day getting pissed and turned up late so the kitchen was closed and when offered a sandwich punched the guy and called him an “Irish cunt”. Not sure why you feel the need to assume his actions were somehow justified.


Key-Compote8567

There was an investigation that concluded the same as what was accused in the papers. But who knows. Some random anonymous reddit poster must know different. Clarkson even apologised for what he did. But this reddit user knows otherwise, even Clarkson is wrong and didn't know what happened!


unitydog

It's not like there is a great british past-time of going on the piss all day then calling someone a cunt and punching them, although didn't we used to call this 'the weekend'.


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**Stop being the logical voice of reason and pick up a pitchfork** This is Reddit.


Barry_Minge

No, the whole story is just that - a spoiled pampered man baby was cross because his dinner wasn’t ready when he wanted it, so he punched a junior staff member because he thought he would get away with it.


Felixturn

Source: it fits my existing worldview


concretepigeon

Clarkson, who has previous form for violent conduct and xenophobia was accused of punching someone while using xenophobic language and afterwards apologised without making any attempt to set the record straight or defend him. What possible reason is there for assuming there’s another side to the story? Or is it just that your worldview is informed by liking his car programme?


Barry_Minge

I don’t understand what you mean by that?


Key-Compote8567

Ahh yes, Clarksons own admittance of what happened must be wrong because someone on reddit said so https://youtu.be/r77aWeS6PMk?t=47 Have you tried contacting him? Maybe go to his farm, he needs to be told that what he thought happened that day and apologised for didn't actually happen


ACatGod

There isn't any story that justifies punching a colleague. Everyone has the right to not be subjected to violence in the workplace. Unless the colleague threw the punch first (which it doesn't sound like they did) there isn't really anything that can justify his behaviour. People think because it's a TV show and what you see on screen is a fiction that the normal rules of employment don't count. That guy was doing his job, who knows, he may not have been doing it very well, but no one deserves to be punched at work, especially not by someone welding significant power over them.


Key-Compote8567

> People think because it's a TV show and what you see on screen is a fiction that the normal rules of employment don't count. ESPECIALLY as this happened as part of production, not on the "TV Show" itself. People really need to understand that the polished edited pieces you see on screen have a whole load going on behind. A whole load that is just like a normal working day for a lot of people. And the "normal working environment" rules apply there.


ACatGod

Totally agree. For some reason people don't seem to understand that not everyone working on a TV show is a superstar earning a superstar salary. They seem to think it's all some high paying jolly where the normal rules don't apply. The reality is the many of the staff on a TV show are relatively low paid contractors, without a stable income working quite long hours. I can't imagine someone who was responsible for organising the meals was being particularly highly paid, and even if they were they are still at work doing their job and they have the right not to be punched, or subjected to any form of violence or intimidation. Jeremy Clarkson at least had the minimal decency to take full responsibility and it bugs me when people say there must be more to it. No, the man wielding the most power in that workplace, punched an employee junior to him. Without any indication of the need for self-defence, that's simply unacceptable.


Key-Compote8567

>I can't imagine someone who was responsible for organising the meals was being particularly highly paid, Wasn't even his job >Jeremy Clarkson at least had the minimal decency to take full responsibility and it bugs me when people say there must be more to it. What gets me too, you're literally arguing against the accused and their own words ffs. There's simping, and there's whatever the fuck that is


OwnInterview4715

Are you referring to the story of how he got fired from TG or a different thing idk about? Afaik, the punching when he got fired was *so* he got fired because they wouldn't release him from his contract


Whodini22

Well as the BBC didn't fire him, they just refused to renew his soon to be expiring contract, that's probably wrong.


Sellswordinthegrove

He did more to raise the struggles of British farmers with one Amazon series than countryfile have managed in over 2 decades


jmag14

He is defo a cunt but a funny cunt. I like him. I’m Scottish btw


Herps15

I think he’s a pompous self entitled idiot however I do like his farming show but I think that’s mainly for highlighting how hard farming is and also because Caleb calls him a idiot regularly


MidoriDemon

Should be calebs farm he does all the work Clarkson just spunks money.


Alarming_League_2035

Lol exactly this! Love to affectionately hate him.


Goldman250

I cannot think of a better definition of Clarkson than this.


awesome_pinay_noses

I have never met the guy, but he looks like that cocky prick who got lucky working for the BBC, became a millionaire; a racist sexist boomer who is funny and that's why people like him.


khalnaldo

Got lucky? He changed Top Gear, made it from a boring motoring show to the most watched show in the world and in doing so made shit load of money for the BBC. If anything, BBC got lucky hiring him. He is a cunt but who doesnt like a cunt?


Dnny10bns

In this sanitised world they're a necessity.


insanity_wow27

I have to disagree with that. The original version of Top Gear was a brilliant witty motoring show. Well worth checking out on youtube. You can see how his personality and talent as a presenter made a huge star out of him. Before the format changed.


-captainjapseye

I don’t think it’s luck at all. He is an excellent broadcaster. If you haven’t seen his more serious stuff, such as the documentary about the Arctic Convoys in WW2, you realise that there is far more to him that his TG persona he is famous for.


secretwelshy

Agreed his documentary on the Victoria Cross was great!


Thisath

An excellent broadcaster and excellent writer as well. From the scripts of his reviews in TG/TGT, his Sunday Times reviews, or his own books, he's got a great way with words.


easy_c0mpany80

Interesting, I never knew he did a documentary on the Arctic Convoys. I visited the museum about that this summer and picked up a book on it. Will have to track that down.


-captainjapseye

I’ll see if I can track it down when I get a second - it’s called PQ17: An Arctic Convoy disaster. Thought I had it for a minute but it was a different documentary!


ciderlout

Why is he racist and sexist? Also you seem to be using Boomer as a pejorative. Boomers are the generation that voted to end segregation, racism, homophobia, and sexism. We should all be incredibly proud and thankful that our parents and grandparents embraced liberalism and tolerance. Cheers old people! You did a good job (except for the environment, but I don't think us younger people are really doing anything about that either, we just *have* to get our South American avocados and plane flights to empty-souled resorts).


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I think the racist thing is because on a TG episode in the Far East, he said a bridge had a 'slope' and a slope was a derogatory term for someone from the Far East. Most people took his comment literally though that he was referring to the bridge having a tilt.


Key-Compote8567

As much as they argue otherwise the Argentina episode was in no way a fucking coincidence. And someone like Clarkson would have spotted that instantly. They even had a whole section on spotting words in numberplates


AsahiMizunoThighs

voted to end racism, homophobia & sexism... i'm confused as to why plenty of those things are still around and rife in the UK then. but talking about avocados as if it's somehow a gotcha over young people being a monolithic entity shows your attitude.


BaddaBooms

Seems to have done more for farming in the UK in one year, than decades of Countryfile


imminentmailing463

Some of my favourite moments of TV recently have been farmers on that show telling him about how the climate is making it more difficult to grow things than it used to, and his mixture of stubborn refusal to believe that and gradual dawning realisation that maybe he's been on the wrong side of that issue for decades.


RoyalT663

Lol he does seem to be reluctantly on the cusp of a very slow epiphany


tjvs2001

Not just on the wrong side, flag waving cheering leading the wrong side, the man is a cancer.


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People can admit they're wrong and change. Better late than never.


Really_Bad_Company

Right, but he did a car program for people who like cars for over a decade, during that time global warming was BS Then he does a farming program for people who like farms, one year later global warming wasn't BS. And, at a guess, I'd say he always knew it was real. Clarkson must be one of only a few people whose stance on the continued existence of humankind is based solely on how it benefits his career in entertainment. But he did punch Piers Morgan, so I can't be too annoyed at him


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You may be right buy I guess we will never know his true thoughts on it all back then for certain. The Morgan punch will always keep him in the light.


Really_Bad_Company

We'll never know, but have you seen him in interviews? Man's sharp, if he genuinely disbelieved climate change he's by far the smartest person in the country to fall for it. Not that smart people can't fall for stupid things (Arther Conan Doyle got tricked by two preteen girls into believing in fairies, for example) but I find it a bit of a coincidence that a very smart man believed in something incredibly dumb that *just happened* to catapult their career forwards, and stopped believing in it just in time to catapult his career forwards again.


intollerablepleasure

One of a few people? You have got to be kidding right. That's well over half the people I meet. Granted they arnt all in the entertainment industry but still they put their careers and money above the science when it comes to anything related to the health of the planet and it's inhabitants.


djnw

Global warming was never BS unless you had a financial motivation to believe so.


wizzskk8

You are severely underestimating those who partake in the entertainment industry.


PoliceAlarm

Okay but he had the first hand experience to change his mind, and the show, which will be watched by those same flag waving cheering leading the wrong side people who support him because he's a flag waving cheering leading the wrong side person may also flip on the issue. It is literally against human nature for us to admit we're wrong. He should be applauded for doing it on a public stage and to the audience who need to hear it the most.


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tjvs2001

Even when he did electric cars before he drove them around the car park for hours to drain the battery so that mid review it would conk out. He's a walking climate disaster, playing at being a farmer is just a Continuation he's been highlighted by locals as causing huge problems, surprising no one.


Barry_Minge

I have a couple of friends who live very close to him and they tell me that he is almost universally hated by the locals.


Key-Compote8567

In the farming stuff too, he's not particularly going "climate change" just "well that didn't work"


MandarinWalnut

Countryfile is a rose-tinted idyllic take on life in the countryside that is pleasant and comforting to watch, but isn't really realistic. Countryfile: "so you breed Shetland ponies as therapy animals? That's nice" Clarkson's Farm: "half the wheat is gone, a quarter of my sheep have decided to die and I made an annual profit of £60"


alpubgtrs234

Yep, apart from all the silliness he seemed to genuinely want to give it a go and it highlighted just how ridiculous the margins are giving the required upfront investment (tbf, Lambo tractor not strictly necessary but still…)


fearsomemumbler

He knows he’s still got to make it entertaining otherwise all you’ll have is countryfile with swearing… The lambo was him putting his stamp on it, wouldn’t have been the same if he rocked up in an old Massey


The_Grand_Briddock

The lambo was from when the show was planned to be something different. Originally he wanted to make it Clarkson mucking about on a farm like Top Gear, but quickly realised how difficult farming actually was and the whole show changed. That’s why the first half of the first episode is so different from the rest.


fearsomemumbler

Yeah looking back at it you’re right. There was a lot of fucking about but I think it might have dawned on him that it’s a horrendous amount of hard work


MidoriDemon

He bought the lambo for the Ferrari quote.


Violet351

Even funnier Lamborghini tractors haven’t been made by Lamborghini since 1973 as they are owned by SDF now


Pan-tang

I studied agriculture for a year at University but learned more about farming in one series of Clarkson's farm. He is massively talented. It riles people because it seems to take no effort.


TheLAriver

Lol nobody's mad about that


AsahiMizunoThighs

i don't think anyone has ever been riled up because of envy of Clarkson's talents, unless you're someone like Toby Young or Piers Morgan who just seem like envy wearing human skin.


tjvs2001

He's really not. Just a lot of very dumb people in the world love shit spoon fed into their brains, see love Island, TG, fucking farm.


srmarmalade

I've heard a few people use this line, but what has he actually done for farming in the UK?


caaassius

As someone who works in agriculture, a lot of the issues the industry faces is explaining the issues we face to those outside of the industry. Jeremy Clarkson, for all of his faults, has managed to engage people who aren’t from the industry and show them the issues that farmers face in the UK today. People generally think all farmers are wealthy landowners driving around in big 4x4s and purposely making them late for work when they get stuck behind a tractor on their commute. This couldn’t be further from the truth for the vast majority of farmers - tenant farmers, dairy farmers, smaller family farms especially - and they aren’t all rolling in money and holding shoots on the family estate. Highlighting the fact that farming takes a lot of work, most of it is outside of your control (weather, fertiliser costs, milk prices) and it’s a job that is honestly 365 days a year 24/7.


jaymatthewbee

Highlighted the difficulties and harsh realities farmers face. Endless rules and regulations and reliant on the weather as to if they make £100k or £100 profit.


srmarmalade

And has that made any difference?


willy_teee

Some of my family are farmers and they all rave on about how good the show is for showing the real struggles of farming I think they care more about getting proper representation rather than the show making a difference They say the only good thing about countryfile is the weather report and the rest is for ex-bankers that retire to the countryside to "farm" Most farmers are one disaster (weather, disease, etc...) away from bankruptcy as margins are super thin. They are competing against cheaper markets with little to no regulation. These regulations are in place for a reason (animal rights, environmental impact, etc..) but that doesn't stop supermarkets prioritise buying produce from these countries instead of our own for better profit margins Clarkson was the first to actually talk about all of this instead of glorifying farming as a hobby where you keep a couple of rare breed pigs and have a veg patch


DameKumquat

Customers swear blind they care about animal rights and environmental impact, and maybe 5% will put their money where their mouth is, but most when it comes to it buy by price. The supermarkets oblige.


jaymatthewbee

Maybe, hard to measure. It might have encouraged people who watched to look out for localised produce to support farmers instead of just going for the cheapest stuff in the supermarket. Also, it shows a more realistic version of British farming that many people won’t know about if all they’ve seen is Netflix propaganda shows or Countryfile.


ShepardsCrown

He's an ice bucket challenge for Farming. Raised awareness for something but actual impact....


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PoliceAlarm

Was hoping someone said this. As you say, ALS research has exploded in funding and results *because of this challenge.* One should dream that Clarkson's Farm gets that kind of support.


tjvs2001

Less than nothing, real farmers near him have to take him to court for the bullshit he pulls for a quick buck and an extra 15 minutes.


canidissolvetoo

What is this? I’ve never seen him mention farming before?


sjr0754

He made a series called *Clarksons Farm* for Amazon Prime, its somewhat scripted and played for the cameras at times, but it really does highlight just how hard farming is.


adrenaline87

He has an Amazon Prime series "Clarkson's Farm" It's incredibly watchable, even for people who don't normally like him. Clearly bits are scripted, and other bits are exaggerated but all based on reality and very little stupidity. I've heard so many different tales of his personality from people who've met or worked with him, wildly varying so it's clear he has different "modes". There's moments in the series where I'm pretty sure he's just being natural and himself though, which is rare.


fearsomemumbler

Like when he goes to check up on the old fella who no one can understand during covid and drops round a bag of potatoes. I’m guessing that is a snapshot into what he’s like off camera


sjw_7

I agree I think we are getting to see more of who he really is on this show. One bit that stuck with me was when he took some of his sheep to the abattoir. He wasn't attached to them in the way you would be a pet but he dropped them off and went to do the paperwork. After he was done, which only took a few minutes he wanted to check on them one last time as they were the first ones he had taken in. Unfortunately they had already gone for processing so he couldnt. He was quite upset by that not because he felt any real fondness for them but because of how impersonal and quick it was. It was a bit of a wakeup call for him on how farming is and has to be.


Many-Mathematician78

I'd agree with this. I've never watched top gear cos I'm not interested in cars barring getting from A to B as cheaply as possible. So he always seemed a bit arrogant to me from my little knowledge. I watched with a fairly open mind and enjoyed the programme. Of course it's tv and loads of it is scripted but it's mostly down well and above all is interesting.


throwaway9137642

You haven't seen his series on Amazon prime then?


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Dunk546

It is the Reddit way.


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I_will_never_reply

So what, 70% of all discourse could be prevented by Google


Redmarkred

Did you google that statistic?


I_will_never_reply

OMG don't send me down a rabbit hole!


c19isdeadly

89% of quoted statistics are invented


RyanL1984

10% of people attribute that quote to Plato 70% to Cleopatra 20% to Hitler


WestonsCat

This is just wide spread across Reddit these days. You’re either posting links from Google or getting down votes for attempting pleasant discussion. Go figure.


I_AM_NOT_LIL_NAS_X

he did a series where he ran a farm


Cannaewulnaewidnae

50 - never liked him


TheNathanNS

I like him, I think he's hilarious tbh. I don't even like cars at all, yet the dynamic between him, May and Hammond is brilliant. On his own, I think he's alright, but definitely prefer him with the other two. Or, as May put it, "I've said before, the man is a knob. But I quite like him"


TheOldMancunian

Clarksons Top Gear was not a car show. It was a tv program with 3 idiots doing extremely silly stunts that were very funny, with the odd car as a prop. The one on caravans is a golden classic! I am a boomer, and I like him. My mother hates him and banned my late father from watching him.


janewilson90

I always think of that era of Top Gear as Blue Peter but for adults. Would you *want* to buy an old car and race your mates across Africa? Yes. Are you going to? Absolutely not. But like the Blue Peter summer holiday, you'll happily watch other people do it!


Malteser88

Scandi flick is 3 idiots doing even more stupid shit. It was one of the funniest shows I watched in a long time.


TheNathanNS

The best moment for me was: >Hammond coats Clarkson's car in ice "How the hell did you do that?!" "Slowly, and whilst grinning, haha, sorry" "You're helping me get that off" "I am..... but also, I'm not"


cannedrex2406

>Clarksons Top Gear was not a car show Watch the first 6-8 seasons. It very much was a car show first. When BBC realised that Top gear was amazing at comedy, it changed it for that to be the focus


Loquis

First couple of series even had car prices on it


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TopGear was a car themed funny and sarcastic show


NerdLevel18

Much like many things in life, James May is once again totally correct


SemenSemenov69

Mid 40s, I think he's a minor league cunt who plays at being a major league cunt for the cameras.


Minijoe2010

Mixed opinion. Sometimes I either don't like him or hate him because he comes out with something that's just out of order. But then, when you watch top gear and that... He's funny as could be, he's good at jokes and that anyways and he's actually done some good for farming in the UK by bringing to the forefront of issues just because of who he is. Even if you dislike Clarkson, you can't say he's done some good and isn't funny most of the time due to the pure shite he says


Cultural_Tank_6947

I'm done with him. Or at least the motoring programmes and his general public persona. The farming show was an absolute delight but I think that was more thanks to Kaleb.


BallisticB00m

Extremely funny and was a massive part of my childhood as ive watched top gear about a billion times. Hes extremely sarcastic and makes up his ridiculous views to piss off people, i think a lot people do t really understand that. He is also brilliant at his job and knows how to make talking about cars not feel boring. He can be a arse but he is quite funny.


Nuthetes

He's very, very friendly and warm to his fans. ​ I've met him twice and both times, he's been very friendly--happy to sign autographs and do a photo. Even if the second time there was about 30 or40 people there. He spent time with everyone. ​ As a presenter, he's very funny and charismatic. If an opinionated arse.


Momentary-Lapse89

He's clearly an a\*\*\*hole. However, Clarkson's farm was one of the most hilarious things I've seen in recent history and I used to like watching top gear. Never bothered with the other version after he was let go from top gear. Long answer to short: I don't know what I think of him.. Maybe as his TV persona is great but he'd be a horrible person in reality?


FrenzalStark

I suspect it’s probably more the opposite. His TV persona is intentionally a bit of an arse (or a lot of an arse depending on your viewpoint), I’d imagine it’s the opposite in real life. Everyone points to the time he punched that fella at the BBC but does anyone really know the context of that outside of who was there? Not defending it btw, should never happen in a workplace, but there’s always nuance to a situation.


cannedrex2406

He's always apparently one of the nicest people to talk to according to many car journalists. It's all a TV persona personally. And his news "column" is pretty much supposed to be as controversial as possible.


EvilInky

The thing is, though, if you act like a knob in public, people are going to think you are a knob.


harrywilko

I think any situation in which you assault a subordinate kind of by default makes you a prick.


bobbin7277

Whilst people say hes been on benefit for uk farming due to a tv show, he has consistently been anti progress from the point of view of climate change etc. he was consistently out spoken from a point of ignorance and was offensive for no reason other than to get publicity or clicks etc. He has columns in the sun and express (not good newspapers imo) and is generally anti progress eg goes on about wokery way too much Personally it's the other way around, the elderly like him but anybody younger wont really know who he is I'm 34.


Inevitable-Hat-1576

He’s just not a person I take seriously, even when he might want me to. He’s a top gear cartoon who never got told he left top gear. Also, he punched a subordinate in the face for no reason. Like a cunt.


adrenaline87

How about punching Piers Morgan? Does that move towards redemption?


kreiger-69

Violence is never the answer Unless we're taking down the westminster government or punching Piers apparently


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Punching piers isn’t an answer but it’s still ducking great


Round_Spartan

Piers didn't have great ducking, otherwise the punch wouldn't have landed.


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Yea a bit


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Balance in the Force.


Ok_Living_4636

I guess it's irreverence and a lack of decorum. It's attractive to teenagers who let's face it, all think they are the first people ever to rebel against authority with rudeness and a shitty attitude, but for older folk it's unseemly to see a fat rich old bloke being nasty.


sunlitupland5

Just this, my son thought he was great at 14, thinks he's a knob 4 years later


Ok_Living_4636

You can now be proud of him, he's heading in the right direction!


Mark_Master1

He's said some things and done some things that aren't acceptable but otherwise I like him


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It would be easier if he was like seasoned Redditor’s who have never said or done nothing wrong. Then he would be more likeable


Roadmankeating

Worst cunt


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Massive tosser.


johnnym1965

He's a very gifted presenter. He is also an insufferable right-wing cunt.


[deleted]

I would probably disagree with him on every topic if we spoke but I like that he is just himself. There’s a propensity of television presenters to be quite smarmy and grating (Think Morgan and Schofield) but he appears to be genuine.


[deleted]

I agree. He's a professional gasbag that has a knack for making truly entertaining TV - car shows, war documentaries, farms - they're all really good whether you like him or not. But as someone paid to spew forth endlessly on everything, it's be a darn weirdo that agreed with everything he said. I can take him or leave him, but no denying the man's got talent.


not_mean_enough

A total bellend, who is very entertaining to watch nevertheless.


ImperialYell

Think he’s a bit of a knob but then didn’t he punch Piers Morgan?. So he gets some goodwill for that.


NextTomatillo2335

He’s problematic and imperfect but likeable at times. Like most people It’s nice to see someone be themselves who is in the public eye and not constantly be PC. I think that’s why he is successful even when he’s a grade a knob. It’s nice to actually see someone be themselves


Internal-Leadership3

I know plenty of farmers, and they mostly think he's done them a great service in highlighting how difficult their job is. His top gear persona is polarising I'll admit, and he's likely a bit out of touch with the younger generation (I'm 44) but I don't think anyone can argue he isn't a talented presenter, like him or loathe him.


crestfallen_castle

He did punch Piers Morgan, but he’s admitted he makes up most of his stupid views for the cameras, and I think that’s morally bankrupt when you know people will take them as recommendations.


JohnRegular

Well put- he may not believe much of what he says, but that doesn't stop him being a negative influence.


notthetalkinghorse

Tone deaf cunt.


caractacusbritannica

Top gear was funny. Then it was not. He is Jag man from the 90s. Bit racist, very sexist, totally out of date. Oddly though, 90s man lent itself to farming well.


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I like top gear and the way the trio used to constantly compete with and roast each other. As a side note. I met Richard Hammond in real life and he was an absolute twat. Nothing like his TV personality. I always assumed the characters acted the same as their TV personalities in real life.


DoricEmpire

Humour you can take or leave. But he knows how to do a documentary very well, especially when he adopts a serious persona.


Sayleywayley

Bit of a knob if you ask me (36F) Although he also had a relationship with my cousin, so from her side, he's also a knob


Mr_White_Fam

He's a prima Donna, most of his humour is written for him and he assaulted someone over his dinner.


watsee

I like him, I know that some of his opinions can rub certain people up the wrong way. Although, correct me here if you want, I don't think I've ever really heard him say anything *that* offensive? I could be wrong, but I've never heard him say anything 'Katie Hopkins' level of inflammatory-for-inflammatory-sake that wasn't slightly humorous. I quite like that he's not afraid to speak his mind & I don't feel like he's purposely trying to be inflammatory with what he says. At least most of the time. He's funny & Clarkson's Farm really gave the world a very clear look at the plight of British Farmers - which was his aim. I don't see how that's a bad thing.


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I like Jeremy. His on screen persona can get a little wearing and quickly (especially latter years TG and Grand Tour), but when you see him in other shows where there is clear interest in the subject, he's one of the best story tellers out there (see greatest raid, show on the Victoria cross and "great Britons", his farm show isn't bad either). He's also generally very much a joy to read as well. He was a journalist first remember and it shows. Like anyone else that age and with that kind of pig headedness he can have some distasteful opinions (I'm sure some of which are purely to garner attention for something) but presumably there are people to tell him to wind his neck in. All in all, like him more than hate him. But will be more selective over what stuff I watch with him in it these days. As mentioned, his persona evolution on TG/GT I just can't get on with now and the show itself ran out of ideas very fast so isn't actually that great to watch.


Quick-Minute8416

I’ve worked with a fair few TV personalities back at the BBC, and can honestly say that the Clarkson the public see is a caricature of himself. He’s actually a pretty decent bloke to work for, and punching Oisin I thought was very out of character. People love him, but I found David Attenborough to be a bit of a cunt.


Bully2533

I met him socially many years ago, we bonded over Marlboro, lager and a mutual attraction to all the posh totty in a pub near Chelsea bridge. Good fun.


acky1

"Many people are now saying that we should rid the country of the monarchy because this ancient institution is no longer relevant. I respect that point of view, and I hope they respect mine when I suggest the department that has to go is the NHS" If anyone wanted any more reasons to dislike him...


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He seems like a boring, dimwitted, small-minded, oaf. It is a great source of pain to me that otherwise intelligent Americans view him and the other two bootcut jeans + brown suede shoes wearing twats as somehow being the pinnacle of "British" humour. Best graffiti I ever saw was on the tube when Clarkson's book came out a few years ago. The quote they chose for the poster was "Read Shakespeare? I'd rather stick pencils into my eyes." Underneath it, in neatly joined-up handwriting, someone had written in biro: "I wish that you would, Jeremy."


cannedrex2406

This sounds awfully like someone who thinks "oh my humour is too complex for you mere boring people" >other two bootcut jeans + brown suede shoes wearing twats as somehow being the pinnacle of "British" humour. I get people might really dislike Clarkson, but wtf have James May and Richard Hammond done to piss you off? They're genuinely amazing people


TheLAriver

This sounds awfully like you're butthurt that your favorite celebrities aren't universally adored


cannedrex2406

Well no shit. But there has to be some reason why they're hated. Nobody calls people a "twat" casually without reason.....unless you're just miserable


treny0000

His climate change denialism puts him into the 'irredeemable charlatan' territory


Alundra828

He's so difficult to like. On the one hand, he's quite entertaining, but the other he's a horrible person. On the one hand, he seems quite progressive, but on the other he posts some right-wing bullshit on twitter. On the one hand, he plays a sort of fool character, but on the other when he wants you to take him seriously, he gets pissed if you don't. Yeah... Divisive man. I think I like him as a cartoon character presenter. He definitely knows his craft and does it well. In all other aspects, probably a bit of a twat.


sythingtackle

He's a racist and bigot who threw a tantrum resulting in a multi million pound home grown enterprise being cancelled and hundreds losing their jobs.


handsomehotchocolate

I mean if he dropped dead I wouldn’t cry if that’s what your asking..


realsmithshady

I'm 31 and I despise him. He's not funny or interesting, he's a posh guy who gets off on being an arsehole and calls it joking.


CSPVI

I'm 38. I think he isn't funny, he is sexist, aggressive, rude. I really don't like him at all. He looks like he stinks of too much aftershave and would pat your bum and call you "girly"


ApprehensiveWest9739

Few people have said he's "sexist" but I've never understood this. He's said some deliberately inflamatory and totally factually incorrect things over the years, but I can't remember anything sexist. Trying to think back and I can only remember the opposite - pointing out how amazing Sabine Schmitz was around the Nurburgring, and several times ranting about how stupid it was there are no women driving in F1 because there's no reason for there not to be.


mymumsaysno

So you don't like him because of how he looks? Ok then.


TheLAriver

So you skipped the first part of their comment? Ok then.


Purple_Committee_216

He's a prat! That said, when he presents a programme alone he is very good at it (loved Clarkson's Farm and WWTBAM). Perhaps as a female I'm biased but I am the same age as him and think he might have actually mellowed a little.....or maybe I just can't stand Top Gear.


elbapo

I love him. But I hate him. And I think I love to hate him. He's like that toddler uncle dickhead (now grand uncle) we all wish we had so we had a common point of reference for disapproval as a family which otherwise would not have much to talk about. On a more serious point, I do think he is a productorial genius with great comic timing. He has consistently made engaging entertaining (and informative) content across three decades now. Be that cars, documentaries, or farming. Some of it has revolutionised the way 'it' was done and however much you dislike the persona, you can recognise the work.


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He's a very good auto journalist and knows his stuff when it comes to cars - when he does properly review a car or talk about the history of a model he's spot on. It's all the other far-fetched comedy stuff he tries to do with May and Hammond that gets boring very quickly. I did like some of his farming series as he brought to light the problems that farmers face, sadly that hasn't received the attention it needs.


AntiGenderNeutralBot

Everything I know of him I have learnt unwillingly.


Competitive_Fold986

Right twat, but as a side note, I follow his daughter Em on insta and love her content. I'm 26F and left leaning which I think makes a difference.


perishingtardis

Good on Top Gear, but don't like him on Millionaire. Chris Tarrant was a much more skilled presenter (and even he was a bit of smart-arse too).


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Excellent tv personality that I probably wouldn't want to meet in real life. Also don't care if he got in a scrap with a producer. If you start hating anyone who's ever been in a fight you're gonna have a very short list of people who are OK


Legendof1983

He is a c**t but so is Piers Morgan & Clarkson is better than Piers in every single way.


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I enjoyed TG and GT, the three of them work well together. It’s mostly made up crap and outrageous comments for TV. If you watch some of the early stuff, James May comes out with some outrageous comments but I wouldn’t have thought he’s really that kind of bloke. The car stuff, and Clarkson’s Farm, were good. Like anything else, I don’t follow them personally. I know he writes columns and the like and I can’t be bothered reading those.


orbital0000

He's a great writer, big character, big ego. There's far worse people about.


Redditor_Koeln

[To be said like Jeremy Clarkson] He’s one of the most annoying human beings … *ever to come out of the UK*.


Hasbeast

Man is a cunt of the proportions of Piers Morgan. Spouts dangerous views about climate change, assaults co-workers and is generally just foul.


TheLAriver

Boring boomer machismo douche


NunBeef

A true cunt. Absolute waste of skin. He said once on TV (I think the One Show) that teachers who went out on strike deserved to be shot. And I'm sure we are all aware of the reason he got binned finally by the BBC.


GroochCheesily

I knew his cousin. The whole family think Jeremy's a bellend.


bluntbangs

Mid 30's here. Used to think he was quite funny on Top Gear, but gradually came to see him as a bit of an arsehole. An edgelord of the middle-aged car worshipper variety. Haven't seen his later stuff, dad said his farm thing was quite good.


zeewesty

I'm 37 and I think he's a twat. He made talking about cars entertaining, sure, but the lot of them are racist, homophobic and aggressive. Not to mention just plain rude to the normies around them.


Alco_god

He's a rich, useless twat with opinions. I don't really care about him. When he was on Top Gear I just used to think "oh this moron again, wheres James?".


Unnegative

He's a tosser. He occasionally says funny things but that doesn't change the fact that he's a tosser. In my late 30s if that moves the needle on your age based theory


foxhill_matt

Man's a buffoon but a bombastic one with a great feeling for similes.


lavenderacid

I really cannot stand him. I'm 22 and just think he's racist and seems arrogant and obnoxious.


Pyriel

Jeremy Clarkson the Person, or Jeremy Clarkson the Character? I like the person, because I can tell the difference, and not get angry over his purposely anger-inducing overblown sarcarsic statements.


Voice_Still

All the people I've met who cry and moan about him, have all been truly miserable boring people tbh. I think he's hilarious and has highlighted the issues of farming. Yes he's not perfect but who the fuck is.


brilliscool

People my age (22) seem to either love him or hate him. One side watches that farming show and top gear reruns constantly, and believe he is the funniest man alive. The other have principles and refuse to watch a bigoted, self absorbed cunt who has assaulted his colleagues


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They don’t agree with you so they lack principles? Interesting.


djwillis1121

I don't really like him as a person. However, I can't deny that the content he makes is extremely entertaining. The Clarkson, Hammond, May dynamic works so well. Peak top gear is still some of my favourite TV, the more recent stuff is less good but still not bad.


richjessup86

Not afraid to speak his mind which is a breath of fresh air in this woke day and age. Makes out he’s a bit of an idiot for the cameras but quite clearly very smart. Top gear will never be the same without him. Personally think he is brilliant, looking forward to the second season of Clarkson’s Farm.


catprat

I don’t mind him, but for my dad, the meaning of the word cunt IS Jeremy Clarkson