Even tho I dont know one end of a car from the other; hell, I've even been known to get in the passenger seat when I am intending to drive, (doh!) I love, LOVE Top Gear! (the TV show, I am not recommending drug consumption) But I do love and adore Fry and lawrie! ;)
Top Gear is so freaking annoying, full of edited nonsence jokes and pointless challanges that prove nothing, well apart from that most the people that watch it will never actually see or ever own the cars displayed. Love a bit of fry n laurie top quality english humour.
I think the point it they silently replaced a publicly funded consumer watchdog programme with a sort of half baked comedy show in which fat middle aged men act out midlife crisis fantasies.
But if you enjoy that sort of thing who am I to judge :p
@planetsareoverrated Top Gear for entertainment, Fifth Gear for proper reviews that try too hard to incorporate entertainment, and EVO/CAR mags for no-nonsense proper reviews.
@TheYorkMan Fair enough, your opinion, in my opinion old top gear was so boring I wanted to fall asleep. As far as I'm concerned if you buy a new car based on what a TV show says rather than doing your own research and test driving then you're an idiot. Therefore I think a light entertainment show based around cars with a few hints and tips on new cars is a lot more exciting of a prospect.
@jaryd12345 Of course it's all subjective. For for me a 'car' show should be about cars, and not 3 unfunny middle aged men sauntering around relatively exotic places in vehicles 99.99% of the audience cannot actually afford to buy.
Then you have the 'hilarity' of incredibly stage managed 'challenges' where what you seen on screen has clearly been storyboarded months in advance of the actual filming, then palmed off as 'live and spontaneous'. It's not about buying cars, it's shit 'entertainment'
@jaryd12345 you comment was subjective, not explanatory.... offering no reason to watch a car show, which features no real car related insight to the vast majority of the car buying/selling populace.
Exciting is not a word I'd use to describe such a televisual triviality. Neither is 'entertainment'...... Light or otherwise.
@TheYorkMan I never said it was aimed at the car buying/selling public. Just because it has the same name as the old show and is based around cars doen't mean it is or should be made for people who want to buy cars and people really need to realise that and just stop fricking watching it if it offends you so badly.
@jaryd12345 You miss my original point.. That 'New' Top Gear is worse than the 'Old'. I wasn't suggesting what it should be about, or slagging off people who enjoy it...... I am saying it's not very good, and waiting for you to offer cogent reasons why I should be enjoying it.......
I have become bored with Top Gear for this very reason.
Its gone overboard with stupid stunts.
I remember a funny but very practical one where they tested small cars by getting their mothers to test them in day to day use such as loading the boot.
Wow, what an amazingly prophetic sketch, this was years before Top Gear relaunched into it's current format, which is all about tossing about and being funny rather than actually reviewing cars.
THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT OLD TOP GEAR! Not The Top Gear we all know and love with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. Please realise this before you all comment.
@keyblok Heheh, thats Kenny Baker (though I guess its Kenneth in full), Kenneth Baker in the sketch references a politician at the time, I think the Education Minister.
@keyblok Heheh, thats Kenny Baker (though I guess its Kenneth in full), Kenneth Baker in the sketch references a politician at the time, I think the Education Minister.
@GodSaidSoSoHa How can they talk about a show in the future? It would be like asking: "I wonder how many people will watch this and think they're talking about the Australian Top Gear."
This can't have been made at the same time as the latest incarnation of Top Gear. Don't remember Tiff Needell and Quentin Wilson 'trying to be funny'.
Top Gear is the only show in the history of TV that actually got better by dumbing down and trampling on its core minority audience in search of a more populist appeal. That's the true genius of Clarkson (and his producer mate Wilman).
Well it goes without saying that taste is subjective but, yes, I do. I'm not a fan of Smart cars, and yes I do wish Peugeot didn't exaggerate the headlights quite so much, but I think in general Clarkson even agrees that all the style seems to be in the low to mid end of the car market nowadays.
I like the Mini, I think most Fords are vastly more aesthetically pleasing, and overall, I think cars have a more bulbous, and less square frame today (except Saabs, which still look like ugly boxes).
I started with Top Gear because it was funny, but it's actually got me really interested in cars, so now I watch it for the cars and the banter.
Whilst a lot of stuff Clarkson comes out with is utter toss, he's still hilarious. His books are like my bibles, because most of his views in them really are common sense.
Jeremy Clarkson's books are your bibles? Everyone elses toilet paper is your bibles? I do so very beg your pardon? Do you have a bit missing from your brain?
There's more common sense in them than the actual Bible.
And don't make assumptions. I read a wide range of books, but Clarkson's are the only 'celebrity' ones I dare touch. There are people who read Jordan's books, for example - THOSE are the people who have defunct brains.
Ha, even Jordan doesn't read Jordan's books. Not out of choice, though...Not absolutely sure she can read...surprised she's still breathing, s'matter of fact...a lot of effort for an amoeba to control a whole humanoid form...
acctually i love top gear because they just mess around and tease james and stuff, i dont really watch it for the cars and i supose alot of other people would be the same.But i love stephen fry and hugh laurie aswell!
@SlipknotPsycho1 They were talking about old Top Gear, not the new one. If you don't know what I'm talking about, search up Top Gear (old format) on wikipedia.
Tghis was made obviously before Top Gear became as briliant as it is ow. Before thatm the people who now make Fifth Gear made the program, but they left the BBC and couldn't keep the name. That's when Clarckson came up with this major new plan for the show.
no, i think you'll find Adolf Hitler is rather better remembered as a lunatic mass-murderer, rather than as "someone who gave hurtful opinions about other people"...
Considering Clarkson started on Top Gear back in 1988, I'm quite certain they are talking about the Clarkson era. What makes it different now is that they switched it from a magazine-style show into an automotive variety and comedy show.
Same. I never used to watch Top Gear, I watched Brainiac. Then Hammond had his crash, so I watched his return to Top Gear, been hooked on the comedy ever since.
Me to, I used to watch it because of the brilliant humor, but they got me exited over some cars i'd probably never notice, so it actually made me fall in love witch motoring. But there are indeed a lot off cars I don't give a flying toss about...
Speaking as a foreigner, Top Gear seems to be THE WORST show in existence. I'll tell you one thing, if Clarkson were born an American, he would be the most homophobic, gun-toting, Republican, Fox News personality ever. He would be Bill O'Riley. I mean, he has that evil in him. It just doesn't find a proper outlet in Brittan I guess.
T.G. significantly diminishes the respect for Britain I built up over my sight seeing expedition to London.
Of course not. For one thing, the weather was uniformly beautiful. My main method of learning about the country is the same as yours - watching British TV. Oh and don't claim political incorrectness as being exclusively British or suggest that I can fathom it. W/ re. to Clarkson, my impression is that of a fearcly conservative xenophobic narcissist who fancies himself a libertarian. I saw him end one episode about driving to the N. pole with a dickish conclusion about global warming being a myth
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I am sorry to disappoint you, Global Warming as result of men interference is a myth. Study a little of geology and you will see so. You see, the earth performs 12 simultaneous moves, not the 2 we are habitual with. And that movement is responsible for cyclic changing in the weather, with glacial ages and warm ages.
Clarkson doesn't claim that global warming is a myth, what he said was: "let's just stop and think for a moment what the consequences might be. Switzerland loses its skiing resorts? The beach in Miami is washed away? North Carolina gets knocked over by a hurricane? Anything bothering you yet?"
Wouldn't be the first time a public figure has appeared on a show he didn't respect. A booking on a VERY highly rated tv show is money in the bank. Celebrities don't go on these shows to socialize, they do it for promotion. If this weren't true, Jay Leno wold be telling awful jokes to himself every night.
Bare in mind this sketch was written during the original run of Top Gear which was... well crap.
The new Top Gear is silly, a lot of fun and a decent form of light entertainment for a Sunday evening. It shouldn't be taken seriously... if you want a car programme that takes itself seriously then watch Fifth Gear; which is, well, crap.
Yes, Top Gear is more for the crowd that likes loud, shouty cars paired with a trio of middle-aged men falling over alot. Fifth Gear is as Clarkson put it "for yobos in hoodies" and is hosted by a lesbian, a fat man, and two socialists who would be more at home narrating a romantic novel series on daytime television...
When you weigh up the pointless (and might I add, unfunny) stunts with the equally pointless um'ing and ah'ing over whether Jeremy thinks this Mercedes is better than that BMW (because we're all torn between decisions like that, aren't we?), Top Gear is quite possibly the biggest waste of time on TV. Clarkson's bad clothes and worse hair, coupled with his supremely annoying habit of overemphasising the end of his every sentence, provide even more reasons not to watch Top Gear. At all. Ever.
Trust Fry and Laurie to skewer the silliness of Top Gear with such rapier-like accuracy. They couldn't be more right - Clarkson and co. spend far too much time farting around with pointless stunts:
"This week, we're going to cut a car in half/blow up a car with a tank/race a car against a jet/equip a car with a water fountain!"
And of course, as if all that bollocks wasn't waste of time enough, 90% of the actual car critique focuses on models that 90% of the public couldn't bloody afford!
Clarkson's political views? I couldn't care less about them. My gripe with JC is simple: his show is not funny enough to be comedy (random, aimless pissing about in cars? I'll take Fry and Laurie, thanks), nor useful enough to be worthwhile (wastes far too much time critiquing cars we can't afford, so who cares whether Jeremy likes them or not?). In short, Top Gear is pointless. Which makes Jeremy Clarkson pointless.
It is much funnier than alot of the so called 'comedy' on tv today. And plus who cares if we cant affored the cars, its not really about the expensive cars. Its more about the blokey desire to piss around with powerful things while having a jolly good laugh.
I'm sorry, but I must inteject here. Just because the rest of television nowadays is rubbish, doesn't mean Top Gear is any less so. Clarkson is, at best, an annoying, over-confident man, oozing with dispicable smugness, as he tries to squeeze apalling jokes into trying to come across as informative about cars. When, in actual fact, he's just spurting sexist, xenophobic and mildly homphobic abuse around and acting like a tosser... You know... Just saying ¬_¬
you said "Clarkson is, at best, an annoying, over-confident man, oozing with dispicable smugness, as he tries to squeeze apalling jokes into trying to come across as informative about cars". Well, for me at least, that is exactly what makes him and the show funny. because if i want exact, reliable information about cars (the real ones, not supercars) i'm sure as hell not expecting to get it from the tv.
To be honest, I couldn't care less about cars. But anyways, I'm glad you agreed with me on what exactly Clarkson is. I'm not really bothered what you find funny, but, for me, personally, I need something more mature, and more intellectually stimulating then- *ahem* -puts on Clarkson-esque voice- "This car is gay."
Well, one guy did. He was towing a caravan and it started swaying. He remembered a joke on Top Gear that when this happens you should accelerate. So he did and ended up in a ditch. Anybody that dense doesnt deserve a driving licence.
ah right, so I'm guessing you would much rather have him reviewing UK market subcompacts and cutting himself, now wouldn't that make great television you pompous narcissistic pillock.
Why would I want to see Clarkson "cutting himself"? And since when does disliking Top Gear make you "narcissistic"??? If you like Top Gear, you're welcome to it - but for god's sake, stop talking gibberish!
wonder where the car is now
Pianoguy32 2 weeks ago
@Pianoguy32 recycled
zloychechen5150 2 weeks ago
Niggles!!! I haven't heard that in years!
froyt 1 month ago
Now correct me of I'm oversexed lol
TheBecauseimawesome 1 month ago
I've seen this sketch on three different occasions, and each time I think "how OLD can Jeremy Clarkson possibly be?" Apparently I'm dumb.
KashmirKiddy 1 month ago
I love how Hugh just gets up in the middle of the conversation and starts talking about the car.
andytom2495 1 month ago
You wore grey an the Germans wore bleached denim!
Beatinz11 1 month ago
And I the only one who really wants to know what the first two times were?
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Even tho I dont know one end of a car from the other; hell, I've even been known to get in the passenger seat when I am intending to drive, (doh!) I love, LOVE Top Gear! (the TV show, I am not recommending drug consumption) But I do love and adore Fry and lawrie! ;)
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123jsbach 3 months ago
Top Gear is so freaking annoying, full of edited nonsence jokes and pointless challanges that prove nothing, well apart from that most the people that watch it will never actually see or ever own the cars displayed. Love a bit of fry n laurie top quality english humour.
Simwillb 3 months ago
@Simwillb That's the whole point of Top Gear.
And they are talking about old Top Gear
TimoStudiosAtCSS 3 months ago
@TimoStudiosAtCSS Asthough it's different than....'NEW' top gear? still sounds, looks, acts the same to me?!
Simwillb 3 months ago
@TimoStudiosAtCSS Old Top Gear ran from 1977-1999.
If you've ever watched 5th Gear, it's about the same.
The whole point of "new"Top Gear is to be ridiculous and just pointless petrolhead fun.
If you've watched the first 3 seasons of "New" topgear, it's actually quite sensible.
TimoStudiosAtCSS 3 months ago 17
So is this from Top Gear?
FunnyClaudia 3 months ago
@rallekon facetious, it means to be flippant or deliberately humourous in a serious situation.
RevNTheogen 3 months ago
@rallekon facetious. It means tot
RevNTheogen 3 months ago
How do you spell that lovely word Stephen uses at 0:28?
Rallekon 3 months ago
@Rallekon Facetious.
TheStrangerInTheRye 3 months ago
@TheStrangerInTheRye Thanks a lot. Always fun to pick up new words.
Rallekon 3 months ago
@Rallekon I agree. Here is a good one; Defenestration. I'll let you look for the meaning.
TheStrangerInTheRye 3 months ago
I think the point it they silently replaced a publicly funded consumer watchdog programme with a sort of half baked comedy show in which fat middle aged men act out midlife crisis fantasies.
But if you enjoy that sort of thing who am I to judge :p
megamarsvin 4 months ago
"You said, and correct me if i'm oversexed...."
kryl0b 5 months ago
Can't really see "Top Gear for the entertainment" because mr. Clarkson is so painfully unfunny ^^
megamarsvin 5 months ago
Top Gear for the entertainment. Fifth Gear for the proper reviews.
planetsareoverrated 5 months ago
@planetsareoverrated Top Gear for entertainment, Fifth Gear for proper reviews that try too hard to incorporate entertainment, and EVO/CAR mags for no-nonsense proper reviews.
PynkWalkr 5 months ago
top gear is shit. these two are class.
charliewhisky111 5 months ago
They both look simply dashing in their suits.
PBunsee 6 months ago 2
I'd like to point out with people talking about how this Top Gear has gotten stupid and such... they're talking about old Top Gear.
jaryd12345 6 months ago 3
@jaryd12345 'New' Top Gear is even worse.
TheYorkMan 5 months ago
@TheYorkMan Fair enough, your opinion, in my opinion old top gear was so boring I wanted to fall asleep. As far as I'm concerned if you buy a new car based on what a TV show says rather than doing your own research and test driving then you're an idiot. Therefore I think a light entertainment show based around cars with a few hints and tips on new cars is a lot more exciting of a prospect.
jaryd12345 5 months ago
@jaryd12345 Of course it's all subjective. For for me a 'car' show should be about cars, and not 3 unfunny middle aged men sauntering around relatively exotic places in vehicles 99.99% of the audience cannot actually afford to buy.
Then you have the 'hilarity' of incredibly stage managed 'challenges' where what you seen on screen has clearly been storyboarded months in advance of the actual filming, then palmed off as 'live and spontaneous'. It's not about buying cars, it's shit 'entertainment'
TheYorkMan 5 months ago
@TheYorkMan If you want to learn about cars in your price range read a car magazine.
jaryd12345 5 months ago
@jaryd12345 So what's the point of watching Top Gear?
TheYorkMan 5 months ago
@TheYorkMan Exactly what I explained to you... why do arguers on youtube not pay attention to anything you say...
jaryd12345 5 months ago
@jaryd12345 you comment was subjective, not explanatory.... offering no reason to watch a car show, which features no real car related insight to the vast majority of the car buying/selling populace.
Exciting is not a word I'd use to describe such a televisual triviality. Neither is 'entertainment'...... Light or otherwise.
TheYorkMan 5 months ago
@TheYorkMan I never said it was aimed at the car buying/selling public. Just because it has the same name as the old show and is based around cars doen't mean it is or should be made for people who want to buy cars and people really need to realise that and just stop fricking watching it if it offends you so badly.
jaryd12345 5 months ago 2
@jaryd12345 You miss my original point.. That 'New' Top Gear is worse than the 'Old'. I wasn't suggesting what it should be about, or slagging off people who enjoy it...... I am saying it's not very good, and waiting for you to offer cogent reasons why I should be enjoying it.......
TheYorkMan 5 months ago
@TheYorkMan get a fucking life
Flipped999 4 months ago
@TheYorkMan Welll...it makes me larf, dunnit.
deltavee2 4 months ago
well done again guys just come from the fry and laurie video about murdoch, this is another brilliantly well observed and funny piece of truth!!!
dogmatix15 6 months ago
I have become bored with Top Gear for this very reason.
Its gone overboard with stupid stunts.
I remember a funny but very practical one where they tested small cars by getting their mothers to test them in day to day use such as loading the boot.
Now its blow up the car or something.
fredfinks 6 months ago
Wow, what an amazingly prophetic sketch, this was years before Top Gear relaunched into it's current format, which is all about tossing about and being funny rather than actually reviewing cars.
CanaryRich 6 months ago
@CanaryRich who knows, when top gear ran out of ideas, they decided to use this one from fry and laurie.
sidrahsiddiqui 6 months ago
Love this :)
DavidAttenlope 6 months ago
rofl
chingpongionglong 8 months ago
Awesom
DafyddCymraeg 8 months ago
my god, Stephen is taller than Hugh
keyblok 8 months ago
@keyblok holy crap, you're right :O
chingpongionglong 8 months ago
oh my god, Stephen looks so young O.o
HendonGothDetectives 8 months ago
still true.
jammybizzle666 8 months ago 2
"you said, and correct me if I'm oversexed..." lol
CQSupreme59 9 months ago 51
@CQSupreme59
well, he didn't correct him, so i guess he wasn't. :)
310BPM 1 week ago
Hugh should be invited to top gear. Stephen has been already there.
By the way, I love Hugh tie x)
LY Hugh (L)
66fee99 10 months ago 2
THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT OLD TOP GEAR! Not The Top Gear we all know and love with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. Please realise this before you all comment.
LordMacBeth79 10 months ago 7
Kenneth Baker? What? I thought he was a fictional character from Metal Gear Solid.
ramushanorak 11 months ago 3
@ramushanorak Kenneth Baker was the man inside R2-D2. Hideo is a huge fan of Star Wars.
keyblok 8 months ago
@keyblok Heheh, thats Kenny Baker (though I guess its Kenneth in full), Kenneth Baker in the sketch references a politician at the time, I think the Education Minister.
wobaguk 7 months ago
@wobaguk Sorry, didn't know that, I'm not british. But that's funny too ;D
keyblok 7 months ago
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@keyblok Heheh, thats Kenny Baker (though I guess its Kenneth in full), Kenneth Baker in the sketch references a politician at the time, I think the Education Minister.
wobaguk 7 months ago
i had that car
Mattmurr150 1 year ago
irritating niggles... I am using that forever more
ImagineMarvelous 1 year ago
I don't like it. It looks like a miserable car.
1994Topgear 1 year ago
@1994Topgear
That's because it is. Or as James May would say, a snotbox.
NeoBossman 1 year ago
Please somebody correct me if I'm over-sexed but I think the Nissan micra has always been shit
1994Topgear 1 year ago
@1994Topgear It's quite good now...
lennic95 1 year ago
I wonder how many people will watch this and think they're talking about the current top gear.
GodSaidSoSoHa 1 year ago 78
@GodSaidSoSoHa How can they talk about a show in the future? It would be like asking: "I wonder how many people will watch this and think they're talking about the Australian Top Gear."
simonwedege 1 year ago
@GodSaidSoSoHa I thought they might be...but I'd watch them talking about anything :)
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It's called "Bits of Fry and Laurie", not a bit.
TheBuxxx 1 year ago
@TheBuxxx No it isn't.
adamtzsch 1 year ago
@TheBuxxx surely it's 'Fry and Laurie's Botty's'
andthereisntone 1 year ago
@TheBuxxx no I believe it's 'A bit...".
Neeadakeen 1 year ago
This can't have been made at the same time as the latest incarnation of Top Gear. Don't remember Tiff Needell and Quentin Wilson 'trying to be funny'.
soundslave 1 year ago
Top Gear is the only show in the history of TV that actually got better by dumbing down and trampling on its core minority audience in search of a more populist appeal. That's the true genius of Clarkson (and his producer mate Wilman).
kisbie 1 year ago 9
So he is the famous Mr. Needum.
guest0n 1 year ago
"You said, and correct me if I'm oversexed." And Laurie just gets up and reviews the latest Nissan hatchback! *dies* XD
LilyV687 1 year ago 5
They were talking about the old Top Gear rather than the new one I believe.
andygriff1987 1 year ago 9
That's a fairly good assumption given that this was made about 20 years ago. =P
sharpy748 1 year ago
@sharpy748 I know. But some people that have commented don't seem to understand that, lol.
andygriff1987 1 year ago
Correct me if I'm oversexed. X)
I4gotmyMANTRA 1 year ago 15
I always wondered why Hugh Laurie never appeared on Top Gear: here we have the answer.
CF1975 2 years ago 10
"Correct me if im oversexed" LOL
Jadis23 2 years ago 26
I miss Hugh. :(
foetus4all 2 years ago 6
God, 90s cars were ugly lumps of shite.
TheConciseStatement 2 years ago 11
You're comparing them to the bugeyed equivalents today. Megane, smart cars and the like?
Beatboxbob 2 years ago 4
Well it goes without saying that taste is subjective but, yes, I do. I'm not a fan of Smart cars, and yes I do wish Peugeot didn't exaggerate the headlights quite so much, but I think in general Clarkson even agrees that all the style seems to be in the low to mid end of the car market nowadays.
I like the Mini, I think most Fords are vastly more aesthetically pleasing, and overall, I think cars have a more bulbous, and less square frame today (except Saabs, which still look like ugly boxes).
TheConciseStatement 2 years ago 2
i dun think they're talking about jeremy richard and james in this sketch since they didnt start hosting til 2002 :p
Liekkek 2 years ago 3
Woohoo, a weird sort of mix on two of my favourite shows.
Yamibee 2 years ago 2
I started with Top Gear because it was funny, but it's actually got me really interested in cars, so now I watch it for the cars and the banter.
Whilst a lot of stuff Clarkson comes out with is utter toss, he's still hilarious. His books are like my bibles, because most of his views in them really are common sense.
DarkTsubasa 2 years ago 2
Jeremy Clarkson's books are your bibles? Everyone elses toilet paper is your bibles? I do so very beg your pardon? Do you have a bit missing from your brain?
danbo1984 2 years ago
There's more common sense in them than the actual Bible.
And don't make assumptions. I read a wide range of books, but Clarkson's are the only 'celebrity' ones I dare touch. There are people who read Jordan's books, for example - THOSE are the people who have defunct brains.
DarkTsubasa 2 years ago 9
Ha, even Jordan doesn't read Jordan's books. Not out of choice, though...Not absolutely sure she can read...surprised she's still breathing, s'matter of fact...a lot of effort for an amoeba to control a whole humanoid form...
Hydermard 2 years ago 5
what the hell? is that attempt at humour or agression?
EIN771 2 years ago
The sentence fragments make this very funny indeed, and completely meaningless since your argument is as Fry says, "irritatingly faciscious".
Pezdetz666 2 years ago
@Pezdetz666 I think you mean 'facetious', but point taken.
Brogel 2 years ago
err, that'll be "facetious", as in "your attempts to spell your way into sounding intelligent are irritatingly facetious"
danbo1984 2 years ago 2
Correct me if I'm oversexed...
tregnier279 2 years ago 14
they should invite hugh laurie to top gear
BazzTheBoss 2 years ago 377
@BazzTheBoss He wouldn't go, he'd gag on the testosterone.
hovis1962 1 year ago
@BazzTheBoss
I agree. How about completing the Black Adder trilogy by having petrol-head and Formula One fanatic Rowan Atkinson on as well?
NeoBossman 1 year ago 2
@BazzTheBoss I can't believe they haven't already. it would be absolutely smashing. ;)
mrsladida 1 year ago
@BazzTheBoss that i was searching for :D..instead i found this..XD
adeeply 10 months ago
@BazzTheBoss
y no fry 2?
CampingestBoyAlive 3 months ago
acctually i love top gear because they just mess around and tease james and stuff, i dont really watch it for the cars and i supose alot of other people would be the same.But i love stephen fry and hugh laurie aswell!
SlipknotPsycho1 2 years ago 227
@SlipknotPsycho1 but they would be talking about the old top gear, on which james or richard hammond weren't
fuckamericanidiot 1 year ago 4
@SlipknotPsycho1 I watch it because I love cars but I like Top Gear because it's not just about cars, it's about having fun with cars.
G1NZOU 1 year ago
@SlipknotPsycho1 In those it was different presenters - noel edmunds and things. Nowadays, of course, Top Gear is total genius.
mrbeanaswell 1 year ago
@SlipknotPsycho1 you don't "as well" Fry and Laurie, they always come first in comedy.
Just8eatit 1 year ago 2
@SlipknotPsycho1 They were talking about old Top Gear, not the new one. If you don't know what I'm talking about, search up Top Gear (old format) on wikipedia.
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I thinky there was a Metal Gear Solid reference in there.
LesSoldado 2 years ago
I think its funny that Stephan Fry was just on top gear, even though this was filmed years ago.
Lich342 2 years ago
Tghis was made obviously before Top Gear became as briliant as it is ow. Before thatm the people who now make Fifth Gear made the program, but they left the BBC and couldn't keep the name. That's when Clarckson came up with this major new plan for the show.
Bigfatbutterfly02 2 years ago
They are obviously talking about pre-clarkson Top Gear..How could you not like the current Top Gear. xD
VashDraven 2 years ago 3
Jeremy Clarkson i9s a moronic wanker though so it was probably better "pre Clarkson"
darkmagician998 2 years ago
are you silly?
hanigan696969 2 years ago
no I'm just stating my opinion on Jeremy Clarkson
darkmagician998 2 years ago 3
someone else gave hurtful opinions about other people and that person was adolf hitler...
burnleyboy01 2 years ago
no, i think you'll find Adolf Hitler is rather better remembered as a lunatic mass-murderer, rather than as "someone who gave hurtful opinions about other people"...
danbo1984 2 years ago 6
haha that was a joke you mong
burnleyboy01 2 years ago
Wow, 27 years old and you think "mong" is an acceptable insult; well done matey...
danbo1984 2 years ago 2
Considering Clarkson started on Top Gear back in 1988, I'm quite certain they are talking about the Clarkson era. What makes it different now is that they switched it from a magazine-style show into an automotive variety and comedy show.
KyleJCrb 1 year ago 8
Top Gear started in 2003. When was this?
xxlurkingkittyxx 2 years ago
Top Gear actually originally started in 1977. This sketch was probably early nineties.
freddypharkas 2 years ago 2
and I watch Top Gear only because it if funny, I don´t like cars.. !-)
finehomemadewine 2 years ago 13
Same. I never used to watch Top Gear, I watched Brainiac. Then Hammond had his crash, so I watched his return to Top Gear, been hooked on the comedy ever since.
spencerant88 2 years ago 4
Me to, I used to watch it because of the brilliant humor, but they got me exited over some cars i'd probably never notice, so it actually made me fall in love witch motoring. But there are indeed a lot off cars I don't give a flying toss about...
Bigfatbutterfly02 2 years ago
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it's not that funny. he's a pompous wanker who thinks he's funny. He's a massive twat in reality
LoneDerangerer 2 years ago
Having met him, I can tell you it's most certainly not the case :)
Icelyon 2 years ago
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I'm talking about Jeremy Clarkson.
LoneDerangerer 2 years ago
i'm talking about Jeremy Clarkson here btw.
LoneDerangerer 2 years ago
bloody good, eh?
p1nkAcid 2 years ago
Stephen Fry has such a captivating face.
RivaJane 2 years ago 4
Stephen Fry is absolutely brilliant and I just love Hugh
SoupEtwist 2 years ago 16
LOL that was great.
jcdenton7 2 years ago 3
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Speaking as a foreigner, Top Gear seems to be THE WORST show in existence. I'll tell you one thing, if Clarkson were born an American, he would be the most homophobic, gun-toting, Republican, Fox News personality ever. He would be Bill O'Riley. I mean, he has that evil in him. It just doesn't find a proper outlet in Brittan I guess.
T.G. significantly diminishes the respect for Britain I built up over my sight seeing expedition to London.
chawk111 2 years ago
i don't know how you work that out, as he is often outspoken against what you mentioned.
Also, he has a british sense of humour, one that plays on political and grammatical incorrectness.
And finally, did you seriously think you got the correct idea of a place following the tourism trail?
6Michael6 2 years ago 3
Of course not. For one thing, the weather was uniformly beautiful. My main method of learning about the country is the same as yours - watching British TV. Oh and don't claim political incorrectness as being exclusively British or suggest that I can fathom it. W/ re. to Clarkson, my impression is that of a fearcly conservative xenophobic narcissist who fancies himself a libertarian. I saw him end one episode about driving to the N. pole with a dickish conclusion about global warming being a myth
chawk111 2 years ago
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I am sorry to disappoint you, Global Warming as result of men interference is a myth. Study a little of geology and you will see so. You see, the earth performs 12 simultaneous moves, not the 2 we are habitual with. And that movement is responsible for cyclic changing in the weather, with glacial ages and warm ages.
Elland66 2 years ago
Clarkson doesn't claim that global warming is a myth, what he said was: "let's just stop and think for a moment what the consequences might be. Switzerland loses its skiing resorts? The beach in Miami is washed away? North Carolina gets knocked over by a hurricane? Anything bothering you yet?"
murphyopalmen 2 years ago 5
gotta love clarkson :D
LoryRory 2 years ago 2
@chawk111 the weather was uniformly beautiful
in britain? wow the gods must love you
minimacca999 1 year ago
Hahaa, too right.
PedanticAndWhimsical 2 years ago
@chawk111 i'm sorry but the worse thing
Clarkson does is deny global warming and
therefore encourge people to continue damaging
the envirnoment which while bad is a long way
of evil and a long long way off bill o'reilly
minimacca999 1 year ago
i like cake
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Drakir91 2 years ago
Would like to see Hugh on Top Gear...Stephen has already been
Klymene7 2 years ago 6
This is referring to the old Top Gear.. which was a different show :)
robwho2 2 years ago 6
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They're just jealous of top gear because it's bigger than their comedy show
beastking816 2 years ago
It wasn't back when this was first broadcast.
inneski 2 years ago 8
I don't know what top gear was like back then, but I watch it now and find it very entertaining. I agree with StrandedH.
peaswiththat 3 years ago 4
I'm sure Fry and Laurie still hate it.
chawk111 3 years ago
Considering Stephen Fry has BEEN on top gear, im sure he doesnt. lol
"Series 03, Episode 02"
DreamMediaUK 2 years ago
Wouldn't be the first time a public figure has appeared on a show he didn't respect. A booking on a VERY highly rated tv show is money in the bank. Celebrities don't go on these shows to socialize, they do it for promotion. If this weren't true, Jay Leno wold be telling awful jokes to himself every night.
chawk111 2 years ago
Bare in mind this sketch was written during the original run of Top Gear which was... well crap.
The new Top Gear is silly, a lot of fun and a decent form of light entertainment for a Sunday evening. It shouldn't be taken seriously... if you want a car programme that takes itself seriously then watch Fifth Gear; which is, well, crap.
StrandedH 3 years ago 13
Yes, Top Gear is more for the crowd that likes loud, shouty cars paired with a trio of middle-aged men falling over alot. Fifth Gear is as Clarkson put it "for yobos in hoodies" and is hosted by a lesbian, a fat man, and two socialists who would be more at home narrating a romantic novel series on daytime television...
Pezdetz666 2 years ago
When you weigh up the pointless (and might I add, unfunny) stunts with the equally pointless um'ing and ah'ing over whether Jeremy thinks this Mercedes is better than that BMW (because we're all torn between decisions like that, aren't we?), Top Gear is quite possibly the biggest waste of time on TV. Clarkson's bad clothes and worse hair, coupled with his supremely annoying habit of overemphasising the end of his every sentence, provide even more reasons not to watch Top Gear. At all. Ever.
garethac81 3 years ago
Trust Fry and Laurie to skewer the silliness of Top Gear with such rapier-like accuracy. They couldn't be more right - Clarkson and co. spend far too much time farting around with pointless stunts:
"This week, we're going to cut a car in half/blow up a car with a tank/race a car against a jet/equip a car with a water fountain!"
And of course, as if all that bollocks wasn't waste of time enough, 90% of the actual car critique focuses on models that 90% of the public couldn't bloody afford!
garethac81 3 years ago
Where is your sense of fun you boring, boring boring man.
Do you just hate clarkson coz of his politics or is it really beause of his presenting skills, which are might i say, unbeatable
ALAlexMurphyEX 3 years ago
Clarkson's political views? I couldn't care less about them. My gripe with JC is simple: his show is not funny enough to be comedy (random, aimless pissing about in cars? I'll take Fry and Laurie, thanks), nor useful enough to be worthwhile (wastes far too much time critiquing cars we can't afford, so who cares whether Jeremy likes them or not?). In short, Top Gear is pointless. Which makes Jeremy Clarkson pointless.
garethac81 3 years ago
It is much funnier than alot of the so called 'comedy' on tv today. And plus who cares if we cant affored the cars, its not really about the expensive cars. Its more about the blokey desire to piss around with powerful things while having a jolly good laugh.
Top gear is not useless, its bloody good tv
ALAlexMurphyEX 3 years ago
I'm sorry, but I must inteject here. Just because the rest of television nowadays is rubbish, doesn't mean Top Gear is any less so. Clarkson is, at best, an annoying, over-confident man, oozing with dispicable smugness, as he tries to squeeze apalling jokes into trying to come across as informative about cars. When, in actual fact, he's just spurting sexist, xenophobic and mildly homphobic abuse around and acting like a tosser... You know... Just saying ¬_¬
Xocists 2 years ago 2
This is the best description of Jeremy Clarkson that I have ever heard; thank you!
rolandreally 2 years ago
Idd :D
LoryRory 2 years ago
you said "Clarkson is, at best, an annoying, over-confident man, oozing with dispicable smugness, as he tries to squeeze apalling jokes into trying to come across as informative about cars". Well, for me at least, that is exactly what makes him and the show funny. because if i want exact, reliable information about cars (the real ones, not supercars) i'm sure as hell not expecting to get it from the tv.
emberhxc 2 years ago 8
To be honest, I couldn't care less about cars. But anyways, I'm glad you agreed with me on what exactly Clarkson is. I'm not really bothered what you find funny, but, for me, personally, I need something more mature, and more intellectually stimulating then- *ahem* -puts on Clarkson-esque voice- "This car is gay."
Xocists 2 years ago
Well, one guy did. He was towing a caravan and it started swaying. He remembered a joke on Top Gear that when this happens you should accelerate. So he did and ended up in a ditch. Anybody that dense doesnt deserve a driving licence.
britishleylandcrap 2 years ago
ah right, so I'm guessing you would much rather have him reviewing UK market subcompacts and cutting himself, now wouldn't that make great television you pompous narcissistic pillock.
Pezdetz666 2 years ago
Why would I want to see Clarkson "cutting himself"? And since when does disliking Top Gear make you "narcissistic"??? If you like Top Gear, you're welcome to it - but for god's sake, stop talking gibberish!
garethac81 2 years ago 3
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Some say his real name is NOT Clarkson. Some even say Clarkson has been changed from Twatson. All we know is that he is Jeremy, king of twats!
2vv1 3 years ago
WICKED!
neopets07 3 years ago
Yes nikeeweston, looks like google sorted you out.
neopets07 3 years ago
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i hope clarkson saw this. i hate him
tecklePie 3 years ago
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clarkson rules
you are a fag.
jackobyte24 3 years ago
True! And it had Quentin Wilson on it, they shoulda blown him up...in a caravan! lol LUV Top Gear, LUV Fry and Laurie :)