Just watched the Stuart Lee clip and was disgusted with it. I am not a great fan of TG but I found stuart Lee as bad as Clarkson.
Lee himself said this about his Top Gear routines;
"I mean, you can't be on
Top Gear, where your only argument is that it's all just a joke and anyone who takes offence is an example of political correctness gone mad, and then not accept the counterbalance to that.
...
He claimed that he would still use the material if the
Top Gear team turned up to his show and added: "Clarkson is a right-wing libertarian so he'd probably be all right with it.
"I'd happily debate the routine with Hammond and I think he'd get what it's about, that he's being used as a symbol of the sort of debased crassness that passes for controversial humour these days."
when Clarkson joked about lorry drivers, Hammond said this;
Richard Hammond told Newsbeat: "Jeremy was just being Jeremy, just being himself and that's what people watch the show for, so why change it?"
when he joked about Hammond's ("Speeding kills", he smirked) crash, the BBC said this;
A BBC spokesman said: "Jeremy Clarkson did not say it was untrue that speed kills. On the contrary, he made the statement without qualification and allowed viewers to draw their own conclusions. The laughter shown was a true reflection of the atmosphere at the studio, where the audience were determined to celebrate Richard's strength and survival."
Lee should probably just get someone to roll up and say "Oh, that's just Stewart", as it seems to work for Top Gear presenters.
it says "tax disc" on the form and that's good enough for me.
