Top Gear - Clarkson - Cycling

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It was a 100% funnier than....

Mrs Browns Boys
Outnumbered
Miranda Hart
The comedy scale:-

Stewert Lee...............Top Gear..............cheese sandwich...........bruised knee.....Outnumbered......broken toe.....Mrs Browns Boys.....gonorrhea....Miranda
 

swee'pea99

Squire
THat's ...errr... two out of three then.

Both May and Hammond have ridden bikes on the show before. Hammond won the cross-London commuter challenge on a bike, while May carted his Brompton to Italy on the train to try and steal a march over the other two. He then got lost, but he and Hammond still arrived before Clarkson in the car.
Even the tubby one has, famously, taken to cycling. None of them, of course, actually has any issue with cycling or cyclists. Their target is the excessively earnest, the humourless, the self-important, and 'they only do it to provoke'.
 

GetAGrip

Still trying to look cool and not the fool HA
Location
N Devon
I'm definitely not a TG fan at all, but I watched it on iplayer last night and thought it was a hoot. Unlike hubby, who when I looked across the sofa in his direction, I was met with a facial expression that would keep milk cold in the fridge during a power cut.
I think the team were having a pop at all road users ( and definitely at themselves) with the exception of taxi drivers :wacko: and maybe showed us, there can be a bit of *osser in all of us at times.
 

JoeyB

Go on, tilt your head!
Just got round to watching this last night, very funny. I'm actually surprised how receptive to cycling Clarkson was...I also wanted to watch James' maintenance video in full lol
 
Just got round to watching this last night, very funny. I'm actually surprised how receptive to cycling Clarkson was...I also wanted to watch James' maintenance video in full lol
...that's because I am certain at least 2, if not 3 are regular cyclists. Agree with the rest of your post too.
 

CopperBrompton

Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
Location
London
Real-life Clarkson cycles too ...

Overall, I didn't think it was one of their funnier pieces, but the red/green ad was excellent. :-)
 

JoeyB

Go on, tilt your head!
Outnumbered is awesome!! Watching Ben is like watching my younger brother all over again!
 

captain nemo1701

Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
Location
Bristol
The comedy scale:-

Stewert Lee...............Top Gear..............cheese sandwich...........bruised knee.....Outnumbered......broken toe.....Mrs Browns Boys.....gonorrhea....Miranda

My scale:
Father Ted.....Eddie Izzard,The Big Yin & Bill Bailey........appendicitis......being caught in the ocean with a bleeding wound and surrounded by several sharks...Miranda........................................................................................Earth's core.............................................................................The Office

(Yes, I am the only person in the universe who failed to find The Office funny)
 

martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
My scale:
Father Ted.....Eddie Izzard,The Big Yin & Bill Bailey........appendicitis......being caught in the ocean with a bleeding wound and surrounded by several sharks...Miranda........................................................................................Earth's core.............................................................................The Office

(Yes, I am the only person in the universe who failed to find The Office funny)
No sorry. You're not. I didn't find the Office funny at all and I think Ricky Gervais is a waste of good oxygen.
 

oldstrath

Über Member
Location
Strathspey
Real-life Clarkson cycles too ...

Overall, I didn't think it was one of their funnier pieces, but the red/green ad was excellent. :-)
What is it with this cyclists jump red lights? Maybe in London, but where I live I never see a cyclist do so. I see a few cars do so because they 'can just get through before it changes', but not even many of them. The ad I'd like to see is one that teaches drivers the difference between 30 and 50, and between 60 and 'whatever my car is capable of'.
 
What is it with this cyclists jump red lights? Maybe in London..
I'm here in London and although it's getting better, I see loads RLJ. It seems worse the further out I travel. I see the same cyclists in central London wait patiently at lights but to see them fly through when I head out east. There's little difference in the junctions/traffic so I can only assume its the likelyhood of being caught.
 
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