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Clarkeson joke - did anyone laugh?
Jeremy Clarkeson's 'joke' the strikers should be executed, shot in front of their families seems to have upset a few people. He clearly didn't mean it, and he himself once went out on strike when he was a mere magazine journalist.
I am more offended by the joke not being at all funny. It was feeble.
He is a good motoring presenter, why do we need to know his opinion on strikers?
I am more offended by the joke not being at all funny. It was feeble.
He is a good motoring presenter, why do we need to know his opinion on strikers?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Wasn't the joke about the tedious way the BBC are required to offer "balance"? I.e. "here's a loony from one extreme, and now one from the other" - usually totally ignoring the middle-ground?
I giggled as it was a subversion of that problem the BBC faces. He said something like "I love the strikes, there's no one about on the roads. But to offer balance, as it is the BBC, I'd have them all shot."
As has been mentioned elsewhere I am not sure if everyone moaning about it had seen the whole interview? Or even the whole clip?
I giggled as it was a subversion of that problem the BBC faces. He said something like "I love the strikes, there's no one about on the roads. But to offer balance, as it is the BBC, I'd have them all shot."
As has been mentioned elsewhere I am not sure if everyone moaning about it had seen the whole interview? Or even the whole clip?
"Not meaning it" is no excuse. John Terry probably didn't really mean what he called Anton Ferdinand.
As I have just said somewhere else though, he's plainly an intelligent and talented person, so how sad that on a prime time TV programme we have a rather pathetic set-up to get the great God of Political Incorrectness to make an a**e of himself when he could have so many more interesting and constructive - and controversial - things to say without going over the top. In his defence I think even he realised he overstepped the mark and has apologised.
As I have just said somewhere else though, he's plainly an intelligent and talented person, so how sad that on a prime time TV programme we have a rather pathetic set-up to get the great God of Political Incorrectness to make an a**e of himself when he could have so many more interesting and constructive - and controversial - things to say without going over the top. In his defence I think even he realised he overstepped the mark and has apologised.
Seeing as what he thinks makes no difference because he has no influence whatsoever on anything, I can't see what the fuss is about. He is a TV personality, that is all. I saw the interview, made a comment that the BBC probably now had a jammed switchboard and thought no more about it. I have often said I would like to shoot somebody who has annoyed me. The strikers have annoyed me - (in fact they have very much angered me) It was a turn of phrase - it happens. Mountain out of molehill.
Sorry to hog the discussion - last word - but the point about satirising BBC "balance" is not very convincing. His inital comments appearing to support the strike (which I thought were quite witty, if a little predictable and unoriginal) were no such thing. And then to compound it in the way that he did ...
The Spontaneous argument is contradicted by Clarkeson himself saying the show's producers had cleared his remarks beforehand
://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc
/8930218/Jeremy-Clarksons-execute-strikers-jo
ke-was-cleared-by-BBC-producers.html
It was scripted, but his writers much have also been on strike that day.
://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc
/8930218/Jeremy-Clarksons-execute-strikers-jo
ke-was-cleared-by-BBC-producers.html
It was scripted, but his writers much have also been on strike that day.
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