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Funniest thing I've ever seen on TV

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I'm supposedly doing some dressmaking and have put the TV on for wallpaper. I looked on the EPG.( I don't watch TV during the day) and spotted a channel called Dave Ja Vu amusing name anyway and an episode of Top Gear. I find Clarkson funnier than any so called comedy programme. Step aside Ricky Gervais!
A while ago, I saw Clarkson, May and Hammond on a caravanning trip, which was hilarious. Today I saw something even funnier. Clarkson, all 6'5" of him in the smallest production car ever made, driving around inside the Television Centre, then John Humphreys taking it for a spin, then Clarkson driving it into a lift and getting push out from Fiona Bruce., because it has no reverse gear.
I laughed so much, I couldn't sew straight and I'm on my way to get a cup of tea.
I'm not into cars much. I have a Skoda Octavia 1.9TDI myself. But this was just wonderful. I had to share it.
 
hi hana i saw that episode and i have to agree with you it was very funny :lol: .its my favourite programme.i love to sit down with my 10 year old son and watch it dermot
 
I think TG is one of the funniest tv programmes being made.
I know Clarckson is an irritating, opinionated relic from a different age.
Thats the point, he stirs up a reaction.

Personal favourites of mine are -
launching a reliant robin into space
the 'Bodica' style weapons on JCs police car that caused him to lose a wheel
and Crossing the channel by car.

Great stuff
 
I loved the one where they made boats out of cars and then sank them in a lake. I didn't find out what happened to James May's sailing Triumph Herald. Does anyone know?
I got my degree at what was then Hatfield Polytechnic( University of Hertffordshire now) And since the place was largely an engineering school. (I'm a biologist) I saw undergraduates who pretty regularly did things like that. Motorised bathtubs were almost a daily event. and they nearly got the pedal powered plane to fly. Well it flew, but not very far and scalped the rabbits on the airfield.
 
Bizarrely I think Clarkson's a very good motoring journalist, in that he's normally spot on with his assessments, observations and reviews of cars. And he's certainly a force to be reckoned with in the motor industry, Vauxhall may agree (!). It's just his interaction with the rest of the human race I can't stand, he seems to completely change personality, but I always watch Top Gear.
 
What does Clarkson think of Vauxhauls? I'm driving an Astra, whilst my Octavia is being repaired after an idiot in an another Astra reversed out of his parking place straight into me. I Hate driving that Astra. The gear change is horrendously stiff. A while ago I hired a Corsa for a couple of days. Hated that too.
I'm utterly spoiled by the friendliness of my Skoda, with its crisp gear change and everything in the right place, including the left foot rest.
 
The Vauxhall incident was a few years back, he was famously uncomplimentary (and absolutely right, as usual) about their latest offering, the Vectra. Apparently the sales figures plummeted as a direct result of his comments, and never fully recovered! Mwah ha ha! :twisted:

I had a Vauxhall something forced upon me a few years ago when my car was in for some work. Arguably the most repellent motor vehicle of any sort I've ever had the misfortune of driving.
 
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