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American Reacts to Top Gear: The Most Offensive Clips.... in the World
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There's been many Top Gear presenters over the years but these 3 are far and away the best, their chemistry and humour is hilarious. Every show is packed with typical British humour, sarcasm, silly stunts & excellent A1 guests even if you have no interest in cars this is the most entertainment you can have in an hour..well, almost! Well worth watching.
The best and most enduring. They were there for so many years.
Nah,it was much better in the early days when the show was actually about cars and car reviews.this was just 3 big kids messing about.
I stopped watching Top gear because of these three nobs .
Yes, they are Knob heads, but they are funny knob heads.
An Oxford expert in language pointed out the original word was "Nipper" in te "Eeny Meeny " thing
ignored by MSM at the time to sell the "N word"
The most watched show .. in the world.
“This is the best show, PAUSE, in the world” ;)
I absolutely love Jeremy clarkson. Top gear was the hight of British tv
Hell YES the show is worth watching. The old Top Gear and the newer Grand Tour is comedy gold.
Clarkson isn't a dick, he's just sarcastic and brutally honest. This is a trio of GOATs here.
The best humour is always true :)
Grand Tour is awful compared to them on Top Gear
@BlinkyMet to be fair that's less shit talk of grand tour more praise of *dear lord old top gear was lightning in a bottle*
British humour at its best, I love it. And as a car enthusiast for over 50 years the focus - cars and humour - is right up my street!
It wouldn't be Clarkson if he didn't offend people so much, he's brilliant.
Rubbish . I stopped watching this crap because of those three .
@Claude-d6x My heart bleeds for you. NOT.
@ well done mate and you don’t even know me . What’s it like having an I.Q. in single figures ?
@ Great thanks.
@ pleasure .😂
It also had under Clarkson, May & Hammond around 350 million worldwide viewers
Wow!
Absolutely love these 3
We in Yorkshire are proud of Jeremy one of our favourite sons.
James May also grew up in Yorkshire
I want Jezza as the next PM.
Hamster for the interviews 'cos he's cute.
Captain to do all the actual work.
The Stig as Speaker in the commons. And on that bombshell...
The guest he accused of being homosexual, because he rode motorcycles, is the musician and former army captain, James Blunt, infamous for brutal and self-deprecating responses, particularly on twitter. Hence the comeback about the songs being about Clarkson, and Clarkson bursting into laughter.
He was also involved in one of those wars we haven't been in for 20/30 years. He carried his guitar on his tank. He's beautiful 😂😂
Also possibly stopped WW3.
Infamous? Maybe notorious?
@kingdodgearcane So many people seem to fail to understand the meaning of the word.
@bustestlucloc4630to the rest of the world clarkson insulted Blunt. To a Brit he was just taking the piss out of a friend and knew he would take it as such. Context is key.
You are wrong... Clarkson is not worried about complaints.....He is doing his best to invoke them... Thats what it really means to live in a free country with freedom of speech...
until they thought it was too much can canned him and then started to restrict what one can say online
@cranberrysauce61 If you look into it, you find there was a lot more to it than just the punch, it seems BBC was kinda sad they allowed Topgear too much freedom and wanted to take more control of the program. And figured they could just replace Jeremy with someone easier to manage. They completely missed the point that the chemistry between them is 75% of the show.
@RasmusSommerNielsen yeah, i followed the it at the time. the punch was just the final straw/an easy out for BBC to remove jeremy to get an easier controlled host. and yeah, after the 3 were no longer in top gear, top gear lost most of its charm.
They no longer have that in the UK.
Can't speak for everyone but I'd say freedom of speech is feeling a little strangled over here of late.
Theres a few iconic clips to check out:
- reliant robbin
- alabama escape challenge
- limo challenge
- supermarket sweep challenge
Joel, don't take Clarkson too seriously, its humour and publicly all rolled into one, the best publicity you can get is from insulting everyone and they think its real, the outrage goes all round the world.😂
Absolutely true.
The catch a ** by the toe, wasnt even in the program. As far as I remember. That was from the cutting room floor. It was Jeremy who said they couldn't use the clip. If I'm remembering correctly.
You are correct ...
And it is just a word .
One of the best shows ever !
I'm Italian, and even I know the story about that lullaby. After "EEny Meeny Myny Moo" it goes something like "Catch the N by the toe". It's kids deciding who goes seeking while the others hide.
it's the only car show you don't watch for the cars and it is still the best car show.
This!
Ah, my Top Gear content binge continues.
I like 'Top Gear' and wish it was still a thing.
I have never watched it since Clarkson, Hammond and May left the show.
I did watch some of 'The Grand Tour', but only via YT, because I don't have Amazon Prime.
I have little patience with prudes who become so easily offended by Jezza's comments, or Richard Hammond's, or James May's.
Definitley worth checking out! Too many funny moments to count no matter how many compilations you watch.
33 seasons is just this incarnation of it, the original version ran from 1977 to 2001
But the pre-Jeremy was just another run of the mill car show. He took it and made it into an entertainment show with cars.
@RasmusSommerNielsen Jeremy was also in some of the original episodes of Top Gear (pre 2002) and James May appeared on it in 1999 ruclips.net/video/YIl6sSg0pMY/video.htmlsi=P_TxCO3xehH2xEuC
I loved when they would read out the complain letters and double down on them
“In the world” is one of Clarksons famous sayings, that’s why it’s used in the titles
The Sky at night is the longest being broadcasted tv show.
Top Gear was at its best with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, it was one of the most popular TV shows in the world, and when they fired Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May refuse to stay, And then with the new hosts the ratings plummeted, they even tried to get Clarkson back again but it was too late, the TV show worked so well because of the chemistry between the 3 hosts and Jeremy Clarkson‘s unfiltered commentary, that is why it was so popular.
They tried to get back?? The BBC really got some nerves...
Replaced three of the greatest with three of the absolutely most bore.
Jeremy Clarkson was never prejudiced he took the piss out of everything. He lost his accent but he never lost his Yorkshire. You can joke about everything or you can't joke about anything. Simple.
"In the World," is one of Jeremy's catch phrases which he sometimes tags on to the end of sentences.
There are a bunch of variations, but popular in the British/Australian/American world from a time people alive today can remember (like Clarkson, which he sang/muttered):
Eeny meeny miny moe,
catch a by the toe,
when he squeals, let him go, (when or if)
eeny meeny miny moe.
We oldies all learned the offensive version as kids, but the American commentator here is too young to have heard it!
You should watch Clarkson's Farm. it's brilliant
Joel I love the fact you understand european humour. Well done x
33 seasons is quite a lot, but there is another show called "Have I Got News For You" thats now on season 69
I’m not a car buff, but these guys are unbelievably funny with special chemistry, just can’t explain it, it’s just there
If they get complaints, it means people are watching. Success.
Personally I love Clarkson, he's brilliant! I don't understand why people don't or won't like him.
Because alot of people are snowflakes and others who arent are too afraid to speak their mind
Those days was the best days for this show
Complete Petrol head here and I have to say Top Gear with Clarkson, Hammond and May is just classic.
Love these guys from when I was a kid...
I was taught 50 years ago in Australia the Eenie meenie miney moe with the ‘N’ word in it when I was a kid.
The "N" word thing is actually a nursery rhyme that was said to children, in a lot of Commonwealth countries. The n word wasn't seen as a derogetory or rascist word, until we started picking up Americanisms in our language.
The word "slope" was NOT used in a derogative term but to indicate the slant or decline of the bridge.
Coronation Street holds the Guinness World Record for being the world's longest-running television soap opera, having celebrated its 60th anniversary in December 2020. so far is has 65 seasons and it all began in the 1960s.
Coro doesn't have seasons...it's on 3 times a week, year round.
Re long running TV programmes - The Sky at Night is a documentary television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. The show had the same permanent presenter, Sir Patrick Moore, from its first monthly broadcast on 24 April 1957 until 7 January 2013. The latter date was a posthumous broadcast, following Moore's death on 9 December 2012. This made it the longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history. Beginning with the 3 February 2013 edition, the show was co-presented by Lucie Green and Chris Lintott. Since December 2013 Maggie Aderin-Pocock has also been a presenter. In April 2023, Dr George Dransfield joined the show as a presenter.
The reality is, most people (especially Brits) think Clarkson is a national treasure. It's just the sensitive types that don't like him.
I have seen every episode of top gear (until these 3 left it) multiple times then I watched every episode of the grand tour and ever episode of Clarkson's farm... You don't even need to have an interest in cars to enjoy it! It's just quality entertainment every time. 100% should watch all 3 of those if you can. or at least do the specials.
On most seasons I was looking at Martin Sheen's imdb the other day - he has a credit for a tv show from 1956 to 2010 (he wasn't in it that whole time but either he's referenced or made guest appearances or some such) - this show had 54 seasons (I think at one season per year) and 13000 episodes.
One of his catchphrases is to say “the most [insert anything]…(pause for dramatic effect) In the World!
"the most *something something* (long pause) in the world" The man says that, a lot.
the hammond, may, and clarkson era is definitely worth watching.
Would definitely be worth watching all of the Top Hear specials at least.
"something something something... in the world" is a catchphrase of the show. Informative and hilarious - the nearest US show in style would be something like Mythbusters. Well worth watching, especially the overseas specials and their attempts to turn a car into something it shouldn't be (from a yacht to a space shuttle). A personal highlight is Jeremy's weird descriptions of The Stig. And on that bombshell...
I grew up wth this epic series 😂😂 I loved it 🇦🇺✌️
Ok im African American 53 and a veteran. I have watched every episode of top gear at least 10 times. Lmfao yes Jeremy does say some offensive things but he can also take a joke and I think the reason why he said Africa was Full Of Orcs was because they did a few series there and found out how strong the African people physically are you truly was astonished
I think you may have mixed up "Orcs" with "Ox" as in Oxen, livestock. 😂
Watched it ten times but still can’t get the jokes, you are very American 😂
@jsh2k02 oh no i get the jokes I've been watching BBC television since I was around 12 years old. I remember watching Black Adder EastEnders Blake 7 from the beginning Doctor Who and it was in black and white. But you are right to a certain degree most Americans don't get the jokes
@lateefpou2986your comment contradicts that haha
The Reliant Robin episode/clip is achingly funny. Please watch an revue.
Oh you will absolutely love this show ! It’s hilarious. They’re all absolutely mental.
You should watch the two history documentary that Clarkson wrote and presented one about the Victoria Cross winner and the other about the Greatest British wartime raid of WW 2. If you haven't already.
I love Top Gear
FYI the original for eeny meeny miny moe is "eeny meeny miny moe catch a n*$%@? by his to when he squeals let him go eeny meeny miny moe." and yes if you know what you're listening for and what the modern alternative is yeh he used to the original, you can hear it relatively clearly.
Home and away is the eternal show.
Theres at least 5 offensive clips in every single episode lol
Love this 😁 The bit with Jeremy driving the lorry, "change gear, check your mirrors, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder..." has me rolling 😂every time. It's a very dark and pretty niche joke though for an internatinally sold show! Its a reference to Peter Sutcliffe who worked driving lorries and was an English serial killer during the 1970s 😬
Watch Stewart Lee - Top Gear it’s brilliant
Hello Joel. Different times.
Yeah, definitely worth watching but only the ones with Clarkson, May and Hammond
Jeremy often said "... in the world".
Actually, there is a "Jeremy Clarkson "In the World" Compilation" on RUclips.
The history of Top Gear stretches right back to the 1970's whem it started as a sensible motoring magazine show by one of the BBC's regional studios. In the 1980's it became a week day evening TV staple (think it was 8:30pm Thursdays?) with presenters including William Woolard and Chris Goffey.
Clarkson joined around 1988 while moonlighting from his job writing a column for Performance Car magazine, think it was a Rolls Royce he made his first appearance. But first I can remember is a test he did of the Mitsubishi Sigma, a Japanese executive car that shared technology with the later Mitsubishi 3000GT.
By the end of the 1990's the presenting team had a bunch including Jeremy Clarkson, Quentin Wilson, Vicki Butler-Henderson, Tiff Needell and Steve Berry (the motorbike reviews guy). At which point Clarkson left, and the show started dying on it's a**.
There was also a spin-off called "Top Gear MotorSport" which looked at various forms of motor racing (there's a clip of it with Tiff Needell doing a segment on DTM, aka German Touring Cars).
While around November time there was a spin-off called "Top Gear Rally Report" to cover the Lombard RAC Rally / Network Q RAC Rally (see "VHS Rallies" channel).
Original version of Top Gear then got canned by the BBC and kind of reborn as "Fifth Gear" on Channel 5, with Tiff Needell and Vicki Butler-Henderson (and others)..... with Clarkson doing a variety of his own shows away from Top Gear such as "Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld", "Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines" & "Clarkson Meets the Neighbours" (last one available to watch on the "Fifth Gear" RUclips channel as they were both made by the same production company).
Top Gear was then reborn in 2001 in the format familiar in this video of offensive clips with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond + some fat guy named Jason (replaced by James May from Season 2). This survived for 22 Seasons from 2001 to 2015 when Jeremy Clarkson had the incident with the Producer.
The producer sounded like a bit of a problem employee as he made a hash of the food arrangements at the hotel which resulted in Jeremy getting "Hangry", and was also apparently the same clown who was responsible for getting them attacked in Argentina during the ill-fated "Patagonia Special".
Seasons 1 to 5 aren't available to purchase from the iTunes store in the UK, but Seasons 6 to 22 are, as well as the "flop gear" seasons when the BBC tried continuing the show with new presenters.
It is definately a show worth watching, as it features a mix of cars with excellent camera work.
Particular highlights include the "Vietnam Special" (only available in Standard Definition) with stunning scenery mixed with the usual Hijinks.
The Bolivia Special is also good (and shot in HD), there's a particular scene on the river at the start I like to use to show off the picture quality on my HD TV. There's also the "India Special" + "Middle East Special" + "USA Supercar Road Trip".
In more regular episodes there's Season 12 Episode 2 with the adventure from San Francisco to the Bonneville Salt Flats, and Episode 6 from the same season with the Ford Fiesta test.
I also recommend Season 16 Episode 5 with the "Snowbine Harvester" (turning a combine harvester into a snowplough), and Season 11 Episode 4 with the race across Japan with the Nissan GT-R.
Best live show ever
Watching from Ireland 🇮🇪
And on that bomb shell, it's a dig over ww2 at the end of every episode for 33 season's.
Eeny meeny miny mo - Americans say "catch a tiger by the toe", in Britain it's "catch a n-word by the toe". That's what the paper was referring to, but he didn't say it, he mumbled the words so as not to offend.
as somebody who watched top gear since season 1 ep 1, you can have a go at it... its what motoring journalism at its peak looks like... the original was clarkson, hammond and some other bloke which got replaced by james may a little later in season 2 iirc.... its all crazy entertaining until its season 20ish where the trio no longer present it but went to amazon to create the grand tour for 5 season.... tbh, i would still watch them just because of their chemistry in presenting...
Hi jps.clarksons a marmite kind of bloke.love him or hate him but he did 2 brilliant documentaries for the bbc.the fact they are both true war story's,is even better.they're an hour long,so you might want to watch them on your own & not as a reaction.
History of the Victoria cross
Greatest raid of all
There are lots of short videos of the-star in a reasonably priced car.celebs race round an actual race track in a small saloon & their times go on a leaderboard.
Guests have been formula 1 drivers-lewis Hamilton & jenson button.& 1 memorable show had Cameron Diaz & tom cruise together.they had to stop Clarkson from drooling😁
… In the World is a catch phrase of JC
0:23 - That still isn't the longest running UK TV show...
'The Sky at Night'... a factual astronomy show on the BBC ran monthly from 1957 until 2023, and is still running today, though not as regularly - and astonishingly had the same presenter - Sir Patrick Moore - From it's first show, in April 1957, right up until he died in late 2012, he only missed one show in almost 56 years (in 2004) because he had food poisoning. He presented more than 700 episodes.
One of Jeremy Clarkson's catchphrases is "The most [insert item here] ... (long pause) in the world!".
To be fair to Clarkson, he is offensive to everyone, regardless of background… 😂
exactly, I once heard the phrase 'I'm not racist, I hate everyone equally', that's Jeremy (and to be fair probably me too lol)
I also remember when he once said "I've got nothing against homosexuals, I particularly like the lesbian sort" 😂😂
I’ve never found Clarkson to be offended. Taking offence isn’t a legitimate criticism.
Like Southpark.
@gregraines1599 Exactly as expected, a moronic comment from a deeply ignorant U.S. American
If you think that's bad you really don't know the british very well 😂😂😂that was very light
We don't have vice presidents so he now does farming.
@4:35 just facts
Top British banter!
React to top gear the Robin shuttle
If you can find this episode, it's hilarious. "Alabama escape challenge".
ah top gear - my disliking of americans is because of watching top gear as a kid
If you haven't already check out Kath and Kim Australian comedy show
You missed out, holy Mary mother of violence. 1 of Jeremy's best😅
Worth watching
There is more.....much much more
In the bit in the lorry talking about changing gear and murdering prostitutes…He’s talking about the Suffolk strangler who killed a bunch of sex workers near Ipswich
In total top gear ran for 44 years clarkson took over after a reformat in 2002 originally it was purely a factual show reviewing cars that people were actually likely to be able to buy the original format had 45 seasons it was one of the longest running british shows but not the longest,panarama a current affairs show has been on air for 72 years (if you include yearly events that are broadcast then the lord mayors show has been shown for 80 years)
You have heard about 'Clarkson's Farm', right?
He did not care about complaints lol
The truth does hurt of course
as this is a smaller channel I wanted to give small corrections here which might be of interest.
top gear has 41 seasons total i believe (5 under the first iteration) 23 under the second (hosted by Jeremy) and then the last two iterations where the full team switched both times.
next yes the reason top gear as the international community knows it came to a close because after being kept up late for a shoot Jeremy got drunk and punched a producer repeatedly in anger because the hotel they was in was no longer serving food and the chef had gone home. (long after this incident and him voluntarily resigning from the BBC he confessed that the end of top gear was inevitable as he broke during that filming as he was working on the show constantly for 2 decades at that point and during that time [3 years prior i think] his mother died and basically had no time to greave while working on the show which eventually overwhelmed him) [for any extra commenters not condoning what he did or that condoning either set of reasons given for it happening]
the third yeah it is one of the longest running shows in the world i think it is world wide in 2023 the 5th longest running show in the world only being topped by a couple of Japanese cartoons which have been going on since ww2 with no alteration. and shows like DR Who.
Top Gear "started" in 2003. May joined shortly afterwards.
Clarkson did indeed get "sacked" for punching a producer (there was no hot meal after filming 😂). Technically his contract wasn't renewed so wasn't sacked as such..
The story of Clarkson punching one of the producers is a far more complicated and tangled story than most know...And I'd say he wasn't entirely in the wrong, in my eyes haha
Top Gear was the best show of all time!!! you need to watch all the episodes with these 3 legends
Top Gear is well worth watching
Top gear is worth reacting to and the grand tour or do the funny moments from them
Old Top Gear ran for many years. These three did it for 22 series. Don't know how many there have been since.
Offensive comments was what they did and, to avoid discrimination, they have covered pretty much everything, much like Trey Parker and Matt Stone did with South Park. Clarkson's contract at Top Gear was not renewed after the first cuffs incident. Instead Amazon offered the trio way more money to produce a new show called "The Grand Tour" which was a huge success. Top Gear, however, died after the 3 of them left
100% worth watching
I never noticed how Karl-like his face is until he cut his hair short...