Some people don’t get Top Gear. Some people, usually those who haven’t watched it, think it’s just Jeremy Clarkson being a right-wing nutbag, running over animals in cars while running his own personal carbon dioxide manufacturing plant.
Okay, so JC does get to spew some of his stranger ideas now and then, but everyone takes the piss out of him for being a nutter when he does.
No, Top Gear is about having fun. It’s about silliness and mucking around.
Don’t believe me? Then watch this video showing the essence of Top Gear: some nuns being given the chance to drive monster trucks.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
