what a gaff

[Sammystar]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-New ... rostitutes

You know, normally I like this guy, but this is just not funny...........

 

[Jade&Evie]

do you know what, i'm fed up with hearing about people compleing because they dont find something funny, insulting etc etc etc.

EVERYONE has a different sense of humour. I actually watched Top Gear with my DAD (a lorry driver) and we thought it was quite funny. Its very 'Jeremy Humour' and out of millions of people less than 200 complained. Maybe instead of wasting their money on the phonecall to OfCom they could donate it to people who need it...

Same with the Brand/Ross thing- why do 30000 people need to make it there business to get an apology- surely its between them and the person in question

This world has gone mental. Its driving me up the wall.

 

[Sammystar]

well at the very least, it's an insult to the relatives of the girls who were murdered

Anybody with half a brain cell wouldn't even make that kind of joke at a party, let alone on national TV.

Like I said, I like him normally, but that was just sick I'm afraid.........

Cringe worthy.....

 

[beanie]

do you know what, i'm fed up with hearing about people compleing because they dont find something funny, insulting etc etc etc.

EVERYONE has a different sense of humour. I actually watched Top Gear with my DAD (a lorry driver) and we thought it was quite funny. Its very 'Jeremy Humour' and out of millions of people less than 200 complained. Maybe instead of wasting their money on the phonecall to OfCom they could donate it to people who need it...

Same with the Brand/Ross thing- why do 30000 people need to make it there business to get an apology- surely its between them and the person in question

This world has gone mental. Its driving me up the wall.

People do get offended, and that's up to them. Like you said everyone has a different sense of humour, what you find funny, someone else will find sick. That's the beauty of living in a democracy.

As for the Brand and Ross thing, if it had been kept off air perhaps so many people wouldn't have complained about it. If they want to waste their money complaining, let them.

 

[mummykay]

some ppl laugh, some dont.

i for one am of the side that laughed cos its clarksons sense of humour. doesnt mean i go round thinkin that murder is funny in any way, shape or form but the context clarkson used it in was amusin imo.

 

[newmum]

I'm with Sammystar on this one but don't have the time to think up anything meaningful to write!

 

[Slinky Sarah]

Yeah lets all laugh about a so called joke about murder.

Yeah he may not of ment it to offend but ffs why wouldnt that offend people?!

Yet again though....why the hell was it aired without being edited?! FFS do these people not learn or something?

 

[poochielove]

I thought it was funny, but then i am not offended easily! But whats pissing me off is 200 people will complain and then as soon as it makes the news anoth 3000 jump on the band wagon I suposse it gives the nation of moaners something to do...

 

[Sammystar]

I'm not the type who would ever pick up the phone and complain tbh. I just read it and though 'what a complete dimwit'. How you can joke about a serial killer, particularly on the anniversary of his 'reign' is just a bit beyond me.

Fair enough that some people might find it funny (each to their own I guess) But I can't understand how the dimwits at the BBC allowed it to be aired........

I'm sure if it were 'normal' young girls, and not prostitutes, who had been slaughtered, it may not have made it on air at all. That's what's sad.

 

[Slinky Sarah]

i agree with what your saying poochie...same with the ross and brand thing. ALot of people DO jump on the bandwagon so to speak to complain. Like i Sue i wouldnt complain either, id probably ether turn it off or just not find it funny.

Whether it was a joke or not or about prostitutes or not, it should have been edited. Ok he wont have ment it to offend and upset but come on. How is it not gonna upset and offend some people?

 

[Jade&Evie]

I disagree. If all TV was edited so that nothing offended, insulted or mocked any touchy subject TV would be really boring. I think if something offends you that much you could just change the channel and watch something else. A lot less effort required than complaining.

Oh Well, if the BBC sack Clarkson too it just gives me the perfect excuse to stop paying for a TV license. BBC isn't worth watching without Jonathan Woss (hope I haven't insulted anyone with a lisp ) or Jeremy.

And maybe the 'dimwits' at the BBC found it mildly amusing like most of the other millions of people watching top gear....

 

[Sammystar]

I disagree. If all TV was edited so that nothing offended, insulted or mocked any touchy subject TV would be really boring. I think if something offends you that much you could just change the channel and watch something else. A lot less effort required than complaining.

Oh Well, if the BBC sack Clarkson too it just gives me the perfect excuse to stop paying for a TV license. BBC isn't worth watching without Jonathan Woss (hope I haven't insulted anyone with a lisp ) or Jeremy.

And maybe the 'dimwits' at the BBC found it mildly amusing like most of the other millions of people watching top gear....

I would imagine that the vast majority of people would have thought 'oh what an insensitive and totally unfunny thing to say' A bit like I did. I somehow doubt that the masses would find jokes about murdering prostitutes funny.........

The Jonathon Ross debacle is another thing entirely. Just a couple of overpaid, overgrown schoolboys having a joke which backfired.

Neither are sackable offences imo. Just find the former in really bad taste, given that the relatives of these recently murdered girls could easily have been watching.

If it had been a joke about Rhys Jones being murdered, would you have found that funny??

 

[purple13]

i found the ross/brand thing offensive and tasteless, but i did laugh at clarkson on top gear.

they're two quite different cases really... ross/brand & producer broadcast a segment that offended 1 particular person and they broadcast it against that person's wishes.

clarkson, on the other hand, did something that most comedians do; he slated an entire group of people by inferring that they were like one particular individual. it may seem tasteless to some, but its how a lot of comedy today works. what it wasn't was a personal attack on a national institution.

if it hadn't been such a slow news time (until the election today) then neither of these stories would have made the headlines at all.

 

[Jade&Evie]

If it had been a joke about Rhys Jones being murdered, would you have found that funny??

It wasn't a joke about the girls in question though. It was taking the piss out of truck drivers and IMHO I didn't link it to Steve Wright, I thought he was referring to Peter Sutcliffe.

 

[widowwadman]

As for the Brand and Ross thing, if it had been kept off air perhaps so many people wouldn't have complained about it. If they want to waste their money complaining, let them.

Well, but the majority of the complaints only happened after the first complaints have been reported (and inflated). It basically ended up in people either complaining without having heard the original footage, or deliberately seeking it out on t'interweb in order to be offended.

 

[Sammystar]

If it had been a joke about Rhys Jones being murdered, would you have found that funny??

It wasn't a joke about the girls in question though. It was taking the p*ss out of truck drivers and IMHO I didn't link it to Steve Wright, I thought he was referring to Peter Sutcliffe.

No doubt it wasn't INTENDED to be about the girls in question, but sadly, given the timing of it (the anniversary) many would have taken it that way.

As I said in the title of the post, it's a gaff.......he put his foot in it.

 

[maria1976]

what pisses me off, is that the people who watch Jeremy Clarkson KNOW his sense of humour and the fact that he is not politically correct, so why complain??
Jeremy Clarkson rocks

 

[Krystal]

And maybe the 'dimwits' at the BBC found it mildly amusing like most of the other millions of people watching top gear....

I wonder if the dimwits and other millions of people would find it so amusing had it been their daughter killed by a truck driver

 

[Suzie and Faith]

I didn't actually watch it - whilst I don't think it was clever to say i the light of the anniversary of the murders, we all know he doesn't truly believe that all lorry drivers are murderers.

I wonder who lets these things be broadcast though? Surely it's them who the buck lies with?

I like Clarkson generally. I hope they don't sack him.