Category Archives: Top Gear

Top Gear Thursday: Richard, the Cowboy, Deep in the Heart of Texas

By staff | Posted on November 22nd, 2012

Richard Hammond on a one-horsepower vehicle. (BBC America)

“You can always tell a cowboy, but you can’t tell him much.”

The saying could have come from the old West. Or it could be from the vaudeville circuit.

Top Gear Thursday: Richard’s Career as a Barber – Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

By staff | Posted on November 15th, 2012

Richard and the Levels Barbershop crew: Tony “Tony Touch” Harrison, Enrico "Rico" Charles and Mario David. (BBC America)

Could the two professions of barber and helicopter test pilot be any more different? Aside from the use of the word “blade” and the phrase “take off” (and even that’s stretching it), we couldn’t think of any ...

Top Gear Thursday: Life is ‘the Pits’ for Richard Hammond

By staff | Posted on November 8th, 2012

“Is there anything here that doesn’t hurt or sound unpleasant?” Richard Hammond asks plaintively about the job he undertakes on next week’s Crash Course.

Top Gear Thursday: Can Richard Hammond Walk on Water?

By staff | Posted on November 1st, 2012

It stands to reason, 'Richard Hammond's Crash Course' is in its second season. (BBC America)

Next week, Richard Hammond tries to channel his own inner Ernest Hemingway. No, he’s not going to be writing crisp, clear but enigmatic prose – he’s going to try his hand at bullfighting.

Top Gear Thursday: Richard Hammond ‘Would Be a Great Stuntman,’ Says Mentor

By staff | Posted on October 25th, 2012

Richard Hammond: just park it on the side. (BBC America)

This week, Richard Hammond survived being thrown off a bridge and being set on fire as a Hollywood stunt man. The challenges he faced all presented threats to life and limb.

Top Gear Thursday: Watch Out, ‘Crash Course’ Season Two is Coming!

By Paul Hechinger | Posted on October 18th, 2012

The Hamster tries his hand at a variety of professions in the second season of Richard Hammond’s Crash Course, but perhaps it’s appropriate that he’s starting with a stint as a stunt (yes, the consonance was deliberate) driver on ...

WATCH: Richard Hammond’s First Impressions of America

By Kevin Wicks | Posted on October 17th, 2012

Previously, we posted Richard Hammond‘s choice for the most common misconception Americans have about British people. Today, the Crash Course host reveals his earliest impressions about our young nation, and his observations might ...

Top Gear Thursday: Hammond Says U.S. Slang is Missing Important Word

By staff | Posted on October 11th, 2012

Richard Hammond's offers a crash course on British slang.

Richard Hammond has spent a good deal of time over here in the U.S. He enjoys getting to know us Americans through our jobs, and he even tries to see if he can learn to do them himself in his show, Richard Hammond’s Crash Course.

Top Gear Thursday: British Hosts Sign Three-Year Deal

By staff | Posted on October 4th, 2012

The three boys - from left - Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond. (BBC)

Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond have signed new three-year contracts to continue doing Top Gear, reports BBC News.

Top Gear Thursday: Richard Hammond’s Back in the Saddle

By staff | Posted on September 27th, 2012

Perhaps Richard Hammond didn’t get the “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor” nursery ditty straight when he was a kid. Maybe his non-rhyming version went “cattle rancher, cab driver, stuntman, barber.