Tag Archives: Jeremy Clarkson

Top Gear Thursday: Comedy Duo Write a Song About Jeremy Clarkson

By | Posted on March 28th, 2013
Still from 'The Jeremy Clarkson Top Gear Song' (Hawkeye and Windy)

“You buy a bag of peanuts in this town, you get a song written about you,” said Orson Welles as the title character of Citizen Kane.

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Top Gear Thursday: Africa Trip Revives Subaru Impreza’s Popularity

By | Posted on March 21st, 2013
Richard Hammond drives his Subaru Impreza in Africa. (BBC America)

Last week, Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond rewrote the annals of exploration in their search for the source of the Nile and there are indications that they also changed the way Britons perceive estate cars (station ...

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Top Gear Thursday: Want Stars Like James McAvoy and Bruce Willis? Watch ‘Top Gear’

By | Posted on February 28th, 2013
James McAvoy in a reasonably priced car (TopGear.com)

Red hot James McAvoy is next week’s Star in A Reasonably Priced Car (premiering March 4). The Scottish actor’s driving, writes TopGear.

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Top Gear Thursday: Jeremy, Richard and James Take American Road Trip

By | Posted on February 7th, 2013
Leaving Las Vegas (BBC America)

Road trip. Do any two words — with the exception of Top Gear, of course — strike such excitement in the hearts of car lovers, especially American car lovers?

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Top Gear Thursday: Top Ten ‘Top Gear’ Moments of 2012

By | Posted on December 27th, 2012
The Stig thanks his lucky stars. (BBC America)

Could we have used the word “top” any more times in that headline? But at least you get the idea: we’re aiming for the top here, and we’ll look at the high points of Top Gear over the past year.

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Top Gear Thursday: Top Gear Stunt School Revolution 2.0 Hits the Streets

By | Posted on December 13th, 2012
Top Gear Stunt School Revolution

The new Top Gear Stunt School Revolution 2.0 is “apptastic,” announced Top Gear UK. It’s got 50 percent more content and action than the previous iteration, and, through Facebook Connect, you can race your friends.

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Top Gear Thursday: For Richard Hammond, It *Is* Rocket Science

By | Posted on December 6th, 2012
Richard works on welding rocket parts. (BBC America)

In the season two finale of Richard Hammond’s Crash Course, Richard Hammond is aiming high — 40,000 feet high — by joining scientists to launch an actual rocket from the Mojave Desert.

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Top Gear Personality Quiz: Are You Jeremy, Richard or James?

By | Posted on November 26th, 2012
Three blokes, in the modern, British sense of the word.

The thing you have to realise about the Anglophenia personality quizzes is they are an inexact science. So inexact, in fact, that if you made a car using the kind of sweeping generalisations in the place of precise measurement that we ...

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

By | 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 ...

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

By | Posted on September 27th, 2012
Cowhand Richard Hammond

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.

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