Dave

November 7th, 2008 by dave

Taken from another website: TOTALLY STUPID IF I MUST SAY SO !!!

A Labour MP has urged the BBC to dismiss Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson over a joke he made on the motoring show.

More than 500 people have complained to the BBC about Clarkson’s quip about lorry drivers killing prostitutes.

And while media watchdog Ofcom has said the remark was not a breach of the broadcasting code, Ipswich MP Chris Mole claimed it was a “dismissible offence”.

Clarkson, 48, was taking part in a lorry-driving task on Sunday night’s edition of the show when he joked that lorry drivers kill sex workers.

“Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That’s a lot of effort in a day,” he said.

The comments may have been a reference to Steve Wright, a lorry driver jailed in February for the murder of five prostitutes.

The so-called Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, who killed 13 women - many of them prostitutes - was also a truck driver.

A BBC statement issued on Monday said: “The vast majority of Top Gear viewers have clear expectations of Jeremy Clarkson’s long-established and frequently provocative on-screen persona.

“This particular reference was used to comically exaggerate and make ridiculous an unfair urban myth about the world of lorry driving, and was not intended to cause offence.”

But Mr Mole was offended by the possible reference to the murders committed by Steve Wright in Suffolk and has written a “strongly-worded” letter to the BBC’s director general Mark Thompson.

“The murders in my constituency in 2006 were horrific and the community has spent a lot of time pulling together to respond constructively to such dreadful events,” he wrote.

“For Mr Clarkson to make light of murder in any circumstance must be a dismissible offence.

“To do so with complete disregard for the families of the murdered women should make this a matter on which I would expect you to take immediate action.”

I think this is absolutely disgusting, yes he was prob a bit out of order but at the end of the day, Britain is famous for its comedy and JC is not the only one to take things a bit far sometimes.

If people do not like certain people on TV then they should not bother tuning in.

So tell me this? Are you tellin me that the 500 plus people that complained were enjoying the programme until he said that ?

They were obviously fans of the Topgear show, so why let one thing get their back up, we all know what Jeremy is like so why be total arseholes about it. Do these MP’s sit on their arses all day looking for things to moan about, do they have lives or infact any sense of humour at all? Obviously NOT !!!

Topgear is THE best programme the BBC has to offer, and thats FACT. Without him the programme may as well be taken off air.

As soon as I read about this I had to blog about it, maybe its because I am only 24 and do not see the bigger picture, who knows. This Country stinks at times like this, something so small being blown up. I’m rather angry about it, these MP’s should get lives !!!!