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August 30th, 2009 - 14:08
My favourite from a 'disgruntled (female) top gear fan';
''How can someone get away with saying so many awful things all in the name of a 'joke'? Yes Clarkson has said some questionable things but they are all one liners meant to be jokes''
September 1st, 2009 - 14:31
Textbook.
September 1st, 2009 - 23:41
I happened to see Lee's show on Saturday and he mentioned a Mail asked him about the routine. The actually bit about wanting Hammond to die in severe pain in front of his wife is so stretched out and ludicrous that it's clear that the exaggeration is deliberate.
What the Mail commentators brilliantly have missed though is that Lee's point is that saying 'It's just a joke, get a sense of humour' doesn't always wash it when you are making jokes like the one Lee did or like those the Top Gear crew sometimes do.
The fact that if Hammond, if he said 'You can't joke about that' would be showing himself as a massive hypocrite is one of the many subtle layers of irony in this routine.