the whole point about the 'Reasonably Priced Car' is....they're incapable of reaching 80 mph one episode the 'Star' was Slash the sight of him trying to get the helmet on over all that hair was hilarious but then he closed the show by playing his variation of the theme tune which is Jessica by the Allman Brothers
Before they changed the car from that Suzuki Liana, he was beaten by Ellen Mcarthur, she had (probably still holds) the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation in a yacht. Edit: She did that in 2005, was beaten in 2008. But she's still only one of four people who managed a world tour without stopover or assistance. She did it in 71 days. (Some quick Wikipedia-ing.)
She also circumnavigated Great Britain on her own .... when she was 19! I am the same age as her pretty much - I was not circumnavigating anything but the local pubs in 1995, lol
I’m glad you put that on here. I remember being a little bit fed up of hearing about the “oh-so-bloody-wonderful” Ellen McArthur at the time. Then she was on Top Gear, I watched the interview and I was instantly hit by all the things that everyone must’ve noticed before me. Charismatic, humble, funny, just a joy to watch. I’m gonna try and find that clip, might be worth recommending to KB. (Also, wasn’t she made, like, a Dame or something?).
great reaction. id definitely recommend more 'stars in reasonably priced cars' segments like this from top gear. there's a bunch of people you're aware of who've been on. hope you and queen boomer are enjoying Greece! best wishes from England.
It was a feature each week that they would get a celeb to do a lap. They purposely chose mediocre "averagely priced" cars so anyone can participate and change the car every 3-5 years. They even do a separate board for F1 and rally drivers, who seem to take it more seriously than their actually championships because they've kept the same car for them for the entire shows life, so they get to compete against all the most famous drivers like Schumacher. After Jonothan Ross got his BBC chat show cancelled there was a sudden re-booking and Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz went on Top Gear instead, Tom Cruise was like a 5 year old let loose in a candy store he was so excited xD Simon Cowell takes it really seriously and came back later on to try and take the lead back.
lawsuits for injuries wouldn't even be a thing if you had universal healthcare. The fact that there is a monopoly making people billionaires on people getting sick or dying from injuries, means that people wouldn't be bothered to sue if they were able to get treated without being made bankrupt
Oh, you gullible child... you think that thousands of people aren't getting rich in universal healthcare countries? You think that if the government (so a bureaucracy like the DMV) is in control of your healthcare they'll actually give you real healthcare? If they don't what are you going to do? Complain? Haha! All the doctors will be employed by the government too, so you think they'll help you?
You two need to learn your stuff. Yes uk has lawsuits but the difference here is you have to proof your employer has been negligent. Makes a huge difference
@@Goady1000 we are miles behind the US ambulance chasers who are practiced fraudsters and world class bullshitters (present company excepted of course) I’ve never been sued nor has anyone I know.
When I think of an American suing someone, it always makes me think of the time when Homer Simpson tried suing The Never Ending Story for false advertising
13:50 Geri Halliwell, Boris Johnson, Jonathan Ross, Johnny Vegas, Harry Enfield, Terry Wogan 14:05 Johnny Vaughan, Fay Ripley, Bill Bailey, Alan Davies, Steve Coogan, Martin Kemp 14:17 Jodie Kidd, Jason "Jay" Kay, Patrick Kielty, Paul McKenna 14:35 Jimmy Carr, Simon Cowell, Ronnie O'Sullivan
It was such a huge show at its height, globally too not just in the UK, this was one of my favourite segments every week seeing a different celeb having go at a lap time, Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz even had a go.
I think he stayed in the top until the updated the resonably priced car to the Kia Ce'ed, or Ce apostrophe de as they called it. He was therefor one of the 4-5 celebreties that they called in to start a new board with the new car at that time later. Also a great watch
I was one car wrong, they upgraded that to the Vauxhal that then was upgraded to the Kia. Bellow you have the first upgrade also staring Juimmy Carr ua-cam.com/video/ZWbrxHxyTsc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=PhilGenesisFansNL
Boomer, these old Top Gear vids are iconic in the UK. Jodie Kidd, the supermodel, pisses over most of the boys and ended up racing for Maserati in their Cup Series. She now has her own YT car channel called Kidd In A Sweetshop. Oh, have fun in Greece, great food and now the new wines are very drinkable.
The hot lap is a mark of pride amongst "stars" and Tom Cruise did a lap, check it out! You actually get three attempts and your best lap is shown but they don't advertise that.
They changed the rules with the second car (the one before the Kia cee'd) you were allowed 5 practice laps and then the 6th lap was timed, which is why Jimmy was last in the second car because he spun it on his timed lap. If you watch series 8 episode 1 they explain the new rule ua-cam.com/video/H05IWfKGLlc/v-deo.html
Cambridge University is held in a higher regaurd that Harvard, Cambridge is ranked 3rd in the world which is tied with Stanford University, Harvard is ranked 5th while Yale is ranked 14th. The only two that are higher ranked is MIT and Oxford university.
Would love to see a reaction video to a complete Top Gear episode, as watching small segments doesn’t always give you the complete picture of what is happening. The ‘Special’ episodes were amazing. Would love to see you watch the Argentina episodes, however they were split into two 1 hour segments so they would be long videos but worth it.
I love your guys channel, your personality seems so familiar which is normal. The Maryland flag has instantly became my favourite state flag because I’m a nerd like that 😃
The most crazy top gear episode was… Run out of Alabama! Offensive Cars, Top Gear Series 9. If you haven’t all ready seen this, check it out… you won’t be disappointed.
It's strange in certain parts of the US how police seem to ignore speeders unless they want to target that driver... The quote "you know you're in LA when someone goes speeding past you, and you're already 20 over the limit" comes to mind.
I did an exercise with your troops near Louisiana and drove to Dallas for my RNR down one of those long straight roads in what can only be described as a monster of a hired vehicle. I stopped off at a small shop in the middle of nowhere and was questioned where I was from. Amazingly because I had a northern British accent the shop owner refused to believe I was from England until I did a Hugh Grant impression.
Top Gear is, as James would put it, 3 good friends cocking about in cars. There are quite a few of the shocked, yet genuinely happy with the results reactions from many celebrities on "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car". I think one of my favourites has to be Rowan Atkinson.
That was an quite an early episode, over the series they got newer and slightly faster reasonably priced cars so he didn't stay on top, but he did go back for another try.
This was Jimmy back before he had some work done on his face! Please react to Russel Brand, I think you’d like him. Or Billl Bailey meets Paul McCartney :)
Sign posts and the like you have to experience Ireland. Not too bad now but back in the day I was driving through Dublin looking for the road to Dublin Airport eventually found it and the sign was about half the size of a piece of A4 paper. Also roundabouts......the signs are 300-400 yards up the road so it is pot luck which exit to come of haha
you have both been sued! My gosh what a world out there! Adds to Jimmy joke over it then! Oh and SO cool that you recognise a lot of the names on the list since your rabbit hole diving of British comedians and showrunners etc, Brilliant!
Always find this clip funny, I worked at Shell 6 months after Jimmy left, in the same department, and all the staff said he was useless and a massive 'W%nker!" lol, he didn't last 6 months. Still think he's a great comedian though, one of my favourites.
It’s changed now, Montana has had speed limits for at least 10 years I think, just in case you head back west… The roads here in the UK are so different, winding and narrow
There was a running joke about the fact every single celeb sat forward on the seat when their time was being announced no matter how much they tried to pretend they didn't care!
Rover 75s are brilliant cars I'm on my 2nd, every accessory you could imagine, smooth as silk and in 9 years of ownership just 2 breakdowns both from knackered batteries.
The thing that is annoying in UK,is traffic lights still working after midnight when there is next to nothing else on the road!So you sit at a red light with nobody else about,i think other countries in Europe keep their lights on amber which means give way if you have to,but if there is nobody coming you can just go!!!
Hope you two are enjoying Greece. Yup that's why Clarkson, May , and Hammond, are so popular. Actually , Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, were also outstanding results.
Had to check and it turns out that Jimmy Carr was beaten by Ellen MacArthur by 0.2 seconds (total time 1:46.7) before that car was retired. The interesting fact about the Suzuki Liana from this clip is that it was also driven on the same track by multiple F1 drivers. Kimi Räikkönen did 1:46.1 on very wet track and Lewis Hamilton (won F1 championship 7 times) did it in 1:42.9 and the best time ever was 1:42.2 by Daniel Ricciardo. So even though Jimmy Carr was driving as fast as possible, the best F1 drivers did it 4.5 seconds faster over the same lap in the same car!
@@Robhoyle1 Do you mean for example the car in 12:33 - that looks like Suzuki Liana to me. If you check Wikipedia to see how Suzuki Liana and Chevrolet Lascetti look like and the car in this clip seems to have headlights and bumpers that look like Liana. It's true that Chevrolet Lascetti was used in later years for the Top Gear reasonably-priced car.
@@MikkoRantalainen I owe you an apology, it is the Liana, I'm not sure if I had a brain fart but going through the shots of yhe car with pauses. you're right, Liana it is
Signposting for villages in the in the UK is determined by local rivalries.. If the town north of another town.. They will not fully signpost a direct route. I lived in a market town that has a famous cattle market. And the town 10 miles south of it has the word Market in its name. The local council refuses to send business to that town. Thus they don't sign post it. This is common around the UK.
There is a flip side to the US's notoriously litigious culture. Its justice system is also very efficient - or used to be anyway. I was too little to remember this, but my late father told me about a time when we were living in Denver in the late 70s, and he - being British and bit naïve about US traffic laws (they are not optional like they seem to be in the UK), he failed to stop at a stop sign and, to his surprise, was immediately pulled over by some kind of stealth cop and ticketed. Ten dollars! Now, ten bucks was a lot of money back then, so my mother leapt into action. She had spotted that the line at the intersection was faded. She had her Kodak Instamatic with her and took a picture of the line (she's still got it!). Then, she told the cop that they'd like to contest the ticket in court, which amused him quite a lot, apparently (crazy Brits and all that). But, sure enough, they went to the local court a few days later and told the judge about the faded line and showed him the photograph. He was so impressed that he told them that while their defence was somewhat flimsy, he would cut the fine by five dollars as a reward for a good effort. So that was my folks' one and only experience of the US justice system in three years living there, and they were mightily impressed with it. Much better than the UK's, that's for sure - or so they told me - where some barely trained local magistrate probably would have had them arrested because they had the wrong case in front of them. That can happen!
There is another side of the appearance with Jimmy giving a tour of Top Gear set and it is hilarious. Here it is- ua-cam.com/video/s1wYIENPkk0/v-deo.html
A league of their own is a good comedy sports quiz and they have a new series showing at the moment and in one of the first episodes Jimmy carr crashed.
If I recall Jimmy Carr won that competition; which was the first reasonably priced car race. It went on for a few years but the leader board got full and the car got old so they switched to a second competition; which Jimmy finished bottom of. His aggressive driving combined with a bit of rain and he span out constantly. I think he was something like 30 seconds slower (possibly he just did it for comic affect as the rain meant he wasnt going to win)
He was fastest in that series (5) the actual fastest person when they retired that car (end of series 7) was Helen MacArthur. The reason he was last in the next car was because they changed the rules they were allowed to do a couple of test laps then the final lap was the timed lap, and he spun it on the timed lap.
A fantastic 70/80's british show to react to is LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR! Extremely offensive today and 100% wouldn't be allowed on tv in any country. I have just found it myself and happy it can still be found on youtube
"if you come to the states please do not....." Actually just do not bother going, you can't get sued then..... hopefully no one sues me for saying that 😆
I wasn't doing 115 last night on the motorway taking my dad to accident and emergency for them to say its a 7 hour waiting time to which my dad in a lot of pain said forget it I then drove him to his gp dismorning and he is now staying overnight at AnE so they can diagnose what's wrong with him anyway u can speed in England very easily its a case of necessity
I can’t really remember whether he stayed at the top, they had a few other cars and reset the leaderboard a few times, I do remember the second time he was on it they may have mentioned him being top last time so he may have kept that until the reset.
It would be difficult id imagine for an American to sue a tourist if that person hadn’t actually broken the law, they would just go back to their home country and you could ignore any lawyers letters
the whole point about the 'Reasonably Priced Car' is....they're incapable of reaching 80 mph one episode the 'Star' was Slash the sight of him trying to get the helmet on over all that hair was hilarious but then he closed the show by playing his variation of the theme tune which is Jessica by the Allman Brothers
At least he didn't try to put the helmet on over his hat :)
Before they changed the car from that Suzuki Liana, he was beaten by Ellen Mcarthur, she had (probably still holds) the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation in a yacht. Edit: She did that in 2005, was beaten in 2008. But she's still only one of four people who managed a world tour without stopover or assistance. She did it in 71 days. (Some quick Wikipedia-ing.)
She also circumnavigated Great Britain on her own .... when she was 19! I am the same age as her pretty much - I was not circumnavigating anything but the local pubs in 1995, lol
I’m glad you put that on here. I remember being a little bit fed up of hearing about the “oh-so-bloody-wonderful” Ellen McArthur at the time. Then she was on Top Gear, I watched the interview and I was instantly hit by all the things that everyone must’ve noticed before me. Charismatic, humble, funny, just a joy to watch. I’m gonna try and find that clip, might be worth recommending to KB.
(Also, wasn’t she made, like, a Dame or something?).
The Rowan Atkinson top gear interview was just as funny too, good one to watch. 👍
great reaction. id definitely recommend more 'stars in reasonably priced cars' segments like this from top gear. there's a bunch of people you're aware of who've been on. hope you and queen boomer are enjoying Greece! best wishes from England.
It was a feature each week that they would get a celeb to do a lap. They purposely chose mediocre "averagely priced" cars so anyone can participate and change the car every 3-5 years. They even do a separate board for F1 and rally drivers, who seem to take it more seriously than their actually championships because they've kept the same car for them for the entire shows life, so they get to compete against all the most famous drivers like Schumacher.
After Jonothan Ross got his BBC chat show cancelled there was a sudden re-booking and Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz went on Top Gear instead, Tom Cruise was like a 5 year old let loose in a candy store he was so excited xD
Simon Cowell takes it really seriously and came back later on to try and take the lead back.
lawsuits for injuries wouldn't even be a thing if you had universal healthcare. The fact that there is a monopoly making people billionaires on people getting sick or dying from injuries, means that people wouldn't be bothered to sue if they were able to get treated without being made bankrupt
This is just not true lol, it’s not as if “injurylawyers4u” doesn’t exist in the UK
Spoof, that's why uk TV Is fulla "injured in accident that wasn't ur fault" adverts
Oh, you gullible child... you think that thousands of people aren't getting rich in universal healthcare countries? You think that if the government (so a bureaucracy like the DMV) is in control of your healthcare they'll actually give you real healthcare? If they don't what are you going to do? Complain? Haha! All the doctors will be employed by the government too, so you think they'll help you?
You two need to learn your stuff. Yes uk has lawsuits but the difference here is you have to proof your employer has been negligent. Makes a huge difference
@@Goady1000 we are miles behind the US ambulance chasers who are practiced fraudsters and world class bullshitters (present company excepted of course)
I’ve never been sued nor has anyone I know.
When I think of an American suing someone, it always makes me think of the time when Homer Simpson tried suing The Never Ending Story for false advertising
That was Lionel Hutz, not Homer.
@@seppingtondestamina9398 Arrh yeah that's right. Homer wanted to su the all you can eat buffet place lol
I was one of the people that suggest that clip, glad you liked it. 😀
13:50 Geri Halliwell, Boris Johnson, Jonathan Ross, Johnny Vegas, Harry Enfield, Terry Wogan
14:05 Johnny Vaughan, Fay Ripley, Bill Bailey, Alan Davies, Steve Coogan, Martin Kemp
14:17 Jodie Kidd, Jason "Jay" Kay, Patrick Kielty, Paul McKenna
14:35 Jimmy Carr, Simon Cowell, Ronnie O'Sullivan
"Top Gear ~ Blind Lap" is the best Reasonably Priced Car segment
Jimmy is nearly always in the Top 3 Fastest Celebrities in a Reasonably Priced Car whenever he goes on Top Gear.
I don't know if it's available, but the SIARPC segment with Will Smith and Margot Robbie is pure gold...
Michael Gambons second visit to TG was pretty funny
It was such a huge show at its height, globally too not just in the UK, this was one of my favourite segments every week seeing a different celeb having go at a lap time, Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz even had a go.
I think he stayed in the top until the updated the resonably priced car to the Kia Ce'ed, or Ce apostrophe de as they called it. He was therefor one of the 4-5 celebreties that they called in to start a new board with the new car at that time later.
Also a great watch
I was one car wrong, they upgraded that to the Vauxhal that then was upgraded to the Kia.
Bellow you have the first upgrade also staring Juimmy Carr
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Boomer, these old Top Gear vids are iconic in the UK. Jodie Kidd, the supermodel, pisses over most of the boys and ended up racing for Maserati in their Cup Series. She now has her own YT car channel called Kidd In A Sweetshop. Oh, have fun in Greece, great food and now the new wines are very drinkable.
The hot lap is a mark of pride amongst "stars" and Tom Cruise did a lap, check it out!
You actually get three attempts and your best lap is shown but they don't advertise that.
They changed the rules with the second car (the one before the Kia cee'd) you were allowed 5 practice laps and then the 6th lap was timed, which is why Jimmy was last in the second car because he spun it on his timed lap. If you watch series 8 episode 1 they explain the new rule
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Harry Enfield "Lee and Lance, whos that girl" sketch. CLASSIC ENDING
Cambridge University is held in a higher regaurd that Harvard, Cambridge is ranked 3rd in the world which is tied with Stanford University, Harvard is ranked 5th while Yale is ranked 14th. The only two that are higher ranked is MIT and Oxford university.
Been watching you since the first football chants reaction. Love your content keep it up bro!
Would love to see a reaction video to a complete Top Gear episode, as watching small segments doesn’t always give you the complete picture of what is happening. The ‘Special’ episodes were amazing. Would love to see you watch the Argentina episodes, however they were split into two 1 hour segments so they would be long videos but worth it.
Since you started you have grown in understanding the British & Irish sense of humour
Its great..
I love your guys channel, your personality seems so familiar which is normal. The Maryland flag has instantly became my favourite state flag because I’m a nerd like that 😃
Best reaction channel KB. Much love from UK
The most crazy top gear episode was… Run out of Alabama! Offensive Cars, Top Gear Series 9. If you haven’t all ready seen this, check it out… you won’t be disappointed.
It's strange in certain parts of the US how police seem to ignore speeders unless they want to target that driver... The quote "you know you're in LA when someone goes speeding past you, and you're already 20 over the limit" comes to mind.
Target? UK here...
I did an exercise with your troops near Louisiana and drove to Dallas for my RNR down one of those long straight roads in what can only be described as a monster of a hired vehicle. I stopped off at a small shop in the middle of nowhere and was questioned where I was from. Amazingly because I had a northern British accent the shop owner refused to believe I was from England until I did a Hugh Grant impression.
Top Gear is, as James would put it, 3 good friends cocking about in cars. There are quite a few of the shocked, yet genuinely happy with the results reactions from many celebrities on "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car". I think one of my favourites has to be Rowan Atkinson.
I believe this segment was called "putting a star in a low price car." Something like that. They even got Tom Cruise to do it.
That was an quite an early episode, over the series they got newer and slightly faster reasonably priced cars so he didn't stay on top, but he did go back for another try.
This was Jimmy back before he had some work done on his face! Please react to Russel Brand, I think you’d like him. Or Billl Bailey meets Paul McCartney :)
Need to check out Boris Johnson’s two appearances on Top Gear. Hysterical!
Love this channel! May I suggest comedian Chic Murray
Sign posts and the like you have to experience Ireland. Not too bad now but back in the day I was driving through Dublin looking for the road to Dublin Airport eventually found it and the sign was about half the size of a piece of A4 paper. Also roundabouts......the signs are 300-400 yards up the road so it is pot luck which exit to come of haha
in the UK it's the narrowest most windy of roads without speed limits
Such a highly appropriate surname for a guest on Top Gear!! 🚘
Top Gear was a powerhouse, they even got Tom Cruise to do the star in a reasonably priced car segment and attracted a lot of Hollywood A listers.
you have both been sued! My gosh what a world out there! Adds to Jimmy joke over it then!
Oh and SO cool that you recognise a lot of the names on the list since your rabbit hole diving of British comedians and showrunners etc, Brilliant!
This was 20 years ago 2002
Always find this clip funny, I worked at Shell 6 months after Jimmy left, in the same department, and all the staff said he was useless and a massive 'W%nker!" lol, he didn't last 6 months. Still think he's a great comedian though, one of my favourites.
It’s changed now, Montana has had speed limits for at least 10 years I think, just in case you head back west…
The roads here in the UK are so different, winding and narrow
There was a running joke about the fact every single celeb sat forward on the seat when their time was being announced no matter how much they tried to pretend they didn't care!
I always loved "Strars in the Reasonably Priced Cars" segment. They own commentary was always funny.
Being sued or suing someone seems like a rite of passage for Americans. For Brits, it's your first pint.
All episodes of Top Gear are available on Pluto TV streaming
Should try Johnny Vegas interview on Top Gear.
In a later episode Jeremy says the stig said Jimmy was "the worst driver we have ever had and the luckiest man alive".
Rover 75s are brilliant cars I'm on my 2nd, every accessory you could imagine, smooth as silk and in 9 years of ownership just 2 breakdowns both from knackered batteries.
The thing that is annoying in UK,is traffic lights still working after midnight when there is next to nothing else on the road!So you sit at a red light with nobody else about,i think other countries in Europe keep their lights on amber which means give way if you have to,but if there is nobody coming you can just go!!!
A few suggestions to watch mate,
Shooting stars best bits, with Vic reeves and Bob mortimers, and Yorkshire Airways sketch with hale and pace,
I live in Corby town centre... Kettering town centre is 6 miles away.
That episode was from a long time ago. I don't remember if anyone topped that time.
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz were on Top Gear, I recommend that.
React to Jimmy Carr on Netflix - all of his stand ups are epic - seen him live 30 times so far love every time.
Hope you two are enjoying Greece. Yup that's why Clarkson, May , and Hammond, are so popular. Actually , Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, were also outstanding results.
JC is also good at stand-up comedy.
Some used to call him a ventriliquist doll or that he looked like one.
Tom Cruise stood at the top for a long time look up who went passed him with flying colours on TopGear !
You must watch the Patagonia special! They were attacked by the Argentinians!
The car registration had 52 as the first two numbers so it was a September 2002 registered car.
Lil note,Jimmy was doing 3x the national average mileage in his car,average on this lil island is just 10,000 miles
Had to check and it turns out that Jimmy Carr was beaten by Ellen MacArthur by 0.2 seconds (total time 1:46.7) before that car was retired.
The interesting fact about the Suzuki Liana from this clip is that it was also driven on the same track by multiple F1 drivers. Kimi Räikkönen did 1:46.1 on very wet track and Lewis Hamilton (won F1 championship 7 times) did it in 1:42.9 and the best time ever was 1:42.2 by Daniel Ricciardo.
So even though Jimmy Carr was driving as fast as possible, the best F1 drivers did it 4.5 seconds faster over the same lap in the same car!
That Suzuki Liana in the clip is a Chevrolet Lascetti
@@Robhoyle1 Do you mean for example the car in 12:33 - that looks like Suzuki Liana to me. If you check Wikipedia to see how Suzuki Liana and Chevrolet Lascetti look like and the car in this clip seems to have headlights and bumpers that look like Liana. It's true that Chevrolet Lascetti was used in later years for the Top Gear reasonably-priced car.
@@MikkoRantalainen I owe you an apology, it is the Liana, I'm not sure if I had a brain fart but going through the shots of yhe car with pauses. you're right, Liana it is
@@Robhoyle1 No need to apologize. The video quality was far from good so it was a bit hard to figure out which car it really was.
Signposting for villages in the in the UK is determined by local rivalries.. If the town north of another town.. They will not fully signpost a direct route.
I lived in a market town that has a famous cattle market. And the town 10 miles south of it has the word Market in its name. The local council refuses to send business to that town. Thus they don't sign post it. This is common around the UK.
Have you watched The British Comedy,In Sickness and in Health?.The main character is Alf Garrnett.It will have you crying.
There is a flip side to the US's notoriously litigious culture. Its justice system is also very efficient - or used to be anyway.
I was too little to remember this, but my late father told me about a time when we were living in Denver in the late 70s, and he - being British and bit naïve about US traffic laws (they are not optional like they seem to be in the UK), he failed to stop at a stop sign and, to his surprise, was immediately pulled over by some kind of stealth cop and ticketed. Ten dollars! Now, ten bucks was a lot of money back then, so my mother leapt into action. She had spotted that the line at the intersection was faded. She had her Kodak Instamatic with her and took a picture of the line (she's still got it!). Then, she told the cop that they'd like to contest the ticket in court, which amused him quite a lot, apparently (crazy Brits and all that).
But, sure enough, they went to the local court a few days later and told the judge about the faded line and showed him the photograph. He was so impressed that he told them that while their defence was somewhat flimsy, he would cut the fine by five dollars as a reward for a good effort.
So that was my folks' one and only experience of the US justice system in three years living there, and they were mightily impressed with it. Much better than the UK's, that's for sure - or so they told me - where some barely trained local magistrate probably would have had them arrested because they had the wrong case in front of them. That can happen!
You should have a look at zippy and george do top gear.
Zippy and george were characters on kids tv show "rainbow" but this I'd far more x rated😂😂
That was around 2002, if anybody remembers how long he stayed there for I'd be impressed.
There is another side of the appearance with Jimmy giving a tour of Top Gear set and it is hilarious. Here it is- ua-cam.com/video/s1wYIENPkk0/v-deo.html
Jimmy Carr stayed on the top of the list for a long time if I'm not mistaken
A league of their own is a good comedy sports quiz and they have a new series showing at the moment and in one of the first episodes Jimmy carr crashed.
If I recall Jimmy Carr won that competition; which was the first reasonably priced car race. It went on for a few years but the leader board got full and the car got old so they switched to a second competition; which Jimmy finished bottom of. His aggressive driving combined with a bit of rain and he span out constantly. I think he was something like 30 seconds slower (possibly he just did it for comic affect as the rain meant he wasnt going to win)
He was fastest in that series (5) the actual fastest person when they retired that car (end of series 7) was Helen MacArthur.
The reason he was last in the next car was because they changed the rules they were allowed to do a couple of test laps then the final lap was the timed lap, and he spun it on the timed lap.
If you want more Top Gear, I really recommend you check out a compilation of 'The Stig'
The fourth musketeer of Top Gear!
A fantastic 70/80's british show to react to is LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR! Extremely offensive today and 100% wouldn't be allowed on tv in any country. I have just found it myself and happy it can still be found on youtube
Was it Lionel Richie or Billy Ocean that had fun with the car and the back up car ? (keeping it a surprise )
CONGRATULATIONS TB12! Top Gear Specials are pretty funny
Suggestion for you mate... Brassic. It's a hilarious show. You'll love it!
"if you come to the states please do not....." Actually just do not bother going, you can't get sued then..... hopefully no one sues me for saying that 😆
Hey btw if you have amazon prime, the latest Grand Tour special ft. The top gear trio is coming out on sept. 16...
Last time I went to the state's I pissed off everyone 🤣🤣🤣
you must have a look at "lilly Savage" hilarious
You should do the Top Gear space shuttle or the drive to the north pole.
I wasn't doing 115 last night on the motorway taking my dad to accident and emergency for them to say its a 7 hour waiting time to which my dad in a lot of pain said forget it I then drove him to his
gp dismorning and he is now staying overnight at AnE so they can diagnose what's wrong with him anyway u can speed in England very easily its a case of necessity
I've never even met anyone who's been sued. The US is weird.
Oh the humble Brit 👌
the way to win is drive like you dying for a shit need the bog lol
He stayed at the top for quite a while actually
I don't think records are meant to be broken, but they are meant to be attempted at breaking them.
Check out Stewart Lee - Top Gear
Harvard would be the equivalent to Cambridge haha. That’s how I’ve always seen it anyway. Both are like posh hogwarts 😆
That was the old car, they set a new board for every new car they get, I think there has been two or three cars since then
I can’t really remember whether he stayed at the top, they had a few other cars and reset the leaderboard a few times, I do remember the second time he was on it they may have mentioned him being top last time so he may have kept that until the reset.
The best bit is he beat Simon Cowell. His ego be shattered!
They change the car every few years, and Jimmy didn't get to the top of those lists.
Rowan Atkinson's interview is a good one to watch.
Huh, Jimmy Carr lives up to his name, I guess 😂
I'd recommend watching some never mind the buzzcocks, hilarious! Frankie Boyle hosted a few of them shows, Simon amstell is funny on them too
lol ths was hilarious
Have a look for the Dangerous brothers 😜
It would be difficult id imagine for an American to sue a tourist if that person hadn’t actually broken the law, they would just go back to their home country and you could ignore any lawyers letters
If memory serves, he stayed at the top until they got a different car, which he was then slowest in (or very near the bottom).
Ellen MacArthur was the only one who beat him, on that car.
I got sued once, well nearly, I settled out of court with a baseball bat. Not a squeak since from the plaintiff