- "He's basically a shaved ape in a shirt. And he – technically – is the only one of us never to be fired by anyone."
- —Richard Hammond introduces Jeremy Clarkson[src]
- "HAMMOND!!!
" - —Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson is a TV presenter, journalist and writer who first came known to the public on the original BBC Top Gear on which he was a presenter from 1988 to 1998, before leaving to pursue other ventures. He would return to the show in 2002 after it was taken off the air and relaunched with Andy Wilman as producer. Under his tenure, and alongside fellow presenters Richard Hammond and James May, Top Gear would become a worldwide phenomenon and one of the defining television shows of the 2000s. However, with times changing and Clarkson growing more controversial with each series, his dismissal was almost inevitable and happened in 2015, after he slapped a producer in the face during an argument. After 4 months of turmoil, it was revealed that Clarkson along with Wilman, Hammond and May had set up W. Chump and Sons, an independent production company with which they were to produce their own motoring show, called The Grand Tour. He is nicknamed "Jezza" or "The Orangutan", the latter because he has a big head.
Quotes[]
- "HAMMOND!"
- "HAMMOND! YOU IDIOT! YOU REVERSED INTO THE SPORTS LORRY!"
- "HAMMOOOOOND! YOU F***ING MORON!" (also when Hammond reversed into him)
- "Oh my god. HAMMOND!" (when Clarkson sees a hotel that Hammond booked's disgusting mattress)
- "HAMMOND! MAY, YOU IDIOTS!" (yelling at both Richard Hammond and James May for their behavior)
- "MAY! Is that thing on the front of your car made out of my door?
- "Let's not get bogged down."
- "JAAAAAAAAAAMES! STOP FILING!"
- "Oh no! Anyway..."
- "Sometimes my genius is...it's almost freighting."
- "When dawn broke, the peace and serenity of this Ugandan morning were shattered by the bellow of a wild animal." (which in reality is James May yelling "CLARKSON!")
- "And on that terrible disappointment..."
- “THE SPEEEEEEEEEEEEED”
- "I lived, Nigel Mansell has been decapitated, and my candelabra is in tatters. And that is a sentence nobody has ever said before."