# Jeremy Clarkson is a pig **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 19, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814 "2022-12-19T22:53:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/81 "2022-12-21T15:53:46Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > But even then, watching you had to acknowledge that Clarkson (or the character Clarkson to the extent that they are different) is at least 50% more a jerk than either of the others, even at their worse. [side, Hammond is barely .2 Clarkson’s on average, and May .1]. Hammond wasn’t always innocent. I can’t recall the episode or the context, but I remember him complaining that he couldn’t use a certain word to describe some people, because the BBC judged it offensive. The camera cut away to the hood of a car, where he had placed a meat pie next to a key. > [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > To Brits saying that they’re actually doing a job, well so does the royal family in my country (Sweden), as they do in Spain, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands and Belgium. King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands famously has a part-time job as an [airline pilot for KLM.](https://simpleflying.com/dutch-king-klm-pilot/). That’s a job worth doing, I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/82 "2022-12-21T16:31:43Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > LOL Deep. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/83 "2022-12-21T16:36:23Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Deep When you can snatch the pebble from my hand, you will have attained enlightenment. 😔 ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/84 "2022-12-21T16:43:25Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > The camera cut away to the hood of a car, where he had placed a meat pie next to a key. English slur for someone from Pakistan (or descendant of same)? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/85 "2022-12-21T16:48:49Z")
Not Pakistani; rather [Travellers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikey). ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/86 "2022-12-21T17:31:37Z")
OH! I get it. Ugh. > [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I’ve never watched anything with this guy and could not have picked him out of a line-up prior to this. I have to say that this is certainly not a good first impression and I have no desire to get to know him better. You’re not missing out. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/87 "2022-12-21T18:58:39Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I think he is because I remember From everything I’ve read about Guy Fieri off-camera, he is one stand-up dude. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/88 "2022-12-21T18:59:51Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JK6zuii2OLI/maxresdefault.jpg "Shane Torres Defends Guy Fieri | CONAN on TBS") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK6zuii2OLI) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/89 "2022-12-21T19:02:08Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > This is true - for instance, Gordon Ramsay’s US TV persona and his British one seem to be night and day - the shows where he’s with his family, or teaching prisoners to be cooks, or even the British _Hell’s Kitchen_, were nothing like the aggressive foul-mouthed asshole on the US version. And he is totally different with the kids he judges on Master Chef than he is with the adults, but even with the adults, he’s different from the way he acts on Hell’s Kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/90 "2022-12-21T19:02:29Z")
Guy Fieri is really one of those conundrums. Everything about his public persona is off-putting, if not repulsive. However, in his private life, by all reports, he is a really good guy, and I haven’t seen anything to suggest that he has actively done anyone any harm. But I still can’t stand the sight of him. It’s terrible. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/91 "2022-12-21T19:07:22Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Guy Fieri is really one of those conundrums. Everything about his public persona is off-putting, if not repulsive. I would not go that far. He has the over-the-top “douchebag bro” kind of persona going on, but it’s not repulsive. It’s just annoying. Or annoying to us. I don’t recall him ever doing anything that is actually offensive, or putting down people, or anything like that. Mind you, I can’t stand more than a segment of his show at a time, because it gets to me, too, but I’ve never seen anything mean-spirited from him. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/92 "2022-12-21T19:18:26Z")
Maybe “repulsive” wasn’t the best word, but I really want to switch him off whenever I see his face. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/93 "2022-12-21T19:28:01Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I don’t recall him ever doing anything that is actually offensive, or putting down people, or anything like that. He doesn’t. His show persona is super positive. He may be dudebro like, but like a dudebro who loves everyone (or is stoned all the time). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/94 "2022-12-21T19:39:22Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > He doesn’t. His show persona is super positive. He may be dudebro like, but like a dudebro who loves everyone (or is stoned all the time). I know one person IRL who is like Guy, or Guy dialed down to about 70%. Just over-the-top positive about everything – when he left the company I was working for he even quoted “the future’s so bright I gotta wear shades” in his farewell email. He just oozed way too much positivity for my idea of a normal human being, that it felt like a complete put-on. He was like a frat boy crossed with a Care Bear (maybe throw in a little Poochie from the Simpsons). I just think my somewhat cynical self has only so much positivity it could take before feeling like he’s being fed a treacly plate of shit. But, as far as I know, he’s always been heartfelt, kind, and generous. Yet I can only stand him in small doses. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/95 "2022-12-21T21:52:58Z")
I used to watch his Diners show and I enjoyed it and him. I used to make a list of the places his show made me want to visit in the hope that some day, I’d get to try a bunch of them out, but the older I get, the less I believe I’ll ever get around to it. But his new shows have just not been my cuppa. Grocery games and crap like that is not for me. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/96 "2022-12-21T22:32:33Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I used to watch his Diners show and I enjoyed it and him. I used to make a list of the placesj his show made me want to visit in the hope that some day, I’d get to try a bunch of them out, but the older I get, the less I believe I’ll ever get around to it. I’ve been to a few and they’ve been great. Small sample size, sure, but I’d say if you have a choice between a few places and one was on DDD, it’s probably a good bet. Unless it’s overcrowded due to the show’s notoriety, but I also never experienced that. Maybe if I’d gone right after it first appeared on the show or something, but in each case it had been years later. I’ll also point out, in addition to what the stand up comedian clip above said, Guy also gives away money to just about everyone and he personally likes to go provide food to the firefighters in California fighting wildfires. > **[Fieri's 'Grocery Games' fills local shelter's basket](https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/industry-news/guy-fieris-grocery-games-show-is-big-food-donor-to-santa-rosa-shelter/)** > > Those served by the Redwood Gospel Mission in Santa Rosa are eating a little high on the proverbial hog these days, thanks to donations of food from Guy Fieri’s locally produced television show “Guy’s Grocery Games.” > **[Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri Give Big to Food Charities, Restaurants, and...](https://www.eater.com/2020/4/8/21213412/rachael-ray-and-guy-fieri-donate-raise-millions-in-covid-19-relief-funds)** > > Plus, Panera is pivoting to groceries, and more news to start your day [https://www.nrn.com/finance/guy-fieri-who-raised-25-million-restaurant-relief-2020-gives-around-300000-away-during-guy-s](https://www.nrn.com/finance/guy-fieri-who-raised-25-million-restaurant-relief-2020-gives-around-300000-away-during-guy-s) [https://www.swineweb.com/guy-fieri-purchases-pigs-for-massive-amount-at-sonoma-county-fair-set-to-donate-them-to-local-charities/](https://www.swineweb.com/guy-fieri-purchases-pigs-for-massive-amount-at-sonoma-county-fair-set-to-donate-them-to-local-charities/) > **[Guy Fieri's Restaurant Employee Relief Fund Has Raised Almost $25 Million for...](https://www.foodandwine.com/news/guy-fieri-pandemic-fundraising-25-million-dollars)** > > The chef and TV star partnered with the National Restaurant Association to start the initiative last year. > **[Guy Fieri Gives Away TVs and Gift Cards to Thank Guy's Grocery Games Crew...](https://people.com/food/guy-fieri-thanks-guys-grocery-games-crew-with-a-giveaway-after-each-shoot/)** > > Frequent GGG judge Rocco DiSpirito gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at Guy Fieri's "team appreciation giveaway" > **[Guy Fieri Feeds Firefighters Battling California Wildfires](https://www.newsweek.com/guy-fieri-feeds-firefighters-battling-california-wildfires-dixie-1623204)** > > The celebrity chef is on the frontlines handing out hot meals to first responders as firefighters say they're making progress on the blaze. But does his TV persona sometimes annoy me? At times it does. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/97 "2022-12-21T22:40:00Z")
Speaking of Guy Fieri, a decade ago he had a big restaurant in Times Square aimed at the tourist crowd. The New York Times gave it [a review that’s worth reading](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dining/reviews/restaurant-review-guys-american-kitchen-bar-in-times-square.html?unlocked_article_code=o0hLrs4qYbhSgWxsi-CZb6poj-HWDSfGohhcf-xVnReUx7N2bNDnFj5ytHY9CBfP9s_u0J_l1Yl3G8l2m-QOyIw1_yT7rg0v3bTui1WmNNmTOalWdHdSXnbXC8cYDIYCWWZPhfZyOvrRpVfFXrdMCW-C-ydx5UoeGZKTGviZrd6_04EWQDbMRBB7FROiCNwjeGnr3_xNOqieHMvGuMO5z8IsWwUpEaAB2bQZSgsf84pW4saGyIr0Wz_MHEOMBDId8hfhoo19mXHvz2fRdcgf1SjqcNnxDoTdGwpxw16Sx4CmY0zkK9iHpuQnSF_7CHIoTlYy0FHas2eMVJMDVZWKyo_Rl5TogdwAa6IPs7FVFyrTba2u9rvpErbAF2vr3owazzn0Da6FIo9_mA&smid=share-url) (gift link). The restaurant closed but not until five years later. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/98 "2022-12-21T22:54:15Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Guy Fieri is really one of those conundrums. Everything about his public persona is off-putting, if not repulsive. Perhaps not to everybody. Actually, I know a woman who worked for Guy Fieri and she still says he is a wonderful person. He gave her an opening to start in her media career and she learned a lot about cooking on the way. And when she felt it was time for her to move on, he let her go gently to continue her own path. They are still friends. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/99 "2022-12-21T23:00:07Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > Actually, I know a woman who worked for Guy Fieri and she still says he is a wonderful person. He gave her an opening to start in her media career and she learned a lot about cooking on the way. And when she felt it was time for her to move on, he let her go gently to continue her own path. They are still friends I don’t think any of this contradicts what I said in my post. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814/100 "2022-12-21T23:05:52Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I don’t think any of this contradicts what I said in my post. I’m sorry. I will work harder at being contradictory next time. 😄 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-clarkson-is-a-pig/976814.md?page=6)