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You can't fake False Hubris: Why New Top Gear will fail.

posted 8 years ago by I_Guard_Tanelorn
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Hammond, Clarkson, and May were very BS, and very much full of themselves. And they were very much in on the joke and had fun with it. LeBlanc and Evans, on the other hand, are very much full of themselves, and genuinely arrogant. They play it for laughs, but they don't mean it. It's a script to them. They respect their careers too much. Joey will play the fool, but he won't play the goof and butt of the joke. The old trio razzed on each other. It was like being in a locker room. It was intimate and wonderful and hilarious, and when it got fake, you didn't care, cause the camaraderie was so sincere. It was like watching the Three Stooges bop each other in the head. It's nonsense, but so good to watch. These new ego-tastic superstars will never humble themselves like a bunch of bewbs and rubes. Cause they're not mates. The joy of Top Gear, aside from the amazing cars and production value, was being let in on the joke.

"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"

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[–] Runie 8 years ago

Evans is also a journalist first and a host/presenter with bags of experience, Leblanc isn't, he is a very average but a good looking New York actor.

I am not saying it will work with Evans, I don't mind him , but that doesn't matter if the majority of the nation don't like him -it's our tv license, I am not bothered about worldwide appeal,' if you appeal to Brits with high quality writing then it will become successfull anyway as a result, using the commercial mindset of employing Matt as he is well known globally because of 'friends' and likes cars is short minded by the BBC(top gear production), If you are going to get a side kick presenter for light relief in this day and age you need a comedian/writer over a comic actor that has no writing experience(there are many comic actors that are actually intellegent and write material, but that isn't LeBlanc)

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[–] joniteig 8 years ago

I feel that one very good example of what you're saying, is when they were driving in Africa, and Clarkson's handbrake was broken, and he had to "fix it".

First he said "Sometimes my genius is... it's almost frightening."
And then when it went wrong, he said "Stupidest idea in history."

They're setting themselves up to fall. They're making claims, knowing that they are going to fail miserably. Not every time, but at least some of the times.
And as you said, you can't fake that.