Was that supposed to be funny? I don't get it. Ice cream has never been a gay thing. I mean, who the *beep* doesn't like ice cream?
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Yeah, this "2016 worst year ever" *beep* is really getting annoying. One would think that for Americans in particular, 2001 was a lot worse.
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It just screamed over-compensating to me
'Well I've got two words for you - STFU'
Wasn't it meant to be stupid? Hammond's character is, as constantly remarked upon by the other 2, a bit thick.
Isn't the humour meant to be in that his opinion of eating ice cream makes no logical sense?
I think people mistake all 3 presenters for what are clearly the exaggerated versions of themselves they play on their TV show.
So let's get this straight..
Let's pretend, even if it's a stereotype and some are the exact opposite, that a higher percentage than average of gay men like 'campness'.
I live in England. The ice cream parlour, often originally of Italian origin but also, particularly with new examples in the last few years, incorporating a 1950s American diner look, is found in all of our seaside towns, many having several , even dozens.
The outside might be painted pastel pink. There's a giant fibre glass ice cream outside , with nuts suggestively sliding down a cascade of cream and sauce and an erect chocolate flake sticking out of the top.
I walk in, perhaps to the sound of a vintage barbershop tune like Mr Sandman. There's a youg lad wearing a bow tie and a pink apron and, out the back, a moustachioed older gentleman who asks me if I'd like a bit of 'Tutti Frutti' and suggests 'I bet a young man like you like a nice squirty of cream, ha?" . I sit down next to a giant photo of Rock Hudson and Judy Garland as a man next to me sinks his teeth in to a banana split oozing with cream , surrounded by nuts.
I don't know where Richard would get this idea...
I didn't get the joke. I like a good gay joke. But, what? Like i'm guessing he meant the licking of an ice cream cone? There's a 101 ways to eat ice cream and that's one of them. It was weird, in poor taste, and kind of dumb.
"I said no camels, that's five camels, can't you count?"
It was weird, in poor taste, and kind of dumb.
Its not funny, then again nothing these men do is funny, its never been, that's kind of what's...funny about Top Gear and GT, these are men with 0 charisma and really horrible sense of humor but they like cars and that's that, that's the show.
I am not sure any other show can get away with saying ice cream is for homosexuals.
I'm the guy who makes the "worst movie ever" thread in your favorite movie board
The worst thing about this joke, is that it proves how scripted TGT is compared to Top Gear.
I'm not saying Top Gear wasn't scripted, but TGT is so overly scripted that it makes me feel that absolutely nothing is real.
If Hammond had said this in Top Gear, I would have assumed that he meant it.
When he says it in TGT, I simply don't believe he means it. I'm simply assuming that it's scripted, and supposed to be funny. And then it simply backfired.
Basically, this joke shows how tragic TGT is.
Context is key
http://www.grandtournation.com/2837/richard-hammonds-ice-cream-joke-is-finally-explained-ts0181/
TLDR: it was a nod to a well known and controversial Finnish commercial, which is why it played to the Finnish crowd.