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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/17/jeremy-clarkson-bbc-have-i-got-news-for-you

Jeremy Clarkson is in line to make a sensational return to the BBC as a guest host on Have I Got News For You.

Clarkson, currently suspended from BBC2’s Top Gear following an alleged fracas with a producer, has been booked to present the third episode of the new series of the comedy panel show, due to return to BBC1 next month.

Jimmy Mulville, managing director of Have I Got News For You producer Hat Trick, said: “We always have a field day with Jeremy … Maybe we will get the producer on so he can hit Jeremy Clarkson live on television.”

His appearance, understood to have been arranged before the latest controversy, has the potential to be hugely embarrassing for the BBC, and potentially even more contentious if it airs in the run-up to the general election on 7 May.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

BBC taketh BBC giveth.

 

[injurai]

Big British Cock

 

[Slayven]

Assholes always get shit

 

[commedieu]

and on that bombshell..

 

[HK-47]

Amazing

 

[Slowdive]

Nice.

 

[THE:MILKMAN]

is appearance, understood to have been arranged before the latest controversy, has the potential to be hugely embarrassing for the BBC, and potentially even more contentious if it airs in the run-up to the general election on 7 May.

Bollocks! This has been a long planned PR stunt in which the Top Gear team had already decided to call it a day and move on to new things./Tinfoil hat

 

[BrokenEchelon]

Based Jezza.

I hope he rips them apart.

 

[Skele7on]

can't wait for him to make an even bigger cock of himself.

 

[thesuperfunk]

But I thought he had been suspended pending the investigation? Does that only apply to Top Gear? :|

Spoiler

That's not how it works, beeb.

 

[daviyoung]

Based Jezza.

I hope he rips them apart.

if the autocue allows it

 

[Jarrod38]

 

[Goldfishking]

Can't wait. Also reminds me of the episode of 8 out of 10 cats shot just after jimmy carrs tax evasion scandal. Some of the funniest TV ever.

 

[SuperSamyon]

Can't keep a good man down

 

[injurai]

Can't wait. Also reminds me of the episode of 8 out of 10 cats shot just after jimmy carrs tax evasion scandal. Some of the funniest TV ever.

Yes! This was amazing. He was in so much pain. Great sport though, he handled it the right way.

 

[kharma45]

Can't wait. Merton and Hislop will show no mercy.

 

[jelly]

Can't wait. Also reminds me of the episode of 8 out of 10 cats shot just after jimmy carrs tax evasion scandal. Some of the funniest TV ever.

That was great, the panelists nailed the jokes.

 

[Rich!]

if the autocue allows it

uh

I don't think the autocue had any influence on episodes like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L8ij02Df2w

 

[Oppo]

I love "fracas" and "rows".

always an easy British signifier

 

[daviyoung]

uh

I don't think the autocue had any influence on episodes like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L8ij02Df2w

errrr, the host wasn't exactly ripping them apart here either

 

[Nesotenso]

Assholes always get shit

not a fan?

 

[Oppo]

is autocue British for TelePrompTer?

 

[King_Moc]

Based Jezza.

I hope he rips them apart.

Why? Isn't he in the wrong from what we know?

 

[Rich!]

errrr, the host wasn't exactly ripping them apart here either

Yeah, but Clarkson isn't Deayton.

He will talk back, guaranteed.

 

[firehawk12]

I really hope Hislop pokes him incessantly about it in the episode.

 

[daviyoung]

Yeah, but Clarkson isn't Deayton.

He will talk back, guaranteed.

and it'll be state-sanctioned talking back

 

[Real Hero]

Apparently he made hislop bleed one of the last times he was on.

 

[Goldfishking]

Apparently he made hislop bleed one of the last times he was on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUH0w7ib8aI

 

[kharma45]

Apparently he made hislop bleed one of the last times he was on.

Aye he threw a pen at him iirc.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Why? Isn't he in the wrong from what we know?

White privilege in action.

 

[olore]

Cool

 

[Übermatik]

OH god. Who at the beeeeeb though this was a good idea? This is gonna be spectacular anyway, for better or worse.

 

[Piggus]

Big British Cock

Assholes always get shit

I thought I tasted salt in my coffee, but I was actually just reading these two posts.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

They also had Jimmy Savile on when he was still alive. Not after he died though, they are not that kinky.

 

[Firemind]

This will make for some glorious television.

 

[Hot Coldman]

show's tired as ever I see

 

[Chanser]

Let the roasting commence!

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

This "investigation" appears to be taking its time.

 

[injurai]

I thought I tasted salt in my coffee, but I was actually just reading these two posts.

my post was ironic not ionic

 

[DrForester]

 

[Mindwipe]

But I thought he had been suspended pending the investigation? Does that only apply to Top Gear? :|

Spoiler

That's not how it works, beeb.

He's been suspended from working for the BBC.

HIGNFY isn't made by the BBC, so he won't be working for them.

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

Can't wait. Also reminds me of the episode of 8 out of 10 cats shot just after jimmy carrs tax evasion scandal. Some of the funniest TV ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9xBqsjdEwU

 

[The Cowboy]

I love this one, you can totally tell James does this every night .

 

[Don Draper's Hat]

Angus Deayton was fired from the job because it was very hard to joke about news when you are the news apparently.

Jeremy Clarkson has, sadly, been the news for a while now.

Good work, BBC.

The man is a total oath. He hasn't the wit to respond to jokes about him in a way that would be entertaining. He'll just swear and/or throw things, like he has before. Because he's nothing more than a fucking idiot.

The sooner the BBC, and the world, realises this the better.

 

[Zvonimir Boban]

Angus Deayton was fired from the job because it was very hard to joke about news when you are the news apparently.

Jeremy Clarkson has, sadly, been the news for a while now.

Good work, BBC.

The man is a total oath. He hasn't the wit to respond to jokes about him in a way that would be entertaining. He'll just swear and/or throw things, like he has before. Because he's nothing more than a fucking idiot.

The sooner the BBC, and the world, realises this the better.

Yeah, I thought the same thing. Sacked Angus Deayton for what he did in his private life but this is OK?

 

[Air Zombie Meat]

Yeah, I thought the same thing. Sacked Angus Deayton for what he did in his private life but this is OK?

Well he's just a guest host. Not the same thing as a permanent host.

 

[Broken Joystick]

Angus Deayton was fired from the job because it was very hard to joke about news when you are the news apparently.

Jeremy Clarkson has, sadly, been the news for a while now.

Good work, BBC.

The man is a total oath. He hasn't the wit to respond to jokes about him in a way that would be entertaining. He'll just swear and/or throw things, like he has before. Because he's nothing more than a fucking idiot.

The sooner the BBC, and the world, realises this the better.

Truth.

 

[Zvonimir Boban]

Well he's just a guest host. Not the same thing as a permanent host.

Cool, so I guess Deayton's been back on as a guest host then?

 

[dapperbandit]

He can handle himself.

He's one of my preferred guest hosts on that show anyway.