Name: Car-Builder John Hennessy on Working with Top Gear and The Grand Tour
Uploaded: 2023-05-05T17:07:57.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Car-Builder John Hennessy on Working with Top Gear and The Grand Tour' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-05-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Car-Builder John Hennessy on Working with Top Gear and The Grand Tour' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-05-05. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience I used to think that when I watched Top Gear and watch
the yeah Stig sure roll around the track yeah they have their own track well
yeah
so Top Gear tests on a old runway southwest of Lennon and it's called
Dunsfold so they so they ran it so they have their own but they do I've been
there before I was actually I brought Steven Tyler over there like 10 years
ago to be interviewed by Jeremy Clarkson those guys so he was a client we built
a Venom GT for him and so we're hanging out and I got to see him go out and do
his little celebrity lap around the track you know if you're ever over there
and
you want to do a celebrity the star and the reasonably priced car I connect you
with those guys yeah it's fun and so I think they're but now you got Chris
Harris and you got the you know Clarkson and Hammond and May they moved on to
Amazon but are they still doing it they are yeah I was I was in London a couple
weeks ago and I saw Richard Hammond and what's the Amazon show called again the
Grand Tour right the Grand Tour and so Clarkson started the Clarkson is kind of
a wild bombastic guy he started a show about farming he's got a farm out in the
country and I think that's really kind of taken off so I think that's his that's
his new gig but I think they still I think they do still do a season a year and
good entertainment good proper yeah they're fun proper car stuff fun dude
yeah what did he punch a producer they pulled the show well I know a little bit
about that I was so I was so we had a we had a velociraptor
raptor truck that we were up in Canada with these guys so this has been back in
20 into 2014 and so like I'm working with the producers and they're like you
know
when you're around the talent you know don't talk to them don't spend time
around
them I'm like I'm around famous people more than he's got these guys a lot more
famous I mean I don't care that they're a big deal so anyway so these pretty
the
producers kind of being a dick and so we show up with these guys and then we're
like
provide the vehicle and then and they're gonna go cross-country through Canada
and
through the mountains and all this crazy shit and and then they're gonna go up
on
the mountain they're gonna rescue Richard Hammond who's at the top of the
mountain he's got one of these Breitling watches where you pull out the little
cord
and it tells the satellite that you're stranded so gives your coordinates to
get
rescued anyway so now the producers are saying well you know you can't go up on
the
mountain while they're filming I'm like okay but listen to this I'm gonna go
watch football it's it's the playoffs I'm gonna go watch football and if
something breaks you need us to help you we're not coming they're like oh then
they change their tune like okay we'll come with this and finally it all it all
it all turns out fine well that producer I won't say his name but that
producer that was being a massive dick and maybe he was just doing his job like
two weeks later there's somewhere else in there in England and Jeremy may you
know Jeremy's gets a little bit of a temper and these guys work long hours and
maybe they hadn't eaten and the producer guy was fucking with it Jeremy fucking
whacked the guy and I'm like I wanted to fucking punch that guy a couple times
too but I can't do that and I don't want to get arrested in Canada anyway yeah
so
they they canceled the show yeah and it didn't Jeremy and him make up but they're
still like you know I'm sure that's all you know water under the bridge but
Jeremy so Jeremy Richard Hammond and James May were all very tight I've spent
time
around them and then the other guy that's behind the scenes but just so
talented his
name is Andy Willman he was the producer when they were on BBC now he's the
producer but when Steven Tyler was being interviewed you like this from your
comedy part of your brain when Steven was being interviewed by Jeremy I noticed
that the interview went on for like twice as long as it probably should have
and I
don't I get claustrophobic so I don't like being in tight crowds so I'm kind of
hanging towards the back of the crowd that they're filming all this live and
they aired it later but they're filming in front of a live audience and here
this
this guy that looks like he's a homeless dude wearing a t-shirt look like he
hadn't
showered in about a week he's standing there making notes and I realized I was
Andy woman the producer of the show and so what Jeremy's doing he's asked he's
telling all these jokes and asking these questions and Andy is using the live
audience as his focus group oh they laughed at this oh I don't I don't think
this is as funny and that's how they edit it before that before it goes gets
transmitted to the rest of the UK in the world interest I thought that is so
clever that is so smart you know it's more and I don't know if that you know
comedians or entertainers kind of but you know you would think to some degree
you
want to improve your craft but he's got a quick turnaround time so like he's
got
another show he's got to do the following week so he's just like Jeremy is
doing all
this stuff and sometimes they laugh and sometimes it wouldn't but this guy was
definitely paying attention that show top gear did Tesla dirty you know yeah
they did oh
they did they did all kinds of crooked shit but they did Tesla I mean they
pretended the
car ran out of batteries oh yeah no car didn't so they had like they're pushing
the
car and you know they I think they had a lawsuit about that they probably did
but
that goes back like we were talking about earlier like it just seems like that
was
dirty it seems like everybody has an agenda so what was the agenda behind that
was that just the well they wanted to create a entertaining storyline the
they'll throw your ass under the bus in a heartbeat that was what it is yeah oh
Tesla attempted to sue the BBC for libel March of 2011 the courts ruled in
favor of
the BBC saying that no viewer of the show would be likely to reasonably compare
the
roasters performance on the show with its performance in the real world that
doesn't make any sense yeah no they got they got well they got railroading
British court sides with British corporation that's owned by the British
government against American company oops yeah they got railroaded yeah because
the
idea that watching this thing break down wouldn't influence you to not get one
yeah these people are testing it and it breaks down that look those guys good
or
bad we should just say what happened yeah while we're saying it yeah because
their
car didn't really break down right faked it no they faked it and they they did
it
just to sort of make a point about what could happen with electric cars but it's
a
fake it was manufactured deal like to your point but like like you know that
they
they just want eyeballs you know so the more definitely more controversial you
know the
when you know one time when Jeremy was driving this truck and they were like
what
would happen if we ran into a brick wall he ended up going to the hospital and
getting you know broken ribs and whatever else just shoot the video this guy so
they'll do anything they weren't they were ran into a brick wall Jeremy Clarkson
he
did yeah it's on youtube and he got it went to the hospital yeah they got a
they got a
video camera got a GoPro inside and he it does it's I mean he went to the
hospital yeah he
went to the hospital from that and then how did you do that they did and they
look for
because of the attention dude they're they these guys were the masters of
jumping the
shark season after season after season you heard about the deal when they went
to
Argentina what did well let me see the let's go one step at a time let me see
the truck
slamming into the wall yeah before we get to Argentina yeah because I just can't
believe that they would just drive Clarkson top gear full acceleration truck
crash no
they each each guy had to do it and they're all wearing their safety equipment
it
might have been 20 miles an hour I mean just it's just good run as fast as you
can into that yeah wood wall over there and it's gonna fucking hurt you know so
yeah
I think you could legitimately you could die oh yeah oh it's one of these
trucks yeah oh boy
yeah look at this he's going pretty good bro he's going very fast that is so so
do you think these
guys give a fuck about hurting Elon and his company just to try is so they want
views oh my god I
mean oh shit he's lucky he has teeth he's lucky he has a neck yeah I guess next
got to be fucked up from
that yeah we did a thing with them a grand tour in Detroit about five years ago
and
you know maybe he's got a good chiropractor it looks like he's he healed up but
man that
that's pretty gnarly that seems like it could cause permanent damage and so
they would do stuff like
that well and that even happened recently this cause some discs yeah injury he
suffered on the show
another one another one of their guys and they're in the current crew I forget
his name maybe Pat O'Rourke
but anyway he uh um he had a bad car crash they cancelled the whole season
really the rest of the
season yeah and again nobody really knows the details they're not showing
anything but I I hear it was
pretty painful yeah so well you watch that image he's reaches for his neck like
immediately and you see
how his head viral snap yeah I don't know how it doesn't break break your neck
so just like stuff like
that like when we were in Canada with the with the crew we're hanging out with
the crew and like the so
they went down to Canada they weren't our not Canada they went Argentina excuse
me the gummy bears
kicking in I suppose uh they're in Argentina and so one of the cars they made
they rode on the car
they're doing this cross-country thing uh they're kind of poking fun at the
Argentinians when they lost
the Falcon War back in the 80s to the Brits and and the story was that these
guys were getting chased
out of the country like people were gonna like looking for them if they found
them they were gonna
frickin you know beat their ass pretty hard or worse and so I'm talking to the
crew and um
you know the the presenters were able to get to Buenos Aires and were able to
get out of the country
but the crew was still there and people are like they're calling the embassy
they're like hey you
know what can we do the fucking locals are trying to get us and so I guess the
present this again this
is what I'm hearing from the crew when we were in Canada with our Velociraptor
uh is that
um you know the presenters got out the crew were stuck fearing for their lives
like hiding out in
places trying to make it to the airport to get home and then so when the whole
hit the fan the the
presenters in England felt bad for him so they bought them all first class
tickets or business class for
them from Argentina back to the UK but then the question becomes kind of given
the pattern of wanting
to further jump the shark and look I'm a I'm a if I climb a mountain I want to
I want to climb the
next mountain so I get that to some degree but did these guys actually like try
to stir up the locals
by putting shit on their car to fuck with them well yeah just for notoriety and
so I mean like I mean
yeah yeah I would think so I mean 100% why else would you do it yeah you're
trying to be nice yeah
I don't know if they knew it was going to go as far but man they but it's kind
of a shitty deal where
they they skated out of there and their and their crew is literally you know
afraid they were going
to get fucking beat to death imagine if they did yeah yeah so that and the and
I'm hearing this from
the crew and this auto had gone down like 30 days before jesus yeah yeah it's
kind of interesting but you know