‘It’s very apparent that other people can’t tell what’s coming out of his mouth’
A week into the release of Jeremy Clarkson‘s Amazon Prime show, Clarkson’s Farm, the presenter has already caused outrage and made headlines for his infamous insensitivity.
The former Top Gear host shamed a barrister with dyslexia for his spelling in the first episode, just as the last embers of the Meghan Markle scandal stopped making the news. The 62-year-old wrote the most complained-about article ever about the Duchess of Sussex in December. Both ITV – where Clarkson fronts, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? – and Amazon, have indicated he may not have a future beyond what is already contractually agreed.
The second season of Clarkson’s Farm, which started streaming on February 10, sees the former Top Gear host return to his 1,000-acre Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds alongside Lisa, Kaleb, Charlie and Gerald.
Gerald isn’t the easiest to understand, but one fan of the show thinks he cracked it and knows what the unlikely fan-favourite is on about.
The local lad has worked on the farm for more than half a century, and his thick dialect never fails to leave Clarkson – and viewers – utterly confused.
However, one man familiar with the accent thinks he can tell what Gerald is saying, even over the walkie-talkie, which pretty sounds like the noise the TV used to make when it couldn’t find the channels.
On his YouTube channel, Jason Coulls – who describes himself as “a bit of a geek” – analyses a scene from season one in which Clarkson and Gerald harvest a field of wheat.
Gerald issues a few directions to Clarkson. Clarkson is none the wiser.
“Throughout the show, one of the running jokes is that Jeremy Clarkson can’t understand a word that comes out of Gerald’s mouth,” Jason explains.
“And on social media and looking around the web, it’s very apparent that other people can’t tell what’s coming out of his mouth.
“However, some of us do recognise this accent from a long, long time ago. And you know, I for one, I’m actually quite happy to see something like this documented.”
Jason then handily wrote subtitles for the scene, making it all make sense.
“I can lead it Jeremy as long as you keep alongside at a certain pace and not too fast, I can do the loading, alright,” Jason’s subtitles read.
“I was gonna say, if you’re just taking off like a racing car I can’t keep up with you.”
There are some parts which Jason can’t make out, though he suggests the audio has been jumbled to make the scene even more comedic.
Jason concludes: “As you can see, he’s not totally unintelligible, he does actually talk sense.
“However, there are still parts of that scene that have been chopped up again.
“I think what the problem really comes down to, these accents were a lot more common in the old days when towns and villages were smaller, but the average urban person now isn’t exposed to this type of accent any longer. So it’s very, very foreign sounding to them.”
Jason suggested there probably isn’t “too many people beyond Gerald that will be carrying on with accents like this, as things are slowly dying out in the countryside”.
Season 2 of Clarkson’s Farm features more of the same.
According to Prime, Clarkson fans, “can expect a deeper insight into another year on Diddly Squat Farm as Jeremy aims to expand his (very) limited agricultural knowledge under the watchful eye of his no-nonsense team – tractor driver Kaleb, stone wall favourite Gerald, advisor ‘Cheerful’ Charlie, Jeremy’s better-half-turned-farm-shop-keeper Lisa and many more.”
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- Petition urging ITV not to sack Jeremy Clarkson gets more than 22,000 signatures
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