I knew Jay Mohr or, at least, bumped into him once or twice, when he was utterly, totally, completely convinced that this show was going to be the greatest thing on TV and that he was going to be a gigantic star. 'I'm A-List' now, he would say, refusing to go out for a drink with you. Today, I remember that, and…

I was at a dinner party where he got into a fight once. With my best friend. Clarkson announced, rather plonkingly, that his father was so old school that he would have done his job whether he had been paid or not. James, my mate, demurred, saying no-one but a fool works for anything but money. Clarkson did not like…

Well, xenophobia isn't as bad as racism. I mean, for example, we can all agree that Saudis are bastards.

"There's no excuse for what he did,"

"Jeremy Clarkson is a xenophobic asshole."

I don't know. Delon ins The Samurai was 'inscrutable'. I'd say that was different to 'a walking plank'.

God that was a boring film. AND IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN!!!

You're kidding?

"a Tsarist conspiracy that offs its enemies by luring them into duels with a professional dead shot is irresistible, "

But has Ryan Gosling ever given a non-wooden performance? I would suggest not.

"They clearly can make an excellent screwball comedy ("The Hudsucker Proxy")"

'In earnest'.

"The ads promise a fleet-footed farce about the kidnapping of a dimwitted Hollywood movie star in the 1950s."

Except in comparison with the originals, it just didn't gel for me. Hell, even Ryan O'Neal's wooden performance in 'The Driver' was somehow more hypnotic and charismatic than Ryan Gosling's wooden performance in 'Drive'.

"And suddenly a lot of argumentative idiots appeared".

The AV Club.

God, how depressing.