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Not watched it yet but come on, Top Gear is and has for some time been at the sharp end of humour. JC is reknown for his lack of PC. If you don't want to listen to it don't watch his show. In teh same vein that Roy Chubby Brown has his reputation that you don't go and then winge about him swearing!

it right to joke about it? not sure, I don't find it offensive in the same way that after almost every single disaster there are the round of 'jokes' that are part of how some people deal with things. Yes they are insensitive, yes they are probably 'more' cutting than say 10 years ago in the same way that programs like Silent witness, Wire in the blood etc all show far more gore than they would have even dared 10 years ago. Is it simply that we are more hardened than we were(rightly or wrongly)