Jeremy Clarkson did not waste any time in talking about Meghan Markle as he launched his new ITV show on Saturday night.
It’s Clarkson on TV saw the 60-year-old “unpick popular TV events and unearths wonderful hidden gems, with an eye for detail and a rogue sense of humour”.
And unsurprisingly, the former Top Gear host couldn’t resist referencing the Duchess of Sussex’s explosive chat with Oprah Winfrey – which aired on ITV last month.
Jeremy introduced the clip by saying: “Meghan Markle was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey… there was a moment where Meghan Markle seemed – how can I put this politely – break wind.”
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With the sound of a fake audience laughing, the clip ran and was a snippet of Meghan discussing a time after her wedding to Prince Harry and Oprah responding.
“Sorry can we just hear that again because it really does sound like Piers Morgan had a point, her pants really were on fire!” Jeremy continued.
As the sound of an audience laughing hysterically continued to play, he added: “Now I’ve had a note here from the legal department at ITV. They want it to be made plain that that was not a fart, I have no idea how they know that.
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“But they want me to make it clear that the fart noise probably came out of Oprah’s mouth.”
Overall, viewers were not impressed with Jeremy’s new TV show and likened it to an “awful” rip-off of Harry Hill’s TV Burp.
They were mainly left cringing over the “appalling” fake laughter and took to Twitter to comment.
One tweeted: “#ClarksonOnTV. WTF is it with all the terrible canned laughter?”
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While another commented: “@JeremyClarkson although I am indeed laughing at you new it’s Clarkson on TV. With such up to date jokes during covid the canned laughter workmanship is awful sounds like sold out Wembley #ClarksonOnTV.”
A third questioned: “Did @ITV have a surplus canned laughter budget to use up on #clarksonontv.”
Originally from https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jeremy-clarkson-mocks-meghan-markles-23850008