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[Alfisti]

I have seen reviews of the Formula One seasons for 1982 and 1983 by Clive James. These are EXTREMELY funny in James' cutting satire of the whole F1 show piece.

Does anyone have nay idea if there are more of these from other years?

[Witt]

Clive James does the 82, 84 & 86 reviews.

IMO, no reviews are better than the ones he narrated. The reviews they make today are boring as hell. No humour whatsoever, they are only an advert for Bernie Vision and they focus on the first four cars only. They don't even bother to tell you about the news in between the races.

[theMot]

Yup ive got the 86 one he did. Pretty good! Some tits thrown in for good measure too

Your right Witt the ones now are boring.

[Alfisti]

OK I am off to find the 86 one. This guy has the most amazing observations of the playboy image of Formula One and his sarcastic, self depreciating humour is brilliant to watch.

[OssieFan]

I have the 86 review and it is great, Clive James has a way with words that makes you want to watch it many times over. I've always admired him for that.

[mel]

He managed to get a whole bunch of the drivers together on his show once I remember. When was that?

[karlth]

You are all mad!

I have most of the FIA review tapes and I can say without hesitation that he is the most annoying commentator I have ever listened to. His commentary contained hardly any useful information at all just a constant string of puns. Listening to him say for the 500th time that Rosberg retired because he needed a smoke instead telling the viewer WHY he retired makes me want to fly to the UK and strangle him.

If you think Formula 1 is a 95% about Eddie Irvine jokes then these tapes are for you otherwise I'd recommend for example the 1988, 1991, 1994 and 1995 tapes as all being excellent.

Karl

[markzed]

Karl,
You don't watch Clive James to learn anything - he's there for a laugh. He's a funny bugger. I've got a few of his books too.

[se7en_24]

Originally posted by mel
He managed to get a whole bunch of the drivers together on his show once I remember. When was that?

mel

That was just before the 1997 season, I felt sorry for Nicola Larini as Clive was ribbing him for having a girls name ;-)

I have the tape of that, unfortunately all of my video cassettes are in England tho

[karlth]

Originally posted by markzed
Karl,
You don't watch Clive James to learn anything - he's there for a laugh. He's a funny bugger. I've got a few of his books too.

I agree totally but I'm collecting the review tapes to learn that Prost did not manage to close on Piquet because of fading brakes not that Prost was listening to harmonica music in his car.

[mel]

se7en_24,

yeah

I remember that, and they had Schumacher there by livelink. You don't often see them all together anywhere except races nowadays.

[Witt]

karlth, watch the 82 review again and tell me that today's F1 reviews could of handled the tragedies of that year as well as Clive's narration did.

They did alright in 94, but the narration doesn't pull the heart strings like Clive's comments.

I've only been watching F1 since 95, and learnt most of my 80's history from the reviews (i'm too much of a lazy bugger to read books ). I think i learnt just as much about those seasons as any of the other's not narrated by Clive James. If i felt left out of joke because i didn't know what it was about, you could say i was almost encouraged to go and learn more about it so i could understand the jokes better the next time i watch the tape.

I know one things for sure, i've got every review since 82 and i'll probably never watch any of the recent ones (2000 especially, that was a pile of ****) because they bore me to tears. I've nearly worn out the tapes on the 82, 84 & 86 reviews.

[FredF1]

Originally posted by karlth
You are all mad!

I have most of the FIA review tapes and I can say without hesitation that he is the most annoying commentator I have ever listened to. His commentary contained hardly any useful information at all just a constant string of puns. Listening to him say for the 500th time that Rosberg retired because he needed a smoke instead telling the viewer WHY he retired makes me want to fly to the UK and strangle him.

If you think Formula 1 is a 95% about Eddie Irvine jokes then these tapes are for you otherwise I'd recommend for example the 1988, 1991, 1994 and 1995 tapes as all being excellent.

Karl

Errrr,

How about the 1983 Review for the worst commentating?

That British moron and some Fran Drescher soundalike?

A great season that has to be watched with the sound off.

[LuckyStrike1]

Boring reviews ? Try the 84 season review where the drivers themselves commented the races...... now that was boring to listen to.

I think that the reviews from 90 and onwards are the best. Informative and good shots from the cars.

I agree with karlth .... I don't care much to hear that Rosberg retired because he wanted a smoke Or that Christian Danner wanted to chase girls and therefore retired from this race too ...... glad Clive James doesn't do the F1 reviews anymore.

[FredF1]

1985 was the one where the drivers commentated on their races.
It's not THAT bad.

Senna's commentary on his first win was good.

Mansell's on his first win is dead boring.

How many times can one person use the word 'significant' ?

[HighTower]

The 1997 reveiw with all the drivers together was a classic.
Katyama saying he would very much prefered to have become a mountain climber than a professional driver.
HT

[caper2874]

Hey guys, where's the best place online to get these tapes, together in one place or for the lowest prices? BTW I'm in the states.

[caper2874]

Hey guys, where's the best place online to get these tapes, together in one place or for the lowest prices? BTW I'm in the states. Are there any of the recent years on DVD?

[Brother Fox]

Never seen a Clive James review of F1 (although i'll be chasing some people up about them) but i've got to say if your thinking of him as a commentator then no wonder you don't like it.
The guy has an absolute classic wit and is a lot funnier than a lot of people who call themselves comedians or humorists
Perhaps you should try watching it with that in mind.

[Indian Chief]

Originally posted by theMot
Yup ive got the 86 one he did. Pretty good! Some tits thrown in for good measure too

There were a few in the 1982 review too.

There was one from a beach in Holland which was particularly funny!

Here is a little boy......and here is a BIG girl (as a topless girl runs on the sand)

:D

I can't remember the last time I laughed as much at a TV program as I did with the '82 Season review.:up:


BTW, if anybody wants those videos, you can buy them from nigel red5 who is a poster on this BB. I bought my tapes from him.

[911]

I also have the '86 review and Clive is one funny person!

Up until that time, I had never heard of him but I have seen him on shows since then. I wish he would do more of the F1 reviews.

911

[markzed]

What about his talk shows - With the singer doing her 'special' style of song the end.
Margarita Pracatan - what a hoot!