Top Gear's James May: 'Show Is Like A Sitcom'

James May

Top Gear is more like a sitcom and less like a show about cars, one of its presenters believes.

James May says he now plays a "character" in the show, something many viewers might have already suspected.

In an interview with the Radio Times, the 47-year-old said the aspect of the long-running show which inevitably featured the trio of presenters - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and May - getting in a pickle, did annoy him.
"It's really almost a sitcom now, so we are characters," he said.
"When I started, Top Gear was a car show about cars, and I was interested not only in the technology but also the sociology and the artistry of them... the shapes and the colours.
"That was something I've always been into. But it's a different programme now, it's turned into something else."

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