Jason Dawe: Top Gear's Forgotten Host
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ค. 2022
- Without further ado, I bring to you a video that goes in-depth on the career of Jason Dawe, Top Gear's original third host before James May, who initially refused to host before changing mind after Dawe's release from the programme in early 2003. I felt this was a story that needed to be told in full, as it had never been done before. Most sources essentially memory-hole all Dawe did prior to 2002, shoehorning a sentence in or two if they're lucky, and although the man himself hasn't had his life pried into quite as much as the other three hosts for fairly obvious reasons, there is a fair bit out there.
This will serve as a "pilot" episode to several other videos I've been working on that talk about each of the hosts in further detail. The final bit I recorded for this video was a screen recording of Used Car Roadshow's website from late yesterday, as I realised I hadn't added it to the video yet. Otherwise, the video was remade from a 60% complete form from late June, with the audio redone completely thanks to the purchase of a proper microphone. The video itself was mostly done by the 23rd, other than tiny bits here and there which I added to whilst working on my other videos, with me putting the final touches on hold due to me attending a car show on the 24th, my first in over 2 and a half years.
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Next on the agenda shall be the Top Gear Iceberg Explained, which you might be able to expect as early as the 31st, since there isn't anywhere near as much photo/video sourced. I'm slowly getting back into things if you watched my earlier video at the beginning of the month. You won't have to wait as long for the other video, though my Hot Wheels documentary for my second channel definitely needs a bit longer.
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I honestly feel a bit bad for Jason getting booted off and forgotten but at the same time, I'm glad that they brought in James.
Bringing in James was the right decision ...
Jason was on the whole harmless, but his presence was holding on to the idea that Top Gear was a partly informative car show. As we found out when James joined they could do faux-informative segments every now and then but the show on the whole was more orientated towards a modern audience who want antics and humour, and that was a more lucrative and better end product.
Still better than Chris Evans and Matt Leblanc.
James May was supposed to be in the first series, but he got lost on the way
Jason Dawe reminds me of Mike Brewer, only way more likeable.
About a man that was only in 10 episodes of top gear and it’s still better than watching the new top gear
Jason sold my sister and I our first cars and also one to my parents- all Volvos. He also played violin in our school orchestra in Truro. A very genuine, decent guy.
Jason must feel a bit like the first drummer in The Beatles...but, you can't argue about the decision to bring in James, the three works so well together.
He's the guy who lost a winning lottery ticket.
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James made such a good impression on the first episode belittling Clarkson during the news section. From the very first time we saw them all on screen for the first time, the dynamic was concrete.
I remember the reboot and "new Top Gear" like it was yesterday when I was just a 15 year old car nut. Jason had always been a good and knowledgeable car presenter and always provided some useful tips when it came to buying new or used cars. It's hard to remember a time before Clarkson, Hammond and May but season 1 in particular featured more of the old Top Gear consumer advice format and Jason fit in well with it. But the moment we were introduced to the floppy haired James May in season 2 it just felt like a really balanced trio was formed and then the classic challenges started to appear. You feel for Jason a bit but there's no chance at all the show would have become what it did had he stayed and that's no dig at him. It's just that the famous three shaped what the show would become as the seasons rolled on. The format that it became is mostly down to to those three and Andy Wilman's relationship on and off screen. Nothing quite like putting on what has now become "old Top Gear" when I'm feeling like a good nostalgia trip
I binged TG from episode one to the last shows with Hammond and May. It was interesting to watch things slowly develop and come together piece by piece
This is a well timed video. I've been watching series 1 lately and it still holds up well. Yes it's at a slower pace with more conversation, but I enjoy that sort of thing.
I was there for the recording of the first episode in 2002 when Jason Dawe was part of the Trio. I supplied the Cavalier Convertible for the star with a car. Jason did his own show for a while but not seen him on tv for many years.
Worked with Jason in the early 2000s, nice fella with a decent sense of humour. He’d have got better with time. All the presenters were awful to begin with and the show now relies heavily on researchers.
James May fills up that harmless, inoffensive middle class role that Dawes could not. Dawes is more Basingstoke than Guildford. For that, they already had Hammond. May just balanced Clarkson’s toff arrogance and Hammond’s various insecurities. With May, the programme had a wider audience as it was more of an all-rounder, in my view. They had beer, but by adding lemonade, they could sell their shandy to a lot more people when not many others were selling drinks.
Jason was brilliant in the show called’ the used car show’. Was so sad when that finished.
I first saw Jason on Used Car Roadshow and I really liked him, shame you don't see much of him anymore.