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Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

Top Gear, Road Trips, 5th Gear, The Grand Tour, Leisure, Cars, Automotive, Improv, Comedy

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jonny and Richard answer questions from the audience at one of their London live recordings. Topics covered include the funniest things to happen while filming 5th Gear and Top Gear, what’s happened to Richard’s Range Rover, the meaning of itchy chin, a stopgap car for an Alvis owner from leafy Primrose Hill, London Concours body swaps, the King’s secret car collection, and cars that hurt you. 

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0:00.0

I'm Johnny Smith and this is on the other side of things the Smith and

0:05.5

Smith spin off where we take questions from a live audience.

0:10.3

Yeah! So, thank you for coming everybody. Such is the nature of the beast that we need a question which we can answer

0:24.0

straight away going over to you sir.

0:26.4

What is the funniest thing that ever happened on fifth gear and top gear stroke

0:30.9

grantor respectively? the funniest thing has been loads I wish I

0:37.8

wish that they were doing outtakes because I think it would be funnier than

0:41.5

anything especially TIF.

0:44.4

One of the funniest things I ever witnessed personally,

0:47.3

which was on camera, but in person,

0:50.5

I had a proper, like struggling to breathe laughing fear as did a lot of people was in we went to Bolivia

0:59.9

for a special and the cars were delivered on a barge coming down the Amazon and then they had to get them off which and that struggle to get them off was genuine.

1:08.3

It took far far longer than it should have done. But during that James slipped over on a gangplank and properly faceplanted.

1:15.0

And it was very hot and we were very tired and it was the single funniest thing at that point I'd ever seen in my life.

1:22.0

I think it was, and I'm sure I've said it before it was that day

1:25.2

when Plato just turned up and was so mischievous he just wanted to cause carnage

1:29.6

and he wore his shoes the wrong way around all day.

1:33.4

So he wore and he tried he got really aggressive with me because I refuse to do the same.

1:39.2

And then at lunchtime I think he tried to steal my shoes and he said he said at lunch time said when we film in the afternoon

1:46.0

Why don't you just wear my shoes and I'll wear your shoes and we won't ever talk about it? I'm like

1:50.5

I said well we can but your feet is ever a slightly smaller mine so my feet will hurt by the end of the day and he went

1:56.2

it doesn't matter fuck it should do it anyway he was so bent on it do you remember the item you were filming

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