{"id":144817,"date":"2016-11-28T12:41:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T10:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=144817"},"modified":"2016-11-28T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T10:45:15","slug":"watch-jeremy-clarkson-roasts-zuma-on-grand-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/144817\/watch-jeremy-clarkson-roasts-zuma-on-grand-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Jeremy Clarkson roasts Zuma on Grand Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Clarkson\u2019s Grand Tour show aired this weekend featuring a pit-stop in South Africa, where president Jacob Zuma featured prominently.<\/p>\n<p>The second episode of The Grand Tour was <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/167204-jeremy-clarksons-new-car-show-the-grand-tour-first-stop-is-south-africa.html\"><strong>filmed in Johannesburg<\/strong><\/a> and was available on Amazon Prime Video on 25 November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In typical Clarkson fashion, the journalist did not hold back on the president&#8217;s lavish lifestyle, and grasp (or lack thereof) of mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>In its review of the show, UK scribe the Guardian noted that Clarkson and his co-presenters \u201ckept the references local, with a running gag about President Jacob Zuma\u2019s inability to read out long numbers, his taste for state-funded luxury goods, and a segment where the trio dwelt on carjacking rates in South Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The debut episode of The Grand Tour set a new streaming record for Amazon Prime Video, the company said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPartyPete.TheDawnTreader%2Fvideos%2F10154787396758493%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=640\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><strong>Read:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/94535\/clarkson-hammond-and-may-heading-to-amazon-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ex-Top Gear hosts head to Amazon TV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Clarkson\u2019s Grand Tour show aired this weekend featuring a pit-stop in South Africa, where president Jacob Zuma featured prominently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":144827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-144817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144825,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144817\/revisions\/144825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}