According to the Archbishop of Canterbury, he has struggled with TV vicars because they were portrayed as either ‘rogues or ‘idiots.
Justin Welby didn’t name any characters. Instead, he referred only to the show Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm.
He said this in a speech at the National Farmers Union: ‘I don’t know how you feel about that… Perhaps watching Jeremy Clarkson is a lot like watching any other movie with a vicar.
Justin Welby stated in a speech before the National Farmers’ union: ‘I have not known how you feel about this… maybe for you watching Jeremy Clarkson feels a little like it does for me to watch anything with a vicar.
He added: ‘I generally find depictions of vicars on TV to be depressing – they are portrayed as rogues or idiots… the reality is very different’
You can either get addicted or your stomach will not bear it.
‘I generally find depictions of vicars on TV to be depressing – they are portrayed as rogues or idiots… the reality is very different – it is actually of hardworking, normal people, caring deeply about what they do and working all the hours there are to do it.’
He added: ‘But I take away from Clarkson’s Farm not just how much I enjoy watching it, but how hard, extraordinarily stressful and deeply complicated and scientific farming and agriculture is.’
The League of Gentlemen was a BBC dark comedy. Rev Bernice Woodall is portrayed as an unbeliever and warns her couples that they have made an error during their weddings.
In US show The Simpsons the Rev Lovejoy described the Bible as a ‘2,000-page sleeping pill’.