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Richard Mark Hammond (born 19 December 1969) is a British presenter, writer, and journalist. He co-hosted the motoring programme Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson and James May, from 2002 to 2015 and presented series 1–4 of Brainiac: Science Abuse on Sky1. He also co-hosted Total Wipeout with Amanda Byram on BBC One. Hammond presented Planet Earth Live alongside Julia Bradbury. In 2016 he was scheduled to be presenting an Untitled Amazon motoring show to be produced by their company W. Chump & Sons alongside his former Top Gear co-hosts, as an exclusive distributed via Amazon Video to Amazon Prime customers.
Hammond was born in Solihull, West Midlands, and is the grandson of workers in the Birmingham car industry. In the mid-1980s Hammond moved with his family (mother Eileen, father Alan, and younger brothers Andrew, writer of the 'Crypt' Series, and Nicholas) to the North Yorkshire cathedral city of Ripon where his father ran a probate business in the market square. He attended Blossomfield Infant School in Shirley from the age of 3-7. Originally a pupil of Solihull School, a fee-paying boys' independent school, he moved to Ripon Grammar School, and from 1986 to 1988 attended Harrogate College of Art and Technology.
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (/ˈlɛnoʊ/; born April 28, 1950) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor, and television host. He was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1992 to 2009. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, titled The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00 p.m. ET, also on NBC.
After The Jay Leno Show was canceled in January 2010 amid a host controversy, Leno returned to host The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 1, 2010. He hosted his last episode of The Tonight Show on February 6, 2014. That year, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
Leno was born in New Rochelle, New York. His homemaker mother, Catherine (née Muir; 1911–1993), was born in Greenock, Scotland, and came to the United States at age 11. His father, Angelo (1910–1994), was an insurance salesman who was born in New York, to immigrants from Flumeri, Italy. Leno grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, and obtained a bachelor's degree in speech therapy from Emerson College, where he started a comedy club in 1973. His older brother, Patrick (May 12, 1940 – October 6, 2002), was a Vietnam War veteran who worked as an attorney.
Intro: Ay, Ay! dem nah know sey wi dun move like King
Solomon inna dis time.
A whole heap a gal pon wi mind. Buccaneer!
Chorus: Plenty more nice gal out dere fi slam, one
million, two million.
Dolly house an stuckie a nah part a wi plan.
wi haffi sample every nation, sing along.
(repeat)
Verse 1: Mi sing, just di other day wi go pon a world
tour
twenty-tree artists plus mi twenty-four
di first place mi perform dat a Baltimore.
Dere so mi meet a rich gal come from Singapore
as di show dun di crew lef same time
mi feel kinda sad caw mi miss Yuki wine
but di next destination calm dung mi mind
mi sleep with a sweeter gal a North Caroline
go South Caroline an den stomp Tennessee
circle California then touch Miami
rest mi waistline a Washington D.C.
then gear up fi di gal dem inna New York City
Chorus X4
Verse 2: Well, call mi old dog if di whole a unno want
Yu fi see mi dung a Africa a trod
straight mi nuh saint,
as Bounty say mi will slam all di aunt
as mi talk bout dat it a rewind mi brain
back to do night when we a perform a Spain
di next day mi lef Margarita inna pain
di mudda an di cousin an di sista di same
>From china, an Japan
Italy, Switzerland, Germany, an Iran
South America an di Caribbean anywhere wi go wi have a
whole heap a gal.