Jeremy Clarkson blasts 'tragic world' after Stephen Fry dragged into 'misogyny' row

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Jeremy Clarkson, 62, responded to one Stephen Fry critic after the comedian was accused of making a "misogynistic" joke. Earlier this month, one person at a dinner at Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) reportedly called for disciplinary action to be taken against club president Stephen after he made comments described as "egregious".

Following the controversy, Jeremy reacted to the accusation, saying it was "tragic" how nowadays allegations can be "immediately accepted as fact".

The former Top Gear star poked fun at cricket enthusiasts as he quipped the "boredom gets them". He wrote in his latest column for the Sun: "Perhaps the man in question assumed that everyone else in the room was dead. "Most cricket fans are.

It's the boredom that gets them. READ MORE: Radio 2 fans 'gutted' as Ken Bruce says BBC 'want me to leave' now"But annoyingly from his point of view, some were not only alive, but awake as well. "Jeremy went on: "And they came forward to say that Stephen hadn't been offensive at all. "It's tragic, isn't it, that we live in a time when one person can claim something and that it's immediately accepted as fact?"The complaint against Stephen was made by Chris Waterman, 75, who has been a member of MCC for 25 years.