Bernard Manning Has Died

heaven needed a.....

....

It's a fookin' disgrace

..nope, can't think of any famous characteristics belonging to this ex-man.

anyone else?

What will Mancunian coppers do for their entertainment now?

his poor old mam....

(sorry had to be the first to say it)

i baked you a cake, but i embarrassed myself on national tv over it.

RIP

(Racist Idiot Pelican)

Hating Bernard Manning = anti-semitism

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6765093.stm

frank sinatra called him "the greatest ballad singer of the last fifty years".

rip.

I'll tell you what son, a lot of these fookin alternative comedians couldn't keel over and die of a heart attack if you fookin gave them a searchlight. Alternative comedian? Alternative to dying if you fookin ask me.

Ah fuck him...and his big fat corpse.

lock thread

First Simon Wiesenthal, then this. How could this happen.

murder?

He truly was the people's racist comedian.

I was kinda hoping he'd fallen from a 30th Floor window and landed on Jim Davidson...

If he hadn't played the Hacienda's launch night, who knows how the face of British music might have been changed

hmmmm... maybe people wouldn't have forgiven the Mondays quite so easily.

Remember him this way.

I'd like to remeber him tarred, feathered and possibly on fire...But that's not going to happen now. But I will settle for dead.

or even "remember"

Are there any Jews you don't want to see killed, stone monkey?

thought this was a joke thread until I saw it was started by Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy

I wonder if there's a right answer for that question...?

Tom Hibbert's Bernard Manning interview in Q to thread.

I'd like to remeber him tarred, feathered and possibly on fire...But that's not going to happen now. But I will settle for dead.

-- Stone Monkey, Monday, 18 June 2007 16:35 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

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hahaha. brilliant.

while Manning's routine made little attempt to be topical, he could occasionally hint at subversion.

As when, soon after the Falklands war, he told his audience that two soldiers from the conflict were present.

As the jingoistic cheers rang out, Manning embarrassed the audience by adding: "They're Argentinians."

Tenner says that embarrassment wasn't the reaction of yer typical paid-up member of a Bernard Manning audience, and that subversion wasn't actually his aim.

For the first time ever I am too scared to look at the BBC comments box.

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=6627&edition=1

This thread has made me laff.

Somewhere up in hellbunn, someone's smiling.

He was furious when two black waitresses who won damages from a Derby hotel because it failed to shield them from Manning's invective at a Round Table dinner accused him of calling them "wogs".

"It's a horrible, insulting word I've never used in my life," he complained, while maintaining that "niggers" and "coons" were historical terms with respectable roots.

Rip Bernard you were a very funny man who wasn't afraid to tell jokes on any subject good on you God bless you.

Lee Kimberley, Bradford

"hast thou any bisto?"
"ah sed fook off yur spanish cohnt"

Writer and broadcaster Barry Cryer said: "The thing about Bernard was that he looked funny, he sounded funny and he had excellent timing. It was just what he actually said that could be worrying."

probably fair comment. it's not just comedians who deny they're racist when their jokes obv. are but comedy seems to be where that issue is most complicated. it's a compelling argument tho just because the idea of someone using comedy to propel their genuine morose beliefs about people as opposed to reflecting/imitating life feels too simplistic and doesn't really make sense (you'd sooner be a politician no?). it seems this guy had friends of other races and cultures in any case.

still, it's a method that seems to be dying with the comics in this country most famous for practising it. i can't think of any comics younger than Jim Davidson who might really sympathise with that argument (and beyond it) at least.

Did he really once sing a medley of Smiths songs on television, or is this a complicated practical joke that everyone I know has been playing on me for many years now?

DV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5cS0bZiJ1Q

ha ha ha

Also, the idea that Manning had good comic timing is utter fiction. Just watch any of his clips on Youtube, he's all over the place, he stumbles punchlines, he doesn't pace his set. Roy Chubby Brown has amazing comic timing though, so just because you're a racist doesn't mean you can't pace yourself properly.

he had excellent timing, he just couldn't remember when to deploy it.

I've never seen an episode of The Comedians tbh, so he may have been the white Richard Pryor there, I dunno.

Mike Reid hated Bernard Manning for stealing his material during those days.

I've seen Mike Reid's act and that's bollocks.

Reid claimed that Manning would look at your cue cards before you went on stage and do your act before you did. Are you calling Mike Reid a liar?

thedragonflyproject (36 minutes ago) Marked as spam
You weren't the one for me, fatty. Burn in hell.

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No, but I'm calling his act bollocks.

TBF he probly gave Bernard some tips on race hate.

stu4203 (11 minutes ago) Marked as spam
Whats black & annoyed?
The reincarnation of Bernard Manning

The Sun's frontpage headline:

RACIST IN PEACE

bill murray

David Murray makes me laugh.

Get it together, folks, Chic Murray!

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Ruby Murray for me thanks.

"What use is happiness? It can't buy you money."

Is there any truth in the rumour that Brian Ferry is going to buy the Embassy Club and relaunch himself as a Bernard Manning tribute act?

i think brian ferry has been a brian ferry tribute act since 1987

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000365L0.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

TS: Rangers chairman David Murray vs post-Ayler tenorman David Murray.

One blows a mean horn, the other blows all his money on shite players

... you decide who does what

Which one blows Coisty?

Hazel Irvine

interesting thread, this: just catching up with it now.

I do think there's a fair point to be made that what Hicks and Bruce are praised for is what Manning actually did

dom, can you elaborate here? there might be a fair point in there, but i dunno what it might be ;)

His funeral contained a missive pre-recorded, in which he tells how much he really did blacks, jews, etc etc, proclaims himself a proud racist, and so on.

Most surprising deathbed statement since F.Mercury!

Bernard was a comidien end of story,he took the pee out of EVERYONE I saw him live and he was so funny and at the end of his show he always sung a lovely song. Leave him alone. He is better then Billy Connelly and the disgusting Roy chubby Brown who only goes on about :womens parts: plus you can't understand a word he says...whoops am I being racist about the Geordies? Nowt wrong with Bernard

Touching eulogy from Trevor Phillips there.

"how much he really did blacks, jews,"

he never them?

Loved? Shagged? Hated? This is an important word to miss!

hate is the word.

[citation needed]

Oh, it was in the NOTW, along with a condemning editorial. from Editors.

What? One number one album and they get to have their say in a national newspaper?

This is all I can find about it:

http://www.pr-inside.com/entertainment-blog/2007/07/09/manning-confesses-he-is-a-racist/

Suppose he's bluffing?

Nah, he's definitely dead.

ABOUT THE RACIALISM

What the fuck is this shit?

“Farewell to thee, Mancunian Manning. May your soul rest in peace, with these heartfelt from your next door Indian family.”

Watching this thing on Channel 4 just now (missed the start of it), I had sort of forgotten, due to avoiding him for as long as possible, just how repulsive Manning actually was.

he had great timing thou.

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sadly, i hadn't. but now the fucker's dead there seems to be no getting away from him. FUCK OFF, MANNING, YOU DEAD WANKER.

nah nah jokes, bruv. he was fucking shit.

This is the weirdest show ever.

And now Arnold Brown has turned up to give him smackdown. Wtf?

Ah, but Arnold Brown's never played the MGM Grand in Vegas. He's NOTHING!

(i.e. good fucking riddance Manning you repulsive bastard. Fuck you and everything you stand for)

What's making this even weirder is that it's filmed and edited like it was done on a budget of about £3k, making it look like something off Community TV or The Teachers' Channel.

OK, after that last confession ("hello, I am a bigoted fucker who sees nothing wrong in that at all"), I hope there is a hell and he's burning in it forever. What a hideous excuse for a man.

looked good for his age

The confession was very confused and complex. Needs a lot of unpacking.

So did he write that himself, or was he just being interviewed by a guy dressed as St Peter in a shitty fake beard, or.....

That show was so slow and so little content and with no idea what it was trying to say. The director was probably shit scared of Manning and let him 'direct' it.

Manning was such a cunt. In a way he reminded me of Brian Clough in The Damned United. But with racism.

I didn't even know Arnold Brown was still alive.

I did laugh at the "Unorthodox Jew" gag.

But other than that, whatta cunt.

Chris Rock at Live Earth to thread

This man should probably have been deprived of the oxygen of publicity, even though he's dead

Well, he's been deprived of the oxygen of breathing, so that will have to do.

it's not the shitbag man that's so depressing, it's the followers, seemed to be a lotta skin head types around him, young people too.

"they think it's fookin bombay"

amen, MG

Yeah, the sloping foreheads in that gig they filmed weren't a pleasant looking bunch. Plus, who the fuck laughs at the "can y'fookin' shoot me first" joke?