Bernard Manning Has Died

he didnt pick on everyone equally at all. he never made jokes about raping babies

come on titchy he didn't make gags about "disabled kiddies" or periods.

well, i dont know. i never saw his comedy cos i feared it would make me feel a bit ill.

"he didnt pick on everyone equally at all. he never made jokes about raping babies"

are you being sarcastic?

serious question (allowing that manning was horrible etc)- is it allowable to make fun of any group in comedy, or is it ok just so long as you avoid the nasty words?

manning said that a comedian should never joke about a ladies bodily functions.

its a little less abrasive if you avoid the obvious words.

acrobat, didnt he make sexist jokes about women though?

yes but i saw this interview where he was getting all het up about i dunno jo brand or someone making jokes about tampons. fookin disgrace etc etc.

Generally agree with Alexei's article, except for:

those such as the full-time contrarians at Living Marxism who gave his biography a good review

What, it couldn't have been a good biography?

The "Have Your Say" comments are mostly written by bored BBC employees.

You're thinking of the Radio Times letters page.

you're thinking about jo brand's material.

"Periods, they're not as good as cakes, am I right girls?"

No, I'm confusing Jo Brand with a Watercooler thread, sorry.

Loose ILXors

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2106105,00.html

With the national fame came the notoriety - with Manning cheerfully praising Enoch Powell, and even Hitler, in various newspapers. "I am an admirer of Adolf Hitler," he told the Sunday People. "Not everything about him, of course. I deplore his gas chambers and Gestapo as much as anyone, but I admire him for the things he got right, which I reckon was about 50%."

bad punchline, that one.

Would Manning have been cool if he'd said it was all just an act?

I mean, this guy is funny because he's smart and he's just acting, but... http://www.thepublandlord.com/

Except that Al Murray's not funny either.

I'm not so sure it's Manning himself that I find so objectionable rather than people who continue(d) to legitimise his schtick by paying good money in their fucking droves to listen to it. He's a big fat figurehead for a load of problems.

(I mean, I do find him objectionable, but it's the fact that lots and lots of people champion him for it and he got to build a career from it, rather than him just being a sad fucker in a pub moaning about stuff, that's really depressing)

<i>Would Manning have been cool if he'd said it was all just an act?<i>

well he did say that - 'I get up on stage and I do an act," Bernard Manning once said. "It's not me, just as an actor playing a part in a film isn't the character. I don't go home to my grandkids and say, 'Fucking queers, niggers, they're all cunts.' It's my act, not me. It's all a joke."

Bernard Manning is funnier than Al Murray... and I'm talking about now

what about colin murray though? is he funnier than him?

None of these is as funny as Pete Murray.

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?