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?
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
DV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5cS0bZiJ1Q
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
ha ha ha
― blueski, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link
he had excellent timing, he just couldn't remember when to deploy it.
― blueski, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I've seen Mike Reid's act and that's bollocks.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link
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?
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link
thedragonflyproject (36 minutes ago) Marked as spam You weren't the one for me, fatty. Burn in hell.
― acrobat, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
No, but I'm calling his act bollocks.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link
TBF he probly gave Bernard some tips on race hate.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 18 June 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link
stu4203 (11 minutes ago) Marked as spam Whats black & annoyed? The reincarnation of Bernard Manning
― acrobat, Monday, 18 June 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link
The Sun's frontpage headline:
RACIST IN PEACE
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 07:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Well there's a pot-kettle-BLACK situation for you.
Manning played the opening night of the Hacienda: "I've played some fookin' shitholes in my time" etc.
No doubt his spirit lives on in Ricky Gervais with his ironic free pass.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 07:15 (seventeen years ago) link
manning was a friend of my (now dead) step-grandfather from the dim and distant past. he was in comedy in manchester going back to the forties. manning stayed in touch right up to the end, which is menschy. shame he was a bigot, but now he's dead the audiences who paid to see his act will all stop being racist, so everything's okay now.
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Funny: They replayed his moment off Tiswas on the Tiswas Reunited prog over the weekend, where he was being lifted as a human bar with Big Daddy the wrestler, by "britain's strongest man' who promptly dropped them both.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Wonder why they didn't get Johnny Kwango or Clive Myers to lift him.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 08:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Reid claimed that Manning would look at your cue cards before you went on stage and do your act before you did.
... and get ten times as many laughs as you would have
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Ben Elton's cue cards...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link
I watched that Tiswas Revisited as well. Looked to me as though Sally James and Spit The Dog could have done a better job of lifting him...
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Is Spit The Dog still alive?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I assume emphysema eventually did for Cough the Cat
Spit The Dog is theoretically immortal.
― blueski, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Theoretically? He is one of the immortals!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:32 (seventeen years ago) link
hairybogroll (48 minutes ago) Marked as spam big fat cunt was told to loose wait or die
― onimo, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:42 (seventeen years ago) link
too bad they didn't spell it dye :-(
― StanM, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link
paging lynne truss
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link
I was more surprised at Benny Out Of Crossroads still being alive.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link
He might be alive but his agent must have died sometime back in the mid 80s
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I noted the pecking order where Lenny Henry and Frank Bloody Carson got the big intro and applause but Bloke Out Of The Scaffold and Worst Doctor Who Ever were just supporting players.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Was Clive Webb on it?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link
I was hoping this was meant to say Bernard Fanning.
― Kate, non masonic, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link
funny thing is, I had *absolutely no knowledge* of the existence of Cough the Cat until CJ mentioned him or her on a thread a year or two back, despite seeing Bob Carolgees on TV (with or without Spit) on innumerable occasions.
Roy Chubby Brown is playing the New Theatre in Oxford soon; the ads on the bus shelters have the legend "If easily offended, stay away!" which holds true for most comedians I would've thought.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, too often I was "Where's John Gorman then???"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link
blimey, Clive Webb...
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Cough the Cat never really caught on
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Darcus Howe: "So Bernard Manning asked me, straight up - I was the only black man in the place - where I was from, and I told him, Brixton. He smiled, and said he'd been there once, so he could be my daddy."
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link
He wrote is own obit. It's a laff riot.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link
LOL :)
― Trayce, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
and as I sense the affection from the mass of the British public, I know that I am the one having the last laugh.
hurr, no you aint.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Mark, have you actually looked at anything other than ILE today?
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link
What are the odds on Ian Brady being the next celebrity to pop his clogs?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost yeah, why?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link
remember his appearance on Mrs Merton? he was arrogant and obnoxoious of course but he still managed to outsmart them really. Ahearne seemed angered by his behaviour afterwards, maybe frustrated that she didn't manage to show him up as perhaps intended (why would you invite him on otherwise? clearly she was not a fan). he didn't need other people to make him look a pillock tho innit.
― blueski, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link
ready with that Taking Sides Manning vs Brady thread then, Tom.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Brady and Manning: Pride of Manchester
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link
The Manchester thing reminded me of Brady that and "I know that I am the one having the last laugh"
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:37 (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
LOL @ daily mail's sub US conservative media terminology "reviled by liberals". WTF.
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link
surely that's a well used term traditionally here too
― blueski, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link
I haven't noticed, if so, EG I don't recall Thatcher running down "the liberals".
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
looked good for his age
― RJG, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
The confession was very confused and complex. Needs a lot of unpacking.
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
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.....
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link
I didn't even know Arnold Brown was still alive.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 July 2007 07:36 (seventeen years ago) link
I did laugh at the "Unorthodox Jew" gag.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 July 2007 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link
But other than that, whatta cunt.
Chris Rock at Live Earth to thread
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 July 2007 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link
This man should probably have been deprived of the oxygen of publicity, even though he's dead
― That mong guy that's shit, Friday, 13 July 2007 08:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, he's been deprived of the oxygen of breathing, so that will have to do.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 July 2007 08:46 (seventeen years ago) link
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"
― acrobat, Friday, 13 July 2007 08:51 (seventeen years ago) link
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?
― That mong guy that's shit, Friday, 13 July 2007 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link