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Comedy star Bernard Manning dies
Controversial comedian Bernard Manning has died at the age of 76, The Embassy Club - his comedy venue in Manchester - has confirmed.
He shot to fame in the 1970s on ITV programme The Comedians and was renowned for his off-colour humour.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6765093.stm
Now he has passed away will he be viewed as a comedy great with a rogueish act making jokes out of everybody.
Or simply a bigot?
Controversial comedian Bernard Manning has died at the age of 76, The Embassy Club - his comedy venue in Manchester - has confirmed.
He shot to fame in the 1970s on ITV programme The Comedians and was renowned for his off-colour humour.
More follows...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6765093.stm
Now he has passed away will he be viewed as a comedy great with a rogueish act making jokes out of everybody.
Or simply a bigot?
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RIP though.
Still I heard Jim Davidson is still avaliable.
Post of the week!
Maybe it's because i'm quite pissed but that really did make me laugh!
I'm not going to be nice just 'cause he's dead, but I never understood why he was so vilified. I thought he was fairly funny, and the people who were offended by him were just the usual whingey moany PC twats who get offended by everything.
Good post, think you've summed up what i think better than i could have put it.
was he abusive to working class mancunians? i think jimmy carr asked that question once
They were bootiful
So objecting to calling black people "jungle bunnies" is PC whinging is it?
He hardly deserves to have it said he deserved to die for a few jokes... he wasnt Hitler or Stalin or Lenin or Himmler was he?
That's funny, because I thought he was lacking humour with or without racist material, and the people who defended him were just the usual whingey moany closeted-fascist "in my day 'n i g g e r' was a fun word, before the world went PC-mad" twats who use political correctness as a catch-all argument clincher no matter how dubious it is.
**begins to wonder if Bri was joking or really did think he made those drunmsticks** :chin:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/marcus_brigstocke/2007/06/surplus_manning.html
Yeah, I get an impression he wasn't a big Bernard fan...
"He did have great timing - everyone will say that over the next few days, and I would join them - except that it is no compliment. Manning had great timing ... yeah, and that mentally ill lad who murdered all those kids at Virginia Tech was a bloody good shot, but that's hardly the point, is it?"
Great quote that though
Edited to add: Some of the posts people are making in response are well worth a read too
When did he admit he was a racist?
on mrs merton .....
i wonder if all these people going on about how he was bigoted and are glad he is dead, have never told an irish joke, sexist, or a gay joke......
unless its a knock knock joke, or a joke suitable for kids, most jokes that do the rounds would/could cause offence to Someone, somewhere
i'm a woman....i find some sexist jokes funny.....as long as its light hearted i dont see a problem
*awaits abuse*
On the Mrs Merton show. They played a clip on the news last night.
The difference is that Manning got paid to do it and made racism appear acceptable.
aye
but if us meer mortals did find racist/sexist/homophobic jokes funny, he wouldnt have been as successful/rich as he was...