Thread: Bernard Manning RIP

Bernard Manning wasn't even very funny. The guy who really made it out of that show "The Comedians" was London boy Mike Reid. He's a pretty good actor now.

He did have some funny moments... On people of South Asian decent living in the UK. "they think they are English... They're not fucking English just cuz a dog is born in a stable it doesn't make it a horse"

Deplorable yet humourous. IMHO.

Black man with a monkey on his shoulder walks into a pub and the manager says "where did you get him from?"

....monkey says "Africa, there's fokin millions of 'em.

Bernard Manning R.I.P

Racist bastard but quite amusing.

Originally Posted by Sir Burr

Bernard Manning wasn't even very funny. The guy who really made it out of that show "The Comedians" was London boy Mike Reid. He's a pretty good actor now.

Methinks you forget Les Dawson.

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Yup, you're right.

I saw Bernard Manning live twice, 82 & 84 in Brum.
He was funny alright, but hell was his humour racist.
I reckon he would have had to tone it down to have kept performing in the 90's.

His son has a restraunt in Truro, Cornwall. Good food.

God bless you, Uncle Bernard.

bit racist, but bloody funny man,
you must be able to laugh at yourself first before you can laugh at others and he could.

if you were born in england does that make you english,

if your'e a dog and born in a stable does that make you a horse

Originally Posted by meepho

bit racist, but bloody funny man,
you must be able to laugh at yourself first before you can laugh at others and he could.

if you were born in england does that make you english,

if your'e a dog and born in a stable does that make you a horse

totaltwisted nonsense that joke

if you are born in England, it makes you British, not English, so fuk off Bernard "arsehole" Manning

you will not RIP but will be in a place where all the fat ugly bastards go, quite near Pattaya

Rip Bernard you were funny as fok

I prefer the Oxbridge, post-modern ironist variety of comic, such as Ben Elton, David Baddiel and Ken Dodd.

I couldn't care less if he was racist or not - he just wasn't very funny.

^ I thought he was very funny live.
His sort of humour was quick witted, interaction with the audience type stuff- much funnier when you saw him live than on TV. I would not have wanted to be sitting near the front in a Bernard Manning show.
IMO.

no, me neither, he spat a lot and dribbled down his DJ

DrAndy, If you are born in England, then you are " British"????
Try telling a Scotsman that he's not Scottish, but British.

And Bernard Manning was a great comedian,who said aloud , what other people think.

I worked for him as a teenager in his Embassy club.
He treated all his staff well and no other comedian in the clubs, apart maybe from Les Dawson, could work an audience like Manning.

Bernard, dead, is now a legend. I met him. Find him unfunny? Love to see you at one of his do's - you'd be the first target. We'd love it. We know who we are. How Rushdie gets a knighthood & this guy goes without a bang is a fucking disgrace.

No accounting for political favour.

DrAndy,
I don't understand. but I also think that you dont understand. You wouldn't call a Scotsman anything but Scottish, or even a Welshman, or an Irishman, so what about an Englishman?? Of course our passports say Btitish, but I am, always have been, and always will be, an Englishman. And very proud of it.
What all this has got to do with Bernard Manning, I ,have forgotten, but i still think he was a great comedian. If people don't like him, and this applies to all other variety acts, then they don't have to watch.
I don't understand anyone who sits through a whole show, and then starts to criticise after it's all finished. On most TV sets there is an on/off switch, and/or a channel changer.
He was Jewish himself, but he ribbed the jews, and as you say , he had a go at every other race, religion,colour and the like, just like we do on TD.
Nobody, or almost nobody gets offended. Laughter is the best medicine.
Inter racial joking, or whatever you want to call it does not, or should not offend anyone.
The pictures in todays English newspapers, are what I call offensive. These foreigners, protesting in London , re the Knighting of Salman Rushdie (read their placards) Now , they are racists and offensive. What do you think????????

What do I think? about which bit?

Salman Rushdie..well, I can't understand giving him a knighthood as I don't like his books. They seem like they were written on a word processor and jumbled spontaneously (except for his first novel, which was OK). So, if his books are not much good, then he must have been given a knighthood for offending Muslims. In which case, the protestors have a point. They may be offensive, I am not sure they are racist (I have not read all their posters, mind you).

As for Scots and Brits, if you know someone is Scottish, then you would call him a Scot. If you were not sure, and he was holding his passport, then you would know he was a Brit.

so, all those Indian and African ethnic groups etc that were born in the UK (even England) are British, but not English. That is the point I was making.