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/
― StanM, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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)
― ailsa, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
<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."
― titchyschneiderMk2, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Bernard Manning is funnier than Al Murray... and I'm talking about now
― Tom D., Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
what about colin murray though? is he funnier than him?
― titchyschneiderMk2, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
None of these is as funny as Pete Murray.
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
bill murray
― darraghmac, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
David Murray makes me laugh.
― onimo, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Get it together, folks, Chic Murray!
― Tom D., Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
― onimo, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Ruby Murray for me thanks.
― NickB, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"What use is happiness? It can't buy you money."
― Tom D., Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― NickB, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i think brian ferry has been a brian ferry tribute act since 1987
― darraghmac, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000365L0.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
― DavidM, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
TS: Rangers chairman David Murray vs post-Ayler tenorman David Murray.
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
One blows a mean horn, the other blows all his money on shite players
― Tom D., Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
... you decide who does what
― Tom D., Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Which one blows Coisty?
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Hazel Irvine
― Tom D., Thursday, 21 June 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
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 ;)
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 28 June 2007 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 08:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 08:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Touching eulogy from Trevor Phillips there.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 09:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"how much he really did blacks, jews,"
he never them?
― Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Loved? Shagged? Hated? This is an important word to miss!
― Anna, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
hate is the word.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
[citation needed]
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, it was in the NOTW, along with a condemning editorial. from Editors.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
What? One number one album and they get to have their say in a national newspaper?
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
This is all I can find about it:
http://www.pr-inside.com/entertainment-blog/2007/07/09/manning-confesses-he-is-a-racist/
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Suppose he's bluffing?
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Nah, he's definitely dead.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
ABOUT THE RACIALISM
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
What the fuck is this shit?
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
“Farewell to thee, Mancunian Manning. May your soul rest in peace, with these heartfelt from your next door Indian family.”
― everything, Thursday, 12 July 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
he had great timing thou.
― acrobat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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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.
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
nah nah jokes, bruv. he was fucking shit.
― acrobat, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
This is the weirdest show ever.
And now Arnold Brown has turned up to give him smackdown. Wtf?
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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)
― ailsa, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:31 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
looked good for his age
― RJG, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link
The confession was very confused and complex. Needs a lot of unpacking.
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:33 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't even know Arnold Brown was still alive.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 13 July 2007 07:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I did laugh at the "Unorthodox Jew" gag.
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 July 2007 07:42 (sixteen years ago) link