Bernard Manning Has Died

stu4203 (11 minutes ago) Marked as spam
Whats black & annoyed?
The reincarnation of Bernard Manning

The Sun's frontpage headline:

RACIST IN PEACE

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.

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.

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.

Wonder why they didn't get Johnny Kwango or Clive Myers to lift him.

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

Ben Elton's cue cards...

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...

Is Spit The Dog still alive?

I assume emphysema eventually did for Cough the Cat

Spit The Dog is theoretically immortal.

Theoretically? He is one of the immortals!

hairybogroll (48 minutes ago) Marked as spam
big fat cunt was told to loose wait or die

too bad they didn't spell it dye :-(

paging lynne truss

I was more surprised at Benny Out Of Crossroads still being alive.

He might be alive but his agent must have died sometime back in the mid 80s

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.

Was Clive Webb on it?

I was hoping this was meant to say Bernard Fanning.

I assume emphysema eventually did for Cough the Cat

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.

Yeah, too often I was "Where's John Gorman then???"

blimey, Clive Webb...

Cough the Cat never really caught on

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."

He wrote is own obit. It's a laff riot.

I was hoping this was meant to say Bernard Fanning.

LOL :)

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, have you actually looked at anything other than ILE today?

What are the odds on Ian Brady being the next celebrity to pop his clogs?

xpost yeah, why?

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.

What are the odds on Ian Brady being the next celebrity to pop his clogs?

ready with that Taking Sides Manning vs Brady thread then, Tom.

Brady and Manning: Pride of Manchester

The Manchester thing reminded me of Brady that and "I know that I am the one having the last laugh"

He wrote is own obit. It's a laff riot.

-- 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.

surely that's a well used term traditionally here too

I haven't noticed, if so, EG I don't recall Thatcher running down "the liberals".

Not really tho. To me a liberal is someone just slightly to the left of a Tory.

I was going to add a comment on the mail's site, but I couldn't be arsed, which sez it all wrt my opinion on manning, I suppose.

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, June 19, 2007 11:53 AM (Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:53 AM) Bookmark Link

This the same Mrs Merton show in which she said that many non-whites in this country were born here and were therefore British and he said something along the lines of "Jesus was born in a stable but we don't call him a fuckin horse"?

In what way did he outsmart them?

Richard Wilson was the other guest on that wasn't he - he didn't try and be funny so much as just be all "yr an idiot", which probably worked in his favour

Anyone see Jim Bowen being interviewed about Manning by Gavin Esler on Newsnight? Good old Jim!

i found out yesterday, while working at an awards show, and my thumbs instinctively turned upwards in a fonzie-esque 'eyyyyyy' gesture.

i was woken at 8 this morning, after 2 hours' sleep, to hear the retards on the bbc breakfast telly reading out emails they'd received, all along the 'he was funny and he was brave, people are too sensitive' variety, and the woman earnestly inviting viewers to write in if they had an opinion. i'm bored shitless of opinions, and i'm glad he's dead.

i'm bored shitless of opinions, and I'm glad he's dead.

This is how Nazi Germany ended.

That was Eva Braun's last words, folks!

In what way did he outsmart them?

he didn't lose his cool unlike co-guest Richard Wilson (who looked pretty silly trying to reason with or get one up on him). he was probably annoyed that he'd been treated so badly by them afterwards (not much sympathy here of course) but he was probably still the least agitated person involved in the whole thing at the end of it. they got him on the show to embarrass him but it didn't really work - it's not as if it did his reputation any further harm really.

what did Jim Bowen say?

I expect he praised him in the same way Stan Boardman and pretty much all the stand-ups of their generation have done. A lot of them probably retain a big 'don't speak ill of the dead, at least not in public' thing that has been lost on generations since (not too bothered about this myself) - not that this matters much when most of them would agree with his attiude overall.

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"

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?