Wonder why they didn't get Johnny Kwango or Clive Myers to lift him.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 08:58 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Ben Elton's cue cards...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:18 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Spit The Dog still alive?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:20 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Theoretically? He is one of the immortals!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:32 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
too bad they didn't spell it dye :-(
― StanM, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:45 (sixteen years ago) link
paging lynne truss
― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 09:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I was more surprised at Benny Out Of Crossroads still being alive.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:05 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Was Clive Webb on it?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I was hoping this was meant to say Bernard Fanning.
― Kate, non masonic, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:17 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, too often I was "Where's John Gorman then???"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:23 (sixteen years ago) link
blimey, Clive Webb...
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Cough the Cat never really caught on
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:24 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
He wrote is own obit. It's a laff riot.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL :)
― Trayce, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:44 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Mark, have you actually looked at anything other than ILE today?
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:47 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost yeah, why?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:49 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
ready with that Taking Sides Manning vs Brady thread then, Tom.
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Brady and Manning: Pride of Manchester
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 10:56 (sixteen 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 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
surely that's a well used term traditionally here too
― blueski, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:03 (sixteen 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 (sixteen years ago) link
Not really tho. To me a liberal is someone just slightly to the left of a Tory.
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:09 (sixteen years ago) link
-- 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?
― onimo, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone see Jim Bowen being interviewed about Manning by Gavin Esler on Newsnight? Good old Jim!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:17 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― stevie, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm bored shitless of opinions, and I'm glad he's dead.
This is how Nazi Germany ended.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:47 (sixteen years ago) link
That was Eva Braun's last words, folks!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― blueski, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
what did Jim Bowen say?
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― blueski, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link
He kept calling Gavin Esler, Gavin, and to demonstrate that you can tell jokes about anyone and anything told him a Scottish joke:
"Look, Gavin, it's like this... I could say, for instance, that one day Gavin Esler dies and goes to heaven and you reach the gate, Gavin, and St. Peter says, 'Clear off, we're not making porridge for one'"
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
godwin inversion!!
― stevie, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
From that daily mail page
A great comedian - shame there aren't more of them to put the PC brigade and the Metropolitan elite in their place. God Bless.- John Bush, London, UKNow that man should get a Knighthood - not Rushdie.- Joe De Hoop, Brighton, Sussex
- John Bush, London, UK
Now that man should get a Knighthood - not Rushdie.
- Joe De Hoop, Brighton, Sussex
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 12:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i guess it shows he was loved by some south of Watford too.
― blueski, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
the Metropolitan elite
Who they?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 June 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link