Comedy star Bernard Manning dies
Jun 18th 2007, 6:38 pm
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Comedy star Bernard Manning dies
Controversial comedian Bernard Manning has died aged 76 after being treated in hospital for a kidney condition.
He shot to fame in the 1970s on ITV programme The Comedians, having already developed a career in music as a vocalist and a compere.
His website branded him "one of the most outrageous and successful comedians of our time". He also denied being racist, once remarking: "I tell jokes. You never take a joke seriously." .........
BBC
Not my cup of tea but sad nontheless. RIP Bernard.
He shot to fame in the 1970s on ITV programme The Comedians, having already developed a career in music as a vocalist and a compere.
His website branded him "one of the most outrageous and successful comedians of our time". He also denied being racist, once remarking: "I tell jokes. You never take a joke seriously." .........
BBC
Not my cup of tea but sad nontheless. RIP Bernard.
Jun 18th 2007, 7:06 pm
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Re: Comedy star Bernard Manning dies
Controversial comedian Bernard Manning has died aged 76 after being treated in hospital for a kidney condition.
He shot to fame in the 1970s on ITV programme The Comedians, having already developed a career in music as a vocalist and a compere.
His website branded him "one of the most outrageous and successful comedians of our time". He also denied being racist, once remarking: "I tell jokes. You never take a joke seriously." .........
BBC
Not my cup of tea but sad nontheless. RIP Bernard.
He shot to fame in the 1970s on ITV programme The Comedians, having already developed a career in music as a vocalist and a compere.
His website branded him "one of the most outrageous and successful comedians of our time". He also denied being racist, once remarking: "I tell jokes. You never take a joke seriously." .........
BBC
Not my cup of tea but sad nontheless. RIP Bernard.
Jun 18th 2007, 7:40 pm
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Re: Comedy star Bernard Manning dies
Never did like his chicken after the bird flu scare.
RIP all the same.
RIP all the same.
Jun 18th 2007, 8:56 pm
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Boom Boom!
Jun 18th 2007, 8:56 pm
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Legend.
Yorkshire couple go to Majorca for their first holiday abroad. Being typical Brits abroad, they don't trust the local food, and as it's a Sunday they start cooking a roast dinner. Unfortunately they've forgotten the gravy granules, so Maureen says to Geoffrey:
"I'm sure the couple next door are English, go and ask them if they've got some"
So off he goes, knocks on the door, and sure enough a bloke in Union Jack shorts opens the door:
Geoffrey asks politely: "Hast thou any Bisto??"
The bloke says: "**** off you Spanish tw*t"
Yorkshire couple go to Majorca for their first holiday abroad. Being typical Brits abroad, they don't trust the local food, and as it's a Sunday they start cooking a roast dinner. Unfortunately they've forgotten the gravy granules, so Maureen says to Geoffrey:
"I'm sure the couple next door are English, go and ask them if they've got some"
So off he goes, knocks on the door, and sure enough a bloke in Union Jack shorts opens the door:
Geoffrey asks politely: "Hast thou any Bisto??"
The bloke says: "**** off you Spanish tw*t"
Jun 18th 2007, 8:58 pm
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Class!!!!!
Jun 19th 2007, 12:59 am
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Thats a bastard.
Jun 19th 2007, 5:53 am
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one mans racist sexist homophobic b@sted is another mans freedom (of speech) fighter .... RIP Bernard, a true man of his times...
Jun 19th 2007, 6:19 am
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Jun 19th 2007, 6:23 am
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Another classic that had me in stitches.
Like the time this female athlete came up to him in a bar and he got a strange whiff. "You fart in ma Whitbread?" he said.....No I'm Tessa Sanderson she replied! 
Like the time this female athlete came up to him in a bar and he got a strange whiff. "You fart in ma Whitbread?" he said.....No I'm Tessa Sanderson she replied!
Jun 19th 2007, 6:26 am
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what about the little boy who asked his Dad where babies come from. Thinking frantically, the Dad says "uh, a stork my darlin"
The boy replies - "who fcks a stork?"
Jun 19th 2007, 6:26 am
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RIP A very funny man.
Jun 19th 2007, 7:12 am
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Saw him on stage about 7weeks ago in Shaw, Oldham - he was helped onto the stage and conducted his act from a chair. He commanded the room still. Looked really ill then and vowed to die doing what he enjoyed the most. At the end he gave a speech about loving family, quite touching. Not my sense of humour at all and I didnt appreciate a lot of his jokes, but the family part hit the nail on the head for us.
RIP BM.
RIP BM.
Jun 19th 2007, 8:22 am
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Just on the BBC:
What's black and doesn't work?
Bernard manning's kidneys
Boom Boom.
What's black and doesn't work?
Bernard manning's kidneys
Boom Boom.
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Jun 19th 2007, 9:45 am
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a horrid, sexist, foul mouthed, homophobic little man,
he's died has he? what a shame!
not a moment too soon
he's died has he? what a shame!
not a moment too soon