Bernard Manning - dead as fuck

[IronicA]

Bernard Manning died today.



Gary Willmot to deliver his Eulogy.

http://www.bernardmanning.com/

[Seshmeister]

[IronicA]

Bernard and Big Daddy "do" Tiswas, circa '83.

[flappo]

bernard : there was a fat man , a jew , a poof and a hasbeen comedian

hang on

that's me !

[IronicA]

Originally posted by flappo
bernard : there was a fat man , a jew , a poof and a hasbeen comedian

hang on

that's me !

... or Alexie Sayle.

"Ullo John! Gotta New Mot-a"

Cookie owns all.

[IronicA]

By Sky News SkyNews - 1 hour 1 minute ago:

Controversial funnyman Bernard Manning has insisted on having the last laugh - by writing his own obituary.

Manning, who has just died aged 76, defends his particular brand of comedy, which many slammed as racist, and says he "wouldn't have changed a thing" in his life.

In the obituary he hits out at the "po-faced" Commission for Racial Equality and the "lesbian and gay rights lot".

He writes in the Daily Mail: "In their obsession with turning comedy into a branch of Left-wing politics, they forgot that the only point of jokes is to make people laugh".

"And that was what I was good at, whether I was on the cabaret circuit in Manchester or at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas."

He denied he was racist, saying it was a term "bandied around by the media elite against anyone who does not follow their agenda".

He also hit out at modern comics for failing to push the boundaries of comedy.

"I had a distant German relative who died at Auschwitz. He fell out of one of the watchtowers," he joked.

"Now that's humour, precisely because it's close to the edge, unlike so many of the tired, comfortable, right-on lines about George Bush in which modern comics indulge, massaging the consciences of their middle-class audiences instead of giving them raw entertainment."

He said he could count the Queen as one of his fans.

"The Queen once told me with a smile, after a Royal Command Performance, how much she liked my act," he wrote.

"If it was good enough for her, it should have been good enough for anyone."

Manning was upbeat about his demise: "As I look down now on all the over-paid executives who have made such a mess of television and undermined true comedy, and as I sense the affection from the mass of the British public, I know that I am the one having the last laugh."

[Mr Badguy]

RIP you fat fucker.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Ah, this isn't sad at all...