“Loved and loathed in equal measure, Bernard Manning was also one of the last old-style comedians” daily express Wednesday 20th June 2007

Old-style…… that’s a tactful way of saying bigoted racist.


It seems strange when you start to look at comedy. You look at inosent jokes like you where told whe you where a kid. Just never made you laugh in the was that soming can make you laugh nowdays. And that things pretty much had to be jokes. Set up, feed line, punch line. Moove on to next joke. Dodd, Monkhouse, Cooper, Dawson and Manning had more mother in law jokes than there where ever knock knock jokes. The thing is to make a joke relly funy the joke has to be on someone. And that some one or something has to be well known. You cant pop up and say “yeah my mate dave right… got drunk and tried to shag a cow” see thast not funny unless you know dave. If you said “ jesus righ got drunk and tried to shag a cow…. Hows that for coveting your nabours ox” now I know that’s not brillent. I thought of it on the spot. But the point is almost everyone has a point of refrence. It’s the same with rasest, sexest and disabled jokes. Lots of comedens say things that are racist ect.. but say it in a post moden and ironic way. You laught coz you know it’s a wrong thing to say. But the sooner there isnt any racesism in the world the sooner whe can all stop killing eachother for selly reasons.

Refering back to above the there are only a few ways to say a joke without needing to have a person etc to have the joke on is the old pull back and revel. “I always sleep in the nude its ok but it upsets the other people on the bus”

Ronnie Barker’s news reading on the two ronnies is in my opinion the best clean jokes there is. “a cement mixer collided with a prision van on kingston pass. Moterists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardend criminals” you can tell that to your gran or a 6 year old and its funny.


Freedom of speech everyone has the right to be offended, not everyone has the right to not be offended
Harry Craig –lowdon (in a high pitch squeeky voice) “you cant say that” everyone else “ohh yeah well just did”

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"Don't go thinking I'm the new Bernard Manning," he tells the audience. "I'm being post-modern and ironic. I understand that what I'm saying is unacceptable. But does that make me better than Bernard Manning, or much, much worse?" :- Richard Herring