I watched Bernard at Wakefield Pussycats in 1986. Non- stop laughter for 3 hours. At the end he walked back on stage in his boxer shorts, string vest, socks and shoes. Raised his hands as if to say, I've mocked you all,now you can mock me. Great gesture.
What got me with this interview was he took every question and immediately jumped into one of his standup bits, and talked over Mark like he was hosting at the club. Funny jokes, but not a genuine reaction once. You can see Mark recoil multiple times when he can see is becoming all but a prerecorded responce.
A lot of respect for Mark here. Would have been easy to criticise every thing Bernard does for the sake of it. He let him speak and tell jokes,both come out of it well. 👍
I'm no Mark Lamarr fan...but yes.... he got this right... I suspect he was hoping to destroy Bernard....but realised he did not have the ammunition. He surrendered to superior opposition.
If Lamarr had tried to stitch Bernard up, he would have been annihilated by Bernards response. One is a two Bob TV presenter, the other a top notch comic, who came up through the working men's clubs, were no prisoners are taken.
He used to perform every boxing day afternoon at patricroft working men's club for many years ,The place was full every year ,it was a great afternoon not to be missed He made fun of everyone including himself , He was the working man's comic top class, A PART OF BRITISH CULTURE THAT IS SADLY MISSED BY MANY
What hate? He doesn't say one thing against him. He's polite throughout. The comment is not just wrong but meaningless. Did you actually watch the clip or just assume?
Top interview at a time when the comedy world had strayed away from the Bernard's of the industry and had the alternative tag, observational comedy was a big part of Bernard's act as well which he shows here, Mark is clearly taken back by the act and handles the interview brilliantly.
Mark Lamarr always brilliant … i once saw him in a record shop (now gone) in manchester, I just couldn’t sum up the bravery to go over and say thank you and kicked myself ever since
Lamarr is great here. He was probably urged to throw him under the bus but I think he respected Manning's "act" . Unfortunately comedians have to tow a line, an un-written rule where you cant make fun of certain things, even as a joke
My old man worked the doors at the embassy club, dad said he went to talk to Bernard n he was sat on a chair, no shirt and his bollocks hanging out the side of his boxers, priceless
I saw him being really nasty towards a black audience member. It's one thing making racist jokes and another to hate people just because of the colour of their skin
We still dont seem to have moved on from this modern observation comedy shite. Give me old school one liners and bernie any day of the week. Sod all wrong with a racist joke, when he died it was all "good ridence racist bastard" he was so much more than that. I laugh at sexist jokes but that dont mean my misses is chained to the kitchen.
This man would still be smashing it in 2023 and beyond, cos manning was a timeless proper savage genius comic, one or two stand ups over the years may have been as good but globally there's never been better in history.
You got the feeling that Mark was looking to judge and berate Bernard, but was totally disarmed & charmed! Mark is a good character who has always stood up for his principals, especially when he stood up to Shabba on The Word. But we can see here that Bernard was funny without being offensive.
Being a comedian has changed so much over the years. Then - 40+ years in the clubs telling jokes vs Now - monthly podcast and a pilot show in the works…
@@PaulieD1984 Whoa!!! .... Who EVER said comedians had to write their own jokes? Nobody....ever said that. It's the delivery that is the genius coupled with the joke. Scriptwriters write ALL the jokes for their characters to voice....stand-up comedy is no different. What is important is the DELIVERY. Got it?
I met him once when i was working in a restaurant (an Indian one). Call him what you like, a bigot, a racist, it was nothing more than an act. He was the nicest guy in the world and i got to see him drive away in his purple Rolls Royce. What a character!!
@@timothydraper3687 10 seconds on google would show you that he has Jewish and Irish roots..... Quite a few a jokes about these. He told loads of jokes which were clearly implicitly about the working class. And he was telling jokes in a country that was 99.9% White at the time, so he is unlikely to reference the colour of skin unless it was non-white.
I am very pleases to have seen Bernard perform in Belfast. There were some mealy-mouthed protesters outside. Some of the crowd were heckling Bernard to be more offensive, but he was stand-up funny throughout. And most of his jokes ended up poking fun at himself. A great performer.
I could be wrong, but I get the impression that Mark initially expected this to be a very different interview, but very quickly realised, and was pleasantly surprised, at how funny Bernard actually was.
I dunno - Mark obviously knows comedy. And Bernard would have been on the tele when he was growing up. He also knew that anecdote about him. I think he respected him as a comic and probably fought to get him on when he would have been basically radioactive to tv producers.
That's OK. If Bernard wasn't able to do his material then Chubby Brown would do it, or Jim Davidson, or Jethro because it was always the same crude jokes being passed around by has been comedians. I'm all for free speech as long as it's not bottom of the barrel stereotype humor that panders to the lowest common denominator. There's a reason why none of these acts had any success anywhere else other than the shit hole towns of Britain I will always defend any comedians right to earn a living but I'm still going to give my honest opinion as to why their type of humor makes us dumber and more narrow minded as a country
Manning gave John Cooper Clarke his 1st paid gig. Clarke tells a funny story how one night he was waiting outside Bernard's office to collect his wages and overheard Manning telling an act who'd gone in to get his payment" When you said you were going to saw her in half I assumed you were a Magician! " 😂 I used to walk past Manning's World Famous Embassy Club every day on my way to primary school at Harpur Mount on Alfred Street. It really was world famous, so many huge acts of the day played there including The Beatles. Bernard was actually a very good singer and started out singing on the club circuit. When he heard Elvis he gave it up and switched to comedy because he said no one could compete with Elvis. Was Manning a racist? Damn right he was. He admitted it many many times. But he was a man of his time. The idea his racism was an act is nonsense.
Bernard held Larry Gracen in high regard...I remember him saying he was fearless....would go on stage in the roughest of areas and have the crowd laughing in no time....Does O'Conner...well he passed out.
Ah yes...... I have to agree...but I doubt the fervent Catholics would...... They both demonstrated the hypocrisy of all faiths....did they not? (To Be Sure)
I love that even Manning knows that Cliff Richard was bollocks-deep in murky filth, another hiding in plain sight. All will be revealed. “Here Kitty Kitty”…
This was actually a very narrow window of open-mindedness and good faith that existed on the left and in the (left-leaning) media in particular. The earlier sanctimony of the superior left of the 1980s started to give way, in the 1990s, to a more open-minded, 'we're all kind of on the same page aren't we' acceptance that most true bigots had died off. Bernard had started to be viewed by the comedic left as a craftsman and a rare exemplar of a bygone, if bigoted era. Their attitude to the old guard had softened since the bullish days of the likes of Alexei Sayle in the early 80s. Imo, this was the high water mark of free speech, open mindedness and good faith. Boy, how the sanctimony has returned with a vengeance.
The only reason there was a soft viewpoint on bigotry back then was because of how prevalent it was. Heard my first racist jokes and insults when I was 7 years old, back in Manning's era while I was in primary school. I heard it because one single asian kid joined at my school - the first asian kid to ever go to our school - and the kids who had racist familes, who'd learned racist jokes and insults, had plenty to share. Usually directly to his face. Is that the world you want to go back to? Could you someone straight in the eye and tell them you're happy for 7 year old kids to be abused based on their skin colour?
@@urmumsbaps I don't know how old you are, but all I am relaying is how I vividly remember thinking about these things in the 90s, noting how attitudes had changed from the 70s, through the 80s into the 90s. By then, however cruel and bigoted BM had been in the past, he had softened, at least away from his Embassy Club, and the always left-leaning guardians of the msm in Britain had softened towards him. I was simply commenting on the change of attitudes, noting that comedic, mainstream popular culture became very self-aware and ironic in the 90s to early 2000s. Within that, a friendly, good faith discussion with Manning was possible. I couldn't imagine that now if he was still alive. Roy Chubby Brown is getting cancelled today, and he's a lot of things, but not a bigot. I'm not defending Bernard's bigotry, I am criticising the current, poor-faith, sanctimonious zealotry all around us. I place the highest of value on free speech - even hateful speech...I say, let's defeat it with better speech, not sanction and censorship.
I worked with Bernard on a few gigs nd he was a lovely very funny man, in his later years his memory was affected by dementia but it never changed him in regards being welcoming and kind to everyone. Including those that would say he was racist and bigoted … it was just an act, he took the Micky out of everyone to get a laugh
A colleague of mine went to see Bernard at the Embassy Club with a few mates. One of their group was overweight and wheelchair-bound, with mental issues. They pushed him to the front near the stage to see how Bernard would react. Bernard took a look at him and said “bloody ell son, you’ve only got one thing going for you.” “What’s that?” asked the lad in the wheelchair, genuinely excited. “You’re white!”
I grew up in the era when Bernard Manning was quickly going out of fashion. Yet listening to him here, there were some cracking one-liners and a sharp mind. Even the 'queer' joke. At the time I suspect the word was still laced with venom, so in that sense it's offensive. But the punchline is far from offensive. I'd be interested to see an edit of his work with the obviously offensive bits removed.
This is great interview. Whatever happened to Mark Lamarr? He was comedy gold on Never Mind The Buzzcocks but seems to have disappeared from the limelight.
Bernard Manning was a big softy at heart, he did loads for charity. Thank god he's not around to see how this country has turned out and the so called comedians we have to endure nowadays. He was always willing to take the p out of himself and if you were the but of his joke he did it with a twinkle in his eye and a smile and would shake hands with people afterwards, no malice or hatred on his part.
Fantastic interview - manning was one funny man for sure and lamarr is a very quick witted and funny man himself.
7 minutes of pure brilliance,Mark lamarr was superb,get him back on telly,& Bernard Manning was a genius,absolutely hilarious ❤❤R.I.P.
Mark Lamarr is great. Could not agree with you more. He should be presenting on TV. It would be so much better.
@seanpaling2388 Too true my friend,there's not really anyone with a sense of humour hosting any shows,all drab boring robots ffs.
Seen a few people interviewing Manning and Lamars interview was the best
@@Willsey totally mate.
@leiwulong2976 Really ???? Has he give a reason ?? Tv is sadly lacking the likes of him,tell him I,m starting a petition to get him back on 🤣🤣👍👍
Even though he was classed as a new age comedian you can see how much he was in awe
Lamarr is the 'Jimmy Tarbuck' of the new age
@@jasonfernee2401I think if that were true , Frankie Boyle would be the low bar for everyone else
I never considered myself a Bernard fan, but I laughed throughout the whole 7 minutes
I watched Bernard at Wakefield Pussycats in 1986. Non- stop laughter for 3 hours. At the end he walked back on stage in his boxer shorts, string vest, socks and shoes. Raised his hands as if to say, I've mocked you all,now you can mock me. Great gesture.
Pussycats mate. What a place
@@darenjones6318 aye, that and Casanovas!!!
@@reddishtykes Westgate beer run . for starters.
Great story.
He was a true comic.
The world needs comedians, poets and painters ASAP!
and proper musicians. None of this Ed Sheeran tripe.
bernard's material was often not that strong but his delivery was so brilliant that it's killer funny overall
Working class wit! We all knew them growing up
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What got me with this interview was he took every question and immediately jumped into one of his standup bits, and talked over Mark like he was hosting at the club.
Funny jokes, but not a genuine reaction once. You can see Mark recoil multiple times when he can see is becoming all but a prerecorded responce.
Thank you so very much for sharing this video as it has made me reflect on my own feelings. You are an inspiration. Thanks Colin
He was a incredible talent, rip funny man
Met him when I was a doorman in the late 80’s off stage he was one of the nicest guys I have ever met.
A lot of respect for Mark here. Would have been easy to criticise every thing Bernard does for the sake of it.
He let him speak and tell jokes,both come out of it well. 👍
Shaun Croxford Keith Michelle
I'm no Mark Lamarr fan...but yes.... he got this right... I suspect he was hoping to destroy Bernard....but realised he did not have the ammunition.
He surrendered to superior opposition.
@@patagualianmostly7437you're basing Lamar on his act, just like people did to Manning
If Lamarr had tried to stitch Bernard up, he would have been annihilated by Bernards response.
One is a two Bob TV presenter, the other a top notch comic, who came up through the working men's clubs, were no prisoners are taken.
You can say anything you want about him but his honesty was unquestionably genuine.
He used to perform every boxing day afternoon at patricroft working men's club for many years ,The place was full every year ,it was a great afternoon not to be missed
He made fun of everyone including himself , He was the working man's comic top class, A PART OF BRITISH CULTURE THAT IS SADLY MISSED BY MANY
I’ve got in from work and this as made my day, brilliant ! I’ve laughed my head off 😂
That Barrymore joke is quality
What's all the hate for lamarr you can see he genuinely likes manning
What hate? He doesn't say one thing against him. He's polite throughout. The comment is not just wrong but meaningless. Did you actually watch the clip or just assume?
Adrian,she said hate FOR lamarr ,meaning people’s comments not hate from lamarr to manning .Did you actually read her comment or just assume?
Samantha keating He stinks of stage school and pussy parents
Top interview at a time when the comedy world had strayed away from the Bernard's of the industry and had the alternative tag, observational comedy was a big part of Bernard's act as well which he shows here, Mark is clearly taken back by the act and handles the interview brilliantly.
Mark Lamarr always brilliant … i once saw him in a record shop (now gone) in manchester, I just couldn’t sum up the bravery to go over and say thank you and kicked myself ever since
yeh his jokes might have been blue but he raised millions for charity, bought laughter to people, always stood his ground and wasnt a kiddie fiddler.
Cliff Richard answered the phone I'm in creases fucking funny man
Great interview. You can see Lemarr gives respect here
He needed to...he was well out of his depth.
Lamarr is great here. He was probably urged to throw him under the bus but I think he respected Manning's "act" . Unfortunately comedians have to tow a line, an un-written rule where you cant make fun of certain things, even as a joke
You can joke about ANYTHING
Manning was fine & had TV appearances throughout his life, he was jewish.
I think Lamarr is a pretty strong character, not afraid to go against the Zeitgeist if it suits him.
@@ChrisWrightOM1He took on people like Shabba Ranks for being homophobic
Fair play to Lamarr, He was respectful to BM at a time when people were putting him down. Bam is a legend. Funny as fuck.
Abu hamza’s also hilarious
Fantastic operator Bernard.
"I phoned him up this morning and Cliff Richard answered."! Common Yewtree investigation! Bernard is helping u here!
JUST THOUGHT THE SAME BRO!!!!
Mark Lamarr was very good in this interview
My old man worked the doors at the embassy club, dad said he went to talk to Bernard n he was sat on a chair, no shirt and his bollocks hanging out the side of his boxers, priceless
hahahahahahahahahaha
Wonder it didnt scar him for life
What a sight to see
😂😂😂
It's a sad, sad comedy world we live in now. What a great interview.
Anyone can tell a joke but if you start genuinely attacking people for their sexuality, disability or whatever you're a cunt.
Sad for who?
@@thehoneyeffectsad for people who enjoy comedy for what it is.
@@Hellwyck go on, tell a joke then
Times change but Bernard Manning was one of the most respected Comics of his time and just a genuinely funny Man.
Although the fellow's language was absolutely frightful!
he was a racist scumbag not funny at all
The bar was fucking low back then mate to be fair ...
I saw him being really nasty towards a black audience member. It's one thing making racist jokes and another to hate people just because of the colour of their skin
Not as I recall.
Can't beat a bit of Classic Bernard
Proper funny man his timing and delivery is impeccable
Oh man, I miss humour like that, I'm actually in tears - that is pure genius. And anyone who slags off Jimmy Tarbuck is worth his weight in gold :)
Jez2008UK I’m a scouser and I think Jimmy Tarbuck is about as funny as a boil on me arse
We still dont seem to have moved on from this modern observation comedy shite. Give me old school one liners and bernie any day of the week. Sod all wrong with a racist joke, when he died it was all "good ridence racist bastard" he was so much more than that. I laugh at sexist jokes but that dont mean my misses is chained to the kitchen.
Kingdongdingdongdang Same here, it’s unbelievable how he is a comic
These days you could also slag off Liza Tarbuck...she's about as funny as her Dad.
Mark lamarr was never funny. Let's tell the truth .
First time i'v seen this one, Mark Lamar was truly enjoying himself👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
“They take offence and I don’t give a fuck”. There’s a motto for the ages
This man would still be smashing it in 2023 and beyond, cos manning was a timeless proper savage genius comic, one or two stand ups over the years may have been as good but globally there's never been better in history.
Sadly it would not be allowed.soon,this will be deleted,never to return,as will everything.
Let's be honest, he was a funny man,better times.
Yeah. When black people, the paddies, and the packies knew their place eh?
With excellent delivery!
. . . and racial undertones.
@@bennyhillschineseblokechar3689 so what?
Great upload nice one , and both legends 👍
You got the feeling that Mark was looking to judge and berate Bernard, but was totally disarmed & charmed!
Mark is a good character who has always stood up for his principals, especially when he stood up to Shabba on The Word.
But we can see here that Bernard was funny without being offensive.
Bernard Manning, brighter spark than any talk show host, comedy genius
Being a comedian has changed so much over the years.
Then - 40+ years in the clubs telling jokes vs Now - monthly podcast and a pilot show in the works…
Spot on
That's true to an extent but a lot of those comedians would be telling the same jokes for 40 years and they didn't write their own jokes either.
@@jimbeans2466 pretty much like comedians today r.e not writing their own jokes well the ones with chat shows etc jimmy carr for example
@@PaulieD1984 Whoa!!! ....
Who EVER said comedians had to write their own jokes? Nobody....ever said that. It's the delivery that is the genius coupled with the joke.
Scriptwriters write ALL the jokes for their characters to voice....stand-up comedy is no different. What is important is the DELIVERY.
Got it?
That's because there was no medium for podcasts back then, it was play in clubs or nothing. It's not that hard to grasp.
I phoned Michael Barrymore this morning and Cliff Richard answered 😂
I met him once when i was working in a restaurant (an Indian one). Call him what you like, a bigot, a racist, it was nothing more than an act. He was the nicest guy in the world and i got to see him drive away in his purple Rolls Royce. What a character!!
He never told jokes about white working class people like himself, you'll notice, but about plenty of other demographics.
@@timothydraper3687 10 seconds on google would show you that he has Jewish and Irish roots..... Quite a few a jokes about these. He told loads of jokes which were clearly implicitly about the working class. And he was telling jokes in a country that was 99.9% White at the time, so he is unlikely to reference the colour of skin unless it was non-white.
@@niall3973 "He told loads of jokes which were clearly implicitly about the working class" ok cite one
@@urmumsbaps Why do you need me to tell you one? Go and look for yourself. Otherwise make your point
@@urmumsbaps He literally does it in the video.
Say what you like about Bernard, the man was just flat out hilarious :)
So was the Titanic.
It's impossible to judge comedic talent as it's objective. In the same way you can't say one meal, one person, one painting is better than another.
I shall. He wasn’t hilarious.
@@DellowSt-Angel Whoooooooshhh!
@@DaveInBridportI think you may mean subjective
His seagull joke is my favourite all time joke - simple, bloody funny and no-one insulted
I am very pleases to have seen Bernard perform in Belfast. There were some mealy-mouthed protesters outside. Some of the crowd were heckling Bernard to be more offensive, but he was stand-up funny throughout. And most of his jokes ended up poking fun at himself.
A great performer.
I could be wrong, but I get the impression that Mark initially expected this to be a very different interview, but very quickly realised, and was pleasantly surprised, at how funny Bernard actually was.
I dunno - Mark obviously knows comedy. And Bernard would have been on the tele when he was growing up. He also knew that anecdote about him. I think he respected him as a comic and probably fought to get him on when he would have been basically radioactive to tv producers.
Great interview. Always think of Bernard each Xmas. We love a good turkey
Today's world needs abit of Bernard Manning.. God Bless You Bernard R.I.P.🙏
I phoned him up and cliff Richard answered, what's going on ? 😂😂😂
Bernard would have a wealth of material to work on in today's crazy world Unfortunately nobody would be allowed the hear him speak
he would find a way, look at all the available resources we have now. It would be a perfect storm ;)
How is he on RUclips if nobody is allowed to hear him speak?
That's OK. If Bernard wasn't able to do his material then Chubby Brown would do it, or Jim Davidson, or Jethro because it was always the same crude jokes being passed around by has been comedians.
I'm all for free speech as long as it's not bottom of the barrel stereotype humor that panders to the lowest common denominator.
There's a reason why none of these acts had any success anywhere else other than the shit hole towns of Britain
I will always defend any comedians right to earn a living but I'm still going to give my honest opinion as to why their type of humor makes us dumber and more narrow minded as a country
He'd have endless material with the WOKE community.
@@orac1waterskiing like what?
Pissed I missed yet another amazing comedian from the pre-pc empire days
Manning gave John Cooper Clarke his 1st paid gig. Clarke tells a funny story how one night he was waiting outside Bernard's office to collect his wages and overheard Manning telling an act who'd gone in to get his payment" When you said you were going to saw her in half I assumed you were a Magician! " 😂
I used to walk past Manning's World Famous Embassy Club every day on my way to primary school at Harpur Mount on Alfred Street. It really was world famous, so many huge acts of the day played there including The Beatles.
Bernard was actually a very good singer and started out singing on the club circuit. When he heard Elvis he gave it up and switched to comedy because he said no one could compete with Elvis.
Was Manning a racist? Damn right he was. He admitted it many many times. But he was a man of his time. The idea his racism was an act is nonsense.
Awghhhh.... Are you upset 😂😂
@@MJ.71 no.
@@bargepoled Awghhhh the ickle lefty is upset 🤣🤣
@@MJ.71 nope
@@bargepoled typical lefty so you most definitely are 😭😭🤪🤣
Bernard held Larry Gracen in high regard...I remember him saying he was fearless....would go on stage in the roughest of areas and have the crowd laughing in no time....Does O'Conner...well he passed out.
Larry gracen and does o Conner 😂
Top bloke Manning, saw him twice in Wakefield. Thought Lamarr gave him a good interview, think hes a fan when its not cool to be, so fair play to him.
Ohhh that made me laugh so much.... thank God for Bernard Manning!!!!!! Pure genius!!!! 😅😅
Went to the Embassy a couple of times while he was still there ❤❤
Lamarr is incredibly under-rated
Absolutely brilliant
Born to tell jokes.he and dave Allen were my favourites.
Ah yes...... I have to agree...but I doubt the fervent Catholics would......
They both demonstrated the hypocrisy of all faiths....did they not? (To Be Sure)
How sad that we have to put up with the PC woke brigade now when we had real comedians once and people could laugh without being offended.
Bernard Manning knew Barrymore was a dodgy sort.
As an Irish man I enjoyed Bernard Manning, people forget it's jokes and if we can't laugh at ourselves then it is a sad world
Too bloody true, mate.
Funny as!
Can see why Peter Kay wrote Brian Potter’s character with Bernard in mind originally.
I love that even Manning knows that Cliff Richard was bollocks-deep in murky filth, another hiding in plain sight.
All will be revealed.
“Here Kitty Kitty”…
With out a shadow of a doubt manning is the funniest comedian this country has produced.
Bollocks
@@stevegrimes21His opinion hurt you that much soyboy? 😂
@@markrowley2739 humour for dunces I can see why you understood it
@@stevegrimes21 Cry and cope harder into your soy latte, I'm sure your trans boyfriend will comfort your hurt feelings 😁
@@stevegrimes21name 5 better...
This was actually a very narrow window of open-mindedness and good faith that existed on the left and in the (left-leaning) media in particular.
The earlier sanctimony of the superior left of the 1980s started to give way, in the 1990s, to a more open-minded, 'we're all kind of on the same page aren't we' acceptance that most true bigots had died off.
Bernard had started to be viewed by the comedic left as a craftsman and a rare exemplar of a bygone, if bigoted era. Their attitude to the old guard had softened since the bullish days of the likes of Alexei Sayle in the early 80s.
Imo, this was the high water mark of free speech, open mindedness and good faith.
Boy, how the sanctimony has returned with a vengeance.
The only reason there was a soft viewpoint on bigotry back then was because of how prevalent it was. Heard my first racist jokes and insults when I was 7 years old, back in Manning's era while I was in primary school. I heard it because one single asian kid joined at my school - the first asian kid to ever go to our school - and the kids who had racist familes, who'd learned racist jokes and insults, had plenty to share. Usually directly to his face. Is that the world you want to go back to? Could you someone straight in the eye and tell them you're happy for 7 year old kids to be abused based on their skin colour?
@@urmumsbaps I don't know how old you are, but all I am relaying is how I vividly remember thinking about these things in the 90s, noting how attitudes had changed from the 70s, through the 80s into the 90s.
By then, however cruel and bigoted BM had been in the past, he had softened, at least away from his Embassy Club, and the always left-leaning guardians of the msm in Britain had softened towards him.
I was simply commenting on the change of attitudes, noting that comedic, mainstream popular culture became very self-aware and ironic in the 90s to early 2000s. Within that, a friendly, good faith discussion with Manning was possible.
I couldn't imagine that now if he was still alive. Roy Chubby Brown is getting cancelled today, and he's a lot of things, but not a bigot.
I'm not defending Bernard's bigotry, I am criticising the current, poor-faith, sanctimonious zealotry all around us.
I place the highest of value on free speech - even hateful speech...I say, let's defeat it with better speech, not sanction and censorship.
Jimmy Tarbuck gag was hilarious.
I worked with Bernard on a few gigs nd he was a lovely very funny man, in his later years his memory was affected by dementia but it never changed him in regards being welcoming and kind to everyone. Including those that would say he was racist and bigoted … it was just an act, he took the Micky out of everyone to get a laugh
Bernard Manning was an extremely funny man. I still tell his jokes.
A colleague of mine went to see Bernard at the Embassy Club with a few mates. One of their group was overweight and wheelchair-bound, with mental issues. They pushed him to the front near the stage to see how Bernard would react. Bernard took a look at him and said “bloody ell son, you’ve only got one thing going for you.”
“What’s that?” asked the lad in the wheelchair, genuinely excited.
“You’re white!”
😂😂😂😂😂
I grew up in the era when Bernard Manning was quickly going out of fashion. Yet listening to him here, there were some cracking one-liners and a sharp mind.
Even the 'queer' joke. At the time I suspect the word was still laced with venom, so in that sense it's offensive. But the punchline is far from offensive.
I'd be interested to see an edit of his work with the obviously offensive bits removed.
Bernard would give today's comedians a 10 break and still beat them hands down God bless you Bernard
I was drinking water during that last joke. I've literally washed the inside of my car laughing 😂😂😂😂
Well, no, you didn't
rip bernard ,one of the funniest men of all time
lies
This is great interview. Whatever happened to Mark Lamarr? He was comedy gold on Never Mind The Buzzcocks but seems to have disappeared from the limelight.
Just like manning. He became uncouth.
Intelligent people realise that Manning understood comedy and how to deliver a joke.
Idiots think it was funny.
No. They realise he was a nasty racist.
Absolute legend of a comedian , had me proper laughing
Bernard Manning was good too
I was heartbroken when Bernard Manning died. Haven't eaten a turkey drummer since.
Matthews 😉
Its great how they are just chatting, no agenda.
I wasn’t expecting the coffee beans at the end and it absolutely cracked me up
So adore the old days with real characters
Great interview!
Bernard Manning was a big softy at heart, he did loads for charity. Thank god he's not around to see how this country has turned out and the so called comedians we have to endure nowadays. He was always willing to take the p out of himself and if you were the but of his joke he did it with a twinkle in his eye and a smile and would shake hands with people afterwards, no malice or hatred on his part.
Brilliant as ever.
Excellent.
50s throwback Mark Lamarr
"hes a nifty fifties conman"
No getting away from it, funny as fuck! Love Bernard.
'One young kiddie on Cake, cried all the water out of his body - just imagine how his mother felt.. it's a fkn dizgrace'
Proper old school comedian 😅😅, Went to his Embassy club & we had a fantastic night
that was great, the single bloke joke is simple but hilarious...
Lamarr should have done more interviewing.
An absolute legend.
'He said something cruel and I was offended.'
Yeah. Well. So what?
Be offended.
You can't die from being offended. Grow a pair.
Even though I've heard the single man one si many times I still crease up every time😅😂😂🤣😂
Did he out Barrymore in this?
Mike - possibly
Mike I think Barrymore was already ‘out’ by the time this interview was recorded. Sir Cliff, well, ummm!
One word..legendary.
Rip Bernard.
Why is Mark lemar not on TV any more?
5 years on and we are still wondering..
Never understand why they get Bernie on, when all they do is try n pick at him. Then he rips em!!!!
Met his sister once, very nice, attractive women who spoke rather well, was amazed to find out that they were related
I hear she used to piss the bed.
Cliff Richard answered! There’s a clue there.
amazing bloke ..
The best this from, Manchester!