One Less Racist in the World

And one less homophobe. Bernard Manning has died at the age of 76. According to the BBC he was "was renowned for his off-colour humour."

Naw, he was a hateful, spiteful racist and homophobe who should have been shunned by the comedy world a long time ago. For too long folk like him and Davidson made racist and hateful comedy acceptable since it was 'just a laugh'. I'm sure folk will be trotted out saying what a great guy he was and 'all right maybe some of his comedy was a bit near the knuckle, but he was a lovely man.' Yet still a man who peddled comedy full of hate.

This from Chortle.

Only five weeks ago, Manning held his own spoof wake for a Channel 4 documentary and told the audience: ‘I'm going to be with you for a long time yet, so don't you worry about me.’

Update: A few hours on from the news breaking there's a few tributes come in for him. And some of them are belters.

His biographer, Jonathan Margolis, said, "He was a man of his age - and as people of his age went, he was relatively un-racist."

'Relatively un-racist', that's a beauty. What does that mean? He was against racism? Or just that a lot of other people his age were more racist than him?

Fellow racist Stan Boardman, said that all he did "was take the mickey", which was "the British sense of humour". Cheers for your contribution Stan, maybe someone will say something nice about you when you've uttered your last 'off-colour' remark.

"He was the last of the comedians who put the PC brigade behind him," said Michael Winner. "He took no notice of them and just got on with the job of being funny." Aye right enough Mr. Winner, one of Britain's worst film directors, good old Bernard ignoring 'the PC brigade' or as they're more commonly known, decent members of society.

The following is from Hunter S. Thompson's obituary for Richard Nixon and his funeral suggestions for the former US President might just as well apply to Manning.

"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."