Definitely a comic of yester year! He would now be part of cancelled culture now. Mostly funny but even now hearing the 'P' word is now synonymous with the 'N' word. The P was shortened from Pakistani. As a kid, our mums would say "go to the P... shop and pick me up some cigs!" In the 80s it was normal and (amoung whites) socially acceptable. Even the N word was used in everyday speech, even with our friends. It makes my skin crawl now as to how we spoke back then. I think listening to these comics now is ok, and to laugh at the jokes but to remember how hurtful these words are now a days. If we cancel everything, then we will not be able to laugh a chickens anymore!
You nailed it. Seriously. It’s ok to listen and laugh if the joke is funny but to remember as well. Thank You for a great comment. The P word over here is even a slang. We say Packie in northeast U.S. as a shortened term for package store which is what we call the liquor store. Only in the north east states though. It’s a liquor store everywhere else. Our use has no lean at all toward ethnicity.
You highlight a good point when you said "(among whites) socially acceptable" 3HG ...... 'cos I'm white and it wasn't socially acceptable for me, my peer group or anybody else we knew in the 70s; 80s and beyond, except those that constantly expressed views that we disagreed with. It seems that the debate around Cancel Culture is often framed by those that had a different experience .... i.e. pockets of society that never heard a dissenting voice against language that was disparaging to other cultures. It may be that those pockets made up the larger part of society. I don't know as it wasn't my experience. That's why I scratch my head when somebody says "you can't say anything these days" because throughout my 50+ years a lot of what is now not tolerated was never tolerated.
The word is short for Pakistani, and his joke was about him working hard all day while they live on benefits and mock him as he comes home tired from work. That would be considered a racist joke. Ironically at his club a group of Pakistani men used to come in and he would tear into them with his racist jokes and they laughed like drains. He was banned from the BBC because of his alleged racist jokes.
His mantra was he wasn’t racist, everyone was a target for his jokes and he took no prisoners. He had his own club / venue where he performed regularly.
Everyone bar his own kind that is. A bit like him asking how can he be racist if he targets all races in his act. All but his own race though and I would have far more respect for his honesty if he just admitted that he was a right-wing racist, despite being from a working class background.
@@TheRealSquirrel in an interview on 'The Mrs Merton Show' from 1998 he is asked if he is a racist and he says yes. You should watch it to get the full context, but he is a self confessed racist.
.. You have to realise his combative comic ego, which was there for all to see whenever he was on any show with another comedians, meant you were watching a comedy contest, which he almost always came out on top. On the Merton show, Merton, who was very good also, was in the business of seeing how celebs look by making them look awkward or the butt of a joke. It is a contest. When Merton says 'are you a racist' and Manning says 'yes', you are watching a contest, was followed by "Well I'm not really racist I tell jokes about everything" ua-cam.com/video/O0ESNN03YwE/v-deo.html
Had my 21st Birthday in his club, the Embassy. He got me up on stage, took the piss out of me for a few minutes, shook my hand, and told me to fuck off back to my table. Great night, 35 years ago, Jesus!
@@TheRealSquirrel the double glazing adds were famous for shutting out noise. So when ted moult shot himself ....nobody heard it. A Yankee is bet containing 4 selections.
I recommend Bernard manning from beyond the grave documentary filming himself when terminally ill and passing away and makings a commady out of it a must see very strangely but brilliant
Great reaction Squirrel he had the audience in stitches. Don’t deny history by banning it folks if you don’t like it don’t watch it, we are still supposedly living in a free world , and all comedy by its nature is offensive to somebody
It's all subjective, bloody PC gone mad. Americans trying to do an east London accent offends me, but only coz they're bloody shit at it(they all think we sound like Dick Van Dyke in Mary bleeding Poppins....🤦🏻♂️🙉) if you don't like something, turn it off .
Bernard knew his 3 comedic friends who all recently died would have laughed and approved. What he said was that a guy came up to him and was REALLY interested in his (Bernard's ) health until Bernard eventually found his continual health questions strange so he asked him "Why the interest in my health?" When the guy replied it became apparent that not only was the guy not interested at all in Bernard's health but in the joke, the stranger wanted him to die as he "had him in a Yankee" which is a Gambling Bet involving FOUR outcomes. The guy has already got 3 right (the other 3 deaths ) and if Bernard died then the Gambling stranger would get all four up and win the Jackpot :). Make sense? :)
Manning acctually played Vegas once and went down a storm, he was invited back time and time again but he turned it down every time. You may find footage of that gig on UA-cam.
This is from "Let it be All Right on the Night" which was a fund raiser for the survivors of the Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster (hence Ferry Aid). It was organised by Jim Davidson and he basically got all the "Blue" comedians together and let them loose. One of the cleanest acts was also one of the funniest on this video, Roger de Courcey and Nookie Bear. That act has me in stitches every time I watch it and I know the routine word for word yet I'm still in tears.
A historical footnote: The late great pop comedian Kenny Everett (well worth looking up as he was so funny in the 70s and 80s) invited Manning onto one of his shows to roast. He did so, and a huge vat of custard was unloaded onto him whilst sitting in the famous hot seat. Although he wouldn't stop talking and trying to crack jokes about Kenny, he at least had the humility to take the joke and roasting.
Very UK specific, alot of these, so you will lose the thread. Then there's the racism. Have to admit, i did see him live once in a social club at Perry Bar, Birmingham, about 1988-9. Two hours, and half way through i had to go outside to recover, as my gut was aching from laughing so hard. His humour was 'of the time' i guess is how you would describe it now. No way any of his performances would be broadcast on tv today.
Surprised you showed Bernard a comedian of his time but one of the greatest and funniest.Always disliked by the P.C. brigade but loved by millions including me, more please.
3 Comedians gag explained. He named 3 comedians, who were all on their death beds. He was hoping that they all died on the same day, as he had a Yankee on them. Yankee is a type of bet with british bookies, if one dies you get one win. if two die on the same day you get two wins plus a double, if all three die on the same day, you get three wins, three doubles and a treble JACKPOT!
Tommy Cooper was a British comedian/actor & magician,part of his act was making it look like the magic tricks he was doing had gone wrong ( he was a member of The Magic Circle)
Bernard Manning was a British comedian who could be very Blue and very politically incorrect. So much so that he could not get gigs on the TV and had to open up his own club. Personally I found him very funny
I've been to his club a couple of times in recent years, obviously he's not there but I live in the centre of Manchester and the World Famous Embassy Club is only a couple of miles out of the city so I've ended up there after a skinful for the novelty factor.
His reasoning was always "they are just jokes" but his material has definitely not aged well on that front. I still find him funny, but he racist jokes don't make me laugh. The sad fact is that casual racism was much more acceptable in England in his day.
He was an incredibly racist comedian. You weren’t to know. Banned from many places because of the sheer aggressive offensiveness of his material. If I were you I wouldn’t show any of his videos as it side-steps the vile nature of his comedy. Many of the comedians you’ve reviewed and liked on here in the UK would completely condem him and his work. He once was going to appear at a British National Party event, but cancelled due to public pressure. The BNP are a far right racist party that wants to deport black and Asian people from Britain. I would take this video of him down as it is will upset many people.
@@avmavm777 I understand. I’ll probably leave it up as this particular piece wasn’t very bad. I think exploring comedians of the UK is going to lead me so some unsavory folks. I just won’t explore further.
My ex husband and I saw Bernard Manning once. I wasn’t keen to start with, but once you got past the language he was very funny. There was a drunk in the audience heckling him, and instead of poking fun at the drunk, he got him on stage and was incredibly nice with him.
From watching various interviews of Bernard Manning over the years, while he undoubtedly had racist comedy, I believe if he saw someone of an ethnic minority hurt or in need out in the real world, he would be the first bloke to help. Everyone was just more tribal back then, and his comedy reflected that. My grandparents who were really loving people have said some shady things over the years, they just didn't know better. No malice was meant.
The part where he says all the comedians are dying and that guy rings him up to ask him how he feels because he's got him on a Yankee. A Yankee is a bet permeation, so the guy is basically saying if Bernard dies next he wins a bet.
Bernard took no prisoners, whether you were black , white, yellow or red, no one was safe from his jokes. You need to watch more of his videos to see what he was all about.
He was never exactly PC even back in the 70's and 80's I think that's why he bought his own club,he like quite a few from this time Jim Davidson,Freddie Starr,Bob Monkhouse too name but a few were called,racist,homophobic etc,but they employed people from all backgrounds,and put on shows at his own club with gay artists some of whom he was friends with,there's a long list of great comics one of which you'll need a good few hours the late Sir Ken Dodd his live shows went on for at least five hours,Sir Bruce forsyth was another one, Morecambe and Wise,and quite a few women who were top of the bill in the early part of the last century
The greatest misconception about Bernard Manning was that he didn't like other nationalities. He would quite happily sit and have a beer with you no matter where you were from, the fact was you were all fair game. Fat, thin, old, young, male, female, Chinese, Indian, English he took the piss wherever you were from and everyone was fair game.
I went to Bernard Mannings Embassy club in Manchester a few times and had a really good time. People was always very quick to judge him, but not many knew about his charity work and how muchhe donated Also worth trying is Jim DAvidson
Most Popular shetch duo for over 20 years is Harry Enfield , the gay son sketch is very funny, just shows the stupidity of how parents 20 years ago behaved, lol many of your American reactor colleagues like them a lot, and CATHRINE Tate the OBSCENE TRANSLATOR THAT IS BRILL
He was very funny, and single-minded about aiming his humour at everyone regardless of punching up or down. Unfortunately his racist gags attracted a lot of unpleasant people who he always distanced himself from (racist/nationalist groups etc)
Plundering poor countries, for cheap labour, is allowed to be mocked - just because the rich people (who will benefit from the plunder) tell you it's racist, doesn't mean it is.
No one suggested him as he’s the most racist comic ever & was banned from TV. No one says he’s not funny but he couldn’t stop the racist stuff so lost a large part of his audience.
He was the UKs first "Blue" comic.He was loved by Asians because he was not racist he was doing stereotypes .If you want to see "racist" material watch Chubby Brown.And look at the the first few rows of the audience, all asians,Again they loved him
Bernard was very much of his time and place, and yes some of his material would be completely unacceptable today but he was still one of the great standups who has been treated perhaps rather badly because of his reputation for unashamedly cracking a gag about everything even subjects we're not supposed to talk about. One thing that is seldom mentioned was his philanthropy towards the people of Blackley. I spent much of my childhood in Blackley and if any local charity or community group needed a few pounds Bernard supplied it without having to be asked.
When Bernard Manning appeared in Las Vegas, he told the audience that this was his first visit to the USA and was unfamiliar to Las Vegas. He looked at a man in the audience and asked for some advice. He said, excuse me, but is $2 too much to pay for a hooker in this town?
@@TheRealSquirrel Geographically speaking, Bernard Manning is from the North West of England- an area which experienced high levels of immigration from Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities during the 1950s-1980s for a number of reasons but a main driver was unskilled textile jobs in the Lancashire and Yorkshire mills. To a conservative, white, insular country this was a culture shock. Manning would have been 57 in 1987 and grew up around this massive change. His reaction is similar to many from the North West at the time and he had an audience with his racism. We have moved on since then thankfully.
A lot of British stand up comedians from the 70's did racial material. Bernard even said in this react video you watched they wouldn't allow him on television with some of the jokes he was saying.
Please react to “spike Milligan, grovelling bastard” he’s was a much loved British comic, it’s his acceptance speech. Has the crown rolling in the isles.
Just for background, I think that BM said he was of part Russian Jewish origin, and his house was named Shalom. As an aside I also read that when serving in the British Army in or just after W W 2 he guarded Rudolf Hess?
I got a joke for you, Fella in a wheelchair went to the doctors, said Doc" I've been sober all year and I'm still f*****g leggless" I made that up just after Bernard died, would of emailed it to him to use it if he liked it, great bloke, like he says how can he be racist if he says a joke about everyone and everything, top bloke 👍
He could be funny (in the 70's at least) but he was a terrible racist (not that there are good racists!). His racism often centred around the Pakistani immigrants who came to Britain in the 60's and 70's and I remember seeing a documentary where he was flown to India to do a couple of gigs in front of an exclusively Indian audience. It was interesting because, as there is a lot of animosity between India and Pakistan, the Indian audience thought all his racist jibes about Pakistanis were hilarious. The real irony lay in the fact that his usual UK audience would never have known the difference between the two Asian communities and cultures and would have lumped them both together whereas the Indian audience clearly understood the differences but, because of their racism, found it all hilarious. It probably baffled many of his UK audience.
"I've got you on a Yankee" - A "Yankee Bet" is a multiple bet placed on the horses - 11 bets, where you have to pick the horses coming in first, second and third. The gains are huge, if you pick the right horses.
I live a mile from Bernard's famous embassy club... he just said what he thought and had a go at all religions and races, he was a comedian of the best sort, quick and funny... he spent a summer working in Las Vegas and was offered a contract working as a compare but turned it down... he said "I have my embassy club in Harpurhey"... I met Bernard quite a few times, he was funny and generous to a fault... If you get a chance watch the show The Comedians... Mick Miller, Bernard, Frank Carson, Mike Reid and many others... classic UK comedy at its best.
A " Yankee" is a betting term, a 4 selection wager consisting of 11 bets: 6 doubles, 4 trebles and a 4-fold accumulator. The Yankee is rumoured to be named after an American soldier that placed a small bet in the UK and due to the multiple roll-over mechanics at work won back hundreds of thousands of pounds. A lot of British comedians died around that time.
I am sure somebody else said it somewhere down below but just in case... The Ted Moult gag about the shut windows was based on the fact that he used to make TV ads about the insulating properties of Everest double glazing.
Hey squirel watched this an it was great 👍 had to go an watch more Bernard and laughed my bollocks off wouldn't have watched him if you didn't upload this thanks mate 😁
Bernard Manning never drew the line. He didn't care who or what you were, he'd take the piss. That's fair. His humour is typically Manchester, UK which is based upon extreme adversity. For everything he did, he hated no one, and he often donated all the night's ticket sales to your charity. He was NOT a bad man. Not acceptable these days, but I can still laugh like fuck.
Manning would go out his way to offend people because he refused to be censored.a true defender of free speech.alot of people hate him because he wasn't politically correct but the man was so funny tho
I went to see Bernard live once, back in the 80s, I laughed like a Drain. He absolutely set the place on fire, he didnt care Bernard, he'd make fun of anything and anyone
Don't worry squirrel ! You laugh just like we did ,a Yankee by the way is a bet 5ways ! Don't 4get this is years ago but Bernard insisted he wasn't a racist ! I have 2 say there was Asians in his club at Manchester,he welcomed them but took the piss out of every bugger anyway ! The English or British laugh in the face of adversity as people of the working class variety had seriously hard lives and also still do ! The rich the aristocracy the establishment won't ever let the working class of the bottom rung of the ladder ! Feel free 2 laugh and enjoy 😊 it's perfectly normal !!!!!
i saw you shake your head so let's explain a few. ted moult sold doubl glazing and one of the selling points was sound proof, so when he shot himself nobody heard it because the window was shut. he named three comedians who had died recetly and a friend called him too ask ow he was feeling because he had him in a yankee. a yankee is the name of a bet you can place in a betting shop and it covers four selections
Bernard wasn't liked by a few folks, due to his sense of humour, or his language, but off-stage was the nicest bloke you could meet, I worked at one of his businesses, and met him several times, always asking how we were doing, someone in the background was swearing and cursing, Bernard went and lost his temper with said person, the guy told Bernard that he swore like a trooper, Bernards reply, "yes that's on stage, it's what pays my bills" needless to say the worker got put down by Bernard
The fact that the "P" word is short for Pakistani should not have any impact otherwise why then do people of Britain not take offence at being called "Brits" ? To me being called a Brit is just another word.
Oh my goodness . Never thought I'd see him again in this lifetime .. Reminds me of the tv show the wheeltapers and shunters social club ..I think that's what it was called. Detested the man then and now . Nasty piece of work .
@@heathergibson2108 In a lot of people's opinion, which is why he was so popular. But yeah you don't like him that's fine, If people acted like adults and simply didn't engage with comedians or shows they don't like or agree with that's all good. But we all know that doesn't happen, they complian and piss and moan until the show or comedian is banned from a network or show or venue. So apparently no, not everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Bernard is not someone suitable for the modern day internet to react to. It's extremely in your face and no punches pulled. The man himself was not at all how you would think based on his act, and it was an act, but you are best not posting reaction videos of his work.
@@handsolo1209 It is evident from the comments that lots of people liked him, and lots did not, but many find him an interesting character to talk about or comment on. That is how it should be and what discussion is all about. It is not about your Nazi book-burning philosophy.
@@blowingfree6928 Firstly, I am not a "book burning Nazi", Secondly I enjoyed most of Bernard's work and liked him as a person, Thirdly I was giving some advice to Squirrel for the sake of his channel and the loud cancel culture buffoons that appeared in the comments instantly, and Forthly, go fuck yourself.
He mentioned Tommy Cooper, I think you would love him. Also Les Dawson had some great material, especially his piano playing. Kenny Everett was a legend. Cannon and Ball felt like a poor mans Morecombe and Wise, but many liked them.
Surprise. He never meant anything by his jokes. It was shock strategy to make you sit up. The best antidote was not to go and see him. But I've seen people with snot pouring from their nose. And they were reluctant to go in the first place. He mainly performed to working class, and all they wanted to do on a Friday and Saturday night was laugh. No one went home feeling hateful.
English humour can appear harsh, but it's not malicious. The area Bernard Manning was born in became heavily populated by different people from different places. It would be odd if this sudden mix of cultures was not referred to in humour. There is an underlying message in the jokes: 'if you don't like it here you can go back where you came from' but, that's understandable and would be the same for an Englishman in Scotland - even a Yorkshireman in Lancashire. The point is this, to argue that any person's race or culture should be protected from humour, is to argue that person is inferior. Bernard Manning made jokes about every kind of person.
Best comic of all time.... everyone gets to easily offended.... he was never a racist... he threw drunk whites,blacks and Pakistanis out of his club equally!
Why do so many want to go back to the seventies to watch clichéd shows that patronise and use stereotypical tropes as an attempt at humour. Give it a look by all means Tony, see what you think.
Definitely a comic of yester year! He would now be part of cancelled culture now. Mostly funny but even now hearing the 'P' word is now synonymous with the 'N' word. The P was shortened from Pakistani.
As a kid, our mums would say "go to the P... shop and pick me up some cigs!" In the 80s it was normal and (amoung whites) socially acceptable. Even the N word was used in everyday speech, even with our friends. It makes my skin crawl now as to how we spoke back then.
I think listening to these comics now is ok, and to laugh at the jokes but to remember how hurtful these words are now a days.
If we cancel everything, then we will not be able to laugh a chickens anymore!
You nailed it. Seriously. It’s ok to listen and laugh if the joke is funny but to remember as well. Thank You for a great comment. The P word over here is even a slang. We say Packie in northeast U.S. as a shortened term for package store which is what we call the liquor store. Only in the north east states though. It’s a liquor store everywhere else. Our use has no lean at all toward ethnicity.
You highlight a good point when you said "(among whites) socially acceptable" 3HG ...... 'cos I'm white and it wasn't socially acceptable for me, my peer group or anybody else we knew in the 70s; 80s and beyond, except those that constantly expressed views that we disagreed with. It seems that the debate around Cancel Culture is often framed by those that had a different experience .... i.e. pockets of society that never heard a dissenting voice against language that was disparaging to other cultures. It may be that those pockets made up the larger part of society. I don't know as it wasn't my experience.
That's why I scratch my head when somebody says "you can't say anything these days" because throughout my 50+ years a lot of what is now not tolerated was never tolerated.
You are right. I never fathomed out how, when and why the P.... word became abusive?
thank God
Why did the chicken cross the road, I don't t know but the deviant is doing time for it.
Never in my life did I think I would see a Bernard Manning reaction in 2021 😄
One of the funniest men on earth , amazing delivery and timing .
The word is short for Pakistani, and his joke was about him working hard all day while they live on benefits and mock him as he comes home tired from work. That would be considered a racist joke. Ironically at his club a group of Pakistani men used to come in and he would tear into them with his racist jokes and they laughed like drains. He was banned from the BBC because of his alleged racist jokes.
He will still be around after BBC is history with any luck ,screw them and their woke staff,always trying to set people up
His mantra was he wasn’t racist, everyone was a target for his jokes and he took no prisoners. He had his own club / venue where he performed regularly.
I hear that he said that and did go after everyone. Seems everyone thinks he was just a straight racist though.
Everyone bar his own kind that is. A bit like him asking how can he be racist if he targets all races in his act.
All but his own race though and I would have far more respect for his honesty if he just admitted that he was a right-wing racist, despite being from a working class background.
@@TheRealSquirrel in an interview on 'The Mrs Merton Show' from 1998 he is asked if he is a racist and he says yes. You should watch it to get the full context, but he is a self confessed racist.
Welcome to 2021 , where only white people are racist , when black " comedians " tell racist jokes , the woke hypocrites pretend they didn't hear .
.. You have to realise his combative comic ego, which was there for all to see whenever he was on any show with another comedians, meant you were watching a comedy contest, which he almost always came out on top. On the Merton show, Merton, who was very good also, was in the business of seeing how celebs look by making them look awkward or the butt of a joke. It is a contest.
When Merton says 'are you a racist' and Manning says 'yes', you are watching a contest, was followed by "Well I'm not really racist I tell jokes about everything"
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Had my 21st Birthday in his club, the Embassy.
He got me up on stage, took the piss out of me for a few minutes, shook my hand, and told me to fuck off back to my table.
Great night, 35 years ago, Jesus!
Bernard Manning was the best stand up comic Britain we ever had ! 👍🇬🇧
Loved Bernard....he was once sacked for laughing. Mind you he was driving the hearse at the time!
Political correctness gone mad!
The joke about Ted Moult shooting himself and nobody heard... he was the front man for a double glazing TV ad campaign.
I missed it was about someone shooting himself. I’ll look at the glazing ads
"Fit the best, fit Everest!". One of the selling-points of Everest double-glazing was how draught-proof and soundproof their windows were.
@@ftumschk Aye I used to work for them. Heard that joke and it made me chuckle.
@@TheRealSquirrel the double glazing adds were famous for shutting out noise. So when ted moult shot himself ....nobody heard it.
A Yankee is bet containing 4 selections.
I recommend Bernard manning from beyond the grave documentary filming himself when terminally ill and passing away and makings a commady out of it a must see very strangely but brilliant
I’d look at that for sure Thank You
@@TheRealSquirrel its very moving.shows both sides to him
Bernard Manning, is an Absolute Legend, The King of Comedy...
Great reaction Squirrel he had the audience in stitches. Don’t deny history by banning it folks if you don’t like it don’t watch it, we are still supposedly living in a free world , and all comedy by its nature is offensive to somebody
It's all subjective, bloody PC gone mad.
Americans trying to do an east London accent offends me, but only coz they're bloody shit at it(they all think we sound like Dick Van Dyke in Mary bleeding Poppins....🤦🏻♂️🙉) if you don't like something, turn it off .
At 01.30 "they'll never stop us laughing" fast forward 34 years they're trying to!!!!
Fast forward a year, they succeeded
Bernard knew his 3 comedic friends who all recently died would have laughed and approved. What he said was that a guy came up to him and was REALLY interested in his (Bernard's ) health until Bernard eventually found his continual health questions strange so he asked him "Why the interest in my health?" When the guy replied it became apparent that not only was the guy not interested at all in Bernard's health but in the joke, the stranger wanted him to die as he "had him in a Yankee" which is a Gambling Bet involving FOUR outcomes. The guy has already got 3 right (the other 3 deaths ) and if Bernard died then the Gambling stranger would get all four up and win the Jackpot :). Make sense? :)
Manning acctually played Vegas once and went down a storm, he was invited back time and time again but he turned it down every time. You may find footage of that gig on UA-cam.
This is from "Let it be All Right on the Night" which was a fund raiser for the survivors of the Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster (hence Ferry Aid). It was organised by Jim Davidson and he basically got all the "Blue" comedians together and let them loose. One of the cleanest acts was also one of the funniest on this video, Roger de Courcey and Nookie Bear. That act has me in stitches every time I watch it and I know the routine word for word yet I'm still in tears.
A comic of his time, A yankee is a type of bet 4 selection, so to bet on a comic dying mentioned 3 put himself froward for the fourth selection.
Ah Thank You
A historical footnote: The late great pop comedian Kenny Everett (well worth looking up as he was so funny in the 70s and 80s) invited Manning onto one of his shows to roast. He did so, and a huge vat of custard was unloaded onto him whilst sitting in the famous hot seat. Although he wouldn't stop talking and trying to crack jokes about Kenny, he at least had the humility to take the joke and roasting.
I’ll look that up and Kenny up
Thank You
Very UK specific, alot of these, so you will lose the thread. Then there's the racism. Have to admit, i did see him live once in a social club at Perry Bar, Birmingham, about 1988-9. Two hours, and half way through i had to go outside to recover, as my gut was aching from laughing so hard. His humour was 'of the time' i guess is how you would describe it now. No way any of his performances would be broadcast on tv today.
Yeah a lot of things are pulled these days.
Surprised you showed Bernard a comedian of his time but one of the greatest and funniest.Always disliked by the P.C. brigade but loved by millions including me, more please.
You can just scan through the comments to see that as funny as Bernard's act was, it's not worth the hassle.
If not being racist is PC then guilty as charged.
@@Angroid69 You lot never shut up about racism. Change the fucking record.
3 Comedians gag explained. He named 3 comedians, who were all on their death beds. He was hoping that they all died on the same day, as he had a Yankee on them. Yankee is a type of bet with british bookies, if one dies you get one win. if two die on the same day you get two wins plus a double, if all three die on the same day, you get three wins, three doubles and a treble JACKPOT!
Tommy Cooper was a British comedian/actor & magician,part of his act was making it look like the magic tricks he was doing had gone wrong ( he was a member of The Magic Circle)
Bernard was a classic act one of the best of all time stand up comedians.
Just come across a little gem called, Jim Davidson sinderella pissed, I'm crying laughing, worth a watch
Wrote it down Thank You Sam
I went and see sinderella live in Ipswich it was so funny.
Another right wing working class man, but (half) Scots London.
Bernard Manning was a British comedian who could be very Blue and very politically incorrect. So much so that he could not get gigs on the TV and had to open up his own club. Personally I found him very funny
I liked this bit but I’m getting that he was very racist, I won’t react to those ones
I've been to his club a couple of times in recent years, obviously he's not there but I live in the centre of Manchester and the World Famous Embassy Club is only a couple of miles out of the city so I've ended up there after a skinful for the novelty factor.
Bernard Manning was top of the bill in Vegas for many years.
Squirrel, a French letter is a condom.
He put it on backwards and went.👍😁
Bernard Manning, Once appeared in Las Vegas.
Peace to all.
I was unaware of the racist side of Bernard until this video came out. I’m aware now and will be careful if I choose any more of his work. Thank You
Two Ronnies Mastermind sketch "Fat comedian who tells blue jokes"
His reasoning was always "they are just jokes" but his material has definitely not aged well on that front. I still find him funny, but he racist jokes don't make me laugh.
The sad fact is that casual racism was much more acceptable in England in his day.
He was an incredibly racist comedian. You weren’t to know. Banned from many places because of the sheer aggressive offensiveness of his material. If I were you I wouldn’t show any of his videos as it side-steps the vile nature of his comedy. Many of the comedians you’ve reviewed and liked on here in the UK would completely condem him and his work. He once was going to appear at a British National Party event, but cancelled due to public pressure. The BNP are a far right racist party that wants to deport black and Asian people from Britain. I would take this video of him down as it is will upset many people.
@@countofdownable yeah I get it now blue means racist?
@@avmavm777 I understand. I’ll probably leave it up as this particular piece wasn’t very bad. I think exploring comedians of the UK is going to lead me so some unsavory folks. I just won’t explore further.
It's important to remember comics and times like this - not to everyone's taste but overall better than today's PC routines - Thanks for reacting !!
Thank You Robert
Hi Squirrel, have you heard of Les Dawson? He’s funny 😄
Les Dawson seconded. One of my all-time favourite comedians, and a superb pianist :)
@@ftumschk, the other day I was watching Cissie and Ada at the Flea Market. I laughed so much!
My ex husband and I saw Bernard Manning once. I wasn’t keen to start with, but once you got past the language he was very funny. There was a drunk in the audience heckling him, and instead of poking fun at the drunk, he got him on stage and was incredibly nice with him.
Ted Moult advertised double glazing that was supposed to be completely soundproof.
From watching various interviews of Bernard Manning over the years, while he undoubtedly had racist comedy, I believe if he saw someone of an ethnic minority hurt or in need out in the real world, he would be the first bloke to help. Everyone was just more tribal back then, and his comedy reflected that. My grandparents who were really loving people have said some shady things over the years, they just didn't know better. No malice was meant.
its not that they did not know better its just that they were more helthy of the mind this trible stuff is natural
The part where he says all the comedians are dying and that guy rings him up to ask him how he feels because he's got him on a Yankee.
A Yankee is a bet permeation, so the guy is basically saying if Bernard dies next he wins a bet.
French letter is a very old term for Condom, he said some one had put one on backwards and went.
Bernard took no prisoners, whether you were black , white, yellow or red, no one was safe from his jokes. You need to watch more of his videos to see what he was all about.
He was never exactly PC even back in the 70's and 80's I think that's why he bought his own club,he like quite a few from this time Jim Davidson,Freddie Starr,Bob Monkhouse too name but a few were called,racist,homophobic etc,but they employed people from all backgrounds,and put on shows at his own club with gay artists some of whom he was friends with,there's a long list of great comics one of which you'll need a good few hours the late Sir Ken Dodd his live shows went on for at least five hours,Sir Bruce forsyth was another one, Morecambe and Wise,and quite a few women who were top of the bill in the early part of the last century
Thank You Sandra
The greatest misconception about Bernard Manning was that he didn't like other nationalities. He would quite happily sit and have a beer with you no matter where you were from, the fact was you were all fair game. Fat, thin, old, young, male, female, Chinese, Indian, English he took the piss wherever you were from and everyone was fair game.
I went to Bernard Mannings Embassy club in Manchester a few times and had a really good time. People was always very quick to judge him, but not many knew about his charity work and how muchhe donated
Also worth trying is Jim DAvidson
Saw Bernard in a quite empty theatre, the year before he died in 2006.
Bernard is my favourite comedian
Most Popular shetch duo for over 20 years is Harry Enfield , the gay son sketch is very funny, just shows the stupidity of how parents 20 years ago behaved, lol many of your American reactor colleagues like them a lot, and CATHRINE Tate the OBSCENE TRANSLATOR THAT IS BRILL
Sort of, but it was still a bit awkward to have a gay lad, as it were. Not now of course, everyone knows what they're doing generally, not.
A yanky is a combination of bets on the horses
He was very funny, and single-minded about aiming his humour at everyone regardless of punching up or down. Unfortunately his racist gags attracted a lot of unpleasant people who he always distanced himself from (racist/nationalist groups etc)
Plundering poor countries, for cheap labour, is allowed to be mocked - just because the rich people (who will benefit from the plunder) tell you it's racist, doesn't mean it is.
No one suggested him as he’s the most racist comic ever & was banned from TV. No one says he’s not funny but he couldn’t stop the racist stuff so lost a large part of his audience.
Can't stop us laughing? Well they did in the end
he's one of the funniest comedians r.i.p
He was the UKs first "Blue" comic.He was loved by Asians because he was not racist he was doing stereotypes .If you want to see "racist" material watch Chubby Brown.And look at the the first few rows of the audience, all asians,Again they loved him
Bernard was very much of his time and place, and yes some of his material would be completely unacceptable today but he was still one of the great standups who has been treated perhaps rather badly because of his reputation for unashamedly cracking a gag about everything even subjects we're not supposed to talk about. One thing that is seldom mentioned was his philanthropy towards the people of Blackley. I spent much of my childhood in Blackley and if any local charity or community group needed a few pounds Bernard supplied it without having to be asked.
When Bernard Manning appeared in Las Vegas, he told the audience that this was his first visit to the USA and was unfamiliar to Las Vegas. He looked at a man in the audience and asked for some advice. He said, excuse me, but is $2 too much to pay for a hooker in this town?
He was talking about people from pakistan his other jokes were about the deaths of some of the best comedians the UK has ever had.
Yeah I didn’t understand why he was mentioning them though.
@@TheRealSquirrel Basically it's racial ism, immigrants on welfare while the white man's working all day
@@TheRealSquirrel Geographically speaking, Bernard Manning is from the North West of England- an area which experienced high levels of immigration from Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities during the 1950s-1980s for a number of reasons but a main driver was unskilled textile jobs in the Lancashire and Yorkshire mills. To a conservative, white, insular country this was a culture shock. Manning would have been 57 in 1987 and grew up around this massive change. His reaction is similar to many from the North West at the time and he had an audience with his racism. We have moved on since then thankfully.
@@natmanprime4295 ah that’s a crap joke
@@itsweetabixday7550 agreed
Bernard is a legend,
To some I’m learning.
roy chubby brown just as wild and dated (understand times have changed but still funny)
A lot of British stand up comedians from the 70's did racial material. Bernard even said in this react video you watched they wouldn't allow him on television with some of the jokes he was saying.
You really have to he a brit of a certain age to catch all of these fast jokes 😄
Good one Tony. I'm sharing this . Wow better not share this one .
hahahaha
Bernard Manning really good old time comedian was nice too see him pop up thanks
Glad you enjoyed it.
Please react to “spike Milligan, grovelling bastard” he’s was a much loved British comic, it’s his acceptance speech. Has the crown rolling in the isles.
Thank You james I will
Prince Charles, as he was, wasn't present, when he was thus referred to.
@@therespectedlex9794 * crowd
@@jamespickersgill8416 Oh, but like a Freudian slip.
Just for background, I think that BM said he was of part Russian Jewish origin, and his house was named Shalom. As an aside I also read that when serving in the British Army in or just after W W 2 he guarded Rudolf Hess?
Yeah Bernards Jewish. Mind you his grandfather died at the concentration camp. He fell out of the look out post.
That was funny
I got a joke for you, Fella in a wheelchair went to the doctors, said Doc" I've been sober all year and I'm still f*****g leggless" I made that up just after Bernard died, would of emailed it to him to use it if he liked it, great bloke, like he says how can he be racist if he says a joke about everyone and everything, top bloke 👍
He could be funny (in the 70's at least) but he was a terrible racist (not that there are good racists!). His racism often centred around the Pakistani immigrants who came to Britain in the 60's and 70's and I remember seeing a documentary where he was flown to India to do a couple of gigs in front of an exclusively Indian audience. It was interesting because, as there is a lot of animosity between India and Pakistan, the Indian audience thought all his racist jibes about Pakistanis were hilarious. The real irony lay in the fact that his usual UK audience would never have known the difference between the two Asian communities and cultures and would have lumped them both together whereas the Indian audience clearly understood the differences but, because of their racism, found it all hilarious. It probably baffled many of his UK audience.
Yeah they ones who hate them enjoy it I suppose. Didn’t know if his racist past, guess this is all he will appear here.
@@TheRealSquirrel You weren't to know - and there was some funny stuff in there...and then he takes it downhill, sadly.
Lots of his comedy is uk culture and an understanding of the uk in that era makes the comedy funnier
"I've got you on a Yankee" - A "Yankee Bet" is a multiple bet placed on the horses - 11 bets, where you have to pick the horses coming in first, second and third. The gains are huge, if you pick the right horses.
I live a mile from Bernard's famous embassy club... he just said what he thought and had a go at all religions and races, he was a comedian of the best sort, quick and funny... he spent a summer working in Las Vegas and was offered a contract working as a compare but turned it down... he said "I have my embassy club in Harpurhey"... I met Bernard quite a few times, he was funny and generous to a fault... If you get a chance watch the show The Comedians... Mick Miller, Bernard, Frank Carson, Mike Reid and many others... classic UK comedy at its best.
Brilliant 👍😁
Thank you! Cheers!
A " Yankee" is a betting term, a 4 selection wager consisting of 11 bets: 6 doubles, 4 trebles and a 4-fold accumulator. The Yankee is rumoured to be named after an American soldier that placed a small bet in the UK and due to the multiple roll-over mechanics at work won back hundreds of thousands of pounds. A lot of British comedians died around that time.
So the bet was on the last. Got it. Thank You good info
Fantastic Bernard
Bernard Manning legend if you want another great Comic look out for Dave Allen you will be in stitches.
done a couple dave allens
I am sure somebody else said it somewhere down below but just in case... The Ted Moult gag about the shut windows was based on the fact that he used to make TV ads about the insulating properties of Everest double glazing.
Hey squirel watched this an it was great 👍 had to go an watch more Bernard and laughed my bollocks off wouldn't have watched him if you didn't upload this thanks mate 😁
Far better than the god awful boring excuse for comedians these days.
Great bloke, spoke the truth.
Bernard Manning never drew the line. He didn't care who or what you were, he'd take the piss. That's fair. His humour is typically Manchester, UK which is based upon extreme adversity. For everything he did, he hated no one, and he often donated all the night's ticket sales to your charity. He was NOT a bad man. Not acceptable these days, but I can still laugh like fuck.
Manning would go out his way to offend people because he refused to be censored.a true defender of free speech.alot of people hate him because he wasn't politically correct but the man was so funny tho
I know cancel culture is everywhere.
I went to see Bernard live once, back in the 80s, I laughed like a Drain. He absolutely set the place on fire, he didnt care Bernard, he'd make fun of anything and anyone
Don't worry squirrel ! You laugh just like we did ,a Yankee by the way is a bet 5ways ! Don't 4get this is years ago but Bernard insisted he wasn't a racist ! I have 2 say there was Asians in his club at Manchester,he welcomed them but took the piss out of every bugger anyway ! The English or British laugh in the face of adversity as people of the working class variety had seriously hard lives and also still do ! The rich the aristocracy the establishment won't ever let the working class of the bottom rung of the ladder ! Feel free 2 laugh and enjoy 😊 it's perfectly normal !!!!!
Back in the day there was a tv show called the comedians and people like BM were regulars on it. See if you can find any footage.
i saw you shake your head so let's explain a few.
ted moult sold doubl glazing and one of the selling points was sound proof, so when he shot himself nobody heard it because the window was shut.
he named three comedians who had died recetly and a friend called him too ask ow he was feeling because he had him in a yankee. a yankee is the name of a bet you can place in a betting shop and it covers four selections
If your going down this rabbit hole you need to watch Roy chubby brown lol
I may we shall see
The overtness of the racism is astounding (looking back now).
Bernard wasn't liked by a few folks, due to his sense of humour, or his language, but off-stage was the nicest bloke you could meet, I worked at one of his businesses, and met him several times, always asking how we were doing, someone in the background was swearing and cursing, Bernard went and lost his temper with said person, the guy told Bernard that he swore like a trooper, Bernards reply, "yes that's on stage, it's what pays my bills" needless to say the worker got put down by Bernard
Squirrel looks like Bernard with a beard
Haha didn't realize it was this video the comment was on at first
@@TheRealSquirrel haha good video
The fact that the "P" word is short for Pakistani should not have any impact otherwise why then do people of Britain not take offence at being called "Brits" ? To me being called a Brit is just another word.
Check out Bernard Manning commenting on his own funeral.
Oh my goodness . Never thought I'd see him again in this lifetime ..
Reminds me of the tv show the wheeltapers and shunters social club ..I think that's what it was called.
Detested the man then and now .
Nasty piece of work .
Funny as fuck though.
@@theantilifeequation8150 in your opinion..to which you are entitled
@@heathergibson2108
In a lot of people's opinion, which is why he was so popular. But yeah you don't like him that's fine, If people acted like adults and simply didn't engage with comedians or shows they don't like or agree with that's all good. But we all know that doesn't happen, they complian and piss and moan until the show or comedian is banned from a network or show or venue. So apparently no, not everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Bernard is not someone suitable for the modern day internet to react to. It's extremely in your face and no punches pulled. The man himself was not at all how you would think based on his act, and it was an act, but you are best not posting reaction videos of his work.
Appreciate the input Thank You
@@TheRealSquirrel React to whatever you like its your channel. People can still choose not to watch .
@@popeurban2 The problem is evident in the comments section. It's not worth the hassle of reacting online.
@@handsolo1209 It is evident from the comments that lots of people liked him, and lots did not, but many find him an interesting character to talk about or comment on. That is how it should be and what discussion is all about. It is not about your Nazi book-burning philosophy.
@@blowingfree6928 Firstly, I am not a "book burning Nazi", Secondly I enjoyed most of Bernard's work and liked him as a person, Thirdly I was giving some advice to Squirrel for the sake of his channel and the loud cancel culture buffoons that appeared in the comments instantly, and Forthly, go fuck yourself.
Hes brilliant..check out more of him..never a bad show 👌
"Yankee" a bet with four selections
He mentioned Tommy Cooper, I think you would love him. Also Les Dawson had some great material, especially his piano playing. Kenny Everett was a legend. Cannon and Ball felt like a poor mans Morecombe and Wise, but many liked them.
Surprise. He never meant anything by his jokes. It was shock strategy to make you sit up. The best antidote was not to go and see him. But I've seen people with snot pouring from their nose. And they were reluctant to go in the first place. He mainly performed to working class, and all they wanted to do on a Friday and Saturday night was laugh. No one went home feeling hateful.
English humour can appear harsh, but it's not malicious. The area Bernard Manning was born in became heavily populated by different people from different places. It would be odd if this sudden mix of cultures was not referred to in humour. There is an underlying message in the jokes: 'if you don't like it here you can go back where you came from' but, that's understandable and would be the same for an Englishman in Scotland - even a Yorkshireman in Lancashire. The point is this, to argue that any person's race or culture should be protected from humour, is to argue that person is inferior. Bernard Manning made jokes about every kind of person.
Best comic of all time.... everyone gets to easily offended.... he was never a racist... he threw drunk whites,blacks and Pakistanis out of his club equally!
You need to look at Roy Chubby Brown live. Great comedic act and again very different.
On another note can I request you take a look at an old British sit com called Mind your language?
Sure I’ll add it to the series page. I’ll get to it but I’m far behind right now 🤣
@@paul1mcgarry I agree, Give it a miss
Horrible racist show.
Why do so many want to go back to the seventies to watch clichéd shows that patronise and use stereotypical tropes as an attempt at humour. Give it a look by all means Tony, see what you think.
Been in his club, the Empire, my mate lived across the road
Embassy Club
@@whitedwarf4986 That's it mate, knew it started with an E, cheers 👍
Yankee is a type of bet on four horses.
You should react to hale and pace great British double act
I did a jake and pace one I’ll do more I enjoyed them.
True that , forgot about those guys
Ber-nard? Bloody Ber-nard? We pronounce it, as if you're saying 'nerd' at the end! Ber-nerd...Bernerd!