Bernard manning in Liverpool....a nurse collecting for a hospice..manning stopped in the middle of his act..'What are you doing love' ..I'.m collecting for charity' she said.'...get my checkbook out of my jacket'.he ordered....he wrote her a cheque for £200..gave it to her and said..'There you are...now Fuck off'......absolutely hysterical!
Bernard Manning got real laughter from his audiences. 'Alternative' comedians get applause. Huge difference. Oh and the double standards of people like Lovernotfighter11 are staggering - he thinks nothing of calling Manning's fans "scumbags".
Fucking hilarious,a funny,controversial,and legendary comic-never ever boring.Much missed by anyone who liked a laugh,and could laugh at themselves.for such is life,if you cannot laugh at yourself,and with others,you may as well pack it in.
If this was available as an album, I'd deffo buy it!...I remember seeing this at the time it was originally broadcast, i thought the same then....Good ol' Bernard, he took this piss out of everybody and everything, including himself...One great Manc giving a 'nod' to another great Manc.
Aaah right, been a few years so my memory is probably off. I remember seeing this sketch late on either a Friday or Saturday and for some reason I had it in my mind it was Who Dares Wins, but you're probably right.
I played drums for Bernard in the 70's ...It was only for 1 week when he was doing the cabarete in Baileys night club Derby ..... He would joke about people from ALL races ....Very funny man
Fucking love it lol :-) He used to crack me right up the fat bastard,I once had the humiliation of him taking the piss out of me when I was 13 collecting glasses in the British Legion in Wigan while he was on stage,now that wasn't so funny lol.He was sound after though,fond memories.
The one and only Mr Manning, great comic and a good singer, never bowed to pressure to change, believed in taking the pi$$ out of anyone and everything, it was just a joke (except handicapped and no jokes about periods).. He would have loved to see how successful Manchester City is these days.......Rip big man 😀😃😄😁💙 CTID.
No i think took out an injunction as Manning was planning to release it, Moz is probably still havin a strop about it now. There was a rumour that he (BM)had properly recorded it for release and the video is of him singing it in a skip, how true i dont know
whether this is real or ala 'spinal tap-esque' "schtick".this is a phenomenal tribute to the smiths.i/we know they'll never ever!.'reunite'.ever!.but we'll never know.long live morrissey and the smiths! (1982-1987)
Angelo Catapang Angelo, I'm replying a year after you posted so, sorry for the delay. One of my Facebook friends asked if he'd been hallucinating and thought he had some sort of imagined memory of this just a couple of days after I'd been reminded of it-had totally forgotten about it until now (July 2015). Don't know if you're in in the UK but, if you're not I'll try to keep this really brief. In the 70s and early 80s it was regarded as perfectly acceptable for comedians to appear on television (including the BBC) cracking derogatory jokes about non white races (mainly Pakistani which was the main immigrant population at the time), gays, Irish people (the punchline revolving around their supposed stupidity), womens' breasts, mothers-in-law and anything else that wasn't their male WASP ideal. Sometime in the 80s this started to change and a new generation of comedians who didn't rely on racist/homophobic/sexist stereotypes came to the fore. The world (in the UK at least) had changed and comedians like Bernard Manning were seen as relics from a bygone age (they still are by the way) which is what makes this such a sublime moment of comedy genius. Down on his luck and facing a lack of live bookings due to changing attitudes, Bernard Manning took the money and recorded a few spoof cover versions of Smiths songs for a UK television show. Explaining comedy is a bit crap but, if you were British, it was hilarious to see something new and non sexist/racist etc interpreted by an outmoded dinosaur of comedy, the sheer incongruity of it was what made it so laugh out loud funny. Even better was the way it was presented: on an old Jonathan Ross show from the late 80s, right at the end of the commercial break-it was actually the start of the second part of the show but they didn't roll the titles until after the clip so that it looked like it was genuinely part of the ad-break. To this date there are people who believe this album actually exists because it was such a perfectly executed spoof. Not funny when you have to explain it but for us Brits it was a genuine WTF moment.
@firestartertwistedfi You have to look at the man's life in its entirety before judging him based solely on his act. It is well known that he was respectful of his ethnically diverse neighbours, who liked him very much and considered him most definitely not a racist. He was a committed family man whose family meant everything to him, He was a shock comedian on stage. His act was just that, an act. It was his trade. As he said 'It's not true, it's just a joke you see.'
@MrJanesaddiction I saw this just the once in (I think the year was 1987) ... and it stuck in my memory. So centuries later CZcams comes along and (thanks to the poster) bang it's back again. I guess you can call it progress :) And yes it was hysterical at the time too! btw just out of interest, do you remember cans of 'Top Deck' and 1/4 s of Sherbet Lemons?
He made a joke of his own funeral. He took the piss out of everyone including himself. If you put yourself on the firing line, then everything else is fair game. He wasn't my thing at all, but the ironic humour of his final shout where he provided commentary on his own funeral was a stroke of genius...and a message to all the haters saying "I don't give a shit", I'm sure.
The really frightening part is that this is closest The Smiths ever got to being mainstream in the 80s. Scarier still, whoever wrote the sketch must have been a fan, you don't know about Handsome Devil or Back To The Old House if you just knew of them in passing. Maybe Bernard was a fan.
I love the randomness of this.
Bernard manning in Liverpool....a nurse collecting for a hospice..manning stopped in the middle of his act..'What are you doing love' ..I'.m collecting for charity' she said.'...get my checkbook out of my jacket'.he ordered....he wrote her a cheque for £200..gave it to her and said..'There you are...now Fuck off'......absolutely hysterical!
I bet Morrissey LOVES this and always has.
Hah! I'm a fan of The Smiths and Moz but I have to tell you, this is great :) LOL.
Bernard manning is class
Who prefers Bernard's version of them songs 😂
The King a I was a round buck then
MEEEEEEE
Totally suicide inspiring lyrics and songs but the magic of Bernard can make them magically cheer you up🤣🤣
Me 100%
I've been missing the first 30 seconds of this for nearly 20 years, and now I've got the complete video. Thanks very much.
Bernard, We miss ya big fella! Another forgotten class performance..
I actually think Bernard is better suited to singing Smiths songs because the humour of the lyrics really shines through 😂
Bernard Manning got real laughter from his audiences. 'Alternative' comedians get applause.
Huge difference.
Oh and the double standards of people like Lovernotfighter11 are staggering - he thinks nothing of calling Manning's fans "scumbags".
He was a great showband singer. This is a brill spoof.
I'm a great fan of the Smiths Bernard Manning is brilliant in this sketch.
A good comic, not a bad singer as well. RIP Bernard.
A pure shithouse!...💩
@@frankhornby6873 Explain, why he's a "Shithouse"
The great manning! A working class guy who made it to the top and didn't have to move away from his roots!
my favourite band and my favourite comedian coming together, thanks for posting this, hilarious
The scary thing is I would actually buy it if Bernard Manning released this :)
bernard manning is a legend
Fucking hilarious,a funny,controversial,and legendary comic-never ever boring.Much missed by anyone who liked a laugh,and could laugh at themselves.for such is life,if you cannot laugh at yourself,and with others,you may as well pack it in.
If this was available as an album, I'd deffo buy it!...I remember seeing this at the time it was originally broadcast, i thought the same then....Good ol' Bernard, he took this piss out of everybody and everything, including himself...One great Manc giving a 'nod' to another great Manc.
bernard was a legend.. i knew the guy and he was generous to a fault.. And remember he was an 'act'...
At the Embassy Club, Bernard used to often sing his own version of the Pet Shop Boys' 'Rent'. And let me tell you, it was hilarious!
I'd give my right eye for a video of that
Nice upload - thannks.
RIP Bernard.
happiness is bernard manning
He was priceless man!
Rare genius
Bernard manning best comedian ever
Love him. Makes me cry with laughter and even more so when he upsets the snowflakes.
Brilliant comedian
I remember seeing this on Channel 4's long since gone late night show The Word back in the mid-90's.
Jonathan Ross show.
what a class man r.i.p
Bernard you made people laugh for years r.i.p an boosted the sales of daffodils that year too god bless up there Laf
Aaah right, been a few years so my memory is probably off.
I remember seeing this sketch late on either a Friday or Saturday and for some reason I had it in my mind it was Who Dares Wins, but you're probably right.
Made me chuckle
R.I.P Bernard you will be sorely missed keep telling the jokes wherever you go !!!!! You was a legend !!!
Doubt it'll be in heaven
Funny! Funny! Great clip thanks for posting this Paul
it was on The Last Resort, Jonathon Ross's first Channel 4 show.
RIP Bernard - a better man than any of those that rejoice today - and a damn sight funnier - FYA!
no need for overreaction, this is one of the funniest smiths-parodies ever
Wonderful stuff!
Bernard is a legend
hes great !!!
I agree,on both points.I was a fan of both.
I love Mannings eyebrows,there fucking awesome,it always gets me laughing.A true legend.
LMFAO what really got me was the album picture at the end.
Totally suicide inspiring lyrics and songs but the magic of Bernard can make them magically cheer you up🤣🤣
It's the wit and maturity of Bernard Manning fans that impresses me the most.
That and the tolerance of humour that offends their sensibilities.
RIP, Bernard...genuinely funny...
And racist
Naz tubes ik lollll😂😂
tubes maybe by today's uber pc snowflakes but not back then. No one took offence.
DroneElectronic only unfunny racists like you like him. It’s actually you neo-Nazis who have no sense of humour
@@Yorksbloke oh, oh, oh, oh....I'm so, so, so, so sorry if I offended you....why don't you go and pull some more statues down, you woke pillock.
God Bless Bernard Manning!
bernard manning what a guy!!! RIP lad
Reminds me of paul shane on pebble mill
Anyone actually really dig the instrumentals on his version of Girlfriend in a coma? I love it.
What a way to phrase a question...
Ahhh. The Last Resort. Great show.
I played drums for Bernard in the 70's ...It was only for 1 week when he was doing the cabarete in Baileys night club Derby ..... He would joke about people from ALL races ....Very funny man
genius
Fucking love it lol :-) He used to crack me right up the fat bastard,I once had the humiliation of him taking the piss out of me when I was 13 collecting glasses in the British Legion in Wigan while he was on stage,now that wasn't so funny lol.He was sound after though,fond memories.
Classic!!!!!!
classic
It was an album!!
A Legend!
The one and only Mr Manning, great comic and a good singer, never bowed to pressure to change, believed in taking the pi$$ out of anyone and everything, it was just a joke (except handicapped and no jokes about periods)..
He would have loved to see how successful Manchester City is these days.......Rip big man 😀😃😄😁💙 CTID.
@spurscab Top comment mate, he was a FINE man!
Top stuff, old school comedy at it's best.
Can you buy this? (lol).
No i think took out an injunction as Manning was planning to release it, Moz is probably still havin a strop about it now. There was a rumour that he (BM)had properly recorded it for release and the video is of him singing it in a skip, how true i dont know
RIP Bernard!
Rest in Peace Bernard.
Amen to that. At least somebody around here does not make me burst in hysterical cry/laughter.
The King
Too right!
I find this hilarious for some reason I think it's girlfriend in a coma that does it!!
whether this is real or ala 'spinal tap-esque' "schtick".this is a phenomenal tribute to the smiths.i/we know they'll never ever!.'reunite'.ever!.but we'll never know.long live morrissey and the smiths! (1982-1987)
Angelo Catapang Angelo, I'm replying a year after you posted so, sorry for the delay. One of my Facebook friends asked if he'd been hallucinating and thought he had some sort of imagined memory of this just a couple of days after I'd been reminded of it-had totally forgotten about it until now (July 2015). Don't know if you're in in the UK but, if you're not I'll try to keep this really brief.
In the 70s and early 80s it was regarded as perfectly acceptable for comedians to appear on television (including the BBC) cracking derogatory jokes about non white races (mainly Pakistani which was the main immigrant population at the time), gays, Irish people (the punchline revolving around their supposed stupidity), womens' breasts, mothers-in-law and anything else that wasn't their male WASP ideal. Sometime in the 80s this started to change and a new generation of comedians who didn't rely on racist/homophobic/sexist stereotypes came to the fore. The world (in the UK at least) had changed and comedians like Bernard Manning were seen as relics from a bygone age (they still are by the way) which is what makes this such a sublime moment of comedy genius.
Down on his luck and facing a lack of live bookings due to changing attitudes, Bernard Manning took the money and recorded a few spoof cover versions of Smiths songs for a UK television show. Explaining comedy is a bit crap but, if you were British, it was hilarious to see something new and non sexist/racist etc interpreted by an outmoded dinosaur of comedy, the sheer incongruity of it was what made it so laugh out loud funny. Even better was the way it was presented: on an old Jonathan Ross show from the late 80s, right at the end of the commercial break-it was actually the start of the second part of the show but they didn't roll the titles until after the clip so that it looked like it was genuinely part of the ad-break. To this date there are people who believe this album actually exists because it was such a perfectly executed spoof. Not funny when you have to explain it but for us Brits it was a genuine WTF moment.
great insight and words alberto.and take care.
Thank you Angelo, you too and long may you chuckle at life's absurdities.
it's the sort of tribute "The Smiths" deserve
Greatest comedian ever.
Lol, I'd love that album........
man its greate and very funny hahah man he sings
Rock on Bernard. RIP. Make 'em 'ave it!!!
I would sooo buy it if it was real
Damn right. I just came from that vid.
LOL!!! Go on Bernard!!! Give em shit!
Yeah...he had loads of that!...💩
anybody have other vids that are smiths parodies like this?
Bernard!!!!!!
That was actually a reply to BNPRenaissance but CZcams's system doesn't make it obvious.
If only this album excisted.
@Junebug7556 Was that John Thomson from the dead good show in the early 90s?
Love Manning - r i p
National Front Disco Rocks !
@firestartertwistedfi You have to look at the man's life in its entirety before judging him based solely on his act. It is well known that he was respectful of his ethnically diverse neighbours, who liked him very much and considered him most definitely not a racist. He was a committed family man whose family meant everything to him, He was a shock comedian on stage. His act was just that, an act. It was his trade. As he said 'It's not true, it's just a joke you see.'
Fuckin great
Where can I buy this CD
fuckin legend RIP Bernard
@supershinystoat we have the same problem in Australia
@MrJanesaddiction I saw this just the once in (I think the year was 1987) ... and it stuck in my memory. So centuries later CZcams comes along and (thanks to the poster) bang it's back again.
I guess you can call it progress :)
And yes it was hysterical at the time too!
btw just out of interest, do you remember cans of 'Top Deck' and 1/4 s of Sherbet Lemons?
I think it's from the fast show, probably early or mid 90s.
He made a joke of his own funeral. He took the piss out of everyone including himself. If you put yourself on the firing line, then everything else is fair game. He wasn't my thing at all, but the ironic humour of his final shout where he provided commentary on his own funeral was a stroke of genius...and a message to all the haters saying "I don't give a shit", I'm sure.
This sketch was from the last resort with Jonathan Ross.
The wizard has left the tunnel.
The album art would have to be the funniest part.
lmao that's amazing.
The really frightening part is that this is closest The Smiths ever got to being mainstream in the 80s.
Scarier still, whoever wrote the sketch must have been a fan, you don't know about Handsome Devil or Back To The Old House if you just knew of them in passing.
Maybe Bernard was a fan.
True. I don't even know the guy, but this is funny regardless of what else he has done.
real funny
Oh I love it. Sorry Moz!