People of Pakistani, Indian or African origin, Jews, the Irish, they were all fair game to him. But in Bernard Manning's logic, jokes about disabled people, or tampons, were unacceptable. He was born ...

By BERNARD MANNING Last updated at 08:49 20 June 2007 Reviled by liberals, loved by countless people north of Watford, Bernard Manning always felt that his life's work had been misunderstood.

Tributes to Bernard Manning Old colleagues defend his reputation Old-school comics have been paying tribute to Bernard Manning, who died on Monday at the age of 76. Most, of course, defended his ...

Controversial comedian Bernard Manning has died at the age of 76. He had been being treated in North Manchester General hospital for a kidney condition, where he died at 3.10pm on Monday.

Though he played Las Vegas in the late 1970s and was interviewed by Joan Rivers in the 1980s, British comedian Bernard Manning (1930-2007) never achieved anything like the international fame of ...

His biographer, Jonathan Margolis, last saw him six weeks ago, and said he was "the last of the joke-tellers". "I think he'll inevitably become famous for this question of whether he was a racist ...