Well this has certainly provoked a discussion – isn’t debate like this what the GD board is all about?

People allowed to air their views on both sides of the Manning divide.

I said he was one of the last of the old stand-ups because he was, I never saw enough of him to decide if he was genuinely funny or not, only snippets on shows like the Comedians.

But he did play to packed audiences in the clubs in the North of England, & I heard Frank Carson paying him a heartfelt tribute, so who was the true Bernard Manning?

Was his humour any worse than Jim Davidson with his “Chalky” persona,Russ Abbott donning his “See You Jimmy” wig, the Goodness Gracious Me Team heading “for an English” & so on?

Humour & satire has certainly been around for many a long year now, is it any more or less acceptable now than back then?

Humour is in the eye of the beholder I suppose.

OK I meant SUBconsciousness…

…but then I would be splitting hares…

(just an excuse for another bad bunny pun! 😀 :dev2: )

I have just had a sudden compulsion to listen to Art Garfunkel…:rolleyes:

This thread burrows into your conciousness…:eek:

Not sure, but I’m all ears…:diablo:

I think they were freight operators…transporting carrots…:rolleyes:

One of the last of the old “stand-ups”.

Definitely ending of an era, less politically correct in those days, thank God, but – yes – some of his stuff was on the line…& sometimes over it.

You pays your money…

Why has this been moved to GD?

I’m hopping mad. 😀

Trivia:

The Swiss had – maybe still has – an ad-hoc operator called…

RABBIT Air! 😮

I snapped a couple of their Falcons at ABZ Dyce a few years ago…which is no stranger to bunny wabbits either…:rolleyes:

Must people rabbit on about the hares?

It’s not bunny.:rolleyes:

VLM should think very carefully about being taken over by KLM.

Air UK found that out to their cost.

Would VLM just become another AMS/CDG feeder operator???