Bernard Manning: Offensive, Distasteful, Insulting, Obscene, Coarse & Vulgar - and that's just what his friends say...

by Jonathan Margolis

I do admire Bernard Manning's ability with a joke. Few comedians I've ever seen have been able to make the art look so simple' Stephen Fry

It takes all sorts to make a world and people find all kinds of things to laugh at. Bernard Manning is one of the most repulsive men to have hit our television screens: fat, ugly and never less than offensive. Despite all this he is one of the most popular of funnymen, he has a thriving business in Manchester's Embassy Club and a career that at its height took him to Las Vegas.

`The funniest fat racist bastard in Britain. . Jo Brand should read this informative biography. She might learn how to tell a joke' LIVING MARXISM

`I thoroughly enjoyed Margolis's book. . .in fact I roared with laughter' THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

`A new and serious btography. . . Manning's act is a breathtakingly politically incorrect melange of superb timing, racial stereotypes and inspired filth' SUNDAY TIMES

219 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 18, 1996

About the author

Jonathan Margolis is a journalist for The Financial Times, The Guardian and The Sunday Times (UK). He has been a contributor to Time as well as several other online magazines. He has written several celebrity biographies including ones on John Cleese, Uri Geller and the orgasm.