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Bernard Manning dies
Bernard Manning dies
Last Modified: 18 Jun 2007
By:
Stephanie West
He's described on his own website as "one of the most outrageous and successful comedians of our time".
No-one could dispute that. Bernard Manning, who died today at the age of 76, became a household name in the 1970s in the TV programme The Comedians.
In the intervening years, he's been regularly accused of racism and has always denied this, once saying: "I tell jokes. You never take a joke seriously."
But five years ago, he was banned from performing in the Dorset seaside town of Weymouth, where councillors were worried that his act would breach race laws.
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