When Bernard Manning was on the TV show "The Comedians" everyone loved him. Then it became very non-PC to tell the kind of jokes he told, so everyone turned against him (because the media told them to).
His jokes were the sort that people are still telling in pubs to this day, quietly amongst their mates. You could say he was "racist" but he told his jokes without prejudice - no one was "immune", not even himself - and his actions often belied his perceived words. He would take the p*** out of anyone but there was no malice. He was also very much a family man and much loved by those who knew him.
I saw him once at a night club in Blackburn (so long ago I can't remember what it was called - or even where it was) and, though crude, he was very funny. He refused to change to fit in with what was thought "proper"; no hypocrite, our Bernard.
