[kj] ot: good news!

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

He could have been "genuinely funny" with a few zingers, but almost any 
comic of any stripe is, here and there. Manning seems to have been in 
possession of that mystical blank check called "working class 
authenticity," which seems to be all one needs to cow critics into 
submission. Even The Guardian complained about his "middle class 
critics." OUCH. I still think of Larry the Cable Guy, who "uses 
catchphrase humor, including 'Git-R-Done' (perhaps his most well-known), 
as well as 'Lord, I apologize' and/or 'I don't care who you are, that's 
funny right there!' after particularly egregious jokes." 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_the_Cable_Guy#Catchphrases)


No one compared him to Hitler or Mein Kampf, for fuck's sake.. That 
along with the hyperbole that fans of Manning imagine they're being 
oppressed or repressed for liking him, like I said, is funnier than most 
if not all the stuff Manning did. The guy just sucked.

-Oliver



jpwhkj at aol.com wrote:

> I never saw him, but yeah, he had some funny jokes (e.g. the lottery 

> one related by my Fat northern namesake).

>

> And I gather that he told some racist jokes.  That's out of order, but 

> in the scheme of crap things, it's hardly up there with Hitler writing 

> Mein Kampf, is it?  We're certainly heard worse than racist jokes on 

> this list.

>

> Morally, I agree with Mik that it's sick to say that it's good news 

> that anyone's dead.  Of course I'd struggle to keep to that in some 

> examples, but not for someone who's just a comedian (even if you 

> didn't like his jokes)...

>

> Mind you, I doubt Manning himself would have been that offended!

>

> Jamie

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