I am a guardian reader and that doesn't put me on the loony left or in the PC brigade.
I naturally found comedians such as Manning unfunny, I didn't need to be told that. I think his audience literally died out.
There is a fine line between funny and being offensive and it takes a skillful...
Some subject matters just don't lend themselves to humour as they are not funny or have become not funny as societies values changed and that's why the dinosaur comedians such as Bernard Manning audiences shrank.