Think Izzard was about 1995, possibly '96.... Pretty sure I was in 6th form (and thus slightly underage) at the time... :)-D Racial jokes in comedy are a tricky one... I love Richard Pryor and Chris Rock to a point, and part of the reason for that, is because I don't get the impression they actually hate white people.... Bernard Manning however, is just a horrid racists tw@t!!! I remember seeing him on The Mrs Merton Show (was that the right name? You know, Caroline Ahearne dressed as an old dear), and he basically said if he broke down and had to walk miles in the rain at night, he'd rather that than accept a lift from a black person!!! This was a few years ago, so maybe I've remembered that wrong, but I'm pretty bloody sure that's what he said! For that reason, when he makes a joke, you know it's based on a genuine recismm inside him (td)