Lifestyle: The Soul of Good, Clean Fun ; Christian Worker and Stand-Up Fan Helen Tomblin has Discovered There Is a Market for Non-Offensive Mirth in Birmingham. Alison Jones Hears the One About the Comedy Club That Is All Good Clean Fun

Birmingham Post › October 05, 2007

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Devout Christian Helen Tomblin found support for her new cleaner comedy club from an unexpected source.

Sweary, lairy Bernard Manning the (excuse the expression but it seems appropriate) anti-Christ as far as the politically correct brigade was concerned, gave the venture the thumbs up after Helen and he appeared on a radio programme together.

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Lifestyle: The Soul of Good, Clean Fun ; Christian Worker and Stand-Up Fan Helen Tomblin has Discovered There Is a Market for Non-Offensive Mirth in Birmingham. Alison Jones Hears the One About the Comedy Club That Is All Good Clean Fun

They had been invited to participate by the producers who were clearly hoping opposites would react.

"He basically said he thought it was a fantastic idea," recalls Helen. "That if there was a gap in the market I should go for it and if I lasted as long as him I would have done well."

Yes but would she have been willing to book Bernard, whose reputation for telling sexist and racist jokes saw him treate...

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