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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
- | Stand-up comic who enjoyed huge fame in the 1960s in a double-act with his older brother, Mike. Unfortunately the brothers fell out in the 1970s, and Bernie never really hit the same heights of success solo, though he is well-remembered for his choice of sidekick in the early 1980s - a St. Bernard dog called Schnorbitz. Bernie died in 1991 at the age of 58. | + | Stand-up comic who enjoyed huge fame in the 1960s in a double-act with his older brother, Mike. Unfortunately the brothers fell out in the 1970s (partly because Mike disapproved of Bernie's womanising), and Bernie never really hit the same heights of success solo, though he is well-remembered for his choice of sidekick in the early 1980s - a St. Bernard dog called Schnorbitz. Bernie died in 1991 at the age of 58. |
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Biography
Stand-up comic who enjoyed huge fame in the 1960s in a double-act with his older brother, Mike. Unfortunately the brothers fell out in the 1970s (partly because Mike disapproved of Bernie's womanising), and Bernie never really hit the same heights of success solo, though he is well-remembered for his choice of sidekick in the early 1980s - a St. Bernard dog called Schnorbitz. Bernie died in 1991 at the age of 58.