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Jeremy Hardy

January 2023

  • Jack Dee.

    Comedy Q&A
    Jack Dee: ‘I’m a positive energy kind of guy’

    The comedian on doing standup in prison, his first open mic with Paul Merton and taking I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue on tour

August 2020

  • A man looking confused by the label on a shirt.

    Brief letters
    You can go your own way, but will you wash your own pants?

    Brief letters: Male separatists | The Conways | Clare in the Community | Proper jobs | British cities

February 2020

  • Jeremy and Katie on holiday in 2016. Image courtesy of Katie Barlow.

    ‘I knew he was loved but not the scale of it’: Katie Barlow on her late husband Jeremy Hardy

    As a book of tributes to the brilliant comedian and activist is published, his wife talks about their life together – and life without him

January 2020

  • julie andrews in mary poppins,1964.

    Brief letters
    Nose tweak is something quite atrocious

    Brief letters: Marmalade | Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious | Getting old | Cardigans | Cheerleading

December 2019

  • Jeremy Hardy: even his ‘appalling singing’ was a radio highlight.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2019
    Jeremy Hardy remembered by Rory Bremner

    The impressionist and comedian on the beloved comic whose deadpan style and fearless politics marked him out as one of the most original voices of his generation

4 February 2019

  • Jeremy Hardy: ‘I should be Jewish. I’m in showbusiness, I can’t do DIY and I prefer cheesecake to Victoria sponge.’

    Jeremy Hardy, the honorary Jew who held out an olive branch

    Letters: Hardy was a goy who pitched ‘insider’ jokes perfectly, says Naomi Wayne. Philip Clayton wonders why comedians’ deaths seem to touch us more than other famous people, Sarah Cemlyn remembers Hardy as laugh-out-loud funny, and challenging too, while Nancy Krois recalls his News Quiz appearances, L Johnston his Guardian dismissal, and George McLean a King Canute joke

3 February 2019

  • Stephanie Merritt

    Jeremy Hardy – true to his politics and his comedy

    Stephanie Merritt
    The campaigning comic was political to his bones, yet also gloriously silly

1 February 2019

  • Jeremy Hardy won a devoted following, thanks in part to his truculent politics.

    Brian Logan on Jeremy Hardy: He belonged on the frontline of the struggle for social justice

    Brian Logan writes: On radio Hardy could flex the satirical muscles he had honed in his standup
  • Jeremy Hardy at a War on Want comedy show in London, 2015.

    Jeremy Hardy obituary

    Comedian and panellist on the radio shows I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and The News Quiz

    • '100% filled with mirth!' Comedians pay tribute to Jeremy Hardy

    • Jeremy Hardy: a ferocious talent who radicalised radio comedy

    • Comedian Jeremy Hardy dies of cancer aged 57

March 2016

  • Brian Logan

    Open mic
    Should comedians stand up for a political party?

    Brian Logan
    Politics is fertile ground for comics, but there are pitfalls to jumping on particular bandwagons – not least when it questions their loyalty to the punchline

August 2015

  • Jeremy Hardy

    Comic Jeremy Hardy accuses Labour of trying to rig leadership election

    Former party member, who has been excluded from vote after vetting process, says Labour appears to be trying to change the rules of contest

November 2014

  • Jeremy Hardy.

    This week's new live comedy
    This week’s new live comedy

    Jeremy Hardy | Chortle Comedy Book Festival | Andrew Lawrence

June 2014

  • Jeremy Hardy

    Glastonbury 2014: 10 questions for Jeremy Hardy

    The comedian says he's having a much better festival than he did in 1985

December 2013

  • ‘Cheering’: Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson as Ted and Ralph, just one ‘window’ in R4’s brilliant

    Rewind radio: Radio 4 Comedy Advent Calendar – review

    Three-minute bites of festive comedy can help us bear even the grimmest of weeks, writes Miranda Sawyer

March 2013

  • lives in a landcape

    Rewind radio: Lives in a Landscape: Wheelchair Pusher Needed; Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation; The World Tonight – review

    Radio 4's documentary following wheelchair-user Terry and his 'pusher' Robert around north London was a delight, writes Miranda Sawyer

December 2012

  • Amnesty's Secret Santa Comedy Podcast

    Amnesty International's comedy podcast
    Amnesty's Secret Santa Comedy Podcast - episode two

    Amnesty's Secret Comedy Podcast returns with Jeremy Hardy sharing one too many secrets about working with Burt Reynolds – and Chris McCausland reveals how he cheated in a school exam

May 2010

  • How Not to Grow Up! by Richard Herring and My Family and Other Strangers by Jeremy Hardy

    Phil Daoust sees two stand-up comedians react to the onset of middle age in very different ways
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