www.malcolmhardee.co.uk
website
of the late, great comic,
agent, manager, club-owner
and anarchic prankster
This
website will be regularly updated
but for quickest news of upcoming
events etc, click the NEWSLETTER
button on the left.
Most
of the contents of newsletters
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On this
site, you can read his extensive obituarties
in the British press, 'reviews' of his
funeral and subsequent press reports.
You can
also read extracts from his two books and anecdotes from his extraordinary range of friends.
Photos,
videos and yet more anecdotes and news
will be added.
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NEW VIDEOS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE VIDEOS PAGE
Photo by Steve Taylor
MALCOLM
WAS
“One
of the great characters in the comedy business...his scams,
scrapes and escapades will be talked about for years to come”
(Time Out)
“The
greatest influence on British comedy over the last 25 years”
(Independent)
”Godfather
to a generation of comic talent”
(Daily Telegraph)
“One
of the most anarchic figures of his era"
(London Evening Standard)
“Notoriously
outrageous and a prize prankster...a genuine original”
(The Scotsman)
“A
larger than life character whose ribald behaviour and risque pranks
were legendary"
(The Stage)
“Patron
sinner of alternative comedy,
renowned for his outrageous stunts”
(Guardian)
AND
“Throughout
his life he maintained a fearlessness
and an indifference to consequences”
(obituary, The Times)
...AS
FOR MALCOLM'S FUNERAL...
“Rarely
can there have been so much laughter and irreverence
at a funeral service and rarely can it have been more appropriate”
(Daily Telegraph)
MALCOLM'S
FRIEND 'WIZO' SAYS:
“I
first meet Malcolm when I was five. I was dressed in a full cowboy outfit
(it was the fashion then) and it was my first day at primary school. He
looked at me and started giggling, we then spent the next 48 years giggling
with occasional bouts of prison, setting fire to cinemas, blowing up stolen
buses with fireworks and driving cars through supermarket windows as well
as showbiz bollocks. He was the most fearless man I have ever met as well
as painfully shy, which he overcame with bluster and sheer persistence
and a large pair of bollocks. When we were both sentenced to Borstal for
various naughty boy things at Exeter Assizes in 1971, we both got our
dicks out to the judge when he sent us down.” |
TO
LEAVE YOUR OWN
MEMORIES OF MALCOLM
CLICK ON A BALLOON
Photo by Matthew
Hardy, 2003
OY!
OY! |
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Malcolm with fireman Maurice
Gibb in Bannermans bar, Edinburgh, 2003; Photo John Fleming
