Death of Malcolm Hardee last week, sort of boaty

[milltech]

If this has been done before I apologise, I did a search on all forums first. I admit I'd never heard of this man, but he was a comedian who in recent years ran a comedy club from a boat on the Thames and it is thought that he drowned whilst trying to make the short distance from said boat to his houseboat in a rubber dinghy, and possibly after loading up with a few.

The point to this post is that Obituaries are rarely funny in their own right, but I found the first half of it to be hysterical and whilst reading it aloud at the breakfast table we were all cackling away. It would seem as good a send off for a comedian as any. Very well written, here's the link -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jht...2/04/db0402.xml

 

[webcraft]

Best obituary I ever read - thanks John

- Nick

 

[RupertW]

I saw him getting the huge lock opened for his dinghy a couple of weeks ago - late on a Sunday afternoon so I think he was probably a bit pissed by then.

He's run the local comedy clubs round Greenwich for years and I doubt we'd have had any without him. A definite oddball, though - the first time I saw him was mid-80s when a load of students heckled him at their own student union and his put down was - "Shut up, or I'll piss on you". They didn't so he did - I just about managed to move back in time.

 

[jhr]

Sad but, by the sound of it, it's the way he'd have wanted to go!

I remember seeing the "balloon dance" on OTT, which is mentioned in the obituary; it's one of the rare occasions when I literally ended up crying with laughter at something on the telly.

RIP

 

[Toutvabien]

It is a very good obit. He was a wonderfully anarchic and unpredicable man.

I got up on stage with him at the Tunnel once, it ended up with him cutting my trousers off with a pair of decorators scissors.

When he stood for Parliament it was under the banner of "Rainbow Alliance, Beer Fags and Skittles" . Shame he did not win!!!

 

[Cornishman]

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"Get yer knob out". He was said to be huge in Germany and Sweden.

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How on earth did he manage that? Is there something which Swedish and German women have which none others have?