# RIP Jeremy Hardy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jeremy-hardy/828783 "2019-02-01T14:45:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jeremy-hardy/828783/1 "2019-02-01T14:45:31Z")
Talented comedian, BBC stalwart, lifelong lefty and appalling singer Jeremy Hardy [has passed away at the age of 57 of cancer](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47056671). He’s reached Mornington Crescent at last. > [@Jeremy Hardy](#): > > People say I’m self-deprecating but I don’t think I’m very good at it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jeremy-hardy/828783/2 "2019-02-01T14:52:22Z")
Sad news. In an actual Twitter slip that was clearly not intentional, he accidentally had publicly PM’ed someone on Twitter telling them he was dying and not to tell anyone. Sad to die so young. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jeremy-hardy/828783/3 "2019-02-01T18:02:47Z")
Yep, clearly a nice guy, with a great line in rather melancholic, political wit. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jeremy-hardy/828783/4 "2019-02-01T23:13:01Z")
One of the good ones. Slightly ashamed that it was only the news of his death that prompted me to realise that he hadn’t been on the current series of _The News Quiz_. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jeremy-hardy/828783/5 "2019-02-04T10:21:03Z")
Just to note that on the same day we also lost [Clive Swift](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Swift), best known as Hyacinth Bucket’s long-suffering husband but a rather fine comic actor overall and, like Hardy, another BBC Radio 4 stalwart. ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jeremy-hardy/828783/6 "2019-02-04T11:41:06Z")
> [@bonzer](#): > > One of the good ones. > > Slightly ashamed that it was only the news of his death that prompted me to realise that he hadn’t been on the current series of _The News Quiz_. I had spotted he was missing from _The News Quiz_, but assumed he was off doing something else ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jeremy-hardy/828783/7 "2019-02-04T12:01:06Z")
> [@yendis](#): > > I had spotted he was missing from _The News Quiz_, but assumed he was off doing something else ☹ Well, he kind of is. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jeremy-hardy/828783/8 "2019-02-04T14:10:11Z")
I seem to remember he said he wanted his remains scattered. Not his _ashes_, just body parts left at various motorway services etc. Does anyone else remember him on _Clue_ doing pick-up-song with (I think) ‘This Charming Man’? It turns out he really could sort of “sing” like Morrissey Absent from the News Quiz last few weeks, new Clue this evening, turns out he won’t be on that either. Sadly missed.