Jeremy Hardy , What A Funny Man (and a loss )

[life on mars]

The News Quiz Extra has a great end and tribute to the great man his acute pollical humour was priceless

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002ccx


http://jeremyhardy.co.uk/


As he said :

"" Why don't people just accept that life is sad and cheer up? After all, it's not going to last for ever"


""Marriage is like the witness protection programme: you get all new clothes, you live in the suburbs, and you're not allowed to see your friends anymore. ""

""All socialists have bad backs because we slouch - except when we're watching the news when we sit on the edge of our seats, shout, and wave our arms.
Generally we sit hunched, arms crossed in a judgemental way, the whole of our bodies pulled into a frown."

" It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?""

" My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. I told her You're eleven, make your own"

" Most harm is done by people who are awake."

[ken smith]

Any funny quotes?

[Armitage Shanks]

Any funny quotes?

[life on mars]

""You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother’s father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.”

“If you just took everyone in the British National Party and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.”

“Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.”

“The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking them in the face.”

and lastly and sadly :

“Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4pm, I look quite nice.”

“I don’t get this fashion for happy funerals. This is a very fashionable idea, that when you die, it’s supposed to be a celebration and joyous and everyone laughing, but I want people’s lives torn apart when I go. I want to be embalmed and brought out when we have guests.”

[BLUETIT]

""You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother’s father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.”

“If you just took everyone in the British National Party and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.”

“Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.”

“The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking them in the face.”

and lastly and sadly :

“Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4pm, I look quite nice.”

“I don’t get this fashion for happy funerals. This is a very fashionable idea, that when you die, it’s supposed to be a celebration and joyous and everyone laughing, but I want people’s lives torn apart when I go. I want to be embalmed and brought out when we have guests.”

I feel very sorry for you, if you think any of that is funny

[RichardM]

Try some clips from Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071p9d/clips

[A Quiet Monkfish]

'funny man' ?

[RichardM]

'funny man' ?

Yes

[jon1959]

He was a very funny man and a brilliant observer of idiosyncratic ‘Britishness’. Like the Alan Bennett of stand-up, and even better live than on the ‘wireless’.

Sad loss indeed.