To mourn the death of the splendid Jeremy Hardy?

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I love, and followed the News Quiz for years and wondered at his absence of late.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/feb/01/comedian-jeremy-hardy-dies-of-cancer-aged-57

Beyond sad. Such intelligence, humour. One of us. I'm weeping as I write this;

He was just great.

Sad news indeed. I used to love his rants on the news quiz, sharp flights of imagination, but making a point and always laugh out loud funny.

I once almost met him, well not really, he was going up the stairs in Habitat and I was going down.

RIP Jeremy.

Hermione is so, so bright. That's why she sets the other children on fire. So bright.

I loved Jeremy Hardy. If there is a heaven, I like to think that he and Linda Smith are making it hilarious today.

Loved him so much. Especially singing.

Totally coincidentally, I was listening in the car yesterday to an old "News Quiz" CD. Despite having heard it before, I was laughing out loud to his answer to a question about crime, which was along the lines of "I'm not worried about rising crime where I live, the criminals there are doing their best. Everything has been stolen at least once already."

I've already said this on another JH thread, but about a year ago at a gig, he was really lovely to DS who at 15 was the youngest person in the theatre by about 25 years.

Absolutely, him and Linda Smith - I cried when he discussed her on the News Quiz 40th (?) review last year.

Obviously very sad for someone to die so young but I didn’t think he was funny at all: always the same (easy) targets; always the the same old shtick.

It really punched me in the guts when I read that on the news this morning; I never knew he was ill.

Does anyone remember Jack and Jeremy’s Police 4? It’s weird as it’s come right back to mind for me today but I can’t remember if it was a sketch or a programme on telly in its own right x

Oh no! What a funny and likeable person. He was one of the people on my dream News Quiz line up. for his friends and family.

I'd been wondering why he'd not been on the News Quiz too. He was a real favourite of mine. Poor guy - so young

Very sad news. Still miss Linda Smith. RIP to both.

This must be one of the hardest Last Word episodes to listen to - and even harder for Mark Steele who is speaking. So very sad.

I loved Jeremy Hardy. If there is a heaven, I like to think that he and Linda Smith are making it hilarious today.

I thought just the same. Both of them great friends and both gone far too soon.

Oh, that really is sad news.

Very sad news. I always enjoyed his “singing” on ISIHAC.

So sad to hear the bad news. An extremely talented man who has been robbed of his old age.

He was brilliant. Far too young.

@recrudescence, what a totally unnecessary and indeed seriously untrue post.

@SaturdayNext
I am very sorry for your loss. However, we don’t all like the same people or find the same things funny. The OP invites views about Jeremy Hardy and I gave mine. If only approving responses were allowed, the OP should have said so.

Very sad. I first saw him live around 1990 when I was a teenager and was lucky enough to catch him again 18 months ago at a very small venue in Scotland. ISIHAC's musical rounds will never be the same.

In the words of Thumper, if you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all, especially on a bereavement post.

Recrudescence. Your opinion of Jeremy's performance is neither invited nor required and your remarks are offensive and unnecessary.

And actually I don't think the OP was inviting views.

And “splendid” is such a Jeremy Hardy word! So upset at today’s news.

Also, you're wrong, @recrudescence. So wrong. So very, very, very, very wrong. Wronger than the wrongest thing to ever wrong.

Love Jeremy. Will miss him so much.