Jeremy Hardy review

His delivery feels brisk, giving the impression that there's lots to be said and only a certain amount of time for it to be said in. And everything is worth listening to.

Years of lugubrious wit are turning Jack Dee's face as saggy as the late Clement Freud's. Tonight's dosage of self-indulgent gripes from an invited audience won't help any. He's joined by Jeremy Hardy, Katherine Ryan, Larry Lamb and Andi Osho to field "first world complaints" about baby Facebook updates, emptying bins when husbands are away and inquiries about where best to shield an iPhone from the sun ("Britain," offers Hardy).

Jeremy Hardy - The Lowry, Salford review

Jeremy Hardy takes to the Lowry stage dressed in black shirt, black trousers and a pair of black trainers. "I'm Johnny Cash" he announces. Instead he is a man in a black humour about most of modern politics and many aspects of modern society - especially anything remotely right wing.

Comedians' shows pulled over unpaid bills

Josh Widdicombe, Jeremy Hardy, Seann Walsh, Shappi Khorsandi and Marcus Brigstocke have all had gigs dropped from the forthcoming programme of Secombe Theatre in Sutton because of the dispute with very little notice. Widdicombe was due to play there only next week. Their agency, Off The Kerb, axed the shows in a row over £3,432 of box office money they say they are owed for another of their clients, Mark Steel, three months ago.

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Review: Jeremy Hardy - Oxford Playhouse

"I was genuinely thinking about giving up talking about mainstream politics", confesses Jeremy Hardy, before shrugging, flapping his arms out and blithely adding, "but then one of my best mates became leader of the Labour Party." And so the tone for the evening is set. As Hardy himself puts it, this will be "a full and frank, if almost entirely one-sided, discussion about my entrenched socialist views".

Review: #JC4PM, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

Finding mainstream musicians prepared to stick their head above the parapet these days is no mean feat and so the textily-titled #JC4PM is headlined by Charlotte Church, who brought mighty, soaring vocals and left-of-centre electronica rather than rhetoric, with a support bill of speakers, poets and comedians, including veteran campaigners Jeremy Hardy, acting as MC for the evening, and Mark Steel, both of whom were happy to confront the prevailing political mood across the spectrum with some well aimed barbs.

Jeremy Hardy: Live - The Lowry, Salford

There is no support act tonight but Hardy's rapid delivery ensures so much material is crammed into the two-hour show that no one could feel short-changed. Jeremy Hardy is political correctness gone very funny indeed.

Jeremy Hardy: Labour trying to rig leadership election

A left-wing comedian has said he was told by the Labour party that he could not vote in its leadership election.

Jeremy Hardy said he paid £3 to become a Labour member in order to become eligible to vote, but that he has supported other parties in the past.

He said he received a letter sent to people who are turned down, which said Labour had reason to believe that he "didn't support the aims and values" of the party.

Sandi Toksvig bid The News Quiz (Radio 4, Friday) farewell this week. She had been with the show for nine years, 28 seasons and 222 episodes, which is a good innings by anyone's account. Dressed in tuxedos, her panel - Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Andy Hamilton, Phill Jupitus - looked like something from the early days of BBC Radio, and put in a relatively subdued performance. Like them, I'll miss her laugh, her ability to poke fun at herself, her infectious good nature. But I'm also intrigued to see whether Miles Jupp, named as her successor in this week's announcement, can breathe new life into a series that has become rather cosy and unsurprising of late.