Malcolm Hardee
Malcolm Hardee

Malcolm Hardee

  • English
  • Actor, comedian and venue manager

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Gilded Balloon venue's deal excretes on Fringe spirit

We hope to stage the annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show this year, as usual, on the final Friday of the Edinburgh Fringe - 26th August - but not in its normal venue of the Counting House Ballroom. This is because, today, The Gilded Balloon (a pay-to-enter venue) has 'poached' The Counting House venue(s) - including the Pear Tree and Blind Poet - from the Laughing Horse Free Festival and so we are looking for a new venue in which to host both the increasingly prestigious (but now homeless) Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards and for the daily Grouchy Club.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 25th February 2016

Alarm in the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show

My afternoon was then taken up by getting the increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award trophies engraved and boiling eggs for the annual Scottish National Russian Egg Roulette Championships which were to take place at the increasingly prestigious two-hour Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show that night.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 29th August 2015

2015 Malcolm Hardee Award winners announced

A report from the 2015 Malcolm Hardee Awards.

British Comedy Guide, 29th August 2015

A financial bribe to win a Malcolm Hardee Award

Yesterday, with the increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award nominations announced, I bumped into performer Joz Norris in the street, who tried to persuade me it was not too late for him to win for a Cunning Stunt Award.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 26th August 2015

Malcolm Hardee Award 2015 nominees

A list of the nominees for the 2015 Malcolm Hardee Awards.

British Comedy Guide, 25th August 2015

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! stage show and movie

This year is the tenth anniversary of the death by drowning of comedian Malcolm Hardee and the increasingly prestigious annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show is being staged at the Edinburgh Fringe on that very evening - Friday 28th August.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 3rd July 2015

Malcolm Hardee - 10 years dead & his Awards are working

The first award in 2005 was intended as a one-off to mark his passing and was called the Oy Oy Award because we couldn't think of anything better but, in 2007, it became the annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Award. And there are now three annual Malcolm Hardee Awards, due to run until 2017 because that's the number of awards I got made, on the basis I might not be able to afford to have any more made after 2017. Amazing foresight on my part.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 31st March 2015

Show marks 10th anniversary of Malcolm Hardee's death

Malcolm Hardee, the godfather of British alternative comedy, drowned ten years ago - on 31st January - and I think his body was found three days later. I have a shit memory, I can't remember exactly and I think it would be lacking in respect to him to check the actual facts.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 3rd February 2015

Review: Malcolm Hardee 10 Years On, Up The Creek

As I walked in it seemed that Malcolm had been reincarnated.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd February 2015

A Fitting Tribute To Malcolm Hardee

Stu Black, Londonist, 3rd February 2015

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