Background
Hardy was born in Farnborough, Hampshire.
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Jeremy Hardy
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He attended Farnham College and studied Modern History and Politics at the University of Southampton.
Career
He is best known for his radio work, particularly on The News Quiz, I"m Sorry I Haven"t a Clue and his long-running series of monologues Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation. His experiences in Israel during the Israeli army incursions of 2002 became the subject of a feature documentary, directed by Leila Sansour. He made his television debut in the late 1980s in various comedy shows including Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), and has presented a television documentary about the political background to the English Civil War as well as an edition of Top of the Pops in 1996.
Hardy wrote a regular column for The Guardian until 2001.
His excruciatingly off-key singing is a long-running joke on the radio panel show I"m Sorry I Haven"t a Clue. Hardy"s politics are not always popular with the 4 audience – in an appearance on Just A Minute in 2000 he earned boos from the audience and a reprimand from a fellow panellist, the former Liberal Member of Parliament Sir Clement Freud, when Hardy responded to the subject "Parasites" by talking about the Royal family.
Hardy supported Irish nationalist Róisín McAliskey, the then-pregnant daughter of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, when the former was accused of involvement in an Ireland Republican Army mortar attack in Germany, and put up part of the bail money to free her. In an edition of Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation on British Broadcasting Corporation 4 "How to be Afraid," broadcast in September 2004, Hardy suggested that members and supporters of the Banque Nationale de Paris should be "shot in the back of the head", sparking complaints and causing Burnley Borough Council to cancel a show in the town over fears that it could be "disruptive" in an area with a recent history of racial tension.
They adopted a daughter in 1990.
He now lives with film-maker Katie Barlow. He is currently touring on the ‘#JC4PM’ tour alongside Francesca Martinez, Michael Rosen and many others The supporter organised tour is promoting and supporting the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
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On the other hand, his satirical and slightly surreal impressions of bankers and other members of the establishment (mimicking a pompous sense of entitlement) have often prompted great mirth and recognition in live radio audiences.
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