The Death Yesterday of Joan Hardee, Mother of British Alternative Comedy's Godfather Malcolm Hardee
John Fleming
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Posted 30.01.2012
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UK Comedy
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Joan was 84. I met her over perhaps 25 years. She was feisty, redoubtable and with a mind so sharp you could cut cheese with it. She doted on Malcolm and, when he drowned in 2005, it - as you would expect - affected her greatly for the rest of her life. She died from pneumonia, peacefully, in a nursing home near Deal in Kent.
