Jeremy Hardy quotes
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“The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.”
-- Jeremy HardySource : "The News Quiz", BBC Radio 4, November 2008.
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“The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.”
-- Jeremy HardySource : "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, January 23, 2009.
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“Most harm is done by people who are awake.”
-- Jeremy HardySource : "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, May 16, 2008.
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“If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.”
-- Jeremy HardySource : "Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation". BBC Radio 4, September 13, 2004.
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“You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.”
-- Jeremy HardySource : "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, October 1998.
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“It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?”
-- Jeremy HardySource : "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, October 1998.
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“Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.”
-- Jeremy HardySource : "The News Quiz", BBC Radio 4, November 2008.
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“All socialists have bad backs because we slouch — except when we're watching the news when we sit on the edge of our seats, shout, and wave our arms. Generally we sit hunched, arms crossed in a judgemental way, the whole of our bodies pulled into a frown.”
-- Jeremy HardySource : "Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation", BBC Radio 4, 2007.
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“The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.”
-- Jeremy HardySource : Radio Times, August 5-11, 2006.
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“My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. I told her You're eleven, make your own!”
-- Jeremy HardySource : "The News Quiz", BBC Radio 4, July 2002.
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“Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.”
-- Jeremy HardySource : "Jeremy Hardy: Caustic comic". news.bbc.co.uk. April 5, 2002.
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