What key details about malcolm hardee can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: malcolm hardee -lrb- 5 january 1950 -- 31 january 2005 -rrb- was an english comedian , author , comedy club proprietor , compere , agent , manager and '' amateur sensationalist '' . his high reputation among his peers rests on his outrageous publicity stunts and on the help and advice he gave to successful british alternative comedians early in their careers , acting as '' godfather to a generation of comic talent in the 1980s '' . fellow comic rob newman called him '' a hilarious , anarchic , living legend ; a millennial falstaff '' , while stewart lee wrote that '' malcolm hardee is a natural clown who in any decent country would be a national institution '' and arthur smith described him as '' a south london rabelais '' and claimed that '' everything about malcolm , apart from his stand-up act , was original '' . though an accomplished comic , hardee was arguably more highly regarded as a '' character '' , a compere and talent-spotting booker at his own clubs , particularly the tunnel club in greenwich , south east london , which gave vital and early exposure to up-and-coming comedians during the early years of british alternative comedy . in its obituary , '' the times '' opined that '' throughout his life he maintained a fearlessness and an indifference to consequences '' and one journalist claimed : '' to say that he has no shame is to drastically exaggerate the amount of shame that he has '' . in a publicity quote printed in hardee 's autobiography '' i stole freddie mercury 's birthday cake '' , arthur smith wrote that hardee had '' led his life as though for the perfect autobiography and now he has paid himself the compliment of writing it . ''
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- website is -lsb- http://www.malcolmhardee.co.uk www.malcolmhardee.co.uk -rsb-- death place is rotherhithe , london , england- caption is malcolm in lewisham hardee in 1995 , outside his childhood home- active is mid-1970s -- 2005- subject is current events- death date is 31 january 2005- genre is physical comedy , surreal humour- medium is stand-up- birth date is 5 january 1950- name is malcolm hardee- nationality is british- image is malcolmhardee1995.jpg- birth place is lewisham , london , england