{"id":567,"date":"2005-11-05T22:34:05","date_gmt":"2005-11-05T22:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/malcolms-dead-long-live-malcolm\/"},"modified":"2005-11-05T22:34:05","modified_gmt":"2005-11-05T22:34:05","slug":"malcolms-dead-long-live-malcolm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/malcolms-dead-long-live-malcolm\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm&#8217;s dead &#8211; Long Live Malcolm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He died a while ago, and I didn&#8217;t know him personally or anything, but what a bloke. If he was on stage you could <i>guarantee<\/i> a load of really shit jokes, stupid anecdotes and to see his tiny nob. That was Malcolm&#8217;s main joke: getting his cock out. You may think that wasn&#8217;t a very funny idea, which it wasn&#8217;t. But the fact it was such a crap thing to do made it genuinely funny. <\/p>\n<p>But it you grew up in South East London in the 80s\/90s you will almost certainly love Malcolm as the rude, drunk uncle that he could have been &#8211; especially if you watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/guide\/articles\/c\/comicstrippresen_7771630.shtml\" target=\"_new\">The Comic Strip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malcolm_Hardee\" target=\"_new\">Wikipedia Article<\/a> includes the excellent quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To say that he has no shame, is to drastically exaggerate the amount of shame that he has<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> although my favourite quote is from Simon Day (Fast Show\/Tommy Cockles etc):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>after intensive questioning [by the police] they decided that he was not a threat to national security only social security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More details on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardee.co.uk\/\" target=\"_new\">his website<\/a>, especially under the <a href=\"http:\/\/pub36.bravenet.com\/guestbook\/3039816295\" target=\"_new\">anecdotes<\/a>.<br \/>\nRIP Malcolm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He died a while ago, and I didn&#8217;t know him personally or anything, but what a bloke. If he was on stage you could guarantee a load of really shit jokes, stupid anecdotes and to see his tiny nob. That was Malcolm&#8217;s main joke: getting his cock out. You may think that wasn&#8217;t a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}