Benet Brandreth, Josh Widdicombe) 2012 – Trevor Noah (nominees Tim FitzHigham, Trevor Noah, The Rubberbandits) 2013 – No award presented 2014 – Luisa Omielan (nominees Luisa Omielan, Peter Buckley Hill (would have won 'The Malcolm Hardee 'Act Least Likely to Win a Million Quid' Award’)) 2015 – Laurence Owen (nominees Sarah Callaghan, Phil Ellis, Laurence Owen, Al Porter) 2016 - ’The Baby' (nominees Foxdog Studios, Al Porter, Arthur Smith; The Baby was added in by the judges after the nominations were first announced) 2017 - Rob Kemp (nominees Rob Kemp, Al Porter) 2018 - no award presented 2019 - President Obonjo (Nominees Candy Gigi, Catherine Cohen, Sophie Duker and Tom Crosbie) 2020 - (No Award made/ No Edinburgh Fringe because of the Covid pandemic) 2021 - (No Award made/ No Edinburgh Fringe because of the Covid pandemic) The Malcolm Hardee ‘Pound of Flesh' Award was given in 2013 to an act which created "the kind of publicity money cannot – and perhaps should not – buy" 2013 – Gareth Ellis (and Richard Rose), for faking a story that they had been attacked in the street following bad reviews, which involved Rose punching Ellis so he got a black eye. Writing I Stole Freddie Mercury's Birthday Cake (autobiography; co-writer John Fleming) Fourth Estate, 1996. . Sit-Down Comedy (anthology, ed Malcolm Hardee & John Fleming) Ebury Press/Random House, 2003. . Hardee also wrote a number of columns in comedy magazines in which he gave tips and told anecdotes about life as a comic. References External links His website: obituaries, tributes and newspaper articles Sit Down Comedy website 1950 births 2005 deaths Deaths by drowning in the United Kingdom English male comedians English comedy writers English autobiographers People educated at Colfe's School Alcohol-related deaths in England Accidental deaths in London British arsonists English escapees English fraudsters British people convicted of theft British people convicted of fraud People from the London Borough of Lewisham Writers from London 20th-century English comedians 21st-century English comedians 20th-century English businesspeople