Jim Hardy was a notable humanoid comedian.
In 2365, Data attempted to located a comedian to help him better understand the concept of "what is funny?". Hardy was among the holodeck program files that were contained aboard the USS Enterprise-D. The program list code for this comedian was NE-49582. (TNG-R: "The Outrageous Okona", okudagram)
This character was only mentioned in writing.
In the remastered version of the episode, this character replaced Ernie Over.