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Irish actor and comedian Jon Kenny has died aged 66. The Father Ted star passed away at Galway Clinic on Friday (15 November) his wife Margy has confirmed.. Kenny suffered from non-Hodgkins ...
Kenny had dyslexia [10] and never received formal training. [11] He played two characters in separate episodes of Father Ted: Michael Cocheese in "The Passion of Saint Tibulus" and Fred Rickwood in "A Song for Europe". He later said that the famous protest scenes in the first episode were influenced by a priest he had known when he was a boy. [12]
Steve Coogan was intended to play compère Fred Rickwood but was unavailable, so Irish comic Jon Kenny was his replacement. Kenny had appeared in Father Ted previously, as Michael the cinema owner in "The Passion of St Tibulus". Declan Lowney, who directed most Father Ted episodes, was also director of the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest.
He was a popular comedy performer, writer and actor, appearing in Angela’s Ashes, Father Ted, The Van and The Banshees Of Inisherin. Statement by President Higgins on the death of Jon Kenny ...
"The Passion of Saint Tibulus" is the third episode of the first series of the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted. Originally airing in 1995, the episode was rebroadcast on BBC2 in 2008 in tribute to Geoffrey Perkins. Jon Kenny, who played Michael Cocheese, later said that the protest scenes were influenced by a priest he had known when he was a boy. [1]
The four main characters of Father Ted. Middle rear: Father Ted Crilly (Dermot Morgan), left: Father Dougal McGuire (Ardal O'Hanlon), front: Father Jack Hackett (Frank Kelly), right: Mrs Doyle (Pauline McLynn). Father Ted is a sitcom produced by independent production company Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4.
Shortt toured alongside Jon Kenny as the comedy duo D'Unbelievables.They released "One Hell of a Video", "D'Unbelievables", "D'Video" (a live random sketch show), "D'Telly" (featuring Shortt and Kenny playing various characters – primarily two brothers who run a shop together), "D'Mother" (in which Kenny's character oversaw the running of a public house alongside his "mother" – who was ...
D'Unbelievables duo, Pat Shortt as Garda Tom Walsh (left) and Jon Kenny as Garda PJ Moloney (right) on their debut on The Late Late Show in the 1990s in the comedy sketch "Crimebusters" D'Unbelievables were an Irish comedy duo from Limerick [1] formed in the late 1980s by Pat Shortt and Jon Kenny. Together they created characters which could be ...