Everett, Kenny

Kenny attended St Bede's Secondary Modern, which is now part of Sacred Heart Catholic College. He attended a junior seminary in Stillington near York with an Italian missionary bias - Verona Fathers. After graduation, he worked in a bakery and in the advertising department of the Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph. Having revealed the nature of the comedian and talent in broadcasting, he decided to try himself in these genres, taking the stage name from the movie star Edward Everett Horton , a childhood hero.

His career on the radio began in 1962 when he sent a film to the BBC . There he was interviewed and offered a job as a DJ at the Light Program radio station (later BBC Radio 2). However, he chose to work on pirate radio, where he began his career as a DJ on Radio London.

With DJ Dave Cash, they created one of the most popular pirate radio programs - Kenny & Cash Show . His charm and style attracted his attention, but in 1965 he was fired for several of his comments on the subject of religion. Like other pirate radio stations, Radio London existed through the performances of the evangelists, and Everett's dismissive remarks about the Tomorrow World program (Tomorrow’s World) led to the creators of the radio station threatening to terminate the lucrative contract.

Everett returned six months later, having managed to make his show on Radio Luxembourg before that. A year later, he began working on the new BBC radio station, Radio 1, which broadcast pop music, after he reviewed the album “ The Beatles Club of the Lonely Hearts of Sergeant Pepper ” and interviewed the members of the group. Everett became friends with the group and went with them on a tour of the United States, sending reports to Radio London. He also produced their Christmas albums.

On Radio 1, he continued to develop his unique style, using funny voices, surrealistic images, multi-track jingles, which he made himself.

It is traditionally believed that it was Everett who "had a hand" in the promotion of Queen's single Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975, having played this song on Radio Radio 14 times.

Early work on television

In addition to television, his first appearance was in the 1965 film Dateline Diamonds, in which a plot was plotted around the Galaxy ship. Kenny plays in a short episode of himself. He also played in several television series. The first television show in 1968 (Granada Television) was called Nice Time. In 1970 he made three episodes for London Weekend Television (LWT), called he Kenny Everett Explosion, Making Whoopee and Ev, and also participated (along with talents like Willy Rushton and John Wells) on the BBC series 1972 - Up Sunday. In 1973, Everett voiced the voice of the cat 'Charlie' in the animated series Charlie Says on public television.

• Marcel Wave ( Eng. Marcel Wave ) is a loving Frenchman, the only character in Everett who did not wear a beard (hid her with a false chin). ^[one]
• Gizzard Puke - Punk ^[one]
• Sid Snot is a rocker wearing a leather jacket, black trousers, a cap and a bright tie. ^[one]
• Cupid Stunt is a Class B movie actress. She tells a cut-out photo of a British television host Michael Parkinson about his new films or work with celebrities. ^[one]
• Baby in a stroller ^[1]
• Brother Lee Love is a preacher with huge plastic hands. ^[one]
• American general . He wears a uniform with wide shoulders, under which weapons are hidden. ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Reg Prescott ( Eng. Reg Prescott ) - "jack of all trades", taking on any work and constantly inflicting any kind of injury.
• Julian Mince is a drunken representative of the aristocracy, constantly with a bottle of champagne and a glass in his hand. Pronounces old jokes while standing on the lawn near his own house. ^[one]
• Cowboy ^{[4] [5]}
• Mime (possibly a parody of Marcel Marceau) ^[6]

Parody

• Orson Welles - parodies of Orson Welles ^{[7] [8]} .
• Bee Gees - parodies of the band’s soloists ^[9]

• Kenny Everett parodied Elton John ^[10] , Mick Jagger ^[11] , Barbra Streisand ^[12] , Rod Stewart ^[13] , Toyu Willcox ^[14] and others.
• In one of the shows, a parody of the American TV series "Dallas" and "Dynasty" was shown ^[15] .
• In another show, a parody of cowboy films called A fistful of sequins (“A Fistful of Sequins”) was shown. ^[6]

• Star quiz. The host of the show asks the pop star or television three questions, previously calling the "secret word", for the knowledge of which one extra point is given. According to the results of the quiz, the player needs to score thirty-one points. A participant in the show scores thirty points (he does not know the secret word, because he is wearing headphones), and as a result he is doused with slop. ^{[4] [7]}
• Parodies of advertising. Everett and some other participants of the show “advertised” various kinds of goods, such as a device for cleaning the nose ^[16] , to eliminate stale breath ^[17] , to fix a smile ^[18] , “electric meat” ^[9] , liquid for hair restoration ^[18] , etc.

Different stars performed in the Kenny Everett show, and not only performed songs, but also took part in sketches (for example, Cliff Richard ^{[19] [20]} , Kate Bush ^[10] , Sting ^[21] , Bill Wyman ^[22] , Toya Willcox ^[23] and others).

Show Celebrities

Singers and Singers

• Kate Bush ^[10]
• Cliff Richard ^[20]
• Sting ^[21]
• Bill Wyman ^[24]
• Toya Willcox ^[23]
• Brian Ferry ^{[5] [25]}

Groups

• The Boomtown Rats ^[19]
• Chas and Dave ^[7]
• Darts ^[10]
• Dire Straits ^[16]
• Kajagoogoo ^[6]
• Lindisfarne ^[10]
• Modern Romance ^[26]
• The Pretenders ^[27]
• Yellow Dog ^[10]
• Everett Kenny on the Internet Broadway Database
• Everett Kenny at the Internet Movie Database