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Kenny Everett
Kenny Everett

Kenny Everett

  • English
  • Writer, comedian and presenter

Press clippings

Fawlty Towers, Kenny Everett & Benny Hill "cancelled" in C5 films

Fawlty Towers, Kenny Everett and Benny Hill are the subjects of new Channel 5 documentaries about controversies that have seen them "cancelled", while Sally Lindsay is to host a 1970s-themed panel show for the channel featuring John Thomson and Shaparak Khorsandi as team captains.

British Comedy Guide, 2nd April 2025

My Comedy Hero: Alexandra Haddow on Kenny Everett

The rising star picks a character clown and DJ as her comic icon.

Alexandra Haddow, The List, 14th February 2025

Archive: Why video disc jockeys need to change horses

"Will video kill the radio star? Or will it be Kenny Everett?" An archive feature from TV Times from 1980 covering The Kenny Everett Video Show.

Martyn Sutton, This Is Thames, 10th May 2023

BBC releases some historic comedy moments

The BBC is making hundreds of clips from its archive available to watch on a new website. Comics featured include Spike Milligan, Pete and Dud, Kenny Everett and Billy Connolly.

Chortle, 10th September 2019

Kenny Everett: comedy's master of 'self-cleaning filth'

"The following programme contains... naughty bits!" says Kenny Everett, mugging and gurning in 16 different frames on screen, each of them slightly out of sync with each other. These were the first words spoken on the first edition of The Kenny Everett Video Show in 1978.

The Telegraph, 8th December 2018

Saluting the demented genius of Kenny Everett

Hello, my little passion flowers... my little peeping Toms . . . It's 40 years since madcap DJ Kenny Everett launched his racy Video Show on television, a rapid-fire ragbag of silly voices, pop superstars and filthy jokes.

Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 16th November 2018

The Kenny Everett Video Show DVD review

In 1978, Radio 1 star Kenny Everett broke onto the small screen with an anarchic television series which would make the impish DJ a household name.

Samuel Payne, Entertainment Focus, 2nd November 2018

Kenny Everett's Thames Video Shows coming to DVD

Network is to release all four series of the iconic Kenny Everett Video Show on DVD in November.

British Comedy Guide, 24th October 2018

James Dreyfus to star in Kenny Everett movie

The Thin Blue Line star James Dreyfus has revealed that he will star in a new movie about the late comedian, radio DJ, and television entertainer Kenny Everett.

Female First, 4th August 2018

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