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Kenny Everett was a disc jockey and television comedian. Born in Liverpool in 1944, his real name is Maurice Cole. (He chose his stage name after Edward Everett Horton, the film star, who was his childhood hero). His entertainment career began when he bought 2 tape recorders as a teenager, recording himself in the style of BBC presenter and comedian Jack Jackson and sending tapes to his friends around the country.
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From All Movie Guide: Primarily known for his television work, radio personality-turned-comedian Kenny Everett ... appeared in a few films, notably the horror-comedy Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984) opposite Christopher Lee. Everett started out on the air at Radio London during the 1960s, and from there worked on BBC's Radio 1. In 1978, he hosted The Kenny Everett Video Show and remained in that position through 1988. That year, he briefly hosted a British game show and then returned to radio, to work on the Capitol Gold station. He remained a DJ there until his death from AIDS in 1995. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Random Fun Fact: When 'Kenny Everett' moved to the BBC, some new characters for this show were created due to disputes with the previous television station, Thames Television. Thames argued that they owned the rights to the characters, not Kenny. Therefore new characters, such as Cupid Stunt were invented. Some characters were very similar to previous ones, for example the similarities between Sid Snott and Gizzard Puke.
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Everett’s 1968 television debut was co-presenting a mix of sketches, jokes and archive film clips with future feminist icon Germaine Greer and star of Candid Camera, Jonathan Routh. Nice Time was made by Granada Television and only shown regionally at first, though eventually spread out to other regions. For the second series, Sandra Gough ... co-presented. She would later go on to play Paul and Pauline Calf’s mother. The series was produced by John Birt, who would later go on to become Director General of the BBC. Everett’s theme tune to the series, co-written with John Birt, was released as a single.
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In the same year as his diagnosis, Everett decided to leave television and concentrate on his first love – radio. Although becoming more and more of a gay advocate, behind closed doors his unhappy relationship with his sexuality continued and he drifted between periods of depression and stability. In 1993 with his health starting to fail under the weight of fully blown AIDS, the time had come to announce his illness to the world. The news was accepted with the greatest of sympathy by the British press and public. Only a year later on 4th April 1994, he succumbed to an AIDS related illness and passed away.
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The show moved to the Beeb in 1982, as The Kenny Everett Television Show. It ran until 1988, when Kenny grew tired of television, returning to radio. The TV show was agony to film, complex stunts and special effects took hours to set up, and often didn't work first time, requiring another long set up. During filming for the first series, Kenny met Cleo Rocos on set, who became his closest friend and ally. You'll remember Cleo as the girl with exceedingly large "chesticles", who wandered into sketches, usually scantily-clad, doing something saucy, exposing her cleavage, or going up a ladder in a short skirt. Later on she played a more active part in the show, being promoted, in her words, from "Girl Who Goes Up Ladders"...
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