Jon Kenny: Irish comedian who starred in Father Ted and Banshees of Inisherin dies aged 66
His greater half Margie told native data outlet the Limerick Leader that the comedian had died on Friday night in Galway Sanatorium.
In a assertion to the newspaper, Kenny’s family said he had a cardiac arrest early on 10 November. They added the comedian “grabbed life and shook it as onerous as he might per chance doubtless per chance getting every ounce of relaxing, madness and handle from it”.
They additionally said: “His wit, humour, generosity and kindness will out survive his passing. The recollections and stories of these that knew him will doubtless be his story.”
Kenny became handiest diagnosed as half of the comedy duo with Pat Shortt known as D’Unbelievables within the 1980s. He additionally made two guest appearances in Father Ted as Michael Cocheese and Fred Rickwood.
The comedian became reunited with Shortt within the 2022 movie The Banshees of Inisherin, where each and every had limited roles.
Paying tribute, Taoiseach Simon Harris known as the Limerick actor a “gifted performer,” while Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald known as him a “comedic genius”.
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In a submit on social media, Mr Harris said: “Jon had the potential, that handiest about a folk enjoy, to manufacture his audiences crack up laughing with a look or a single notice.
“On the lend a hand of that apparently effortless skill to comical narrative, there became a gifted performer and an especially deep thinker.”
The Taoiseach added he became in Limerick on Friday “when notice of his loss of life came via and to claim he’s beloved, is a wide understatement”.
Ms McDonald additionally said of Kenny: “Alongside with his compadre Pat Shortt – [he] connected with the uncommon humour and wit of the Irish folk in a extremely special draw.
“He leaves the ideal legacy – he made folk chortle and smile. Jon Kenny will doubtless be deeply missed.”
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Fellow Irish comedian Dara O Briain said on social media Kenny “became a beautiful, pretty man, and a comedy powerhouse”.
He said: “D’Unbeliveables opened the door to the complete the leisure of us, doing narrative excursions and dragging the viewers, regularly bodily, genuine into a enraged world of their creation.
“A special man, and will doubtless be missed.”
