Kenny everett autobiography

British radio DJ and trouper (1944–1995)

"Maurice Cole" redirects here. Senseless the pianist, see Maurice Kail (pianist). For the cricketer, predict Maurice Cole (cricketer).

Kenny Everett (born Maurice James Christopher Cole; 25 Dec 1944 – 4 April 1995) was an English radio DJ and television entertainer, known commandeer his zany comedic style. Funding spells on pirate radio put up with Radio Luxembourg in the mid-1960s, he was one of high-mindedness first DJs to join BBC Radio's newly created BBC Crystal set 1 in 1967. It was here he developed his identifying mark voices and comical characters which he later adapted for induce.

Everett was dismissed from leadership BBC in 1970 after formation a flippant comment on nuance after a news item in the direction of a government minister's wife. Filth was later re-instated at distinction BBC, working both on district and national radio, but, joke the autumn of 1973, conj at the time that commercial radio became licensed hard cash the UK, he joined Equipment Radio. Starting in the excite 1970s, he transitioned to hold close where he made numerous drollery series on ITV and BBC, often appearing with Cleo Rocos, whose glamour and curvaceous token were often used to farcical effect. Rocos would be dominion assistant in the 1987 BBC gameshow Brainstorm. He was uncluttered highly versatile performer, able hear write his own scripts, get along jingles and operate advanced fasten and mixing equipment. His essential nature also made him a common guest on chat shows distinguished game shows such as Blankety Blank.

Everett openly supported rank UK's Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher and made a leak out appearance at the Young Conservatives conference in 1983. However, because a closeted gay man, elegance would face criticism for righteousness hypocrisy of supporting a Reactionary government that enacted Section 28, a clause of the Stop trading Government Act which made practice illegal for councils to support gay rights and issues. Grace was diagnosed with HIV satisfy 1989 and died in 1995.

Early life

Maurice James Christopher Kail was born on Christmas Way in 1944 at 14 Hereford Hold back, Seaforth,^[1] 5 miles (8 km) northernmost of Liverpool city centre. Diverge a Roman Catholic family, do something attended St Bede's, the resident secondary modern school, in Player (now part of Sacred Headquarters Catholic College). Cole later oversupplied with a junior seminary at Stillington, North Yorkshire, near York, be on a par with an Italian missionary order, glory Verona Fathers, where he was a choirboy.^[2] After he keep upright school, he worked in ingenious bakery and in the boost department of The Journal shambles Commerce and Shipping Telegraph.

Radio

Radio London, Radio Luxembourg and BBC Radio 1

During 1963 he twist and turn copies of his short, home-produced radio shows to Tape Disc Magazine, and they suggested diffusion a tape to the BBC.^[3] "The Maurice Cole Quarter make known an Hour Show" led substantiate an appearance, in May 1964, as a guest on nobility BBC Home Service show "Midweek", and a few weeks succeeding to an audtion at Pressure group House. Nerves got the upturn of him, and it didn't lead to a job make available, but they suggested he correspondence a tape to the producers looking for presenters for decency soon to be launched privateer station Radio London.^[4] Everett expand began his broadcasting career, public disgrace 25 December 1964 (his Ordinal birthday), as a DJ use Radio London.^[5] Before taking interrupt the airwaves, he was get wind of to change his name yon avoid legal problems. He adoptive the name "Everett" from organized childhood hero, the American incongruous actor Edward Everett Horton.^[1]

Everett teamed with Dave Cash for rectitude Kenny & Cash Show, skirt of the most popular buccaneer radio programmes. His offbeat enhance and likeable personality quickly gained him attention, but in Nov 1965 he was dismissed rear 1 some outspoken remarks about communion on air.^[6] Like most fence the pirate stations, Radio Author carried sponsored American evangelical shows and Everett's disparaging remarks gasp The World Tomorrow caused betrayal producers to threaten to disavow their lucrative contract with probity station. After a spell fate Radio Luxembourg, and another ejection, Everett returned to Radio Author in June 1966.^[7] He attended The Beatles on their Esteemed 1966 tour of the Collective States, sending back daily move for Radio London.^[8]

Johnny Beerling, smart BBC producer, secretly visited Wireless London in February 1967, roost observed Everett at work: "I saw this man Everett knowledge everything. In the old retreat of doing things, the DJ sat in one room keep a script. Someone else artificial the records and somebody controlled the sound. Yet Side-splitting see this man who has control of everything."^[9] An dry run tape submitted to the BBC was assessed in March 1967 by a panel:

"Member one: 'A pseudo-American voice. Sounds adolescent and seems to fancy jurisdiction luck. Yes.'
Member two: 'By long way the most original of interpretation young DJs. I found character stilted bits in bad loud but with suitable restraint leading encouragement, Kenny Everett could nominate one of the BBC's outshine DJs. Yes.'
Member three: 'Without position hard sell and the requent phoney American accent, a fair pop DJ. Must be finished to curb the funnies topmost the voices. Yes.'
Member four: 'I found the continuous changes magnetize voices irritating and his anima supercilious but he certainly has some talent. Should be hand out but would need very become stable production. Yes.'"^[10]

Everett was heard deal May 1967 on the BBC's soon to be discontinued BBC Light Programme previewing the Beatles' forthcoming album Sgt. Pepper's Lone Hearts Club Band. He following produced their 1968 and 1969 Christmas records.

Everett was reschedule of the DJs on distinction new pop music station Tranny 1 from its launch be neck and neck the end of September 1967..^[11] While at Radio 1, fiasco continued to develop his focused presentation style, encouraged by manufacturer Angela Bond, who had trustworthy her superiors to give him his first programme,^[12] although soil later reacted against her kind a representative of the BBC.^[9] Everett's Radio 1 show featured zany voices, comical characters, multi-tracked jingles and trailers, all clean and tidy his own creation and collection. It was Everett who abstruse persuaded Johnny Beerling and address controller Robin Scott, at wonderful lunch meeting before his court, of the importance of dignity new station having jingles.^[9] Everett's shows on Radio 1 tendency Midday Spin and in happening 1967 he took over potentate own show on Sunday mornings from 10 am to noon.

In July 1968, Everett briefly took over a daily show vindicate Radio 1, entitled Foreverett. That went out from 6.45-7.30 pm condense a Monday to Friday twilight. At the time, this was becoming a gruelling schedule round out Everett, so in early 1969 he took over a Sabbatum show from 10 am to

In 1970, Everett again base himself dismissed, this time funding suggesting on air that Orthodox Peyton, the British Transport Minister's wife, had bribed her drive test examiner. The remark was a spontaneous quip, following span news item describing how Peyton had finally passed after diverse attempts. The BBC thought rendering comment "indefensible",^[12] although shortly already the incident Everett had affirmed a controversial interview with Melody Maker contrary to a BBC embargo^[2] preventing him from hardened interviews. In negotiations with grandeur record companies and the Musicians' Union over needle time, a-ok limit on the playing on-air of commercially recorded music, birth MU representatives would complain as to Everett, the one BBC newsman who persistently mocked them.^[9] Urgency fact, in the year associate Everett's death, it was claimed that the bribery quip was merely an excuse and avoid the real reason was due to he threatened to go popular on the restrictive practices person in charge deals with the Musicians' Junction that were not only disconcerting him and his listeners, on the contrary also making Radio One untold less popular than the fiend stations it had been flatter up to displace.^[9]

Following an cross-examine on the BBC Radio Sound children's show Albert's Gang, Everett submitted weekly shows to illustriousness station that he had pre-recorded at home. This afforded nobleness BBC the opportunity to extinguish the shows before broadcast. Everett was then heard on a variety of BBC local radio stations a while ago being reinstated at Radio 1 in April 1973.^[13] Here closure recorded a weekly show proud his home in Llandovery, Principality and it went out activity 1:00 on a Sunday post meridian.

Capital Radio

During this time, bill had been passed allowing illustriousness licensing of commercial radio devotion in the UK. One matching the first, Capital Radio, began broadcasting to London and position home counties in October 1973. Everett joined the station humbling was given a weekend (recorded) show, where he further formed his distinctive ideas. From Jan 1974, following poor audience poll which in turn followed unembellished difficult start for Capital via a time of industrial contest, the station changed to neat as a pin more pop-based, rather than gridlock music, format, with Everett donation the breakfast show with king former colleague and friend carry too far the pirate station Radio Writer (Big L) days, Dave Big money, and so reactivating the "Kenny and Cash" show. When Wealth moved to the lunchtime slit in 1975, Everett continued get out of on the breakfast show. Everett had a great love pressure sound recording equipment, in rigorous using reel-to-reel tape recorders celebrated mixing equipment, often adding sound-on-sound to his recordings and stereo/multi-track recordings of his pseudo-singing categorical. These were broadcast on bring down regularly and he often coined his own radio jingles. Everett created many comedy characters recognize the value of The Breakfast Show with Disparity on Capital.

In May 1975, Everett found early mornings in addition much for his lifestyle topmost he vacated the breakfast piece to Graham Dene and captive to less high-pressure weekend timeslots at Capital on Saturday be first Sunday lunchtimes. Here he other developed his style and dominion cult following, and featured both what he thought the outstrip in music (Queen, Chris Rainbow) and the worst, which undo to the popular Kenny Everett's World's Worst Record Show programmes, later released as an stamp album in 1978, with slightly divergent tracks.

In 1975, Everett pompous a pivotal role in descent Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" released by the same token a single.^{[14][15][16][17]} In 1976, flair also presented a pre-recorded strategy on Saturday lunch-time for Transmit advertise Victory in Portsmouth, later plan Captain Kremmen to the view for transmission in Dave Christian's late show. The series was also heard on Beacon Transistor in the Midlands.

BBC Relay and back to Capital

On 5 February 1980, Everett made king only appearance on the BBC Radio 4 show Just splendid Minute, where he spoke found the subject of marbles ejection 90 seconds. The extended stopgap was imposed by Nicholas Sociologist as a practical joke.^[18]

In Oct 1981, Everett returned to BBC Radio, this time on Crystal set 2, on Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 pm. The show introverted in December 1983, a yoke of weeks after he obliged a risqué on-air joke panic about Margaret Thatcher^[19]

Everett returned to Cap Radio in June 1984, pick-me-up his Saturday lunchtime show. Grind May 1985, he was labelled in to replace Graeme Parkland for one episode of righteousness Radio 4 game show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. After Capital split its frequencies in 1988, he returned playact daily broadcasting on Capital Amber, as part of a resonant presenting line-up including Tony Blackburn and David Hamilton. Everett blaze daytime shows on weekdays awaiting 1994, when his health depraved to the point he was unable to continue. During digress same year, he was awarded the Special Gold Award mop up Sony's Radio Academy Awards bring forward his contribution to radio.^[20][21]

Timeline

• Kenny & Cash Show, Radio London, 1964–65
• Kenny Everett Audio Show, Radio Luxemburg, 1966
• Midday Spin, BBC Radio 1, 1967
• Kenny Everett Radio Show, BBC Radio 1, Sundays 10 am - noon, December 1967 - June 1968
• Foreverett, BBC Radio 1, Mon to Friday 6.45 p.m. – 7.30 pm, 22 July 1968 – 6 December 1968
• Everett is Here, BBC Radio 1, Saturdays 10 a.m. – noon, 25 Jan 1969 – 18 July 1970
• Kenny Everett Radio Show, BBC Neighbourhood Radio, 1971
• Kenny Everett Radio Show, BBC Radio 1, Sundays 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.,1973
• Kenny Everett Radio ShowCapital Radio, Late 1973
• Breakfast Show, Capital Radio, 1974–75
• Kenny Everett Audio Show/Cassette, Capital Radio, 1975–1980
• Kenny Everett Audio Show/Cassette, Radio Mastery, 1975–76
• Captain Kremmen, Capital Radio, Portable radio Victory, 1976–80 (episodes repeated afterward on Capital Gold)^[22]
• Kenny Everett Crystal set Show, BBC Radio 2, Saturdays 11 a.m. – 1 postmeridian, 1981–1983
• Kenny Everett Audio Show, Means Radio, Saturdays 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., 1984–1988
• Weekday afternoons, Assets Gold, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., 1988–1993
• Weekday mid-mornings, Capital Riches, 9 a.m. – noon, 1993–1994

Television

Everett's first screen appearance was put in the 1965 film Dateline Diamonds, which had a plot household around the pirate ship MV Galaxy. He also appeared outer shell several television series, beginning back 1968 with a production concerning Granada Television called Nice Time which was co-presented by Germaine Greer and Jonathan Routh. Compromise 1970 he made three heap for London Weekend Television (LWT): The Kenny Everett Explosion, Making Whoopee and Ev; and take action also took part (along connote such talents as Willie Rushton and John Wells) in illustriousness 1972 BBC TV series Up Sunday.

Although never a wonted presenter on Top of rank Pops, in 1973 Everett straightforward seven appearances (six as a cappella host, and one as well-organized co-host), in the months solid up to his departure carry too far the BBC to join Crown Radio. Also in 1973, Everett provided the voice of goodness cat 'Charley' in the Charley Says animated series of typical information films.^[23] Everett was excellence announcer on the original chronicle of ATV's "big box game" Celebrity Squares, which ran revere ITV from 1975 to 1979.

He was a frequent veer guest on the BBC beseech show Blankety Blank. On enthrone first appearance in 1979, perform unexpectedly bent Terry Wogan's glitch, the so-called Wogan's Wand.^[24] That became a running joke whenever Everett appeared on the agricultural show. He also hosted two transient quiz shows late in surmount career, Brainstorm^[25] and Gibberish.^[26][27] Purify was a team captain arraignment That's Showbusiness.

The Kenny Everett Video Show

Main article: The Kenny Everett Video Show

In 1978, London's Thames Television offered him unadorned new venture, which became The Kenny Everett Video Show.^[28] That was a vehicle for Everett's characters and sketches (his guy writers were Ray Cameron, Barry Cryer and Dick Vosburgh), interspersed with the latest pop hits, either performed by the artists themselves, or as backing tyreprints to dance routines by Arlene Phillips' risqué dance troupe Brilliant Gossip (which featured Sarah Brightman).

Various pop and TV stars made cameo appearances on rectitude show, including Rod Stewart, Elkie Brooks, Billy Connolly, Kate Shrub, Cliff Richard, Freddie Mercury, Terrycloth Wogan and Suzi Quatro. Authoritative musicians such as Julian Actor Webber also appeared.

There were also the stories of Director Kremmen, a science fiction champion voiced by Everett and primarily developed for his Capital Receiver shows, who travelled the accumulation battling fictional alien menaces, well ahead with his assistant Dr Gitfinger and his voluptuous sidekick Carla. In the first three pile these segments were animations built by the Cosgrove-Hall partnership (responsible for the successful children's delineation series Danger Mouse, among numberless others). In the fourth progression (Video Cassette), Kremmen was featured as live action with Anna Dawson playing Carla; the segments were comedy shorts rather fondle the earlier stories.

Other note included: ageing rock-and-roller Sid Prig, unsuccessfully flipping cigarettes into coronet mouth—at one point Everett managed to catch one in her majesty mouth, to the amusement senior the studio crew; Marcel Shake, a lecherous Frenchman played bid Everett wearing an absurdly incorrect latex chin; and "Angry take off Mayfair", a right-wing, upper-middle-class Impediment gent complaining of the lax, risqué content of the event, banging the camera's lens part with his umbrella before bravado off, turning his back lay aside the camera to reveal him wearing women's lingerie in strike it rich of the entire back portion of his suit.

He too created the never-seen character penalty "Lord Thames", supposedly the host of Thames Television (the on top of was actually owned by bend in half conglomerates). The character was usually the butt of Everett's rants and was said to symbolize his contempt for senior polity at the company, claiming they lived behind an ancient, cobweb-covered door marked as the "Office of Saying 'No'". Thames on no account disciplined him for these comments, unlike prior employers such reorganization the BBC.

The show ran for four series on ITV. The last episode of Array 3 ended with Everett sharing a farewell speech as say publicly set and scenery was seem to be stripped down by the company. The final shot before grandeur closing credits was Everett in the flesh being picked up and situated inside an oversized dustbin.

The fourth series was retitled The Kenny Everett Video Cassette spell was more of a jesting programme than the previous combine series, which relied more regain music acts.

The Kenny Everett Television Show

Main article: The Kenny Everett Television Show

Everett fell even with Thames regarding the directing of his show, including interpretation scheduling against the BBC's top-rated Top of the Pops continue Thursday evenings. The BBC offered him a live-audience sketch-format humour programme, starting with a Christmastime special on BBC1 in 1981, followed by five primetime focus between 1982 and 1988. Decency writing team was bolstered hard the addition of Andrew Histrion, David Renwick and Neil Shand and the production standards were raised by the heavier recession from the corporation.

Thames Newswomen claimed copyright on Everett's noting and tried to prevent their use by the BBC. Even supposing this action failed, it exact lead to the creation receive new characters such as Habitual Cheeseburger whose monologues were aberrant as a satire on Sentient foreign policy, agony aunt Actuality Treacle, mime artist Maurice Actor whose drawings turn into come about objects, upper class socialite Jeremy Mince who was perpetually tipsy on champagne, orange-haired punk Pouch Puke (intended to replace Sid Snot) and the spooneristically christian name Cupid Stunt, a blonde superb American B-movie actress with pneumatic breasts. Played in full tow but with no attempt lend your energies to disguise Everett's beard, she avid a cardboard cut-out of oration show host Michael Parkinson (and later Terry Wogan depicted importance a skeleton in a suit) about her latest trashy integument projects and lurid tales training life on set with mortal stars such as Burt Painter. Her final action in talking to sketch was to uncross quip legs then swing them hurriedly to recross them (brazenly bounteous viewers an eyeful of haunt racy red lingerie) as she uttered the catchphrase "It's depreciation done in the best possible taste!" Inept TV handyman Reg Prescott became another firm viewers' favourite, as each week recognized managed to visibly injure personally with tools while attempting predict demonstrate DIY tips. Revived note from the previous series objective Sid Snot, Marcel Wave, Kinsman Lee Love, Angry of Mayfair and the Constable. Each period in season 3 featured cool version of "Snot Rap – Part II" by one encouragement more of Everett's main note.

Brazilian-born Cleo Rocos co-starred pimple the BBC series. She over and over again appeared in nothing more fondle frilly underwear and high heels.

Timeline

• Nice Time, Granada Television, 1968
• The Kenny Everett Explosion, LWT, 1970
• The Kenny Everett Video Show, River Television, 1978–1980
• The Kenny Everett Tv Cassette, Thames Television, 1981
• The Kenny Everett Television Show, BBC1, 1981–1988
• Brainstorm, BBC1, 1988
• That's Showbusiness (team captain), BBC1, 1989–1991
• Gibberish, BBC1, 1992

Video

In 1981, Everett, Cryer and Cameron teamed up with Brothers Music traverse target the emerging home tv market with a VHS unloose called The Kenny Everett Badly behaved Joke Box, which was followed a year later by in relation to Brothers Music VHS release cryed The New Kenny Everett Roguish Video. Produced and directed mass co-writer Ray Cameron, this 'too rude for television' production would get a nationwide Freeview announce under the name Kenny Everett Naughty Video by That's Television in January 2022. The picture was recorded with an conference (in-vision beside Everett for all the more of the time), while co-writer Barry Cryer has an on-screen role, appearing as a customer alongside Lionel Blair and Willie Rushton. Sheila Steafel, Cleo Rocos, Debbie Linden, Linda Lusardi unthinkable Jane Score also feature put in the bank the cast, while Nikolai Grishanovich turns up at the excise to make a comment let somebody see the Soviet Union. Characters presence in the video include Pocket Puke, Marcel Wave, Sid Snob and a caricature of untainted Australian called Bris Troop, interminably the video has a contest joke about people at marvellous line of urinals.^[29]

Film

Main article: Massacre at the House of Death

Everett made one foray into release with 1984's Bloodbath at dignity House of Death, a travesty of contemporary horror films, which was penned by Everett's accepted writing partners Barry Cryer station Ray Cameron (who also secured the film). Vincent Price was featured as the villain, credited only as the "Sinister Man", and a number of niche popular comedians and actors along with appeared, including Pamela Stephenson, Gareth Hunt and Don Warrington. A handful regulars from Everett's television convoy also appeared.

Music

Everett released a handful of singles in the 1960s. Crucial 1965 - a comedy quislingism with fellow Radio London DJ Dave Cash, "The B Side"//"Knees" (Decca Records).^[30][31] In 1968 unblended solo single, written by Pursue Nilsson "It's Been So Long" (MGM Records),^[32] and in 1969 "Nice Time" (Deram Records) which was used as the inscription theme for the second rooms of the Granada TV show.^[33] In 1977, Everett collaborated greet Mike Vickers to release prestige single "Captain Kremmen", using systematic previously published instrumental by Vickers, "Retribution" as its backing. Go to see entered the UK charts perpendicular 12 November, and peaked at the same height number 32 two weeks later.^[34] In 1983 Kenny Everett unbound the single "Snot Rap", by all accounts sung by two of her highness TV characters, Sid Snot current Cupid Stunt. This would end at number 9 in character UK charts for the workweek ending 16 April,^[35] and tame at number 91 in Australia.^[36] A sequel single, "Snot Hook II (Rapping Again)", once improve performed in character, was insecure in March 1985, but abortive to chart.

Personal life

Everett wed the singer and psychic Audrey "Lady Lee" Middleton at Kensington Register Office on 2 June 1969.^[37] By September 1979, they had separated, and he clogged publicly denying his homosexuality oppress the late 1980s. His co-host David Cash, in the movie Unforgettable Kenny Everett, states stray "Once I got to skilled in him socially off the windjammer, it was very obvious delay his sexual tendencies were pervert and he looked at fight as bad and so sharptasting fought it all the way." One of his first boyfriends, a waiter called Dave Nealon, was a match found sense Everett by his former wife.^[38] In 1985 after coming presuppose, he introduced his "two husbands"—Nikolai Grishanovich and Pepe Flores—to class media; Everett contracted HIV detach from Grishanovich, who died of Immunodeficiency in 1991.^[39][40]

Politics

During the 1983 regular election campaign, the Young Conservatives invited Everett to their dialogue in an attempt to entice the youth vote. Egged performance by film director Michael Champion, Everett bounded onto the surprise, wearing the enormously oversized ferment rubber hands familiar from enthrone mock-evangelical character Brother Lee Adoration. He shouted slogans such kind "Let's bomb Russia!" and "Let's kick Michael Foot's stick away!" to loud applause.^[41] (Michael Stand was the ageing leader comatose the Labour Party at class time, who used a walker stick.)^[42] Everett later said loosen up regretted the appearance and whispered that he had taken birth foam hands to the mass meeting because the Tories "asked violent first".^[43]

In an interview on Ireland's The Late Late Show counterpart Gay Byrne and Sinéad Writer in February 1989, Everett was challenged by O'Connor about empress support for the Conservative Jamboree in the light of rulership homosexuality and the party's Division 28 addition to the Adjoining Government Act. Everett clarified think about it he was not a "full Tory", but that he confidential been appalled by the alertnesses of Arthur Scargill, whom type saw as "inciting violence" gain "rabble rousing" and who powder thought looked like "Hitler reborn". He had consequently supported description actions of Margaret Thatcher deliver opposing Scargill. He said unquestionable would stand up for funny rights if he were deliberately providing "it was a sportive occasion", but he also change that being in a underground and in the public proficient, he could do more characterise gay rights by showing rove he was funny and hominoid rather than by marching engross the streets.^[44]

Friendship with Freddie Mercury

Everett became close friends with Freddie Mercury, the lead singer funding Queen, after they met have Everett's breakfast radio show intensification Capital Radio in 1974.

In 1988, Middleton, who had in a few words remarried actor John Alkin, publicised an autobiography with a prologue from Everett. After its proclamation and newspaper serialisation, however, Everett denounced the book for journey him.^[45] Mercury reportedly sided set about Middleton. The fallout resulted make the addition of Middleton and Everett communicating matchless via their lawyers.

A generation later, Everett and Mercury were reconciled when both were distress with health issues due here complications with HIV.^[46] Mercury mind-numbing in November 1991.

Death

Everett was diagnosed as HIV positive block 1989 and he made fillet condition known to the general in 1993.^[47] He died flight an AIDS-related illness on 4 April 1995, aged 50.

A Catholic requiem mass was engaged at Church of the Maiden Conception in Mayfair, London. Monarch body was cremated at Mortlake Crematorium.^[48]

Legacy

In 1981 Everett co-wrote uncluttered semi-fictitious autobiography entitled The Custard Stops at Hatfield. It was published by Willow Books, mainly imprint of Collins, in Sept 1982.^[49]

In 1996, a compilation publication entitled Kenny Everett at representation Beeb was released as superiority of the BBC Radio Collection series of cassette tapes. Rendering album, narrated by Barry Cryer, is a chronological look abuse Everett's BBC Radio career make certain combines clips from his several series with interviews that stylishness gave on programmes such translation Desert Island Discs.^[50]

Everett is dignity subject of a 1997 period of the Thames Television rooms Heroes of Comedy which pillows his life and career exotic his beginnings on pirate crystal set until his death. Celebrities specified as Steve Wright, Cliff Richard, Cleo Rocos, Barry Cryer, Jeremy Beadle, Terry Wogan and Barry Took appear and talk come to pass their experiences, collaborations and friendships with Everett and his emphasis on them.^{[citation needed]}

On 18 Nov 2007, ITV1 broadcast a honour show to Everett entitled Licence to Laugh. This celebrated glory 30 years since he control appeared on ITV with significance Kenny Everett Video Show (Thames Television). Friends and colleagues defeat what it was like set upon know and work with prestige man they affectionately dubbed "Cuddly Ken". Additionally, contemporary celebrities much as Chris Moyles and Chris Tarrant talked about their fondness for the funny entertainer vital discussed the ways in which Everett had influenced them instruct their work. It also featured archive footage.^{[citation needed]}

The documentary When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny Everett, broadcast on Channel 4, tells the story of the kinship between the two men liberate yourself from the moment they met bind 1974 when Mercury was a-okay guest on Everett's radio agricultural show, through lovers and drug-taking put a stop to when both died of Immunodeficiency. It features affectionate interviews unresponsive to many people who were secure to him.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2010 the BBC confirmed that site was producing a 90-minute Tube biographical film called Number Rob in Heaven, to be hard going by Tim Whitnall and on Everett's unhappiness at unimportant school.^{[51][needs update]}

On 3 October 2012 the BBC broadcast a 90-minute TV biopic called The Unsurpassed Possible Taste which focused patronage the performer's relationship with king wife, singer Lee Middleton. Jazzman Lansley played the part as a result of Everett and Katherine Kelly wind of Middleton.^[52]

In 2013, Hello Darlings! The Authorized Biography Of Kenny Everett written by James Hogget and Robert Sellers was available by Bantam Press.^[53]

Everett was depicted by Dickie Beau in loftiness 2018 Oscar-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody, a biographical musical drama matter the life of Freddie Mercury.^[54]

In December 2024, BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast a week close the eyes to programmes to mark what would have been Everett's 80th event. It began with a flick Kenny Everett: The BBC Shut up shop Radio Years and included awful of Everett's BBC Radio Port shows from 1971.^[55]

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