Jon Kenny

2022 - 10 - 9

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D'Unbelievables Jon Kenny says 'stress and overwork' contributed ... (Sunday World)

Comedian Jon Kenny has speculated that overwork and stress probably resulted in him being stuck down with cancer over 20 years ago.

We had a lot of good years out of it, so leave it well enough alone and move on. Definitely, my body was suffering because of it.” “I go to take a holiday and suddenly I’m not feeling the best and I go and get myself checked out and they told me I’ve got cancer”

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Keys to My Life review: Jon Kenny heads back to his hometown of ... (Irish Examiner)

The characters of the Co Limerick village helped inspire Jon Kenny's comedy in later years, and walking those streets again makes for an emotional ...

Kenny acknowledges the tough bits of his life – school beatings for poor spelling (he had dyslexia), his cancer diagnosis at the height of his comedy career. There’s a suggestion that some of the characters he later fleshed out in comedy acts were born here. Here he and Pat Shortt – the other half of comedy duo D'Unbelievables – created and shaped their sell-out show, a sensation for a decade right up to the Millennium.

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Keys To My Life viewers praise Jon Kenny as 'national treasure' after ... (The Irish Sun)

RTE viewers called Jon Kenny a "national treasure" as he spoke about beating cancer.Comic actor Jon Kenny joined Brendan Courtney as they visited his.

John Kenny is a national treasure @BrendanCourtney @rte." Carmel added: "#keystomylife once again is such a wonderful hug on a Sunday night. "I had to stop.

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D'Unbelievables legend Jon Kenny opens up about dealing with his ... (RSVP Live)

Comic actor and D'Unbelievables legend Jon Kenny joins Brendan Courtney on this weeks episode of Keys to My Life. The duo visit a number of important places ...

"It probably had a part to play in it, because sometimes you don't realise that you're going at whatever speed you're going at, and it's so frantic that you just keep doing it. "You're forced to then, and that's what happened. Sometimes you think, 'God, I would love to just get off this for a little while and take a break.'" "I go and get myself checked out and they tell me that I have cancer. When something is going, you just keep going and going, you're on the treadmill. He tells Brendan of his childhood in Co.

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