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Jon Kenny (D'unbelievables) RIP

  • 16-11-2024 12:22PM
    #1
    Say Your Number
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    Just seeing the news there, I know he was sick the last while but still a bit of a surprise, loved D'unbelievables when I was growing up.

    https://youtu.be/gXbYvbR9piA?si=x7wxqn2O_EalCqs4


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  • #2
    Dan Steely
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 998 ✭✭✭Dan Steely


    Sad to hear. Very funny man.



  • #3
    mun1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭mun1


    Rest in peace Jon.



  • #4
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,913 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Saw him and Shortt a good few times before fame always had a soft soft for them since. Knew he was in a battle. RIP Jon.



  • #5
    Nowso
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,086 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nowso


    seen it on tiktok yesterday i thought it was a windup post

    Very sad , a very funny man who made so many laugh , r.i.p



  • #6
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    He was just starting to develop his reputation as a poet around Limerick and nearby in recent times as well. I remember watching "D'Telly" and quoting it in school when we were all way too young to really get it! What an entertainer. R.I.P.



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  • #7
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,744 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    And this sketch is a work of genius, the way it just builds and builds until his explosion at the end

    https://youtu.be/8QrIcSo1zQk?si=TiT9xIjowaN8e3cW


  • #8
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,137 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Sincere condolences to family and friends.

    Rest in peace.

    Jon was a funny man and a nice man.



  • #9
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,836 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Bridie's Christening was one of my favourites. RIP Jon

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmtOHuWNBYI
    Post edited by dmc17 on


  • #10
    HildaOgdenx
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,214 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    Saw d'unbelievables years ago, they were great. Everyone averting their eyes when they came down onto the floor, not wanting to be brought up on stage 😁.

    Also saw Jon in Letters of a Matchmaker with Mary McEvoy in The Gaiety about five or six years ago. At one point, the two of them started to laugh - when they shouldn't have - and we gave them a round of applause. 😁

    May Jon rest in peace.



  • #11
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,896 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    RIP Jon, I'll always remember your take on Eminem among other things.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sUw_GbVbxw

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #12
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,628 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Anyone else remember back as far as the Lark in the Park days in Dublin, must have been the 80s.... he was a regular at them, always very funny, and I'll never forget the one time I saw d'Unbelievables in Vicar St in their heyday - what a show! I can't remember which of them got a ladder and climbed up into the balcony to snare a victim to drag onto the stage - everyone knew nobody was safe after that!

    A genius talent.

    RIP.



  • #13
    Cluedo Monopoly
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    RIP Jon. Thanks for the laughs.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • #14
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    rip, and thank you



  • #15
    [Deleted User]
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    Absolutely hilarious in Father Ted.

    https://youtu.be/nEki3cs7Eeg?si=76uL3CR7ZMMNqB0u


  • #16
    feedthegoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 302 ✭✭feedthegoat


    One of the great qualities in life, the ability to make people laugh, always got seats as far from the stage at his gigs !! Condolences to his family.



  • #17
    quodec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭quodec


    RIP Jon, a great talent. I can remember seeing him singing in the band Gimik back in the late 70s. He owned the stage even then, as a young entertainer.



  • #18
    10000maniacs
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    Went to d'Unbelievables as the Christmas doo in one of my previous companies.

    The show was hillarious.

    RIP Jon.



  • #19
    FarmerBrowne
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    You have my fecking heart broke, how much is this, how much is that.

    The Sketch in the jeep going to work in D'mother when he is living abroad in the garage as he said himself with the damp matress is brilliantly done.

    RiP



  • #20
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122846450#Comment_122846450

    I haven't been in one of those old shops in years. Not sure Limerick city still has one.

    Those shows were so will observed. All those characters are real (as is the fella ranting at Eminem above). The truest catalogue of the population of Ireland you will ever find on film.

    And the way he could do it all without ever seeming to breathe in was astounding.



  • #21
    PTH2009
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    Rip grew up watching his stuff and saw them for the reunion about 10-12 years ago

    A true Irish comedic legend, he was only doing shows recently



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  • #22
    lawred2
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    Sad news. Couldn't even begin to count how many hours wasted as a kid watching that D'Unbelievables video.

    The u12 team talk the best of them



  • #23
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,034 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    A gang of us actually did a D'Unbelievables/D'Mother/Killinaskully themed quiz on Zoom or Skype or whatever back during the first Covid lockdown. Gave us all a great excuse to rewatch everything and laugh about it together at a time when we were hardly even allowed to go for a jog.



  • #24
    Grassy Knoll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 442 ✭✭Grassy Knoll


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122846450#Comment_122846450

    agree, in tears laughing at it, absolute craft. Incredibly gifted comic and performer



  • #25
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,189 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Put him up against a wall in the middle of a field. One shot bang bang.



  • #26
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Even the first line of his obituary in the Irish Times reads like a joke.

    "Born in Hospital, Co Limerick"



  • #27
    blowitupref
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    Talented comedian R. I. P



  • #28
    Ger Roe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭Ger Roe


    RIP Jon, a very funny man.

    I saw him at an RTE Radio 2 Lark in The Park in the 1980's. It was Blackrock park in Dublin - he sang this and then promptly jumped into the park lake.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv9vmdIIZjA


  • #29
    Hangdogroad
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    What were those ads for that he did post-D'unbelievables? He was playing different characters including a fella with a baseball cap who starts rapping. To which his mother or granny, also played by Jon says "fancy lingo you, and you only in America for the weekend".



  • #30
    black & white
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122846575#Comment_122846575

    I saw Gimik ‘79/80 when they released their double A side single, Dancehall Queen and No More Magic.(might even still have it in the attic) Saw him a year or two before in Theatre Omnibus when they were in the Belltable. I spoke to him briefly about 10 years ago in Carcasson airport and he was an absolute gentleman. RIP to him, condolences to his family and friends



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  • #31
    Oscar_Madison
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    RIP Jon. No age poor guy.

    I think their brand of comedy with D’Unbelievables actually aged very very well -I’m in fits now watching it - very clever, very Irish but executed exceptionally well.



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