I must say I was surprised when the idea was suggested to write a little thingo about Kenny Everitt, surely a huge departure from the normal gloom and doom (of the highest order of course) that regularly lines the pages of The Fall of Because. But after all, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, and that light always starts with a good dick gag.
Cuddly Ken rose from the bowels of British radio in the 60's to end out on those videos that everyone gets out every now and then. He was a comedian, a dj, a space captain, a friend to the stars, a transvestite and a mouth on a stick. His completely original but ridiculous style of comedy brings out the giggling schoolgirl in all of us. How can anyone forget the Kenny Everitt Video Show with its overload of double entredres and abundance of lumpy bits. Surly the saucy grinding of his in-house smut patrol, "Hot Gossip" has influenced many a young pop starlet to wear green short pants with feathers and prance around slapping themselves, knowing full well that everyone is going to fast forward past it on the video.
Most of his jokes were pretty lame, every look really cheap and the guest pop stars that occasionally appeared on the show are incredibly dated (except when Thin Lizzy were on it), but Everitt is such a goddamn funny bastard to listen to and look at that while other comedians of his era rot away on the video shop shelves, Kenny vids aren't even there! Because most of them have been stolen by some other Kenny loving geek.
I'm not sure when he died, but I think it was of Aids in the late 80's- early 90's sometime but his legacy lives on.
I can only highly recommend getting hold of some Kenny if you're up for a bit of titillation and laffs.
Here is an exert from an autobiography he released in 1982 called "The Custard Stops at Hatfield."

Nick