{"id":220336,"date":"2025-12-31T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/220336\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:40:09","slug":"limerick-comedian-to-be-remembered-in-special-rte-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/220336\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick comedian to be remembered in special RTE episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SPECIAL episode of Cloch le Carn will celebrate the life, humour and career of the late Jon Kenny.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The beloved Limerick comedian passed away in November of last year at the age of 66.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Best known for his work with Pat Shortt as part of the comedy duo D\u2019Unbelievables, Jon Kenny captured the imagination of an audience with his quick wit and amazingly diverse range of characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jon_Kenny_and_Pat_Shortt-1766153004012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"761\" height=\"507\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As an actor, he also played many memorable roles in Father Ted, The Van, Angela\u2019s Ashes and more recently The Banshees of Inisherin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As well as being an accomplished actor and comedian, Jon Kenny was also a talented musician, poet and solo performer &#8211; he loved to write, perform and create and he leaves behind a lasting legacy in the Irish entertainment world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The episode of Cloch le Carn will look at all aspects of Jon Kenny\u2019s career, where he got his creative inspiration from and the profound impact his work had on Irish comedy and culture at large.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The episode will feature interviews, archival footage and personal anecdotes.<\/p>\n<p>Cloch le Carn &#8211; Jon Kenny will air tonight (Wednesday, December 31, 2025) at 8pm on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SPECIAL episode of Cloch le Carn will celebrate the life, humour and career of the late Jon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1049,93,61,60,93204,1396,63248,6085],"class_list":{"0":"post-220336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-comedy","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jon-kenny","13":"tag-limerick","14":"tag-pat-shortt","15":"tag-rte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}