Comedians from Liverpool: Craig Charles, Ted Ray, Henny Youngman, Ken Dodd, Kenny Everett, Alexei Sayle, Les Dennis, Mitch Benn, George Roper

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Craig Charles, Ted Ray, Henny Youngman, Ken Dodd, Kenny Everett, Alexei Sayle, Les Dennis, Mitch Benn, George Roper, John Bishop, Arthur Askey, Faith Brown, Stan Boardman, Ted Robbins, Jimmy Mulville, Norman Vaughan, Keith Carter, Mick Miller, Jackie Hamilton, Jimmy Tarbuck, Avril Angers, Tommy Handley, Tom O'Connor, John E. Owens. Excerpt: Kenny Everett (25 December 1944 - 4 April 1995) was an English comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer. Born Maurice James Christopher Cole, Everett is best known for his career as a radio DJ and for the Kenny Everett television shows. Everett attended the local secondary modern school, St Bede's Secondary Modern, which is now part of Sacred Heart Catholic College. He attended a junior seminary at Stillington near York with an Italian missionary order, the Verona Fathers. After schooling he worked in a bakery and in the advertising department of The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph. Having revealed a natural comic and broadcasting talent, he began a career in entertainment. He adopted his stage name from film-star Edward Everett Horton, a childhood hero. Everett's first break (as Maurice Cole) came when he sent a tape to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1962. The BBC gave him an interview and offered him a job as a presenter on the Light Programme, the forerunner to BBC Radio 2. He declined, however, in favour of the less constrained world of pirate radio, where he began his career as a DJ for Radio London. He teamed up with Dave Cash for the Kenny & Cash Show, one of the most popular pirate radio programmes. His offbeat style and likable personality quickly gained him attention, but in 1965 he was fired after some outspoken remarks about religion on air. Like most of the pirate stations, Radio London carried sponsored American evangelical shows and E...