Trivia

Was fired from BBC Radio 1 for telling a joke about the Minister of Transport's wife's driving test, hinting that the driving instructor may have been bribed.

Frequently locked horns with the studio bosses during the production of The Kenny Everett Video Show (1978). In one skit, he depicted them as being behind an ancient, cobweb covered door marked "Office Of Saying 'No'".

After his death, his entire collection of on-air recordings of his work (over 200 hours) were donated to the National Sound Archive.

Received the Gold Sony Radio Award in 1994 for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting.

Was originally a disc jockey for a British off-shore (pirate) radio station, Radio London, and briefly left to work with Radio Luxembourg, returning after RL fired him for admitting that he smoked marijuana. After British law forced the off-shore stations off the air, he worked for the BBC, and later for licensed commercial stations, including Capital Radio.

Despite his caustic jokes aimed at Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher, he was a member of the Conservative Party. When speaking at a Party conference, at a time when the political position was "blame everything on Russia", he declared "Let's bomb Russia!".

Kenny Everett had a U.K. top ten hit single in 1983 with "Snot Rap", based on some of the catch-phrases of characters from the Kenny Everett Show and co-written with Mike Moran.

His favorite piece of music was Symphonic Prelude by Giacomo Puccini.

He was chosen as "Wally of the Week" by The People newspaper on 5 June 1983.

In 1995, he was the last major British name to die of AIDS. In the mid 1990s, better drug treatments for HIV were introduced, meaning that people with the virus could continue to live relatively healthy lives with the virus being suppressed so that it did not develop into AIDS, and deaths from the disease dropped from the headlines.