Kenny Everett, original name Maurice James Christopher Cole, ( 1944, Liverpool, England—1995, London), British disc jockey and television entertainer known for his wacky, inventive comedic style and often controversial irreverence. A sometimes surreal sense of humour that was much indebted to the Beatles and to The Goon Show, the influential British radio comedy of the 1950s that starred Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe, soon established Everett as one of the outstanding personalities of pirate radio. When in 1967 the BBC launched Radio 1, the first land-based British pop station, Everett became one of its original recruits. His famed sense of humour resulted, however, in the end of his career as a live broadcaster on Radio 1 when in 1970, in response to a news item, he suggested that the wife of the transport minister had passed her driving test by bribing the examiner.
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