RTE legend Jon Kenny has made a major career move as he’s set to perform at Electric Picnic amid his cancer treatment. The Limerick man is best known for his part in Irish comedy duo D'unbelievables and has starred in RTE 's Killinaskully, Father Ted , and The Banshees of Inisherin to name a few. The iconic comedian and actor has now delved into poetry reading.
Jon only started writing poems about a year ago and is already performing his material at Ireland's biggest festival. The 66-year-old explained how he got into the literary art "by accident". He told The Irish Sun : "I'd been writing some prose and doing some short stories and stuff like that.
And then I just started writing about some certain stuff that was going on in my head or certain stuff that I had recalled. "For some reason I just started putting them into the poetry format. And it just seemed to.
.. it was good, it seemed to work for me.
"I seemed to be able to go somewhere with the poetry that maybe I wouldn't go with a short story or a piece of prose - something that would be more like a memoir. "The poetry allows me that leeway to go different directions or go a bit deeper into things." Jon still makes sure to add some humour within his writing as he explained: "I come from a comic background anyway.
"I've always been fascinated with the idea of comedy and the sort of pathos of comedy. They're very close, well to me anyway." Jon read his poems out aloud in front of a crowd for the first time in his hometow.