Young Kenny

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Young Kenny is one of many characters from the comic world of Peter Kay.

Young Kenny is a quiet member of The Phoenix Club. Appearing in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights and briefly appearing "butt naked" in Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere.


Young Kenny's three favourite things are:

  • His Wooly Hat
  • Engineering
  • Take-away Moped

Young Kenny is the uncredited member of The Phoenix Club, mainly because he is quite dumb. He got the name Young Kenny because there is another worker in the club named Kenny. Young Kenny gave the other one the name Kenny Senior. Young Kenny likes to engineer, an area where a spark of intelligence shines through. Young Kenny is always to be seen wearing a Manchester City F.C. shirt.

Young Kenny may be well-remembered for playing Meat Loaf in Stars in Their Eyes (after Den Perry cancelled the other scheduled performers at the club). Young Kenny made a brilliant entry on the Take-away Moped, after engineering it to look like a motorbike with spraypainted silver cola bottles and cardboard wings. Soon after this, Young Kenny gained something that earned him a new nickname: "Tiger face". When it was Family Fun Day at the Phoenix, they hired a man to do the face-painting. He turned out to be a con who sprayed children's faces with car paint or some sort of permanent paint. Young Kenny couldn't wash the paint off, leaving him with a tiger's face for the rest of his life (unless he gets permanent paint to match his skin tones). Young Kenny is a member who will shine when he wishes to ... mostly criticized and mocked by his boss Brian Potter.