When Jon Kenny began performing stand-up in the 1980s, Irish comedy was in a dark and dreary place. He remembered it as a time when people told “mother-in-law jokes” and not much else.

The Irish president has led tributes to comedian and actor Jon Kenny, who has died at the age of 66. The Limerick actor was best known as one half of the comic duo D’Unbelievables with Pat Shortt.