My Favorite Cigar
Larry Kenney • Vocal Artist/Comedian • Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series Exclusivo
You may not know his face, but you almost certainly have heard his voice. Larry Kenney is a spot-on mimic and comedian who has performed thousands of television and radio voice-overs in his career spanning seven decades. Familiar with Sonny the Cuckoo confessing he’s “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs”? Or Count Chocula proclaiming “I vant to eat your cereal!”? That’s Kenney. Ever listen to radio’s “Imus in the Morning” and think you were hearing Richard Nixon or Andy Rooney? Again, Kenney.
His first cigar as a high schooler almost put a crimp in his career. “It was a gas-station cigar, like a blunt. I couldn’t talk for about three hours.” The jocular Kenney recovered and taps his talent even in casual conversation. His favorite cigar is the Padrón Anniversary Exclusivo, a cigar that comes without cellophane. On a family trip, with different cigars, his son decided that it would be a favor to his dad to unwrap a full box of toros to have at the ready. Fortunately, the mistake was corrected before they dried out.
Want to meet the man behind the voice? The 78-year-old Kenney is a presenter at many Comic-Cons nationwide as Lion-O from the 1980s ThunderCats cartoon franchise.
