Tom Kenny

• Birth name:

  Thomas James Kenny

• Date of Birth:

  13 July 1962 East Syracuse, New York, USA

Tom Kenny grew up in East Syracuse, New York. When Tom was young he was into comic books, drawing funny pictures and collecting records. Tom turned to stand-up comedy in Boston and San Francisco. This led to appearances on every cable show spawned by the stand-up epidemic of the 80's and 90's as well as stints on "The Dennis Miller Show" (1992), "The Pat Sajak Show" (1989), "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) and "Late Night with David Letterman"... more

Tom Kenny grew up in East Syracuse, New York. When Tom was young he was into comic books, drawing funny pictures and collecting records. Tom turned to stand-up comedy in Boston and San Francisco. This led to appearances on every cable show spawned by the stand-up epidemic of the 80's and 90's as well as stints on "The Dennis Miller Show" (1992), "The Pat Sajak Show" (1989), "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) and "Late Night with David Letterman" (1982). Tom was a regular on Fox TV's "The Edge" (1992) and spent a year as the host of NBC's "Friday Night Videos" (1983). His mainstream television appearances include "Brotherly Love" (1995) and David Alan Grier's sitcom debacle, "The Preston Episodes" (1995). Tom supplies the voice for "Heffer" the cow on Nickelodeon's "Rocko's Modern Life" (1993) and Hanna Barbera's "Top Cat" (1961), as well as regular performances on The Cartoon Network's "Dexter's Laboratory" (1996), "Justice League" (2001), "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998), and "Johnny Bravo" (1997). Tom joined the cast of "Mr. Show with Bob and David" (1995) where he met his future wife Jill Talley. Together they've teamed up on Comedy Central's "The Mark Thomas Comedy Product" (1996), the stage show "The Show With Two Heads", HBO's "Not Necessarily the Election" (1996), the Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight" video and Travis "Sing" video.