Trivia

About Kenney's death, Harold Ramis famously quipped "Doug probably fell while he was looking for a place to jump".

Was one of Chevy Chase's longtime best friends.

Fell to his death; occurred when the cliff point on which he was standing overlooking the Hanapepe Valley on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, collapsed.

Director Harold Ramis named his lead character in Multiplicity (1996), Doug Kinney, after longtime friend Kenney, one of the founding fathers of the National Lampoon.

After he helped write the sophomoric hit comedy, Caddyshack (1980), which grossed $39,800,000, it made him one of Hollywood most sought-after comedy writers.

Before his death, he wrote a message on his hotel room mirror: "I love you" to his then-girlfriend. He had written notes and ideas for a new movie, along with a love-letter for all the reasons he loved his new girlfriend: "Those days with her... were the best I've ever ignored."

Wrote a manuscript for a book entitled "Teenage Commies From Outer Space". He threw the entire thing away after getting very negative feedback from long-time friend and partner, Henry Beard.

Found in his hotel room (at the time of his death) were notes for projects he had been planning, jokes, and an outline for a new movie.

An artistic biography, A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018), was released by Netflix, where Doug was played by Will Forte.

Chevy Chase was very close to Kenney and convinced him to join him in a two-week class at Vic Braden's Tennis College in southern California.

Longtime companion of Kathryn Walker.

He was born Douglas Clark Francis Kenney, to Estelle "Stephanie" (Karch) and Daniel Harold "Harry" Kenney, both originally from Massachusetts. His paternal grandparents, Daniel J. Kenney and Eleanor Agnes (Noonan), were of Irish origin. His maternal grandparents, Anthony Karczewski and Victoria Lesniak, were Polish.