Nineteen years on American funnyman Wendt returns to Kilkenny

George Wendt returns to the Kilkenny’s Cat Laughs event 19 years after his first appearance, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

GEORGE Wendt, who played the character Norm Peterson in the 1980s sitcom, Cheers, had an enviable entrée on the show. The set-up rarely changed: he would swing through the door of the Boston bar. “Afternoon, everybody.” He’d go to hang his jacket on the coat rack when the whole bar would burst into life: “Norm!”

Then whoever was working the bar would get down to business.