Risteárd Cooper

a brilliant way to articulate the kind of frustrations and the anger you might you might have about uh the state of the planet um and you know i there is so much anger out there and you you turn on your phone you see how angry people are but i just think it's it's for me it's just it's a very easy reaction to have to just be angry about stuff and to be

antagonistic towards other people who don't have the same opinion as you and i think the the trick for me and and it's it's it's a it's a difficult thing to pull off sometimes is to maybe thought provoke but also make people laugh the most important thing is to make people laugh and yeah i mean especially at the moment the backdrop to everything is is is pretty pretty grim so it's lovely to have an opportunity to to have that role of of making people laugh and uh

Yeah, like I was in Sligo on Friday and it was it was it was it was a nice show and nice reaction.

And you can just I think people want to laugh, you know, I mean, I think I think people are in need of a laugh.

we need a break from the outrage.

I know you grew up in a house where your parents were performers, where there was real music and drama and talent, and obviously it's passed on to you.

Has it passed on to the next generation, or are you trying to say, ah-ah, permanent, pensionable?

No, I was very open to my kids doing whatever they wanted to do, and my youngest is still, there's still a possibility, I think, that she'll, she actually did it, she's done a couple of movies, Nora,

She played Mel Gibson's daughter, actually, in a movie.

And she's done a couple of movies.

So she's only like, she started pretty, you know, on a fairly high pitch.

But yeah, no, it's no sign of anyone following.

But I don't do any impressions of anyone in my family as well, which is kind of... And that's why the family is still together, right?

Exactly.

They do me, though.

They do me.

Richard Cooper, back on the road again.

Out of His Head is the name of the solo tour.

Highly recommended.

Can I make one thing very clear?