Risteárd Cooper

And it still makes me laugh.

And it'll always make me laugh.

Richard Cooper, best known for his hilarious impressions as one third of Apri Match.

Absolutely delighted to have you in studio this morning.

Thanks, Kerry.

Lovely to be here.

Yes, you don't look anything like Pat Kenny, by the way, which is probably, you know, a good thing.

Well, I was actually going to apologise because I was doing my research last night and you said in one interview you'd done in the past that Pat Kenny is in your DNA, that you can't get him out of your head and he's not here to welcome you this morning.

I know, it's terrible, yes, I know.

And normally when you hear that music, you're used to Pat, you know, telling the listeners what's coming up on the show or this part of the show and he lists it off like that and then we have this, we have that, we have the other and then he whispers at the very end of the sentence.

For some reason.

That's spot on.

What did you go for first?

Is it the voice?

Is it the gestures in somebody?

Well, with Pat, I remember kind of studying Pat.

And I did, it's actually, I think it's on YouTube where I was on with him and I did it.

It was the first time I had done him for him.

But yeah, I had to sort of study him for an appare match sketch that we were doing.

And it was, you know, the sketch was about somebody who had, you know, very strange fixation with a Hoover and has an obsession with it.