Risteárd Cooper

But there's got to be new people.

There's got to be a new generation of people that you mimic.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

And, you know, I do a kind of a balance, I suppose, between classic characters or, you know, after match characters that people would know.

But I also, as I mentioned, I would do like I'm doing quite a few political people as well.

But yeah, he's part of it as well.

And yeah, there's Kenny Cunningham, you know, at this particular moment in time.

I do him as well.

And there's all sorts of, there's a whole sprinkling of people that I do.

And one of the things about the show and the nature of my show is that it evolves rapidly.

really week to week and show to show, like no show is going to be the same based on, you know, whoever's going to be in the news or whoever has said something or done something even that day.

I'll do a little sketch on it, you know.

And you've said how important you think it is that particularly now when the news cycle is so negative and so heavy, that being lighthearted and giving people sort of a space in which to laugh

is really, really important.

Are you light-hearted yourself in real life?

I am.

I mean, I'm fortunate, I think, that I have a fairly light disposition.

You wake up in good humour.

I do most of the time, yeah.

I mean, there are times when I don't, but I do find humour a brilliant way to articulate, I mean, what I do, I suppose.