Après Match's Risteárd Cooper
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Who is Risteárd Cooper and what is his background?
The Pat Kenny Show. With timber living log cabins. Saturday and Sunday from 10am on Newstalk. Conversation that counts.
What's your point, Janet? To be or not to be, that is the question. No, the question was, has this been a good World Cup? Yeah, no, I heard what the question was and the answer remains the same.
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. It was kind of like almost Monty Python-esque kind of a sketch. So but it was important to nail the impression of Pat. But with him, I noticed when he was on TV, his gestures were quite square and full on, square on to the camera.
And his movement sort of made me just kind of, you know, informed how he might speak. So, yeah, it's there's one or two people, I suppose, over the years that you need to really kind of study and study their behavior in order to get there. Because nobody had really done him up until that point. And he wasn't an immediately obvious candidate, I suppose, for mimicry. Are some people very doable? Yeah, I think they are. And I suppose it depends on your own vocal dexterity, I suppose, to some extent. And also how you hear people. There are some people, I suppose, that... you need to make it a very, like I do a sketch, for example, with George Hook and with the contrast between him, say, and Eddie O'Sullivan, you know, and that sort of contrast between those two is kind of a paramount to the sketch working because there's just such a big kind of vocal shift.
And I'm also doing, you know, Brendan O'Connor and people like that. And there's a whole new kind of, I suppose, canon of impressions out there now for me, which is great. But there's always... I mean, my show, which is called Out of His Head, which I'm touring, is... It's a combination of impressions, but it's not just me standing there doing voices for the show. I take people on a bit of a journey. I mean, one of the themes running through it is, you know, what we were... The cultural landscape, I suppose, how that's changed from, you know, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, to the way it is now. And I suppose what we could get away with saying, or not even get away with saying, but what was... what was just, you know, presented to us and along the lines of, say, Housewife of the Year, for example, with Gay Byrne.
And you're looking back on that now and you're thinking, how the hell was that even a programme? How was it legal? When you look back even at Apprematch, which began back in 1998, it was also brave at the time. I mean... Were you tapping into the characters themselves or was it the whole idea of punditry? And were you ever nervous of that idea that you were kind of ridiculing people, but in a humorous, it was a kind way?
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