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Chapter 1: Who is Risteárd Cooper and what is his background?
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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...
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Chapter 2: How does Risteárd prepare for impressions of public figures?
I mean, I'm not sure, you know, I've been asked that a couple of times, but I don't think anyone hugely likes it unless you're, it depends on what you're doing with the person, I suppose. But like, I did an impression recently of, it's a guy called, what's his name? Will Slattery, and he does the Indo podcast.
And, you know, it's like he does this thing where he's just kind of outraged all the time. And, you know, and I just picked up on that. And but I think he's delighted that I did him. Do you know what I mean? And then he asked me on his podcast. And so so he's probably maybe listen now. I can't believe it was an impression of me on Newstalk. Like, you know, what's going on?
But, you know, I think he was pretty pleased that I did him. And then, but there are other people I'd say maybe that aren't. I wouldn't say, you know, the person who's currently on RT Radio 1 at the moment at this very time is massively keen on my impression of him.
I've absolutely no idea who you're talking about. I know, I'm just kind of, you know, a bit like that. Later on the show we'll be talking to a panel of people you've never heard of about stuff that's not going to change regardless of what we think about it.
And that's why people need to be listening to Newstalk instead. Well, this is it. I couldn't agree more, Ciara, while I'm on Newstalk. I mean, when you look, I suppose, right, at the commentary that we see now, and lots of which are working the World Cup, would you be able to do that pretty much that would be successful now? It's an interesting question.
I think that the answer is a difficult one to be diplomatic about. It's not the most fascinating group of individuals that are on the RT panel. But I mean, I do... I think Richie Sadlier is great, I have to say. I think he's a really good pundit. And, you know, the individuals are, you know...
So much of it as well is about striking a balance between, you know, the personalities and what you're looking at as well. I mean, it's been pretty difficult, to be fair to the panellists on RTE, you know, to be commentating on Ireland's progress over the last while because it's been very difficult to be entertaining about it or interesting about it because it's a pretty dull watch.
I mean, the actual football... And I suppose what people forget is, you know, around the time of Bill Amon and John and Liam Brady and Andapre match as a result of that, Ireland were doing really well. You know, Ireland were qualifying for stuff. And there was a real buzz. So it was... in a way it was a pretty timely thing for us to capitalize on that.
And, you know, everyone was watching the games. Everyone was, everyone was, you know, tuned into it. So they knew what we were referring to. And I mean, even the whole thing of okey-doke, I mean, I'd be walking down the street and people say okey-doke, you know, I mean, it was, that was, you know, although it wasn't, it wasn't, I was, I was wrecked.
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