is Mario Rosenstock funny ?

Ralf and Florian

Is he still doing Steve Staunton? I find he flogs his impressions to death even years after the people he's impersonating have disappeared from the spotlight.

Sephiroth_dude

He does a great Roy Keane impression.

seamus

To be fair, as an impressionist his pool of material is always going to be limited. He has to stick to people who are well-known, who have a distinctive voice and have a hook that he can go with.

And that pool doesn't change a lot, maybe by one or two people a year. And Gift Grub is a skit show, so it's typical for that format to set up common themes (like Roy Keane's radio show or Morgan Freeman doing the GAA) and do 2-5 minutes that revolve around that.

An impressionist whose job is to just mimic someone is going to have a very short shelf-life, you need to have some comedy you can run with.

I recall though with the TV show, it would probably have worked fine if he had some new material. As it was, if you heard him in the morning on the radio, then he was re-using a lot of that material in the show. Like going to see a comedian's tour a second time, jokes lose the lustre when your brain realises that they're not off-the-cuff.

His spot on the Late Late was enjoyable, but that's about all you could handle. A full 2 hour show of that would be a bit of a snorefest unless it almost all brand new stuff.

Hande hoche!

Enjoyed his Donal Skehan take.