Gary Cooke is a writer, comedian and writer best known for his role in the Apres Match satirical sketches on RTE Television, impersonating, among others, Eamon Dunphy, Gary Lineker and Bono. He starred in I, Keano and co-wrote and performed in the musical Macbeths. More recently, he had a lead role in Gary Brown’s play It’s Not Easy.
01 What was your earliest ambition?
To play for Spurs
02 It’s our round. What are you having?
Left Bank Bordeaux
03 Social media platform of choice?
None
04 A mentor or someone that inspired you?
No one could mentor me
05 If you could be born into another time and place, where and when would it be?
The future
06 Favourite writers?
Chris Hitchens
07 A film you’d watch again tonight?
Midnight Run
08 Is there an unsung hero you’d like to thank?
My wife Lorraine
09 Something that no longer happens that you miss?
Meetings with my mother
10 Desert island pet: Dog or cat?
Heart says dog, head says cat
11 Favourite ad?
Aliens for ‘Mash get Smash’
12 Are you an early adopter? What’s new?
No
13 A brand to which you feel some loyalty?
None
14 Someone you might be starstruck to meet?
It would have to have been Gay Byrne
15 Something that recently brought a tear to your eye?
Onions
16 Something that recently got your goat?
A fella who overtook me at a roundabout
17 What would be your fantasy act of heroism?
Ridding the world of mental illness
18 You’ve won the Euromillions and disappeared. Where might we find you?
Up my own backside
19 Someone or something that strikes you as beautiful?
Humility
20 ‘Here lies Gary Cooke’. Complete your epitaph…
‘He predicted this would happen’
