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19th Jun 2016

Aprés Match’s Gary Cooke reveals he got a warning from Bono’s friends about mimicking the singer

Carl Kinsella

You might not know the name Gary Cooke, but you certainly know who he is.

Cooke is one-third of the legendary Aprés Match sketch comedy troupe, most famous for his spot-on impersonation of Eamon Dunphy.

Not content with lampooning Ireland’s best-known football pundit, Cooke also tries his hand at impersonating Bono from time to time… But he’s been warned against it, he revealed to the Irish Sunday Mirror this weekend:

Speaking to the paper, he said:

“I remember some of Bono’s mates telling me my impression of Bono was not really good enough. And really, to steer clear, that I shouldn’t be doing it.

“His Praetorian Guard kinda threatened me, you know? In a kind of nuanced, humorous way.

“But I knew they were kind of, they were like best friends on the payroll. ‘You’re not allowed to say that’ – some people kind of see themselves as above it.”

The troupe have been parodying U2 for a long time, such as this sketch of their performance Live At The Olympia in 2001.

Clip via Conor Ryan.

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Topics:

Apres Match,Bono