is Mario Rosenstock funny ?

Phat Dick

I saw him on the late late show about a week ago and his shtick hasn't changed a bit since about 2003. Is badly mimicking Wee Daniel while dressed as Miriam meant to be funny? Fair play to him tho if he's still about to sell out gigs doing it after all this time.

me_irl

It's subjective.

/thread.

barneygumble99

I find his Today FM short skits funny but I don't find his shows as funny for some reason. Just don't think they translate as well to a live audience.

Allinall

Yes.

PeterParker957

As funny as infected herpes.

Pang

No.

twignme

No

backspin.

I'd like to see himself and callan team up for a political satire.

TheQuietBeatle

He's somebody who manages to constantly get air time despite being unfunny and predictable.

mickdw

2 minutes on radio is ok but his TV show was terrible.

Westernyelp

Can not stand listening to him

McMurphy

Funny how?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfcy15ZUE2c

Arghus

There's a bit of funniness in there, but, as usual with most Irish entertainment fixtures, he's spread thin whatever was good about his act and is badly over exposed.

Zaph

To be fair to him, when Gift Grub started he was very funny. However he's become the radio equivalent of The Simpsons - should have given it up a long time before it stopped being consistently funny and turned into a dead horse being flogged with alarming regularity. I saw a bit of his first live show on TV once. I was genuinely embarrassed for the man. Being the porn video booth cleaner in a sex shop would have been a more dignified way to make a living.

Noveight

I'm sure he's a funny bloke but his knack seems a bit rinse-and-repeat.

Sephiroth_dude

One of the funnier Irish comedians, when he had his show about two years ago on RTÉ, he did fantastic impression of Christy Moore singing , wish I could find the clip of it.

The Rape of Lucretia

PeterParker957 wrote: »

As funny as infected herpes.

Hitler caught infected herpes from a prostitute. Prompting him to a 13 page rant about herpes in Mein Kampf, as a detour from outlining his political credo. Thats pretty funny.

Dr Crayfish

I'm delighted to say I don't know anything about him. I may have missed his 15 mins of fame while living abroad. If you want to save yourself from being frequently irritated, just don't turn on Irish TV channels, they are just God awful.

freshpopcorn

He's funny the odd time but I wouldn't pay to go to see him!

murpho999

He can do some decent impressions but his content is poor.

andekwarhola

On the basis of what I've seen, I have to admit, he's a very good mimic. Don't really follow enough of his stuff to judge all the content.

PowerToWait

andekwarhola wrote: »

On the basis of what I've seen, I have to admit, he's a very good mimic. Don't really follow enough of his stuff to judge all the content.

He's fairly limited. Not in the same league as Oliver Callan, who also does satire particularly well.

Turtyturd

He was very funny initially. Think Gift Grub and it’s popularity played a big part in today fm becoming big during the 00’s. Have only seen a few minutes of his tv show but it didn’t look very good. Think as with South Park a lot of the humor might come from being able to take things off so quickly. If there was a big news story you knew there would be a sketch on it the next day. That’s lost on standard tv and with live shows.

Clippett

He was funny in about 1997 for about 10 minutes!!! Now it's just regurgitated predictable sh1t.. Don't know how he still gets air time. Ian Dempsey putting on fake laughs to his "skits" is even worse

chopperbyrne

Most of the Gift Grub radio shorts are good, but his TV work and live shows are rubbish.

peckerhead

Zaph wrote: »

Being the porn video booth cleaner in a sex shop would have been a more dignified way to make a living.

You could say that for many of the jobs going at RTÉ.

_Dara_

andekwarhola wrote: »

On the basis of what I've seen, I have to admit, he's a very good mimic. Don't really follow enough of his stuff to judge all the content.

He is. But... I just don’t really “get” impressionists. They’re so limited. Not for me.

Badly Drunk Boy

He was great in Glenroe. I mean...I never saw him in Glenroe.

Bob Harris

It was funny the first time. Fairly funny the second time. Not that funny the third time and now it's please fúck off with the same shít you've been peddling for 20 years.

Agricola

I used to love listening to his Gift Grub slot in the morning. Wasn't that bothered with his live show stuff.

Colonel_McCoy

yes in 2003

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.