Mario Rosenstock

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Mario Rosenstock
Rosenstock at the opening of the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in March 2010
Born (1970-08-31) 31 August 1970 (age 54)
London, United Kingdom
NationalityIrish
SpouseBláthnaid Rosenstock
Children2
Notable works and rolesGift Grub

Mario Rosenstock (born 31 August 1970) is an Irish actor, comedian, impressionist and musician.

Career

Rosenstock first came to the attention of the Irish public playing the role of Dr. David Hanlon in the soap Glenroe in the 1990s.[1]

However, he is now best known for the popular

Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show on Today FM since May 1999 which Rosenstock created alongside Paul McLoone, a radio presenter with Today FM and also frontman of the Northern Irish pop-punk/new-wave band, The Undertones
which occurred in 1999 and when McLoone served as a producer for the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show.

Gift Grub is a series of comic sketches, impersonations and parodies that have featured Rosenstock assuming the personae of Bertie Ahern, Ronan Keating, Colin Farrell and Roy Keane amongst many others; he also provides the manic voice of Right Price Tiles radio spokesperson "Daft Dave".

Rosenstock performed an impersonation of

I Sign a Little Player or Two
") on the internet with a parody of Mourinho in an interview then breaking into song.

In 2005, he starred as Keano in the comedy musical play I, Keano, which concerns Keane storming out of the Republic of Ireland national football squad during preparations for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.[3]

In 2005, Rosenstock achieved the

Christmas number one single in the Irish music Charts, with a parody of Will Young's song Leave Right Now (which itself was a Christmas number-one in 2003). The parody concerned Roy Keane's controversial departure from Manchester United and his falling-out with Alex Ferguson
. As of 2011, Rosenstock is the last Irish national to top his country's Christmas charts.

Between December 2007 and May 2009, Rosenstock worked on a puppet comedy series entitled Special 1 TV (originally I'm on Setanta Sports), which was presented as a parody weekly football talk show hosted by "José Mourinho". Rosenstock voiced all the puppet characters on the sketch, with the exception of "Rafael Benitez", who was performed by Keith Burke, including the main character Mourinho, his studio co-hosts "Sven-Göran Eriksson" and "Wayne Rooney", and regular phone-in callers like "Alex Ferguson", "Arsène Wenger", "Roy Keane" and "Mick McCarthy", as well as the non-football-related characters, Nelson Mandela,[4] Willie Nelson, Barack Obama and Tom Cruise.

Outstanding Achievement Award at the 11th annual PPI (Phonographic Performance Ireland) Radio Awards.[5]

In November 2012 his new show called The Mario Rosenstock Show started on RTÉ2. A second series of the show began to air in September 2013.

Family

Rosenstock is married, with two children. His uncle,

nurse from Athenry, County Galway
.

Filmography

Notes

  1. ^ imdb.com. Mario Rosenstock. Retrieved 1 April 2007.
  2. ^ "Jose's galacticos". The Times. 23 July 2006. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011.
  3. ^ "I, Keano". rte.ie Retrieved 1 April 2007.
  4. ^ "Pulling Strings". www.nytimes.com Retrieved 13 May 2008.
  5. ^ PPI Radio Awards announced, 10 October 2011.
  6. ^ Gabriel Rosenstock
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