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.imdb.com. Mario Rosenstock
Retrieved 1 April 2007. However, he is now best known for the popular ''

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'' segments which have featured on the

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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,

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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

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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 José Mourinho in a parody of a song from the musical '' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat''. This spread like wildfire on Internet message boards and eventually it was played on a

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broadcast. Mourinho had heard the song and enjoyed the impersonation so much he asked Rosenstock to perform a private show for him and the

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squad. Rosenstock later released, with Mourinho's blessing, a single version of "

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". He also released another song ("

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") 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

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. In 2005, Rosenstock achieved the Christmas number one single in the Irish music Charts, with a parody of

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's song ''

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'' (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

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''), 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,

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and

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. Outstanding Achievement Award at the 11th annual PPI (Phonographic Performance Ireland) Radio Awards. In November 2012 his new show called The Mario Rosenstock Show started on

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. A second series of the show began to air in September 2013.

Family

Rosenstock is married, with two children. His uncle,

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, is one of Ireland's most notable Irish language poets and member of INNTI with Michael Davitt (Poet),

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and Liam Ó Muirthile.Gabriel Rosenstock
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and writer from

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, Germany. He never spoke German again after the war out of shame. He himself escaped the Nazis regime by only one generation, as he had Jewish roots. His grandmother was a

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from Athenry, County Galway.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenstock, Mario 1971 births 20th-century Irish comedians 21st-century Irish comedians Living people Irish male stage actors Irish comedy musicians Irish impressionists (entertainers) Irish male comedians Irish satirists Irish parodists Irish male soap opera actors Parody musicians Radio personalities from the Republic of Ireland The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show Irish people of German-Jewish descent