Phil Cool (born Philip Martin; April 1948)[1][2] is a retired English comedian, impressionist and musician.
Whereas many of his impressionist peers concentrated on mimicking the voice of the target and changing in and out of a succession of make-up and costumes, Cool instead placed an emphasis on thrusting his eyebrows, lips and even, seemingly, his ears into the positions required of the part.
[4] Cool's debut television appearance was in the short-lived comedy show Rock With Laughter, it was around this time that he made a career-defining performance at Jasper Carrott's Folk Club "The Boggery".
spin-off Saturday Stayback and, in 1984, he became one of the voice artists for the satirical show Spitting Image, impersonating Boy George, Holly Johnson and Mick Jagger for the first two series.
A year later he made another series for Central that was entitled Phil Cool, recorded at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry.
He had a brief comeback in 1997 when he released his fifth official video, Classic Cool (this has been reissued on DVD), but in August 2000 his career had to be put on hold when he suffered a heart attack, which left him in hospital for eight months.
[3] Writing for the BBC in 2003, author Mark Lewisohn said: "Cool was an amazing talent... able to contort his features into a caricature semblance of the intended victim.
"[7] The 2008 album CSI:Ambleside by Half Man Half Biscuit contains a song called "National Shite Day", in which a character named "Stringy Bob" had been locked up for sending Phil Cool a dead bird in the mail, with a note that said "Is this your sanderling?".