Cowen leads political stars in YouTube skit

HE MAY not possess matinee idol looks, or the drawl of Sean Connery, but Brian Cowen has emerged as an unlikely movie star in his own short biopic.

“Brian Cowen the movie” is literally an overnight success. Only uploaded on Thursday, by yesterday the four-and-half minute feature had already been viewed by over 1,000 people on YouTube, shooting it straight into the top 20 viewed videos in Ireland.

The “completely fictional” short is not for the faint hearted. It features a dishevelled, heavy-drinking “Taoiseach”, a psychotic gun-totting “Big ‘Willie’ O’Dea” and a bloodsucking ghoulish “Lenihan,” as well as an appealing Minister for Health, played by former apprentice contestant Jennifer Maguire. Her answer to an “outbreak of mumps in Laois” is “burn them, burn them all”.