It's never easy when impressionists meet their targets as Terry Mynott, one of the stars of the (sadly) axed Channel 4 series Very Important People, revealed at the launch of his new Channel 4 comedy drama The Mimic, which starts on Wednesday night. Terry, who plays an ordinary maintenance man with a remarkable talent for impressions, said The Mimic writer Matt Morgan once pushed him in front of one of Monkey's colleagues, The Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker. Brooker was one of Terry's finest impressions in VIP. "That was embarrassing," said Terry, recounting in his best Brooker voice: "Charlie said: 'I don't talk like that, what are you talking about?' I started to die inside. But he was really nice about it." Terry also explained that he found doing Jamie Oliver hard to mimic because, "I'm not clever enough to think ahead in speech impediment" and that he prefers not to do Simon Cowell impressions, because: "Britain hasn't got talent. It's got a dog."
