Bono as Mrs. Doubtfire?

In a recent interview with Robin Williams in Dublin’s The Event Guide, interviewer Paul Byrne took the opportunity to ask Williams about Bono and The Edge toward the end of the interview:

Our time is nearly up, so I ask Williams if he’s aware that there are those in the U2 camp who have taken to calling Bono Mrs. Doubtfire, given his ever-growing resemblance to a certain jet-setting movie superstar. “My stunt double!” he laughs, before launching into the chorus of ‘In The Name of Love’. “Whenever I see him, I go, ‘Hello, son’. And The Edge. It used to be just Edge, now it’s The Edge. If he ever gets knighted, it’ll be Sir Edge. ‘I knight you, Sir Edge’.”

When we last spoke, Williams hadn’t quite gotten around to exploring U2 country all that much, having just managed a trip to Knock and a quick gander around Galway. “Yeah, it was weird. I was with a friend, and someone told her about the Galway Races. And she said, ‘The Galway Racist?!’. ‘No, the Galway Races’. ‘Oh, okay, that’ll be fine’. I’d love to get back, I had a lovely time. When I was in Dublin, I saw the Book of Kells. It’s a great, great place. I’ve got to come back and ride my bike there, because I’ve heard it’s a great place for bike riding.” And it would be the perfect opportunity to put that U2 tribute band together. “Oh, that would be great. Bonopalooza.”

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