The Timewaster Letters

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This book, then, is a compendium of pointlessness and absurdity – Popper’s alter-ego, Robin Cooper, is a meandering, well-meaning, but daft individual who wastes everyone’s time with a relentless series of utterly irrelevant, often bizarre or inappropriate, letters to all manner of industries and organisations across the UK. Here’s an example: http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670918515,00.html?strSrchSql=Andrew+Rawnsley*/The_End_of_the_Party_Andrew_Rawnsley [ dead link] Robert and Peter created the online afterlife comedy, The Other Side (Radio Spiritworld), as well as the online world religion, Tarvuism ( www.tarvu.com). More recently he’s written the pretty decent sitcom Friday Night Dinner, but he’s also worked for the often excellent Peep Show.

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I used to watch BBC all the time. But now we get BBCA but I found recently that the same shows are there. My Brit friends don’t believe I just discovered Dr Who. We go more for violence here. I did take an online course through BBC . Classic Theatre , I , Claudius it was. I will be on the look out for Peep Show. Is there any violence at all? Dawn French rose to fame as one half of the comedy duo French and Saunders with Jennifer Saunders, appearing first in Channel 4’s The Comedy Strip Presents before debuting the hit series French & Saunders in 1987. French’s roles in Murder Most Horrid, The Vicar of Dibley and Jam and Jersualem cemented her place as one of the UK’s top comedians. She has written a number of bestselling books and recently released an Audible Original podcast, Titting About, with Saunders. It’s Christmas so, you know, we’re going to be upbeat and all that, so let’s have a look at a funny book from 2004 from the fictional character Robin Cooper (Robert Popper is the man behind all of this, in the same way our esteemed editor Mr. Wapojif is really called Arnold Schwarzenegger). Robin Cooper is, of course, the infamous creation of comedy polymath Robert Popper. Cooper has been on the wrong end of many a broadcast telephone conversation, from radio phone-ins to TV sports talk shows, and wrote the Timewaster Letters series. Find sources: "Robert Popper"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( July 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Audible, the world’s leading provider of spoken-word entertainment, is to release The Timewaster Letters Compendium by Robert Popper (aka ‘Robin Cooper’) on 18th February 2021. The production brings together the cult classics The Timewaster Letters and Return Of The Timewaster Letters in audio for the first time, with Dawn French, Peter Serafinowicz and Popper performing. You’ll also get to hear a selection of Popper’s world-famous prank phone calls, in which he poses as the hapless and hopeless Robin Cooper. Boing Boing Video. "Markets of Britain, a short film by Lee Titt". Youtube. Boing Boing . Retrieved 19 June 2023.

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Popper is one of the unsung heroes of modern British comedy – you’ll probably have no idea who he is, but he’s been instrumental across a wide variety of cult TV shows such as Look Around You. What makes these letters glorious is the flawless deadpan of Cooper's style - 'Thank you ever so much for your charming letter of 12 March (the date, incidentally, of my mother's birthday!) But that is, sadly, irrelevant' - which engenders entirely serious responses - 'Dear Mr Cooper, I'm afraid we have been unable to identify the manufacturer of your wife's hair station and are therefore unable to help you'.The best ones are when there is actual correspondence from the poor unfortunate who has to deal with these letters The massive best-selling Timewaster Letters books featured the wonderfully silly letters of Robin Cooper (a.k.a. Friday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper) in which he shared his madcap ideas - and even madcapper inventions - with everyone from the British Halibut Association to the Peanut Council. The resulting replies, as well as Cooper’s replies-to-these-replies, had a nation in hysterics.

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In December 2008, Robert set up his own production company, Popper Pictures, to make comedy TV shows. On a final note, if you’ve not come across the Peep Show before then it’s one of the best sitcoms from British shores for some time. It ran from 2003 to 2015 and turned its cast, particularly David Mitchell and Robert Webb, into stars. In addition to the two Timewaster books, The Timewaster Letters Compendium will feature a host of audio exclusive content, including many of Popper’s ridiculously silly prank telephone calls, in which he poses as Robin Cooper. There’s also an introduction by Popper himself, a fun, informative conversation between Popper and Peter Serafinowicz all about the history of The Timewaster Letters, and a world exclusive with ‘The Cement Murder Mystery’, the first thriller story (and possibly the world’s worst thriller story) penned by Robin Cooper himself, and read by Jonathan Keeble. Cooper's letters are obvious, shrill and unfunny which probably explains why the replies are similarly leaden and flat. He is the classroom wag and the cheeky chappie on the playground but he is nowhere near publishable meterial. In donaldson's hands the spoofs would have been smooth parodies of the skill of craig brown.Popper seemed to do this for a laugh in the late ’90s, with the results proving funny enough to add together into this excellent collection of fun. Hurray! The Timewaster Letters This might feel like the end of the week to you, but actually it's just the start. The start of... ROBIN COOPER WEEK!