Listen "Robert Popper - Writer, Producer & Performer"
Episode Synopsis
"Friday Night Dinner" writer Popper shares some truly bizarre offcuts including the fake CV that landed him his big break in comedy, a prank community woodland notice and a sitcom about a wasp.
Clips performed by: David Holt, Alex Lowe, Toby Longworth and Lizzie Roper.
Warning: This episode contains strong language.
Robert Popper is an award-winning writer, producer, performer, and bestselling author. He is the writer and producer of all 6 series of Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner, he co-created and starred in BBC 2’s Look Around You with Peter Serafinowicz, produced the Bafta-winning Peep Show, wrote on season 14 of South Park, and script-edited British TV comedies The Inbetweeners, The IT Crowd and Him & Her. More recently he co-wrote several episodes of Channel 4's Stath Lets Flats.
Under his pseudonym, Robin Cooper, he wrote the bestselling The Timewaster Letters and the follow-up, Return of The Timewaster Letters, and an audio compendium of both has just been released on Audible read by Popper himself and featuring the voices of Serafinowicz and Dawn French.
For more details about the writer, the offcuts and the actors performing them see the episode show notes: https://offcutsdrawer.com/robert-popper
Clips performed by: David Holt, Alex Lowe, Toby Longworth and Lizzie Roper.
Warning: This episode contains strong language.
Robert Popper is an award-winning writer, producer, performer, and bestselling author. He is the writer and producer of all 6 series of Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner, he co-created and starred in BBC 2’s Look Around You with Peter Serafinowicz, produced the Bafta-winning Peep Show, wrote on season 14 of South Park, and script-edited British TV comedies The Inbetweeners, The IT Crowd and Him & Her. More recently he co-wrote several episodes of Channel 4's Stath Lets Flats.
Under his pseudonym, Robin Cooper, he wrote the bestselling The Timewaster Letters and the follow-up, Return of The Timewaster Letters, and an audio compendium of both has just been released on Audible read by Popper himself and featuring the voices of Serafinowicz and Dawn French.
For more details about the writer, the offcuts and the actors performing them see the episode show notes: https://offcutsdrawer.com/robert-popper
More episodes of the podcast The Offcuts Drawer - Successful Writers Share Their Best Worst Ideas
Christopher Douglas - Comedy Writer & Actor
21/09/2025
Adele Parks MBE - Novelist
24/08/2025
Dan Maier - Comedy Writer
27/07/2025
Louise Candlish - Author & Novelist
13/07/2025
Lynn Ferguson - Screenwriter & Storyteller
15/06/2025
Ian Martin - Screenwriter
01/06/2025
Lisa Jewell - Novelist
08/12/2021