Robin Cooper & family v The Telemarketer

by Robert Popper on September 30, 2009 · View Comments

Telemarketers are constantly calling me at home, so a few months ago I decided to get my own back. When a guy called from some satellite TV sort of company thingy (it’s always so vague) I had a bit of fun. Hope you like…

My best bit is when I say ‘I’m 90 years old’ and he pauses for 0.3 seconds and then says, ‘Aww’.

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1 Meniscus September 30, 2009 at 7:14 am: Brilliant.

More of the Cooper family please!
2 Tom Daylight September 30, 2009 at 9:09 am: This was my favourite of the first lot of Timewaster calls. Had me laughing hysterically!
3 WestEndWookie September 30, 2009 at 10:37 am: marvellous! from start to finish
4 Robert Popper September 30, 2009 at 10:42 am: Thanks!
5 Hanna September 30, 2009 at 3:23 pm: Awesome. Many chuckles were had! Love the conversations in the background between the characters.
6 Neil McIntyre September 30, 2009 at 3:39 pm: This guy must be on some amazing commission. Such patience.
7 dirk September 30, 2009 at 3:55 pm: Were they nice poached eggs? What a polite young man, do let us know if he calls back.
8 Arandora September 30, 2009 at 4:37 pm: Brilliant! I must try that for myself with the wife.
9 Lewis September 30, 2009 at 5:02 pm: This is one of my favourites
Robert i saw this video of a prankcall earlier and thought i must share it with you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5z4Vs26-TI

you’ll love this im sure!
10 Nick September 30, 2009 at 6:02 pm: Just watched it for the second time, still making me laugh out loud. Wonderful!
11 Tanya October 1, 2009 at 8:09 am: Hilarious. I almost (but not quite) felt sorry for the poor man.
12 Drolgerg October 1, 2009 at 1:36 pm: Genius! That’s how to deal with cold-calling pests! I love the bit where Mrs Cooper talks about the TV show about eggs, he asks “Were they nice eggs?” & ‘she’ says “I don’t know, they were on the telly!”. Brilliant: Sir, you deserve a medal
13 Robert Popper October 1, 2009 at 5:07 pm: I accept a medal. Yes.
14 Joel October 2, 2009 at 4:15 am: Genius. Did he call back?
15 misterfricative October 2, 2009 at 4:38 am: I don’t usually care for this sort of thing, but this, sir, was brilliant. And marvelously sustained! I larfed and larfed. Well done!

Warren T (retired)
16 Robert Popper October 2, 2009 at 6:28 am: Thanks Warren T.
17 Robert Popper October 2, 2009 at 6:28 am: Sadly, no.
18 Rich October 2, 2009 at 7:29 am: That’s hillarious.
19 simon kane October 2, 2009 at 12:23 pm: I’d forgotten how good this was. Just wonderful.
20 philipb October 2, 2009 at 1:15 pm: Loved it! We had a spate of calls in the US (mostly timeshares) where they’d pretend to be calling on the recommendation of a friend (they’d use some generic name). Having time on my hands I strung the telemarketer along & then confessed that I was surprised that “John Smith” would have given out my number since we were having a secret gay affair & were very much still in the closet.

5 seconds of silence then he hung up! Never called back since.
21 AndrewRoberts October 3, 2009 at 6:56 am: Fantastic! Will be sure to pass it round.
22 Nick October 5, 2009 at 2:20 pm: I used to do this for a living, and I came across real people exactly like this. Funny stuff.
23 DS October 6, 2009 at 7:49 am: Maybe they were all winding you up, Nick.
24 Lucy October 6, 2009 at 3:31 pm: Brilliant! Thank you for making such hilarity available for free!

I worked in a call centre years ago, like Nick, and we put together a call centre magazine featuring a lot of transcripts of real calls like this. Some probably were wind ups, but at least some of them were genuine. We loved it.
25 Carl H October 17, 2009 at 12:13 pm: This is one of the funniest things l’ve heard in my life!
26 Fat Roland October 29, 2009 at 8:04 am: Fried gold. Absolutely brilliant and strangely sweet.
27 Nibb December 3, 2009 at 9:04 am: Absolute genius!

I just tell them to f*ck off!!
28 Nibb December 3, 2009 at 3:04 pm: Absolute genius!

I just tell them to f*ck off!!