About

Robert Popper is a multi-award winning writer, producer and performer, and best-selling author.

He produced Peep Show for Channel 4, winning a BAFTA for series 4 and British Comedy Awards for both series 3 and 4. With Peter Serafinowicz, Robert created, starred in and composed the music for the BBC 2 spoof science comedy, Look Around You, winning the Rose D’or for Best Comedy in 2006 plus a BAFTA nomination.

Robert has written on a number of shows, including BBC’s Harry & Paul, and The Peter Serafinowicz Show. He has also script-edited some of the country’s most exciting comedy programmes, including Graham Linehan’s EMMY award-winning IT Crowd, Peep Show series 5 & 6 and the British Comedy Award-winning The Inbetweeners.

As a Commissioning Editor for comedy at Channel 4, Robert commissioned Bo’ Selecta!, helped develop The IT Crowd, oversaw two series of Black Books, as well as series 2 of Spaced, and ran Comedy Labs.

Under his pseudonym, Robin Cooper, he wrote The Timewaster Letters books, which have so far sold over 300,000 copies.

Robert has performed on Charlie Higson & Paul Whitehouse’s Sony Award-winning Radio 4 series, Down the Line, and appeared in Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s movie, Hot Fuzz, saying just three words – “I’m not Janine”.

Robert also worked for three months in Los Angeles as a writer on Sacha Baron Cohen’s movie, Bruno.

In December 2008, Robert set up his own production company, Popper Pictures, to make comedy TV shows. Popper Pictures will be working alongside Big Talk Productions (Spaced, Black Books, Shaun of The Dead).

Robert and Peter recently created the online show, The Other Side (Radio Spiritworld), which will be made into a BBC Radio 4 series in 2010. Robert is currently writing and producing two new TV shows and has just worked on a brainstorm retreat for South Park in LA.