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Robert Popper (Robert Darren Popper) was born on 23 November, 1967 in St. Marylebone, London, England, is a British producer, writer and actor. Discover Robert Popper's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?
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Robert Darren Popper |
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Writer · producer · actor |
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56 years old |
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Sagittarius |
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23 November, 1967 |
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23 November |
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St. Marylebone, London, England |
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United Kingdom
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Robert Popper Net Worth
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Robert Darren Popper (born 23 November 1967) is a British comedy producer, writer, actor, and author, best known as co-creator of the mock BBC documentary Look Around You, and creator of Channel 4's sitcom Friday Night Dinner.
He also wrote the books The Timewaster Letters, Return of The Timewaster Letters and The Timewaster Diaries under the pseudonym Robin Cooper.
Popper was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and is Jewish.
Popper began his career in British television working for The Comic Strip under Peter Richardson.
He then worked on the Channel 4 show, The Big Breakfast, writing for comedy puppets Zig and Zag.
He also made his first appearance as a comedian on The Eleven O'Clock Show as the character Simon Michael Simon.
Later, he was employed as a commissioning editor for Entertainment and Comedy at Channel 4.
His commissioning credits include the series Bo' Selecta!, Black Books, Spaced and Bremner, Bird and Fortune.
He commissioned three series of the Comedy Lab whilst at the channel.
He left the role to work on the first series of Look Around You (2002) with Peter Serafinowicz.
Look Around You was a spoof educational science comedy that ran on BBC2.
It was written and produced by Popper (who featured onscreen in one episode as "Jack Morgan", also performing the rock song "Little Mouse") and Serafinowicz (who appeared more frequently).
The pair wrote and played all the music in the series.
Look Around You was nominated for a BAFTA and a British Comedy Award.
In 2003, Popper co-wrote the short film Hello Friend with Graham Linehan.
Popper had a small, uncredited role in Edgar Wright's 2004 film Shaun of the Dead, in which he played a news reporter, and also appeared in Wright's next film, Hot Fuzz (2007), credited as "Not Janine".
In 2005, Popper returned to the screen with a second series of Look Around You, again co-written by him and Serafinowicz.
Made up of six half-hour shows, Look Around You 2 resembled an early-80s Tomorrow's World.
Besides Popper and Serafinowicz, the series featured Josie d'Arby and Olivia Colman as presenters.
Look Around You 2 won the Rose D'Or TV Award in 2006 for Best Comedy Series.
Popper was a programme consultant and co-writer for the TV sketch comedy The Peter Serafinowicz Show (2007), in which he also made several brief on-screen appearances.
Popper was the producer for the third and fourth series of Channel 4's Peep Show.
Both series won the British Comedy Award for Best Comedy, and Popper won a BAFTA for series 4.
Popper was the script editor on all three series of The Inbetweeners. He was also the script editor on Graham Linehan's The IT Crowd and the BBC3 comedy Him & Her.
In 2009 Popper and Serafinowicz wrote, produced, and performed in a 30-minute podcast entitled The Other Side.
The comedy purported to be a radio show coming from the only radio station ("Radio Spiritworld") to broadcast from the afterlife.
Robert and Peter also created the online world religion, "Tarvuism", making a variety of shorts.
The pair created a number of web videos on YouTube showcasing their surreal humour, including "Birds of Britain", "Markets of Britain" and "Intermission".
On 28 July 2010, Popper and Serafinowicz added a new narration track to an episode of "Out Of Town" by Jack Hargreaves in order to create the spoof film "Markets of Britain, a short film by Lee Titt"
Popper wrote on the fourteenth series of South Park; he was signed up by creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker following a week-long brainstorming session, and worked on the final four episodes of the first half-season.
Popper created, wrote and produced six series of the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner.
Series 1 aired from February to April 2011 and won the Rose D'or Award for Best Sitcom.
It received two BAFTA nominations and four British Comedy Award nominations.
He reprised his Look Around You character, Jack Morgan, for an appearance in the music video for Frankie & The Heartstrings' 2011 single "Hunger".
Robert Popper wrote the books The Timewaster Letters and Return of the Timewaster Letters under the pseudonym Robin Cooper.
The books were a set of madcap letters he wrote to weird associations and hobby groups.
Popper also co-wrote the first three episodes of Stath Lets Flats with Jamie Demetriou in 2018.
He also created and wrote I Hate You for Channel 4, starring Tanya Reynolds and Melissa Saint.
It dropped on All 4 in September 2022 and aired on C4 in October 2022.