This might feel like the end of the week to you, but actually it's just the start. The start of... ROBIN COOPER WEEK!

But what exactly do we mean by that? Here's the man himself (yes, Robin is a man) to explain:
 
Hello, it's Robin Cooper here. How are you? I'm in fine fettle. In fact, so fine a fettle am I in, that I've just whistled thrice.

Anyway, a little while back I received a letter saying that I had physically won 615,810 Euros in the Spanish Lottery. Congratulations!  So I phoned the man, a gentleman by the name(s) of Don Luis Lopez to find out how I could get all my winnings...
 
This video depicts the first in a series of genuine phone calls between Mr Cooper and Don Luis Lopez:

If you liked that, just wait until you see what happened next. That won't be long, either - we'll be publishing a new Robin Cooper phone call every day next week on Comedy Extra.

Robin who?

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.

As well as inhabiting the skin of his hi-pitched alter-ego, Robert Popper co-created Look Around You with Peter Serafinowicz, produced the third and fourth series of Peep Show, and a whole lot more.

Watch out for the next Robin Cooper phonecall on Monday 30th November on Comedy Extra.

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King Henry 8.0 writes...

I like the idea of ebuy, or whatever that website's called, but it's not so easy to use when your feedback rating hits rock bottom. Do they not realise I'm the bloody King of England? I'm trying to buy my sixth (and second favourite) wife an Epilady. She says to wait and buy it for her as a Christmas present but the truth is I can't leave it that long. I mean, she's lovely and everything but she is so terribly fuzzy around the leg areas. It's like sleeping next to a Brillo pad. I probably shouldn't say that, she has just been a total love and presented me with a massive bowl of luxury ice-cream with extra nutty bits and a bakewell tart on top. But no, I must get her some shaving equipment if domestic equilibrium is to return to the Tudor household.

I think the trouble with ebuy started when I decided to sell my "Ten Step Fat Attack" DVD. I shifted it in the first day to some bunter in the west country who'd been a little over-enthusiastic with the doughnuts, but I forgot to remove the item from my "For Sale" inventory. When I sold it again the following morning I thought I could improvise a solution and thus greatly increase my profit margin. It turns out that a print-out of a Mr Motivator routine is not deemed as useful in the fat-fighting stakes as the DVD was and I was promptly cussed to within an inch of my online membership. Some nerdy git with a face like a slapped arse even dared to write that from the look of my avatar I should maybe have kept the DVD and used it myself to lessen the considerably porky chops I was sporting. I believe he is inciting a 'flame war' which in my book means he's practically asking me to have him burnt at the stake.
 
So the problem of buying and selling through this pox-ridden site remains. And it's such a shame since I recently discovered that I own the rights to St James' Park in central London. Apparently I bought it as a hunting ground way back when. If I could only pop that online with a tag of, say, a couple of million, it would keep us both in Vienettas and Ladyshaves for a good long while - with enough left over for an Xbox.

- H8

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Henry 8.0 is written by Mark Davison and Glen Long and is a Monkey production for BBC Comedy.

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There's a doctor in the house, so be quiet. It's Dr. Firth, and I get paid more than you. I shall answer your questions no matter how worthless they are.

Letter from Wanda:

Do champions use drugs?

Wanda, listen to me very carefully. I'm not only a doctor, but also a scientist, and I have a fair amount of darts trophies - which makes me a champion of sorts, wouldn't you agree? (please don't respond to that, I don't waste time on follow ups).

Most of my life I've been chasing the dragon, and I think I'm gaining on him. He was last seen in Huddersfield. So my answer is probably yes, but it's a narrow yes, surrounded by possible uncertainty. I have recently been developing a new drug that may actually help people win the lottery. This would usher in a whole new era of drug-taking champions, but also may de-value the pound I've been told. However it was an armchair economist that told me that so I'm not 100%. I realise you may not have understood all my doctory jargon there, so my short answer is a capitalised YES.

January Jones says: I have been addicted to other peoples' test results for a few years now. Sure, it can be an inconvenience at times, but apart from that I have experienced no negative side effects.

Kelvin in Otley says: I started writing a book once, but never got around to finishing it.

- Thanks chaps.

Letter from Keith Braggit:

Last night I dreamt I was a slave in a Colombian brothel. Is there any drug I can take to dream the exact same thing tonight? I feel I have unfinished business there.

Keith, I would usually recommend every drug I know of, regardless of negative side effects or whether they would work, but in this case I would advise you to stay sober. My best advise would be to get a ticket to Colombia and find that brothel. You may end up walking into the greatest opportunity of your life. You weren't very specific in your question but I think I know what you're talking about.

Letter from a Staffordshire Lad:

I took a boatload of old drugs I found, and dreamt up the idea of "tinned sandwiches". Do you think I should take this idea on Dragons' Den or just try and raise the money myself?

Well lad, your first mistake was telling me, because I'm a patent whore. I'm also a patient whore, and sit for hours not selling myself, but allowing myself to sell itself without advertisement. Have I confused you? Of course I have, because I'm a doctor, and I've just patented the greatest idea you've ever had.
 
To upgrade your brain on this subject slightly, my resident moving pictures expert Jerry Jackson has prepared a small animated offering:

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Doctor Firth and Jerry Jackson are the twisted brainwrongs of David Firth who animated the severely creepy web phenomenon Salad Fingers, introduced the notorious Devvo to the world, and a whole lot more.

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