Matt Roper

He is currently gaining prominence with his creation of the stage character Wilfredo a grotesque satire of a Mediterranean romantic singer. In July 2010 Wilfredo became the surprise hit of the Port Eliot Literary Festival appearing onstage with Jarvis Cocker. In December 2011 Wilfredo recorded the Christmas Day edition of The Comedy Club Interviews for BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Roper has presented the character at the Café de Paris the Tobacco Factory in Bristol Brighton Komedia and at London’s Leicester Square Theatre. Matt Roper is a British comedian writer and musician who made his stand-up debut in the mid-1990s. The comedy industry website Chortle observed the character as "cantankerous often lecherous and almost certainly consumptive coughing and burping his way through the set at one point hacking up phlegm like a horse chewing a toffee.