He is shown working on various TV networks and channels, the fictional Fulchester Television (FTV) and the BBC being his primary employers.
He is the ostensible author of Roger's Profanisaurus (ISBN 1-902212-05-3), a parody of Roget's Thesaurus which is updated with extra entries in each edition of Viz and has been published several times under considerably risqué titles.
[4] He often stays at his favourite lap-dancing club in Acton[4] until past 3am, but lives in Fulchester with his 17-year-old Thai wife and fifteen Staffordshire Bull Terriers.
He has had five previous wives (two "accidentally" murdered) and is a convicted rapist, undischarged bankrupt, a hopeless alcoholic, extremely sexist, very right-wing, a bigot and a recovering cocaine addict.
They are used in other Viz strips when a reporter or narrator is needed and, on these occasions, Roger is generally (although not always) without his usual lecherous and/or violent behaviour.
Tom discovers that the BBC is in on the deception and reluctantly takes part by being a fake phone-in contestant on Radio 4.
As Tom attempts to recover, Roger organizes the ensuing scandal and his recovery to ensure a lucrative contract.
When meeting the Director General of FTV in the cafeteria, Roger turns up drunk and is delighted to be told his show is being recommissioned for five years along with a huge salary increase.
However, Roger then is told there is no hot food available (another reference to the incident with Clarkson), causing him to fly into a rage and then punch the Director General too.
In another strip, Roger finally finds mainstream success by presenting Bargain Hunt only to have it ruined when a dead body is fished out of his swimming pool.
Roger's version of the show consisted of him launching live rabbits from a catapult for Jack Charlton and Ted Nugent to shoot.
In the last panel he is shown fronting Fulchester Tonight, with the false teeth clacking dreadfully as he attempts to be much more youthful.
Due to an "administrative error", Roger has been asked by the BBC to present the Antiques Roadshow, but arrives late as he claimed that there is "some sort of fucking jumble sale" in the hall: Tom tells him that it is part of the programme.
At the bar, Roger has an idea for a game show (Celebrity Bumhole) and the head of BBC1's early evening programmes hires him for £500,000 a year.
Eventually, on the green, Brucie and Tarby have putted and after Roger is finished, he goes off to the clubhouse for a drink, but Tom tells him that it was only the first hole and there is still another seventeen to play.
On the way, they stop at an off-licence in an attempt to get some free lager and cigarettes, but the salesman says that he can only sell them and Roger insults him in front of the camera.
Soon, in Tom's car, they arrive in a poor area to investigate the slum landlord who owns a block of flats.
Roger gets annoyed with the contestant beside him (a parody of Whose Line panellist John Sessions), and after being asked by Clive Sanderson to improvise a poem about changing a light bulb, he does it in the style of Muhammad Ali.