Greg Proops
- Actor, Comedian, and Regular on "Whose Line is it Anyway?"
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Greg Proops Speaker Biography
“Here he is, though, in front of a live audience each week, bravely recording some of the boldest comedy on the podcasting frontier right now.” -Rolling Stone Magazine
Greg Proops is a stand up comic from San Francisco. He lives in Hollywood. It’s not that bad. Really. The Proopdog is best known for his unpredictable appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway? Professor Proops has a hit Podcast called The Smartest Man in the World, which is recorded live in Hollywood, Australia, New Zealand, Montreal, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Maui, London, Paris aboard a ship off St. Maarten and somehow, Cleveland.
Rembrandt Greg recurred as the art teacher Mr. Granger on ABC’s Sitcom Schooled. Greg gives voice to Garma and Pod Race Announcer Jak Sirvak on the Disney Channel‘s Star Wars Animated Series Star Wars Resistance. Greg is Banzhou the evil cat alonside Zhendaya, Stephen Fry, Reggie Watts and many others in the animated feature Duck, Duck, Goose seen on Netflix.
Stand-up Greg has a new Political Comedy album out called The Resistance. Recorded live in his beloved San Francisco. Available on iTunes and from aspecialthing records.
Monster Greg has had the honor of performing with Danny Elfman at the Hollywood Bowl and the Barclay Center in Brooklyn singing in a live to film version of The Nightmare Before Christmas. They have also performed live in Tokyo, Glagow, London and Dublin. Improv Greg is an an Improv group with Ryan Stiles, Joel Murray, Jeff B Davis, Dave Foley, Drew Carey, Gary Anthony Williams and Charles Esten called Whose Live Anyway? Currently playing nationally. Proopsie toured Australia and New Zealand with Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood where they taped a TV Gala for JFL at The Sydney Opera House. He also is a frequent guest of the Comedy Store Players in London and improvised with them at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Mr. Proops is proud to have hosted the Negro Leagues Museum- Hall of Game Ceremony in Kansas City. The last ceremony with Activist and daughter of Jackie and Rachel Robinson, Sharon Robinson and All-Stars, Dave Parker, Eric Davis, Fred McGriff and Dave Stewart can be heard currently as a live podcast.
“Funny, political, literate, and bold—all at once.” -New York Journal of Books
Mr. Proops book The Smartest Book in the World is based on his award-seeking podcast.
Film Buff Greg hosted Ouch: The Slapstick Movie Festival movies on TCM. Greg has lent his voice to Hell and Back, Star Wars the Phantom Menace, The Nightmare Before Christmas and he really was Bob the Builder.
The Smartest Man in the World
From the brazen, bold, and beloved comic and podcast star Greg Proops comes an electrifying, thought-provoking, and unrelenting collection of rapid-fire references, historical name-checking, Satchel Paige bon mots, and genuine wisdom.
Greg Proops is an internationally renowned comedian, best known for starring on the hit improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? and for his popular award-winning podcast, “The Smartest Man in the World,” which Rolling Stone called “some of the boldest comedy on the podcasting frontier right now.” But Proops is also a fountain of historical knowledge, a wealth of pop culture trivia, and a generally charming know-it-all.
The Smartest Book in the World is based on Proops’s sensational, iTunes Top 10 podcast that has been downloaded more than nine million times, in which his “bold, never-boring voice takes center stage” (The New York Times). The book is a rollicking reference guide to the most essential areas of knowledge in Proops’s universe, from the noteworthy names of the ancient world and baseball, to the movies you must see and the albums you must hear.
Complete with history’s juiciest tales and curious back-stories, Proops expounds on the merits of poetry and proper punctuation, delivering this wealth of information with his signature style and Proopsian panache. An off-beat and exuberant guide to everything, The Smartest Book in the World gives you everything you need to know to always be the smartest person in the room. Well, unless the Proopmaster is there, too.
