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 Kittens! I couldn't believe this thread hadn't been made yet, SO I MADE ONE OK? As Greg himself would say, "Please go rent an apartment OFF of my dick." Even if you've never heard of his podcast, The Smartest Man in the World, you are more than likely familiar with Greg Proops from his work on the 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?" TV show, either the British or American version. If you've only seen him on that show, you have only been introduced to the...how should I put this...more "family-friendly" version of the man. Once you listen to the podcast, which is a weekly live show from different cities around the world, you'll find that Herr Proops is more of an articulate, vulgar, energetic, pot-smoking, politically-aware guy who is prone to go on irate tangents at length (the subjects of which are sometimes the audiences themselves) and could still drink you under the table throughout all of this. He's also really loving funny and you'd be remiss if you didn't go out and listen to every GOD drat episode of SMITW you could get your dirty little hands on. The first episode I listened to was Ships back in Oct 2011, and I've been a huge fan ever since. It's one of the few podcasts I really look forward to each week, and I find myself a little sad when I get to the end of an episode and realize that it'll be another week before I get to listen again. Seriously guys...if you're not listening to this show and you consider yourself a fan of comedy podcasts, you're missing out big time. Anyway, I hope that this thread can be a place for lengthy discussions about the show. Love or hate an episode? Agree or disagree with the boring preachy part? Get in here and open your heart to the forums so that we may swarm over you like a pack of vultures and pick at the bones of your thoughts before we gently caress off into the night in a loving swirling miasma of drugs and vodka, you groovy Proop-cats.
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LentThem posted:Greg Proops' superpower is that his brain has near-instantaneous access to every adjective he has ever read/heard in his life. This is easily one of my favorite things about him COUNTIN THE BILLIES posted:Proops is a very binary comic: you either love him or hate him. I'm in the former camp and think it takes a lot of chutzpah to make 1 hour podcast each week with refreshing material in front of a live audience. I think you're right about the binary thing. You can hear it in the audience on each episode. Sometimes they're practically falling over with laughter to the point where you'd think some of the audience members were planted, and then other times Greg spends most of the episode commenting on how nobody understands a thing he's talking about (like last week's episode at SXSW). Actually, I think the entirety of SXSW just didn't "get" him, because he appeared on Doug Loves Movies and the crowd at that show was eerily quiet after every joke Proops said. It was painfully awkward to listen to.
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Mar 26, 2012 17:04
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Al! posted:I normally like Greg Proops, but am tired of hearing people from the bay area talk about how great San Francisco is. So of course the first podcast I listened to started with a big long monologue about it being the greatest city in the world which turned me off. So is there maybe an episode with a better start for me to get back on the right foot? The episode "Ships" that I listed in the OP is a good one. Been a while since I've listened to it myself but I'm fairly certain he doesn't really talk about San Francisco on that one.
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Mar 26, 2012 17:34
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Brekelefuw posted:This is my second favourite podcast. Greg is hilarious, and I like his rants against the ridiculousness in the world. Probably his best rants were those involving the Occupy movement.
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Mar 30, 2012 15:44
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Really liked this week's episode, mainly because he talked about one of my favorite historical figures, Howard Hughes, and then ranted about Rush Limbaugh as compared to Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Apr 6, 2012 20:58
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COUNTIN THE BILLIES posted:Here's the aforementioned new butch haircut: http://twitpic.com/97ajx2 I was envisioning something more like a buzzcut, Henry Rollins-style. That picture's not so bad.
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Apr 10, 2012 19:10
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jyrka posted:On the podcast he mentioned the Glasgow soccer team Celtic. I think outside of sports teams' names keltic is still right. No clue why there is a difference though. This is all correct.
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Apr 12, 2012 15:06
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Lamuella posted:yeah, this is definitely up there as one of my favourite podcasts. I think I like it best when he just goes on a tear about some poo poo he's interested in, and clearly doesn't give a gently caress if the audience is following him or not. Which is refreshing, after hearing a lot of stand up comedians desparately chasing every laugh. This is one of the reasons I love the guy. He not only doesn't give a gently caress if the audience is following along, but he'll actually heckle them if they're not a good crowd. Can't wait to reach that age where I give no fucks about anything the way he does haha
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Apr 17, 2012 14:48
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Highlights from this week's episode: -Greg discusses the silly reasons why certain books are being banned from libraries. -Huge corporations are paying negative taxes. -A lady heckles Greg about his hearing
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Apr 22, 2012 16:38
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Hahaha in this newest episode, I laughed so loving hard when Greg corrected that "grammarian" and shouted "GOOOOAAAAALLLLL" for like a minute.
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Jun 18, 2012 01:28
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Greg is the guest on this week's Nerdist podcast, if anyone cares to know.
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Jul 18, 2012 18:55
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rotinaj posted:But Chris Hardwick is a painfully annoying douchebag. But...I like Nerdist 
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Jul 18, 2012 22:23
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It sounded like he was making it up as he went along, but either way it was pretty rad.
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Aug 26, 2012 22:37
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God, these episodes are so much better when the audience is super involved and pumped about everything. Way better than nearly any show he does in Europe.
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Sep 21, 2012 23:18
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The Warby Parker ad-read this week was one of the funniest loving moments this show has had in a while.
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Mar 1, 2013 17:44
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Mogambo posted:Minute 90: The podcast starts This is one of my favorite running gags.
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Ches Neckbeard posted:Manbag Beer was always the best sponsor. "IT TASTES LIKE YOUR COOOOOCK" I always liked the little ditty for Audible too: "AUUUDIBLLEE, WHEN YOU DOOOON'T FEEEEL LIIIKE REEEAAADIIINNN'"
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