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The Joe Rogan Experience

#639 - Greg Proops

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.5245.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2015

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

Greg Proops is a stand-up comedian, also well-known for his improv comedy on the show "Whose Line is it Anyway?". He currently hosts his own podcast called "The Smartest Man In The World", available on SPotify, and has a new book available in May 2015 called "The Smartest Book In The World". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Either way, I could, depending upon the day I could argue both ways.

0:03.0

Greg, mother-fucking, Proops is here.

0:05.0

On the Joe Roggin' experience,

0:09.0

Greg Props is one of those dudes that actually wrote a book.

0:12.0

I'm one of those dudes who threatens to write a book but never does it.

0:15.0

But you're one of those dudes who actually wrote a book, the smartest book in the world. You bad motherfucker, you.

0:20.0

I just

0:25.0

I thought why not put it to use and I have another level of respect for people who write books

0:27.0

It took so long Joe you know you think it's gonna be easy you think you're just gonna because it's you know off the

0:32.7

podcast right and I obviously it's a cheap you know marketing ploy from the

0:38.3

smartest man in the world your podcast on I'm smartest book in the world

0:40.9

because when they said what would you call the book and when I went into the meeting I was like the smartest book in the world because when they said what would you call the book and when I went into the meeting I was like the smartest book in the world and they were like love it you know

0:48.1

So that was a couple of years ago and it took about a year and a half to kind of get together. I thought I'd be able to take

0:55.6

like transcripts from the show and then I realized they don't read that well. You know there's too much

0:59.8

doubling back, there's too much internal logic and there's a big difference

1:03.2

between orating and writing right a big goddamn difference and sometimes like for

1:09.2

stand-up comedy that's like why one of the most important things is you have to do both and the guys who

1:14.8

only do one or the other it's easily it doesn't it doesn't mean some guys can

1:19.7

pull it off some guys some guys just like to just go up and just keep going up all the time and just going over the material in their head like sort of Jay-Z style.

1:28.5

Yeah.

1:29.5

And never actually sitting down and writing things out.

1:31.5

I know guys who don't, you you know only a key word here and

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