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The Smartest Man in the World

Apples

The Smartest Man in the World

Greg Proops

Comedy

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2011

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This time around, Greg muses about hotel rooms, celebrity blogs and Oscar favorites.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, Greg Proofs.

0:54.0

We're listening in their car like, wow, I can really hear the difference.

0:58.0

Greg's gigantic posterior is no longer making that timber strain.

1:02.0

Like Godzilla crossing a covered bridge or something.

1:06.0

Like the squeakyest place I ever was was at the four seasons in Chicago years ago,

1:12.0

we were on tour, I did a tour of Drew Carey of an enormously unpopular improv show called Green Screen.

1:20.0

And the theory was that we do improv and then we have these famous animators animated in all the plays like I'm a pirate

1:28.0

and all of a sudden you've got a cutlass in your hand and whatnot and a bandana on.

1:32.0

And Drew explained the idea to me, I still didn't get it.

1:36.0

And then they did, they got all these fabulous animators, Bill Plumpton and other fabulous animators whose names I don't know.

1:42.0

And it cost a fortune in post-production.

1:46.0

They didn't tell the animators was don't anticipate the improv, so the animators in order to be funny,

1:50.0

before you said I'm a pirate, had a pirate flag waving and then you go I'm a pirate.

1:54.0

And then everyone will go how's that fucking improv when they were watching on TV?

1:58.0

So it kind of was a fantastically self-defeating show that cost a fortune to make.

2:04.0

And it would have been really funny had the idea ever been observed by both sides of the equation.

2:10.0

It was one of those fantastic show business moments.

2:13.0

An honest effort on Drew's part.

2:15.0

And Drew took us on tour after that where we burned an entire nation to the ground by not,

2:20.0

mmm, selling them any tickets.

2:23.0

The point is this, we were staying in a fabulous place in Chicago and we were at the four seasons,

2:28.0

the one down near the Gold Coast.

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