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The Smartest Man in the World

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The Smartest Man in the World

Greg Proops

Comedy

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2013

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Live from The Howlin' Wolf in New Orleans, Greg wanders through William Faulkner, Willy DeVille and the War on Women.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, Greg Proops, Greg O'All, once again the smartest man in the world

0:20.6

Proofcast takes to the ether, here from the salubrious confines of the crescent cities,

0:26.8

the most humidified club and fabulous comedy regime, the Hulling Wolf here in the warehouse

0:33.5

district, ladies and gentlemen, once again we convene and hope that our minds can join

0:39.7

and that we can find one another, and that I can turn the goddamn music down on the

0:44.3

iPod I'm operating here, here we go, and well done me, and then once again we will find

0:50.8

the joy that we find implicit here on the streets of this city that is the most welcoming

0:54.8

city I've been to, and ages and ages and ages, I can't tell you how excited I am to be

0:58.8

here, I've been talking about it on the Proofcast for yonks as they say, as far as like a place

1:05.8

I was anxious to go, because places are places, right, I mean that seems mundane and unbelievably

1:12.3

weak to start the show with, but what I'm getting at is this, people ask me this question

1:16.5

a lot, where do you like playing the most, and I say Paris, and then they go, what do you

1:19.3

like playing Paris? I'm like, because you're in Paris. So like, where do you like playing

1:24.8

in the United States? Well, I love Cleveland, I've always had a great time in Cleveland, I've

1:29.4

been to Peoria, Illinois, I've been to Mason City, Illinois, I'm not going to say they're

1:34.0

my favorite places to play in the world, because when the show's over, you're in fucking

1:37.8

Peoria, and God bless Peoria, it's the birthplace of Richard Pryor, but they let the team down

1:44.2

in a lot of other regards, like nightlife and shit like that. So when you're here in New

1:50.2

Orleans, like people, where's your favorite place? New Orleans, because it's four in the

1:54.2

morning, I can score crack, I can buy a dead dog, I can have a slave, oh yeah, there's

1:59.5

a lot of shit I can do, I can get melted ice cream, I can watch a freaky dude with those

2:04.4

shirt on roll on the ground and shit like that, I can watch a guy dress like a pirate

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