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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

🗓️ 15 June 2012

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Live from the Improv in Washington DC, Greg lobbies on behalf of Fats Waller, fish fries and Fahrenheit 451.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey! What are you kidding me? It's all good! Washington D.C.

0:26.0

It's a movement of the improvisational comedy club located under Connecticut Avenue right here.

0:33.0

Oh my goodness, there's starts and there's false starts ladies and gentlemen. We're getting ready for the Olympics. The gun went off and then the gun went off again.

0:42.0

I'm actually operating the equipment tonight here and despite what I look like I never ever worked in the AV club growing up.

0:50.0

So I forgot to press the button to start the show so we're starting now once again.

0:55.0

The smartest man in the world, proofdust, takes to the ether and every individual glow worm that's listening out there in glow worm land.

1:02.0

This is the time to set your tail to incandescence. Light up something delicious or pour yourself something frothy with some cubes in it and let's get it on!

1:15.0

The heavens are fairly raining their way open and parting their unbelievable purple curtain so that we may once again glimpse infinity.

1:24.0

Wow! Washington D.C. what can I say that hasn't already been said when we weren't recording?

1:37.0

There's a lot of people out there on their extra cycle right now or listening on their radio or listening on their computer.

1:45.0

They've got earbuds in or they're in their automobile going, why is the first part so funny? Nothing's happened that I laughed at, yeah?

1:56.0

If you have to be there, I'm sorry, I can't take heckling right up front. We'll deal with your individual needs later.

2:04.0

In fact, we as a group will vote on your emotional needs and whether they're valid or not but I have to get this thing underway.

2:13.0

Washington D.C. what can I say? I've been here many many times. This is the nicest weather I've ever been in Washington D.C. a beautiful day and then a light breeze, a very cooling breeze as the night fell.

2:23.0

I think I've told this story before once I was caught in a shocking rain right at the daily grill around here where food is served sullenly.

2:32.0

But you're sure to be around a lot of douchebags and billious men with red noses who are wasting your tax dollars ladies and gentlemen that's who you're with.

2:43.0

So the K Street crowds there and I started pouring one of those Washington D.C. insane, you know, a Cambodia, Venus type rains, full of methane and poison and whatnot and bus exhaust.

2:55.0

The statue of Gandhi was rusting on its own that night. I can tell you that much. It is a beautiful statue and works of art are here to be for us to behold.

3:06.0

A thing of beauty is a joy forever and I I salad out into the street without any notion that I should just wait a half an hour and the rain would pass because like Florida you have flash terror here.

3:18.0

You have instant Bible and then it's gone immediately before the next book can even start. So instead I ran out into the street and my fucking brown prodibutes with the zippers on the side and they were soaked all the way through and when I got back to my hotel with my cried the tears of a fucking child.

3:33.0

Like bow brummel when his thumb got ripped off his glove. I was like no I can't do this. The Duke of Wellington will never hear of it. So I played here in Washington. I may have told this one as well.

3:45.0

One time I was here with my friend Jeff Davis and a bunch of improvvers and we were doing a gig and for the troops and we got in a cab after the show to go get drunk and we got in a cab with the water gate hotel and the dude driving the cab.

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