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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 March 2011

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Back at the Comedy Central Stage at the Hudson, Greg celebrates International Women's Day by eulogizing a selection of his heroines.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you very much for your time, and I'll see you in the next video.

0:30.0

Welcome to the smartest man in the world who just grabbed some pieces of paper as they were falling down.

0:53.0

We're here in the pulsing, throbbing epicenter of the theatrical measma and spasm of creativity that is the West Hollywood theater district here in Los Angeles on Santa Monica Boulevard.

1:05.0

Proof casting live on tape for your delectation.

1:09.0

I have some corrections to jump into from last epist proof cast.

1:17.0

As you know, I am the smartest man in the world, but by being the smartest man in the world, I think it takes that kind of person to really admit when they've fucked up.

1:27.0

I misspoke, and I miss represented, and I miss quoted, and here's how it works.

1:31.0

I was talking about the motion picture, Winter's ban, and I had solicited from the audience what the author called his genre, and someone had said it was Mississippi Noir or something like that.

1:46.0

In this case, it's Ozark Noir, to make that perfectly clear to everyone.

1:50.0

Also, I had mentioned a movie called Summer Time with Catherine Hepburn because she fell into a canal in Venice, not Venice, California, but Venice, Italy.

1:58.0

And Catherine Hepburn falls into a canal in that movie, and derived an eye infection that she had the rest of her life, not an ear infection.

2:05.0

I know there's people out there who are thinking, Greg, really, you're starting to show with this?

2:10.0

Talk about ephemera, talk about tangential, talk about completely insignificant on any scale.

2:16.0

Believe me, there's people up at night, all night, making brownies, and pacing the floor, vacuuming, and pouring drain out all over the place.

2:24.0

Just going, it wasn't an ear infection, Greg. It was an eye infection that Catherine Hepburn had.

2:30.0

And to answer one other question, that people have treated me and has been positive and posed and queried, and every kind of smudeling at me.

2:39.0

The theme that we play for the proofcast is by John Wobble and the invaders of the heart, and it's spelled Y-A-L-I-L-I-Y-A-I-N-I.

2:53.0

I leave the pronunciation up to you.

2:58.0

I assume it's Arabic of some kind, and when he sings it, you can hear it. He says, and John Wobble, as you recall, and I don't think it's John Wobble singing.

3:08.0

John Wobble was in the public image limited, which was an extraordinary post-punk band, that fucking rocket, so very, very hard.

3:18.0

Yesterday, as we go to air with this forecast, was International Women's Day, and I was at a comedy club last night doing a set, and Doug Benson, the eminent marijuanaologist, and a comedian, said, hey, isn't it National Ladies Day or something?

3:38.0

I really can't think of a better description for International Women's Day than National Ladies Day.

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