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The Smartest Man in the World

Greg Proops

Comedy

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2012

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In the second of two SF Sketchfest episodes, Greg attacks languages, laminates and Louis XIV. (Recorded live at the Punch Line in San Francisco on January 28th, 2012.)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's German Great Proofs!

0:23.0

Yeah! Wow!

0:28.0

And how are the Saturday afternoon and an unbelievably mild San Francisco day?

0:36.0

My favorite weather, 67 and a light breeze and a bizarre pulsing, throbbing, buzzing noise like an angry nest of hornets

0:47.0

had just been disturbed by a taper from their rubbery and now they're going wild on the banks of the Orinoco

0:56.0

or maybe it's just the fucked up sound system here at the fabulous punchline in San Francisco!

1:08.0

What a day! It reminds me of something, one of my favorite authors, James Cromley said it.

1:14.0

It's the middle of a beautiful day here in San Francisco stunning outside, as I stood outside here on top of a blood of the workers plaza

1:22.0

in the Celubrius Financial District where no one is here during the weekends.

1:28.0

It is a virtual 28 days later of corporate goodness. Please enjoy being revenue flow during this era.

1:36.0

And I was standing outside and looking up at the shocking diagonal protuberance that is the Trans-America Pyramid

1:48.0

and never we call it now generic experience life Pyramid. I'll check your credit rating when you die. Please shuffle off soon.

1:55.0

Enjoy the corporate view. And it was just a fantastic light blue sky out there and I thought, like I said, James Cromley has a line in one of his books.

2:05.0

He's in a bar in Petaluma and he describes them on a day like today drinking the heart out of the afternoon.

2:14.0

And that's a perfect idea for you, people here, to really put it on. I know you've got shit to do.

2:21.0

This is a Mapané and we rarely do Mapané's. This is a three o'clock cats show.

2:27.0

More like you're in town and you wish it was to book a Mormon program.

2:35.0

And so it's not really a drinking time. And we're in the middle of sketch fest here, which is a, when this Proofcast is taking place, it's an amazing 45 week festival that takes place here in San Francisco at every single venue.

2:52.0

Animals are involved. It is expanded so exponentially that I have no idea of what's going on with sketch fest.

2:59.0

It's like I'm on the giant dipper at the boardwalk in Santa Cruz. I've just come out of that unbelievably dark, wippy head part and going up the first hill into the bright, blinking sunshine, gazing down on the Pacific with a vertiginous feeling in my head.

3:10.0

Someone last night said to me, have you seen any shows? I'm like, dude, I mean every fucking show.

3:17.0

So yes.

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