Spurtles

The Smartest Man in the World

Greg Proops

Comedy

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2013

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In his third and final show from Edinburgh's Gilded Balloon, Greg ponders Prince, Patti Smith and Patty Hearst.

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0:00.0	Music
0:14.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Greg Pritz
0:19.0	Music
0:45.0	There we go.
0:46.0	We're at the Gilded Balloon, ladies and gentlemen here.
0:49.0	The most vaunted of all the venues on the legendary Edinburgh Friends,
0:54.0	which started in 1854.
0:56.0	Robert Lewis, Stevenson, was the first performer on the Friends.
0:59.0	She did a show called My TB and Me.
1:01.0	And that's how it all began.
1:04.0	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, there was an animated performance the second year,
1:08.0	and then the third year they complained that everything had gone too commercial.
1:11.0	They wouldn't let Charles Dickens play here,
1:14.0	because he was a sell-out.
1:16.0	Now, the festivals have been going on a long time,
1:18.0	and they've been writing the same article about it every goddamn year,
1:21.0	and the festival that I've ever been here.
1:23.0	They also began building the tram in the 1800s,
1:26.0	and the tram will one day be finished.
1:29.0	It's been an endless operation, this building,
1:31.0	and this tram that goes from, I think, the airport to the Leith,
1:34.0	and I was walking by it today.
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