| Underpinned
by a wry intelligence, Proops is one of those rare
comedians who can be silly all the time without
becoming irritating. -Time Out Paris
Greg
Proops is a style piglet and groovy stand up comic
from San Francisco.
The
Proopdog is best known for his unpredictable appearances
on Whose Line is it Anyway? The hit, improvised
comedy show on ABC hosted by Drew Carey. Greg
is also a
regular on the long running British version of
WLIIA? Whose Line is currently seen on BBC America
and ABC Family Channel.
Greg
can also be heard as the voice of Bob the Builder
on the popular childrens series seen on
PBS.
Greg flashed his baseball knowledge on ESPN Classic.
Appearing on the All-Time Greatest World Series
Teams broadcast live during the 2006 All-Star
Break.
He
also accompanied Drew Carey to the 2006 World
Cup and helped produce and present Drew Careys
Sporting Adventures on the Travel Channel.
Mr.
Proopwell aided and abetted Joan and Melissa Rivers
on the red carpet at the 2006 Oscars as a wag
and celebrity traffic cop on TV Guide Channel.
Mr. Proops other television sightings include,
The Bigger Picture with Graham Norton on BBC,
Mock the Week on BBC2, The Late, Late Show with
Craig Ferguson, The
Drew Carey Show, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn,
Just Shoot Me, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, Veronicas
Closet, The Wayne Brady Show and the Best Damn
Sports Show.
Mr.
Proopman regularly hosts his own live comedy chat
show at the ridiculously hip Hollywood rock joint
Largo. Guests have included Jack Black, Sarah
Silverman Janeane
Garofalo, David Cross, Maragaret Cho,
Dave
Eggers, Aidan Quinn, Joe Walsh, Jeff Goldblum,
Lucy Lawless, Lewis Black, Greg Behrendt and John
C. Reilly. Providing musical magic is genius and
imp Jon Brion.
Mr.
Proops has also performed his chat show in Aspen
at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival and Montreal at
the Just For Laughs Festival where he had Eddie
Izzard on his
couch. Le Proopchien also broke off his own stand
up gala in Montreal.
Mr. P is very pleased to improvise with Drew Carey,
Ryan Styles, Kathy Kinney, Colin Mochrie and many
talented others as part of the Improv All Stars.
They had the honor
of performing for the troops in Bosnia, Kosovo
and the Persian Gulf as part of the USO. The All-Stars
can be seen on a fabulous Showtime comedy special.
When over the
pond in London, Greg sits in with the renowned
Comedy Store Players.
Greg went medieval as Cryptograf in the upcoming
animated feature Asterix and the Vikings based
on the popular French comic book. Greg may be
heard as Gommi, the
Articulate Worm in Kaena: The Prophecy a full
length animated feature starring Kirsten Dunst.
He was also Bernard, a mad scientist on Pam Andersons
animated series
Stripperella. Proopbear may also be heard as Lover
Bear in Disneys animated feature Brother
Bear.
Mr.
Greg was spotted hosting his own syndicated, national
dating show Rendez View. He also hosted the now
cult classic game show Comedy Centrals VS.
Senor Proops
threw down an original half-hour of stand up on
Comedy Central Presents. Which is repeated ad
infinitum.
Across
the wide Atlantic in the United Kingdom Greg had
his own chat show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
broadcast live on BBC Radio Scotland. Groovy guests
like
Candace Bushnell, Rich Hall, Geraldine Chaplin,
Steven Berkoff and Garrison Keillor have shared
his sofa.
Mr.
Proops performed stand up at How to Cook a benefit
with Michael Palin and Terry Jones for the Peter
Cook Foundation a BBC Christmas special. Greg
was honored to
be invited to rock the mike at Prince Charles
50th Royal Birthday Gala seen on ITV in Britain.
He performed a stand up half-hour on Comedy Store
Five for Channel Five
and has bantered on All Talk with Clive Anderson.
Darth
Proops was so excited to portray Bede, one half
of the pod race announcer in the hit motion picture
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and all the subsequent
video
games. As well as many voices in Tim Burrtons
The Nightmare Before Christmas.
The
Proopkitty is a total smartyboots: he won The
Weakest Link, Ben Steins Money and Rock
n Roll Jeopardy. He also asked Dick Clark
what his plans were for New Years
Eve while guest hosting The Other Half.
Proopmonkey
rocks his stand up comedy all over the world and
can be found most frequently performing in his
beloved hometown of San Francisco at Cobbs
Comedy Club
or at Carolines in New York City. Often
he drops the knowledge on comedy night at the
ridiculously hip alternative rock joint Largo
in Hollywood.
Mr.
P. has toured the UK four times, sold out the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 28 years running and
has kicked it live in Paris, Turkey, Milan, Aspen,
Montreal, Scotland,
Ireland, Norway, New Zealand and the United Arab
Emirates.
Below
the Equator in New Zealand the Proopshobbit hosted
the Oddfellows Comedy Gala for TVNZ and headlined
the New Zealand International Comedy Festival.
In
Australia Speccy Spice jammed at the Melbourne
International Comedy Festival and hosted, Hey,
Hey its Saturday! A national TV institution.
Mr.
Proops is married to a woman, Jennifer. He doesnt
deserve her. They reside in Lower California with
their pet ocelot, Zidane
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