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Comedian Greg Proops is smarter than you.

The Smartest Man in the World Greg Proops

    • Comedy
    • 4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

Comedian Greg Proops is smarter than you.

    Pogos

    Pogos

    In the newest recording from the Fortress of Proopitude, Greg and Jennifer speak about The Shangri-Las, The Smothers Brothers and Shane MacGowan.

    • 1 hr 30 min
    Crofts

    Crofts

    Live from the The Punchline in San Francisco, Greg cracks on Cookie Bear, A Christmas Carol and Cormac McCarthy.

    • 1 hr 28 min
    Optimists

    Optimists

    Live from Shakespeare and Company in Paris, Greg talks travel, Texas and Tenzing Norgay.

    • 1 hr 10 min
    Smokies

    Smokies

    In the latest broadcast from the Fortress of Proopitude, Greg and Jennifer riff on The Rolling Stones, Rudolph Isley and Richard Roundtree.

    • 1 hr 46 min
    The Negro Leagues Hall of Game Awards 2023

    The Negro Leagues Hall of Game Awards 2023

    Live from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, MO, Greg hosts the Hall of Game awards. Greg interviews baseball greats Al Downing, Dave Stewart, Derrick Blue, Dontrelle Willis and Doc Gooden.

    • 1 hr 30 min
    Peewees

    Peewees

    In the newest missive from the Fortress of Proopitude, Greg and Jennifer acknowledge Agnès Varda, Alfred Hitchcock and Andy Smart.

    • 1 hr 47 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
2.3K Ratings

2.3K Ratings

Fancy_King ,

5 stars but it’s bad now

This used to be, hands-down, my favorite show. Greg masterfully demonstrated that you really can make comedy out of everything and he did it LIVE; going up every week in front of an audience and killing all over the world. Topics would flow from funk music to baseball to politics to weird French movies and it somehow never felt disjointed. People were always with it. Like I said, a revelation to me in terms of what comedy could be.

In addition to just being so naturally hilarious, Greg was absolutely instrumental in radicalizing me during Occupy Wall Street in 2012.

Then 2016 rolled around and Greg went from a freewheelin’ radical lefty comedian to the lamest centrist in the world. The show went from “Occupy Wall Street is important and all billionaires are bad” to regularly slamming the one presidential candidate who was addressing that situation. I remember him saying “I do not care if Hillary is a war hawk”.

Uh oh, what happened to my guy?

Moral of the story; Don’t have heroes, folks; at least not boomer heroes. They age like milk and go all Bill Maher on you.

The show is bad now but it gets the five stars for what it used to be: INCREDIBLE. Alas, you can’t go home again but I’ll always remember 2011-2014-era Greg very fondly.

SirRHP ,

What happened?

It really pains me to write this review.

First off, let me say that this was once an absolutely brilliant podcast and one of my all time favorites. Greg Proops was one of the most incredible minds in comedy and I’ve truly never laughed harder than I have listening to some of these episodes. I bought his book (also fantastic) and went to many of the live shows he performed at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY over the years. Honestly, this podcast got me through some tough personal upheaval by allowing me to unplug and genuinely laugh.

Then wham, things changed. The quality declined, particularly during COVID and the run up the 2020 election. I’m all for being loud and proud about political activism (I consider myself extremely liberal and very progressive), but he just stopped being funny. No disrespect to Jennifer, but a lot of the focus shifted to her, particularly with the episodes recorded at home. It really lost a lot of its zing.

Things got so bad that I had to take a several year break from listening (2020-2024) and, as an ardent listening since 2012, that was difficult to do. Over the last couple of weeks I said to myself “I wonder what Proops is up to? I really miss that podcast, I should give it another listen…”. Sadly, things have not improved. The material is just limp and unfunny. Greg seems tired and half-hearted and the audience doesn’t seem plugged in. Such a shame.

If you do decide to listen to this podcast, I’d highly recommend the 2011-2018 episodes. Anything after that just isn’t worth it.

st1281 ,

Racism masquerading as activism

I was a loyal listener for years, but I had to bow out after he said (sincerely and without irony) “All white people are racist.” And now has the gall to call his podcast anti-racist.

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