Proops Biography
Greg Proops is an actor, comedian, and television personality from the United States work on the US and UK versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? has made him well-known. Additionally, he provided the voice of the title character for Bob the Builder: Project: Build It in the United States for series 10 through 14.
How old is Proops? Age
Born Gregory Everett Proops, the Whose Line Is It Anyway? star is 64 years old as of October 3, 2023. He was born in 1959 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
Proops Family – Education
Proops attended San Carlos High School while growing up in San Carlos, California, a suburb south of San Francisco. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He was the leader of the comedy team “Proops & Brakeman” and attended the College of San Mateo. He never completed college, but later attended San Francisco State University to study acting and improvisation.
Proops Net Worth
Greg has made a fortune of $4 million.
Proops Podcast
Since 2010, Proops has been the host of a podcast called The Smartest Man In The World[16], frequently co-hosting with his wife Jennifer Canaga. Typically, he speaks in front of an audience on current affairs, celebrity culture, and his personal life. Proops was the host of The Greg Proops Experiment, a podcast, prior to Smartest Man.
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Proops hosted Odd News on yahoo!.com for a number of years in 2010. On that weekly show, he shared strange and humorous tales from all around the world. Regretfully, it seems that they have all been entirely removed from Yahoo! Even direct links to other websites now go to a screen informing you that the page you are trying to access is no longer available. Even when Proops left the series, it appears to have persisted in text form and on Twitter for a number of years.
Proops hosted Bits from Last Week’s Radio on BBC Radio 1 from 1995 to 1996. He provided the voices for the September 2005 premiere of the BBC Radio 2 series Flight of the Conchords. In the science fiction comedy series Seymour the Fractal Cat on BBC Radio 4, Proops also portrayed the lead character. Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas music and film feature Proops as the Devil, the Harlequin Demon, and the Sax Player.
Proops Whose Line is it Anyway?
Proops is well-known for his improvised humor from the first two seasons of Whose Line is it Anyway? He also provided the voice of Fode in the video game spin-offs Star Wars: Episode I Racer and Kinect Star Wars, as well as the seventh episode of LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, “Race on Tatooine.” In Star Wars Resistance, he provided the voice of Jak Sivrak, another racing announcer.
Fodes in the event Annodue was a Troig celebrity podracing announcer, better known by the alias Fode and Beed. He exclusively attended the most esteemed podraces and charged exorbitant fees for his appearances. The green head was called Beed, and the red head was called Fode. Both heads functioned as independent entities.
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Beed would give information in Huttese while Fode would speak in a drawl akin to Galactic Basic Standard when providing color commentary during races. From the commentary box of the Mos Espa Grand Arena on the planet Tatooine in 32 BBY, Fode and Beed discussed the Boonta Eve Classic event.
Following their initial debut in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, Fode and Beed made further appearances in connected media, including podracing and linked to The Phantom Menace. Comedians Scott Capurro and Greg Proops, respectively, played them. They were supposed to appear in makeup during pre-production, with the remainder of their bodies covered in blue suits for subsequent compositing.
Proops Game Shows
For the Nintendo Wii game MadWorld, Proops voices Howard “Buckshot” Holmes, a game show announcer, alongside John DiMaggio. Proops and DiMaggio portray humorous presenters on a violent game show that takes place in the future. Proops voiced Matthew Black, a reporter in the somewhat forgotten ZombieVille (1997) video game developed by Psygnosis. Additionally, Proops voiced the fiery court jester Fargus for the PlayStation Pandemonium video game series. Later, he voiced a Brain that Kaos released to help with his Doomlanders project in Skylanders: Imaginators, where he worked as a voice actor.
Proops Book
Proops and publisher Touchstone published the nonfiction book The Smartest Book in the World on May 5, 2015. Part of the book, which details the author’s choices for movies and poems, baseball trivia, strong women, and misinterpreted historical events, is based on Proops’s weekly podcast, The Smartest Man in the World. Touchstone published the book’s paperback edition on February 21, 2017.
Proops Movies and TV Credits
Proops has appeared in various films including;
Movies
♦ 2018 – Duck Duck Goose
♦ 2015 – Hell and Back
♦ 2011 – Bad Actress
♦ 2009 – Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts
♦ 2007 – Super High Me
♦ 2006 – Bob the Builder: Built to be Wild
♦ 2005 – Bob the Builder: When Bob Became a Builder
♦ 2003 – Kaena: The Prophecy
♦ 2003 – Brother Bear
♦ 1999 – Star Wars: Episode I
♦ 1993 – The Nightmare Before Christmas
TV Shows
♦ 2019 – Schooled
♦ 2018–19 – Star Wars Resistance
♦ 2017–18 – The Powerpuff Girls
♦ 2016 – Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures
♦ 2016 – Uncle Grandpa
♦ 2014–17 – @midnight
♦ 2012 – QI
♦ 2011 – Drew Carey’s Improv-A-Ganza
♦ 2010 – Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
♦ 2010 – Star Wars: The Clone Wars
♦ 2009 – Flight of the Conchords
♦ 2008–11 – True Jackson, VP
♦ 2007–16 – Red Eye
♦ 2006 – Ugly Betty
♦ 2005–07 – Bob the Builder
♦ 2003–04 – Stripperella
♦ 2003 – 10-8: Officers on Duty
♦ 2002 – Just Shoot Me!
♦ 2001, 2003 – Lloyd in Space
♦ 2001 – Hollywood Squares
♦ 2001 – Mike, Lu & Og