The Smartest Man in the World Greg Proops

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.

Used to love Greg’s live podcast recordings but good lord the fortress episodes should be renamed the dumbest couple in the world. Their continued backing of the Biden cabinet during this last 6 months had been the last straw. Sayonara willfully blind Proops.

I was a loyal listener for years, but I finally had to bow out after he said (sincerely and without irony) “All white people are racist.” Sorry Greg, but bigotry is bigotry, and I can no longer tolerate yours.