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Greg Proops is an American actor, humorist, and tv host who has a internet value of $3 million. Greg Proops might be finest recognized for his work on the improvisational comedy present “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” He appeared on each the British and American variations of the present. Proops then started internet hosting and serving as a visitor commentator on varied exhibits, similar to “Space Cadets,” “Mock the Week,” and “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.” He has additionally supplied voiceover work for quite a few tasks, together with the movies “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993), “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” (1999), “Brother Bear” (2003), and “Hell and Back” (2015), the tv sequence “Stripperella” (2003–2004), “Bob the Builder” (1999–2009), and “Star Wars Resistance” (2018–2019), and the video video games “Zombieville” (1997), “Star Wars Episode I: Racer” (1999), “MadWorld” (2009), “Skylanders: Imaginators” (2016), and “Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga” (2022). Greg performed Max Madigan on the Nickelodeon sequence “True Jackson, VP” from 2008 to 2011, and in 2019, he had a recurring function as Mr. Granger on ABC’s “Schooled,” a spin-off of “The Goldbergs.”

Proops has hosted the podcasts “The Smartest Man in the World” and “The Greg Proops Experiment,” and in 2015, he printed the e book “The Smartest Book in the World: A Lexicon of Literacy, A Rancorous Reportage, A Concise Curriculum of Cool.” He has launched a number of stand-up comedy albums, similar to “Houston, We Have a Problem” (2007), “Greg Proops Digs In!” (2010), “The Resistance” (2018), and “French Drug Deal” (2023), and in 2013, he starred within the comedy particular “Greg Proops: Live At Musso & Frank.”

Early Life

Greg Proops was born Gregory Everett Proops on October 3, 1959, in Phoenix, Arizona. He grew up in San Carlos, California, the place he attended San Carlos High School. After highschool, Greg enrolled on the College of San Mateo. There, he fashioned the comedy duo Proops & Brakeman with Forrest Brakeman. He later took appearing and improv programs at San Francisco State University.

Career

After leaving faculty, Greg joined an improv group with Mike McShane, and when producers Mark Leveson and Dan Patterson noticed the duo, they have been so impressed that they put Proops and McShane on “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Greg spent 4 years residing in London throughout his time on the present, and when the American model (hosted by Drew Carey) was launched in 1998, he started showing on that model as a frequent “fourth contestant.” He appeared in each episode of the improv comedy sequence “Drew Carey’s Green Screen Show,” and he additionally was featured on “Drew Carey’s Improv-A-Ganza” and guest-starred in three episodes of  “The Drew Carey Show.” Proops launched his first comedy album, “Live,” in 1994, and he adopted it with “Back in the UK” (1997), “Joke Book” (2006), “Houston, We Have a Problem” (2007), “Elsewhere” (2009), “Greg Proops Digs In!” (2010), “In the Ball Park” (2015), “The Resistance” (2018), “In the City” (2022), and “French Drug Deal” (2023). In 1993, he voiced Harlequin Demon, Devil, and Sax Player within the Tim Burton movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” which was preserved within the Library of Congress’ United States National Film Registry in 2023 for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” Proops guest-starred on “Family Matters” (1996), “Men Behaving Badly” (1997), “3rd Rock from the Sun” (1997), “Mike Hammer, Private Eye” (1998), and “The Jamie Foxx Show” (1999), and in 1997, he appeared in each episode of the British panel recreation present “Space Cadets.”

In 1999, Greg voiced Fode within the blockbuster “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace,” which grossed $1.047 billion on the field workplace. He reprised his function in a 2016 episode of the Disney XD sequence “Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures” in addition to within the video video games “Kinect Star Wars” (2012) and “Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga” (2022). Proops guest-starred on “Veronica’s Closet” (2000), “Just Shoot Me!” (2002), “Ugly Betty” (2006), and “Flight of the Conchords” (2009), and in 2001, he appeared on quite a few episodes of “Hollywood Squares.” From 2003 to 2004, he voiced Bernard on Spike TV’s “Stripperella,” and from 1999 to 2009, he supplied the voice of Bob on the U.S. dub of the TV sequence “Bob the Builder” and within the movies “Bob the Builder: When Bob Became a Builder” and “Bob the Builder: Built to be Wild.” Greg has additionally lent his voice to the movies “Kaena: The Prophecy” (English dub, 2003), “Brother Bear” (2003), “Asterix and the Vikings” (English dub, 2006), “Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts” (2009), “Hell and Back” (2015), and “Duck Duck Goose” (2018). In 2007, he appeared within the documentary “Super High Me,” and from 2008 to 2011, he performed Max Madigan on Nickelodeon’s “True Jackson, VP.” Proops voiced Tal Merrick in two episodes of the Cartoon Network’s “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” (2010) and Jak Sivrak, Garma, and Stormtrooper #1 in seven episodes of the Disney Channel’s “Star Wars Resistance” (2018–2019). He has appeared within the movies “Bad Actress” (2011), “Shepard” (2020), and “Izzy Lyon: The Unspun Truth” (2020), and in 2019, he had a recurring function as Mr. Granger on the ABC sitcom “Schooled.”

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Personal Life

Greg married Jennifer Canaga on February 14, 1990. He is a fan of the baseball group the San Francisco Giants, and he started attending baseball video games along with his father within the late ’60s. Proops is a vocal critic of Donald Trump, and shortly after Trump’s 2017 inauguration, Greg instructed the Vermont publication Seven Days, “The address was straight out of the fascist playbook. ‘America First’ is a famous expression from before World War II for isolationism and racism. It’s not a code word. It’s a clanging klaxon. It’s racism.” He stated of Trump supporters, “They’re hateful and fearful. He’s giving them free rein to pursue anti-Semitism and racism, queer-bashing, hassling Muslims. They really feel free to do all this stuff now.”

Awards

In 2010, Proops and his “Easy to Assemble” co-stars gained a Streamy Award for Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series.

Real Estate

In 2000, Proops paid $520,000 for a 1,367-square-foot dwelling in Los Angeles. The dwelling contains two bedrooms and one lavatory. Today, this house is value round $1.8 million.