Gregory Everett "Greg" Proops (born October 3, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and producer. He is best known for his improvisational work on the UK and U.S. versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He also currently stars as Max Madigan on the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP.
Proops was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in San Carlos, California, a suburb south of San Francisco. He attended the College of San Mate...
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Gregory Everett "Greg" Proops (born October 3, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and producer. He is best known for his improvisational work on the UK and U.S. versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He also currently stars as Max Madigan on the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP.
Proops was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in San Carlos, California, a suburb south of San Francisco. He attended the College of San Mateo and spearheaded the comedy duo "Proops & Brakeman". Later, he studied improvisation and acting at San Francisco State University. He was captain of SFSU's winning College Bowl team. He never finished college.
After college, he joined an improv group with Mike McShane, which proved to be his ticket to stardom. Both Proops and McShane impressed producers Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, who put them on their show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He frequently instigated jokes and running gags concerning various idiosyncrasies and differences between...
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