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Date Posted: 08/15/03 4:27pm
Author: Bix
Subject: Greg Proops in Edinburgh

For those of you that haven't heard the clips yet, drop on by WLIIA.net for the intro/stand-up bit and the interview with Stephen Frost that Greg does for "The Greg Proops Chat Show" in Edinburgh. His last show is August 16th, so he'll be coming back to the States in a few days!

Below is one of the reviews for the show.

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The Greg Proops Chat Show

written by James Mullighan


Gilded Balloon Teviot (venue 14)

US COMEDIAN Greg Proops blew into town a day late and jet-lagged but, trouper that he is, was bang on form hosting BBC Radio Scotland’s lunchtime Fringe digest. It’s a popular event, more so because tickets are free for those quick enough to get there.

For those in radio land, the setting: a couple of zebra skinned couches and a backdrop of four "Warhols" of the Buddy Holly-bespectacled Proops. Flashing that trademark grin, he strides out to the stings of the Nicky King jazz band, and launches into ten minutes of classic, rapid fire stand-up fare: "Bush may say the French have no word for entrepreneur, but they’ve got one for him: imbecile."

He has three sizeable Fringe names for each show. I was there for favourite son Sebastian McCoy plugging Hello Dalí, Scottish literary luminary Liz Lochhead, and Proops’s old comic buddy Jim Sweeney, who has written Sic Transit.

Fatigued he may have been - "I’m sweating like I’ve kidney failure" - but Proops was quick to tighten any slack and keep the interviews light.

No sooner had Sweeney finished lampooning the 6ft 6ins comedian Stephen Frost as an actor who strikes fear into his director, than Proops was in with "a big man, yes, but a surprisingly gentle lover".

Until 16 August

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