1.
If Iraq's weapons are weapons of mass destruction, surely ours are weapons of growth and nurturing.
Greg Proops
2.
Don't yell at people. Stand up for what's right. Put yourself in the other persons place. Respect women. Don't take no for an answer. Laugh at yourself. Don't believe what you are told. Fall in love.
Greg Proops
3.
White pants should be worn on two occasions: One, never. And two, if you're selling ice cream.
Greg Proops
4.
Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos.
Greg Proops
5.
Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it?
Greg Proops
6.
I like to go to England, and I'll tell you why. I like to go to a country where I am considered the best-looking person. It's as simple as that. Hollywood, kind of a crushing ego blow - 'Hey Buddy Holly, you are so old, have you not perished in a plane crash?' But not in England, good God, not there. In England, God bless that dinky island, there it's, 'Good God, look at him. He has all his teeth and his ears are in proportion to his head.' I'm Brad bloody Pitt on that island.
Greg Proops
7.
I love the nightlife. I like to boogie.
Greg Proops
8.
No one is a natural - you have to work at being a natural.
Greg Proops
9.
If you want to live in 'white world,' if you want to experience the stultifying boredom and penetrating ennui that homogeneity can bring, you can go to Canada any day of the year. It's an entire country named Doug.
Greg Proops
10.
Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.
Greg Proops
11.
It doesn't matter how much of an asshole you are, there was always someone who thought you were cool.
Greg Proops
12.
We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.
Greg Proops
13.
I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.
Greg Proops
14.
I love animals. I couldn't eat a whole one but I'll split one with you if you want.
Greg Proops
15.
You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance!
Greg Proops
16.
And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.
Greg Proops
17.
I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.
Greg Proops
18.
Arizona changes its state motto to Damn, it's hot.
Greg Proops
19.
I'm always looking for that place, you know, where there's no rednecks, that place where people get along, and I never find it. I went to Australia, right, and I thought Australia was gonna be a groovy, surfnoid, smoke-a-joint wombat, you know? 'G'day mate!' 'No worries!' And it's like Arkansas with a beach. It's a whole country with a 'No Fat Chicks' sticker on it.
Greg Proops
20.
In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.
Greg Proops
21.
I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.
Greg Proops
22.
I like the night life, I like to boogy.
Greg Proops
23.
Animals have two vital functions in today's society; to be delicious and to fit well.
Greg Proops
24.
Ever since you're little you hear this: 'The pilgrims left England to escape religious persecution and sneak religious freedom into the new world.' But even when you're little you're like, 'Umm.. Bullsh*t?'
Greg Proops
25.
I have to hear this all the time in England: Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm. Really? Well, thanks for sending over the best and brightest to start the party. Maybe we can send a few freaky, Texas, militia, hate-group, gun-toting weirdoes back to your country.
Greg Proops
26.
Oh, I don't wear a bathing suit. I wear a tent when I go out.
Greg Proops
27.
I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.
Greg Proops
28.
I would like to thank ABC for giving me the Drew Carey award. It only goes to one lucky guy with glasses a year, and gosh darn it, tonight I'm the king of the... general area.
Greg Proops
29.
If you do not find me funny, that is your problem and I am not going away.
Greg Proops
30.
President Clinton celebrates the first casual Friday at the white house by wearing leather chaps.
Greg Proops
31.
Yo. I'm from Beverly Hills, and I be pimpin'.
Greg Proops
32.
My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.
Greg Proops
33.
I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected.
Greg Proops
34.
I thought the Egyptians had cured baldness.
Greg Proops
35.
People will really believe anything. You may have noticed this. It’s not just me. Look around.
Greg Proops
36.
Glasses are for the brave. I do not need to pretend that I am sighted. People who need glasses and don't wear them are slightly less treacherous than people who don't need them and do-like every shallow Hollywood star who wants to be taken seriously.
Greg Proops
37.
I don't want comedy to be Bridesmaids 2. I'm not denigrating Bridesmaids but, enough already, let's stop pretending women are incalculably different to us. Seeking out podcasts, listening on headphones, it's like an intimate, specific conversation. People respond if it feels from the heart. I'm as neurotic a human being as lives, and I have my faults. I'm a drunk. But people really like that.
Greg Proops
38.
I don't come on to seduce the audience. I don't care if everyone laughs. I can't think about that anymore. If there's anything that a lot of experience on stage and a lot of stage time gives you is the confidence to know that it's ok if they're not laughing every second you're up there. Although that's what drives me and I still go too fast a lot of the time.
Greg Proops
39.
I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it or not, per se.
Greg Proops
40.
Think about everything you read and everything you see. The one thing we can learn from all the horrible things that have happened in the last 15-20 years is that hysteria is the last thing we need. Cool thinking, pragmatism, and analytical thought are most important at this point.
Greg Proops
41.
I see guys dressing like they're in college - and they're not. I don't want to be that guy.
Greg Proops
42.
Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'
Greg Proops
43.
Tequila is like acid in a glass.
Greg Proops
44.
I wear glasses. That's how you'll know me. I am the speccy one.... And I am proud.
Greg Proops
45.
Let me tell you about Australia. It's really, really, really, far from wherever you live on Earth. You fly and you fly and you fly. Then relativity takes over and you get younger and younger. And when you land, you're a gleam in your father's eye.
Greg Proops
46.
Don't say 'No,' say 'Gilbert,' ladies and gentlemen.
Greg Proops
47.
If you have a funny costume, you can't really wear it when you get older.
Greg Proops
48.
How would you like to make money in real estate?
Greg Proops
49.
You're in a bar - grow up. You're drinking poison. You're trying to have sex unsafely with someone you don't know. Is secondhand smoke really the chiefest of your health concerns at this point?
Greg Proops
50.
I did stand up first in high school, joined an improv group in college, kept doing stand up after that, no one could deter me. And I have no other skills really, so I'm sorta stuck with this now. It's a little late to switch over to an ornithologist.
Greg Proops