Greg Proops Experiment. From 1995–1996, Proops presented Bits from Last Week's Radio on BBC Radio 1. He did voice work for the BBC Radio 2 series Flight of the Conchords, first broadcast in September 2005. Proops also played the title role in BBC Radio 4's sci-fi comedy series Seymour the Fractal Cat. Proops provided the voices for the Harlequin Demon, the Devil, and the Sax Player in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack and movie. Video games Proops provides voice-over work as Howard "Buckshot" Holmes, a game show announcer along with John DiMaggio for the Nintendo Wii game MadWorld. DiMaggio and Proops play as comical announcers on a brutal game show set in the future. Proops provided the voice of Matthew Black, a reporter in the forgotten Psygnosis game, ZombieVille (1997). Proops also provided the voice of Fargus, a pyromantic court jester for the PlayStation Pandemonium game series. He later worked as a voice actor in Skylanders: Imaginators, where he voiced a Brain that was freed by Kaos in order to help perfect his Doomlanders project. Comedy albums Live (1994) 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) Comedy specials Greg Proops: Live At Musso & Frank (2013) The Smartest Book in the World On May 5, 2015, Proops released nonfiction book The Smartest Book in the World through publisher Touchstone. The book is based in part on Proops's weekly podcast The Smartest Man in the World, detailing the author's movie and poetry recommendations, baseball facts, powerful women, and misconstrued history. The paperback version of the book was released from Touchstone on February 21, 2017. Filmography Film Television Video games Web series References External links The Smartest Man in the World Podcast 1959 births Living people 20th-century American comedians 21st-century American comedians American game show hosts American male television actors American male video game actors American male voice actors American podcasters American stand-up comedians Comedians from California Male actors from California Male feminists People from San Carlos, California San Francisco State University alumni Stand Up! Records artists