{"id":165453,"date":"2026-02-23T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165453\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:26:08","slug":"whose-line-comic-greg-proops-talks-improv-and-more-ahead-of-jacksonville-show-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165453\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhose Line\u201d comic Greg Proops talks improv and more ahead of Jacksonville show \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 Comedian Greg Proops will be coming to Jacksonville in March, with Ryan Stiles, Jeff B. Davis, and Joel Murray. \u201cWhose Live Anyway?\u201d will be performing at the Florida Theatre on March 19. I got the chance to sit down with Proops ahead of his upcoming show to talk about getting into improv, being on the popular TV series \u201cWhose Line is it Anyway?\u201d, and the best advice he received as a comedian.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/cmg\/QXSGIIVMRVFJVAB4B5JH4NZ3RM.png\" width=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1htor29-0 jibCgM image-metadata\">Whose Live Anyway? coming to the Florida Theatre in March <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I was a teenager, I went to San Francisco State, and they had an improv group at the dormitory in a cantina across the way. And I had never seen improv before, I\u2019ve done standup,\u201d says Proops, reflecting on when he realized he was good at improv. \u201cI went over to watch it, and I thought, \u2018Well, I can do that,\u2019 and they did an audience participation spot, so I sat in the front row the next week, and I got up, and I did it, and then they asked me to join the group the next day. So I think when I was about 19, I thought I could do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Greg tells us the differences between Whose Line hosts Clive Anderson, Drew Carey, and Aisha Tyler, as well as reminisces on the old Comedy Central game show VS., in <a href=\"https:\/\/od-cmg.streamguys1.com\/jacksonville-market\/20260218080454-GregProopsInterview.mp3\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/od-cmg.streamguys1.com\/jacksonville-market\/20260218080454-GregProopsInterview.mp3\">the full interview<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Tickets for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatheatre.com\/events\/detail\/whose-live-anyway-1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.floridatheatre.com\/events\/detail\/whose-live-anyway-1\">Whose Live Anyway are on sale now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u25b6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/on-demand\/morning-news-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/on-demand\/morning-news-podcast\/\">Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/fp\/download-free-wokv-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/fp\/download-free-wokv-app\/\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wokv.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wokv.com\/newsletters\">click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 Comedian Greg Proops will be coming to Jacksonville in March, with Ryan Stiles, Jeff B.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[796,78800,794,28,44518,19954,78797,116,118,117,795,349,78798,78799],"class_list":{"0":"post-165453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-796","9":"tag-comedy-central","10":"tag-duval","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-theater","13":"tag-florida-theatre","14":"tag-greg-proops","15":"tag-jacksonville","16":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","17":"tag-jacksonville-news","18":"tag-ne-florida","19":"tag-northeast-florida","20":"tag-whose-line-is-it-anyway","21":"tag-whose-live-anyway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}