Whose Live Anyway?

ProVideo Comedy Series
Whose Live Anyway?
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BIOGRAPHIES
RYAN STILES
Ryan began his comedy career at a Punchlines
Comedy Club in Vancouver in his last year of
high school. He was a good student but had
flexibility in his schedule which gave him time
to perform at night plus work part time for
his Dad at a fish plant. He quit high school a
couple months short of graduation to work in
comedy.
Brown and of course the British version of
Whose Line Is It Anyway? came along.
In spite of his parent’s objections, he worked
in comedy and was able to support himself for
several years performing, writing and working
on television in Canada.
What He’s Doing Now
Ryan is one of the permanent members of the
new Whose Line Is It Anyway airing on the
CW Network and loves doing improv with
Greg and Jeff in Whose Live Anyway?
In 1986 he became part of the cast of The
Second City during Expo 86 in Vancouver.
After that run ended he moved to LA to
briefly join the Second City cast there and
then moved to Toronto where he was chosen
to be a cast member of The Second City
mainstage company. It was there that he honed
his amazing improvisational skills.
After a couple years in Toronto, Ryan moved
to LA once again and landed several guest
roles on The Garry Shandling Show, Mad
About You, Who’s The Boss?, Weird Science,
The John Larroquette Show and Murphy
In 1995 he landed a regular role on The Drew
Carey Show which lasted several seasons
on ABC. It was Ryan and Drew that pitched
Whose Line to ABC. Drew hosted it and Ryan
became a starring fixture on Whose Line even
drawing blood for his comedic efforts in one
episode.
He also immensely enjoys appearing with
a core of great improvisors at his Upfront
Theatre in Bellingham Washington where he
makes his home.
Quotes
On performing improv theater: “I’m convinced
to do improv all you have to do is listen to
what people are saying to you, and then just
add more information to what they’ve just said.
That’s all there is to improv, but it’s still the
hardest thing to do.”
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GREG PROOPS
“Here he is, though, in front of a live audience
each week, bravely recording some of the
boldest comedy on the podcasting frontier
right now.” -Rolling Stone Magazine
Greg Proops is a stand-up comic from San
Francisco. He lives in Hollywood. It’s not that
bad. Really. The Proopdog is best known for
his unpredictable appearances on Whose Line
is it Anyway? He can be seen on the New
Season on the CW.
Professor Proops has a hit Podcast called
The Smartest Man in the World. He has
recorded it live in Australia, New Zealand,
Montreal, Edinburgh, Dublin, San Francisco,
Oslo, Amsterdam, Austin, London, Paris
aboard a ship in the Caribbean and somehow,
Cleveland. Find it at Proopcast.com or iTunes.
Greg has lent his voice to Star Wars the
Phantom Menace and was Bob the Builder.
Mr. Proops has been a guest on Red Eye, The
Late, Late Show and Chelsea Lately on E!
You may socially network with Greg on Twitter
at @gregproops and tumblr at proopcast.com
JEFF DAVIS
Jeff B. Davis is a multi-talented actor/
comedian, born and bred in Los Angeles,
CA. His career began at age 4 as “Linus” in
a terribly ill-advised, all-children production
of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at the
Goundlings Theater. On opening night, Jeff
vomited all over his director, then turned
and took the stage. At age 9, Jeff was cast as
“Louis” in Yul Brynner’s final production of The
King and I, which toured nationally and closed
on Broadway when Jeff was 11, after nearly 800
vomit-free performances.
In high school Jeff began improvising with Los
Angeles ComedySportz, eventually learning
the skills he’d later need as a frequent guest
on the hit television show Whose Line is it
Anyway? Jeff has a long list of TV credits,
including Steven Martin’s NBC comedy
The Downer Channel, WB’s On the Spot,
NBC’s Happy Family, the Sarah Silverman
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Show, Drew Carey’s Green Screen Show and
Improvaganza, to name just a few. Jeff spends
many nights of the year performing live with
“Whose Line” stars Ryan Stiles and Greg
Proops to standing ovations all over North
America. When he’s not on stage, Jeff is in
Hollywood trying to break George Clooney’s
record of “most failed television pilots.”
Jeff is currently a guest on CW’s reboot
of Whose Line is it Anyway?, and can be
heard on the highly-acclaimed, deeply weird
Harmontown podcast with NBC’s Community
creator Dan Harmon. Listen at your own risk.
Feel free to bother Jeff on Twitter
@JeffBryanDavis.
JOEL MURRAY
Joel is the youngest of the funny Murray
brothers and like Bill and Brian, Joel is an
alumnus of the famous Second City Chicago.
Joel has joined Whose Live Anyway? as the
main go-to guy.
Joel starred in the 1990 television series Grand,
the 1991 comedy series Pacific Station, Love
and War as Ray Litvak, and as Pete Cavanaugh
for several seasons on Dharma & Greg.
Joel Murray’s first film role was in the 1986
comedy film One Crazy Summer as George
Calamari. His other roles include the 1988
comedy film Scrooged, with his brothers Bill
Brian & John. He starred in the 1992 movie
Shakes the Clown.
In the first, second, and fourth seasons of the
Emmy winning AMC TV series Mad Men
Joel Murray appeared as copywriter Freddy
Rumsen. He has made guest appearances on
television shows such as The Nanny, Two and
a Half Men, Malcolm in the Middle, Criminal
Minds and Blossom.
In the 2012 film God Bless America he portrays
Frank, a man whose contempt for superficiality
and meanness in American society sends him
over the edge and into a killing spree.
In the 2013 Pixar film Monsters University he
provides the voice of Don Carlton, a middle-
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aged monster who is a college student and
salesman.
Joel makes his home in Los Angeles with his
wife and family and is an avid golfer. He is a
partner with brothers Brian, Bill and John in the
Caddy Shack Restaurant.
BOB DERKACH, Musical Director
Bob has been keyboard player for Whose Live
Anyway? since it’s inception in 1999. He also
performs with Drew Carey’s Improv All-Stars
and with Women Fully Clothed. Bob was
the musical director/composer/keyboardist
for The Second City Theater mainstages in
Toronto ON, Edmonton AB and Santa Monica
CA from 1981-2006.
In addition to his continuing compositional and
sound design work for film, television, dance
and theater, Bob’s soundscape ‘The Winds
of Mars’ opens Visions of Mars, which is an
extra-terrestrial DVD-ROM artifact created
by The Planetary Society as a time-capsule
greeting for future settlers of Mars. It remains
on-deck NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander which
successfully landed in the northern arctic
region of Mars on May 25th, 2008.
Bob has released 6 CDs of original electronic
and piano music available on iTunes and at CD
Baby. Visit his website bobderkachmusic.com.
Turn up the speakers and click on the Planets!
IGUDESMAN AND JOO:
AND NOW MOZART
FRI, OCT 23 | 8 PM | $35+
Victor Borge meets PDQ Bach!
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SUPPORT FOR OVERTURE
PUBLIC SUPPORT
An annual commitment from the City of Madison helps support Overture Center and the
14 community engagement programs we provide. Mayor Paul Soglin, the Madison Common
Council and City of Madison residents deserve our gratitude for their generous support.
Overture also wishes to thank Dane County Executive Joe Parisi, the Dane County Board
of Supervisors and the residents of Dane County for their generous support.
LEGACY SPONSORS
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the community even at its beginning stages, providing significant, valuable and long-term support for
Overture Center’s success and growth.
LOCAL LEGENDS
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CONTACT US
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SUPPORT FOR OVERTURE
CORPORATE & FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS
$20,000- $100,000
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Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.
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charitable arm of
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Webcrafters, Inc.
Wisconsin Arts Board
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corporate & foundation gifts made from
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PATRON SERVICES AND INFORMATION
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