2011 DMA INTERNATIONAL ECHO AWARDS

VISIONARY STRATEGY... COMPELLING CREATIVE ... BREAKTHROUGH RESULTS

Tuesday, October 4, 2011
6:30PM Reception; 7:00-10:00PM dinner & ceremony
Grand Ballroom, Boston Convention Center — Boston, Massachusetts
Host: Greg Proops
Black Tie Optional

On Tuesday, October 4th, the DMA honors the world's best direct and interactive marketing campaigns. This is Direct Marketing's night of excellence. An entertaining look at the year's best work.

Along with gold, silver and bronze winners, ECHO will present six special awards:

• The ECHO Diamond Award
• The Henry Hoke Award
• The ECHO Digital Award
• The USPS Gold Mailbox Award
• The A. Eicoff Broadcast Innovation Award
• The Search Marketing Award
• The ECHO Green Award

Greg Proops

"Sharp dressed and even sharper witted." -LA Times

"Proops has a fun, ranty, self-deprecating, flamboyant, quick comedy style with depth, range, and most importantly, great jokes." -SF Weekly

Greg Proops is a stand up comic from San Francisco. He lives in Hollywood. And still likes it. Professor Proops has a new Podcast on iTunes called The Smartest Man in the World.

Riffing Greg can also be seen on Doug Benson's new show on Comedy Central The Benson Interruption.

Satirical Greg has a chapter in Paul Provenza's new book on comics Satiristas! Greg Just taped an episode of Paul's show The Green Room for Showtime.

Anchor Greg hosts the weekly webcast Odd News on Yahoo.

Mr. Proops is a frequent guest on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Chelsea Lately on E! and on Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News.

Mr. P has a spanking new stand-up comedy CD called Proops Digs In. Available on iTunes and at aspecialthing.com Greg is enjoying his second season on the hit Nickelodeon comedy series True Jackson VP, starring Keke Palmer, NAACP Image Award winner, as True, weekly on Nickelodeon.

Greg joins long time cohorts Ryan Stiles, Jeff Davis and Chip Esten in the live improv show Whose Live Anyway? They are constantly touring the US and Canada.

Mr. Proops cares like Bono and has performed and hosted at many events for the ACLU including the membership conference and a rally to stop torture with Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Senator Patrick Leahy and Larry Cox, Director of Amnesty International USA.

Gregela is happy to be in the "Streamy"-winning of Easy to Assemble starring Illeana Douglass' as the shallow agent Ben. Seen on easytoassemble.tv

The Proopdog is best known for his unpredictable appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway?, the hit, improvised comedy show on ABC hosted by Drew Carey. Greg is also a regular on the long running British version of WLIIA? Whose Line is currently seen on ABC Family Channel.

Proop pod has appeared on such notable comedy podcasts as WTF with Marc Maron, Doug Benson's I Love Movies and Kevin Pollak's Chat Show.

Proops has been a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The View and The Bonnie Hunt Show.

Uncle Greg may be heard as the voice of Bob the Builder on the popular children's series seen on PBS. Greg hosted the Game show Head Games on the Science Channel, produced by Whoopi Goldberg.

Proopworld provides the announcer voice Hank "Buckshot" Holmes for the mad new game Mad World for Wii.

Mr. Prooples regularly hosts his own live comedy chat show at the perilously hip Hollywood rock joint Largo. Guests have included Flight of the Conchords, Jason Schwartzman, Russell Brand, Jack Black, Dave Grohl, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Joe Walsh, Janeane Garofalo, David Cross, Margaret Cho, Dave Eggers, Joan Rivers, Andy Richter, Jeff Goldblum, Kathy Griffin, Lewis Black, Eddie Izzard and John C. Reilly. Providing musical magic is genius and imp Jon Brion.

Mr. Proops is married to a woman, Jennifer. He doesn't deserve her. They reside in Lower California with their pet ocelot, Justin.

SPONSORSHIPS
There are several opportunities for your company to assume a high profile at this Gala and other events surrounding the ECHO Awards.  For more information, contact Donna LoPorto at 303.543.1164 or Email at dloporto@the-dma.org.