Four stand-ups are ready to dazzle the audience with humor when “Whose Live Anyway?” comes to the Maui Arts & Cultural Center on Dec. 1.

“The whole point of the improv show is that we’re going to come at you,” comedian Greg Proops told ARTpublika Magazine. “You have to learn that before you go.”

One of the stars of the hit improv TV show, “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Proops joins fellow comedians Ryan Stiles, Jeff B. Davis and Joel Murray for the “Whose Live Anyway?” show Dec. 1 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.

Acclaimed as some of the funniest people on the planet, the show’s audience members have reported laughing so hard their faces hurt. Requiring audience participation, folks may be invited to contribute sound effects, offer prompts for how scenes should begin and even get invited on stage.

“The crowd was excited to get involved, teeming with suggestions and ready to yell them out,” noted a South Bend Tribune review. ‘That was better than the TV show,’ I overheard an audience member remark as we were leaving the theater. He was right.”

With a format that features a panel of four performers who create characters, scenes and songs on the spot, “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” was adapted from a British series of the same name. It originally aired from 1998 to 2007 with host Drew Carey, and was revived in 2013. Celebrity guests like Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg have occasionally appeared on the show.

Hilarious scenarios have included the cast playing Hilary Clinton and Monica Lewinsky as roommates, bad things to say to someone on their deathbed — “What are you going to do with your stereo?” — a song about rowing lounge singer style and bad things to say through a megaphone — “Get out, my husband’s home.”

Proops has made people laugh for more than four decades. His resume includes voicing several characters in Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and hosting his “Smartest Man in the World” podcast. With eight comedy albums out, his latest, “French Drug Deal,” was praised by Paste Magazine for being “consistently funny. His use of language is as delightful as ever. He’s masterful at stand-up.”

Starring in both British and American versions of “Whose Line,” Stiles told Seattle’s K5 Evening Magazine, “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 on what they just said. But it’s the hardest thing to do.”

Friends with Eric Idle, Sykes interviewed the Monty Python star about his book, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.” Styles: “You have such detail in this book, stuff I would never remember.” Idle: “Well, you went there.”

Davis is also friends with Python’s Idol. They performed sketches and songs together at the 21st San Francisco Comedy Festival in early 2024. His lengthy career includes acting as a child on Broadway with Yul Brynner in “The King and I” and touring with the show and that star. About “Whose Line,” he told Indiana’s Whatzup, “It’s the goose that laid the golden egg. This is the greatest job I could ever think of.”

Davis likes posting random observations on Twitter. “Tesla owners are universally terrible at driving.” “Overheard in the backseat of a ride share car: Driver (quietly on his phone to a friend) ‘I cheated on my wife’ … ‘Which one?’ … ‘The Asian one. … I’m a bad person’.”

Known for his roles in TV series like “Mad Men,” “Love & War,” “Dharma & Greg” and “Shameless,” Murray is a younger brother of Bill Murray. His entertainment career began in Chicago at various improvisational theaters, including the legendary Second City, where he worked with Mike Myers and Chris Farley.

New Bedford’s Standard-Times asked him what he loves about improv. “It’s the lazy actor’s way,” Murray answered. “You don’t have to memorize any lines. It’s pretty amazing to tell people: “Well, I’m going to do a show tonight for 2,000 people and I’ve got nothing prepared. I’ve got nothing memorized.”

And about his famous brother: “Anywhere you go, he’s got to stop and talk to 35 people. Some of the funnest times I’ve had in my life have been with him.”

Comedians Greg Proops, Ryan Stiles, Jeff B. Davis and Joel Murray star in “Whose Live Anyway?” at the MACC’s Castle Theater at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1. Tickets are $45, $59.50 and $79.50 seats, plus applicable fees. Prices will increase the day of the show.