Whose Line Is It Anyway?

American version = dud.
British mid 90s version being repeated on Dave: best thing on TV at the moment.

I could watch Ryan Stiles pretend to be a fish for... days.

wayne brady is tolerable on this

also when they do the props skit it's fun

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Caught a repeat on Dave the other day, and it seems unbearably cosy and smug now. I loved it when I was ten or eleven though, my parents used to let me stay up late to watch it as a special treat. Dom's right, Ryan Styles was always the funniest.

Wot, no John Sessions episodes?

http://community.livejournal.com/john_sessions

JOHN SESSIONS LIVEJOURNAL COMMUNITY FOR ALL YOUR JOHN SESSIONS NEEDS

YOUR JOHN SESSIONS NEEDS

John doesn’t like these pre-show minutes. Doesn’t like them at all. When he’s eventually on stage, performing, it’s not as bad. That’s what he loves after all, performing. It’s what he chose to do for a living, no matter how hard it would get and it actually seems as if he managed it, for the time being at least. In showbiz you never know.

But then again, being on a stage is something entirely different than doing a TV show. On stage he has a script, doesn’t have to worry about being spontaneously funny. That’s what he fears, absurdly. He does know he can do it, deep down, but still the fear of making mistakes seems impregnably huge at times.

He lets his gaze wander around the room. The atmosphere seems oddly calm to him. His eyes lie on Josie for a moment who is reading a magazine, showing her own nerviness only by the steady movement of her left foot. She looks up, feeling his glance and gives him an encouraging smile before turning back to the journal in her hands.

John returns the smile vaguely before his attention is caught by Paul and Jonathan, who are chatting casually on the other end of the room. He cannot hear what they are talking about but whatever it is, Paul sure is dominating the conversation. Actually it seems as if Paul is the only one talking at all, which, the more John thinks about it, isn’t all that surprising.

He remembers the only conversation he and Paul ever had. It had been quite a one-sided chat, with Paul elaborately talking about how Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike Contest. It must have also been one of those pre-show chats the other man uses to have. This must be Paul’s way of preparing for a show, John supposes.

He doesn’t even realise that he stared at him for minutes until he notices Paul looking back at him. For a small moment their eyes lock, ocean blue eyes staring into his chocolate brown ones. John tries but fails to read the expression on the other man’s face. Paul has always been a mystery to him.

And as suddenly as it has come the moment’s gone and Paul turns his face to a crew member who informs them they are being awaited in the green room.
Josie gets up and walks out of the room, the oddly relieved looking Jonathan at her side. John follows them, his heart pounding loudly again now that he’s about to face the audience.

When he’s about to leave the room Paul passes him by, quietly murmuring something which almost sounds like ‘Good luck.’. But John can’t be sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBo4VlkPSuI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ_lXJTaT5g

Sessions Jack Nicholson impersonation is nearly as good as mine.

Dom, are you John?

I hope there's some John Sessions/Tony Slattery slash fiction to be found in the JOHN SESSIONS LIVEJOURNAL COMMUNITY or I'm going to be very disappointed.

^^^Kate StClare memorial post

Let's not say things we can't take back, eh?

I started with the first season of Whose Line. I'd only read about John in "Most overrated WL player"-type threads in forums and in lj communities, where he was always described as a smug bastard who hogged the stage rather a lot and was too high brow for the show. Needless to say, I was prepared to hate the guts out of him, because he seemed to be such a git. He really wasn't. If we were watching one of those nature documentaries where they speed up the footage to show the plants growing, this would be my reaction to him:

Well, I like his curly hair. Hmm, ok, I don't get that reference--oh wait, that was funny...oh that was...really funny! Still don't know who that author is. What a charming smile he has. *loud laughter* That isn't smug at all! He looks shy, even. He's actually trying to sing? *chuckle* God, his impressions are amazing. He's amazing. Fascinating guy.

Then I realized I didn't just found him funny, but intriguing as a person. He's just...fantastic. I then moved on to QI, In the Red, Gormenghast and just about anything I can find with him in it.

http://userpic.livejournal.com/50275209/10273403

BEHOLD

^^^WAU

I think we need to start a competition to see who can find the most hilariously dreadful slash community on LiveJournal or summthin.

LIKE THIS EXAMPLE

ILX CHALLENGE: Find the most messed-up Livejournal slash fiction community

Some of the improvisations on WLIIA have left me helplessly in laughter-tears, mostly those with Ryan Stiles and Colin Macherie. In those few great moments it is the funniest tv show I've seen in decades. Drew Carey is mercifully unemphasized in the format of the show.

you guys have a channel called "Dave"???

More properly: The David Channel.