Rolling Whose Line Is It Anyway? Rerun Thread

To clarify - Garden's turned up dressed like a maths teacher, and is happy to get shunted to the back. Ravens... no-one seems to know what to do with her. She's kind of actressing it up and not really being funny at all. Sessions is bloody Sessions. I was surprised by how much I liked him in later episodes, but here he's kind of running rampant. Infuriatingly so. And McGrath... his nerves are rather getting the better of him. Apart from Sessions, they all seem out of their element, and the whole atmosphere is remarkably awkward.

***SPOILER WARNING***

Ravens wins and gets to read the credits in the style of Paula Yates. The reaction is underwhelming.

Early ones are dire. Sessions' smuggery is beyond unbearable and he isn't funny. Neither is anyone else for that matter. Also awful self-conscious middle class audiences unable or unwilling to join in. It's like the two World Wars, we needed the Yanks to come in and rescue us - but not before they'd let us suffer just a little too long to allow us to be too grateful to them.

I remember seeing one of them where Kate Nash, sorry I mean Josie Lawrence was appealing directly to Brad Pitt to take her away (inbetween rounds, this was), which was um interesting...

What, is she a lezzer or something?

and he's joined by Graeme Garden

Wait woah you mean the Goodies Graeme Garden? This I must see. Is this UK or US Whose line?

UK obviously!

rumours, bruv.

Pretty sure she's straight.

Man, check out her post-2000 filmography:

# "Skins" .... Liz Jenkins (3 episodes, 2007-2008)
- Episode #2.10 (2008) TV episode .... Liz Jenkins
- Episode #2.3 (2008) TV episode .... Liz Jenkins
- Episode #1.5 (2007) TV episode .... Liz Jenkins
# The Old Curiosity Shop (2007) (TV) .... Mrs. Jiniwin
# Assassin's Creed (2007) (VG) (voice) .... Peasant
# "Robin Hood" .... Matilda (1 episode, 2007)
- Ducking and Diving (2007) TV episode .... Matilda
# "The Last Detective" .... Gillian Langham (1 episode, 2007)
- The Man from Montevideo (2007) TV episode .... Gillian Langham
# "The Complete Guide to Parenting" .... Phoebe Huntley (5 episodes, 2006)
- Episode #1.4 (2006) TV episode .... Phoebe Huntley
- Episode #1.5 (2006) TV episode .... Phoebe Huntley
- Episode #1.3 (2006) TV episode .... Phoebe Huntley
- Episode #1.2 (2006) TV episode .... Phoebe Huntley
- Episode #1.1 (2006) TV episode .... Phoebe Huntley
# Acorn Antiques: The Musical (2006) (V) .... Donna/Bonnie
# Marple: By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2006) (TV) .... Hannah Beresford
... aka Agatha Christie - Marple: By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Australia: DVD title)
# "Down to Earth" (1 episode, 2005)
- Trouble 'n' Strife (2005) TV episode
# "Holby City" .... Avril Coulter (1 episode, 2004)
... aka Holby (UK: informal short title)
- Out of Control (2004) TV episode .... Avril Coulter
# "Where the Heart Is" .... Rita Shepherd (1 episode, 2003)
- A Time to Dance (2003) TV episode .... Rita Shepherd
# "Keen Eddie" .... Liese Kohl (1 episode, 2003)
- Achtung Baby (2003) TV episode .... Liese Kohl
# "Fat Friends" .... Julia Fleshman (8 episodes, 2000-2002)
- In Full Bloom (2002) TV episode .... Julia Fleshman
- Peaches and Dreams (2002) TV episode .... Julia Fleshman
- Full Belly (2002) TV episode .... Julia Fleshman
- When the Fat Lady Sings (2000) TV episode .... Julia Fleshman
- Face the Fat (2000) TV episode .... Julia Fleshman
(3 more)
# "A Many Splintered Thing" .... Camilla (6 episodes, 2000)
- Episode #1.6 (2000) TV episode .... Camilla
- Episode #1.5 (2000) TV episode .... Camilla
- Episode #1.4 (2000) TV episode .... Camilla
- Episode #1.3 (2000) TV episode .... Camilla
- Episode #1.2 (2000) TV episode .... Camilla
(1 more)

My mum thinks Drew Carey is gay

Wasn't he raped by his father as a child? That's kinda gay.

No wonder he looks so uncomfortable all the time

The rumours (JL, xpost) were 'on here' at the time, the very next day I saw that episode I just described and said "oh".

So, I guessed not.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Drew_Carey-Marines.jpg

Hi, I'm your host, Drew Carey, come on down, and let's have some fun.

I think I saw every single Whose Line episode (US and UK) within half a year. How very depressing. UK's definitely the better, but, really, Ryan Stiles and Mochrie more or less were the show after a while. Search: episodes with manic Slattery and episodes with Stephen Fry. Destroy: Chip Esten & Wayne Brady. Oh, and the singing. Hell, destroy 90% of the show, really.

Stephen Fry was rubbish on it

apart from the ones where he was supposed to sing, at which point he'd either fail badly, or just talk through.

OK, he had 'problems' with that (he'd had to get hypnotherapy to be able to sing on a Fry and Laurie show sketch), but hey.

The early UK ones are horrendous. If an episode doesn't have Mochrie and Styles on it, you may as well turn over.

Wow, Colin Mochrie is Scottish!

In a kinda David Byrne way

Stephen Fry was rubbish on it

His attempts at rapping were always worth watching.

I can't fucking watch any WLIIA episode with Sessions in it. Just. Fucking. Can't.

Stephen Fry was rubbish on it

Bullshit. (I can say this, I've performed in Theatresports at Fringe Festivals.)

By the way, if you MUST watch an WLIIA episode with Sessions in it, make sure it's that Season 2 episode where Stiles debuts and wipes the comedy floor with him.

Impersonations

Throughout both versions of Whose Line, the contestants would not only become known for their humor, but as well particular impersonations they can do:

* Wayne Brady - Stevie Wonder, Sammy Davis, Jr., Louis Armstrong, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Billy Dee Williams, Don King, Bill Cosby, Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz, Scooby-Doo, Al Sharpton, Gary Coleman and many musical artists
* Colin Mochrie - Peter Graves, "Craig T. Nelson", Humphrey Bogart, Peter Mansbridge, Colonel Klink
* Ryan Stiles - Carol Channing, John Wayne, Steve Irwin, Elvis Presley, Richard Nixon, James Stewart
* Brad Sherwood - Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Fred Schneider, Stephen Hawking
* Chip Esten - Snagglepuss
* Greg Proops - Woody Allen, John Major, Clive Anderson
* Jeff Davis - Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum
* Rory Bremner - Bill Clinton, Prince Charles, John Major, Roger Moore, Tony Slattery, David Attenborough, Clive Anderson
* John Sessions - Charles Dickens, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman
* Tony Slattery - Clive Anderson, various UK TV presenters
* Archie Hahn - Donald Duck, Truman Capote
* Paul Merton - Arnold Schwarzenegger
* Stephen Frost - Tom Baker
* Mike McShane - Scarlet O'Hara, Brian Blessed

Peter Cook was in one. Proof that comedian != improvisor

Peter Cook did an uncanny impersonation of Peter Cook but nowt else.

Well, I d/l an episode of "Just a minute" with Peter Cook on, one of only two appearances he made on the show, he was great. I guess he had a short attention span for this sort of thing...

He was distinctly out of place.

And yes, that entire first series is fascinating for being so bad that you can learn buckets from it.

(xp)

Peter Cook was in one. Proof that comedian != improvisor

Proof that comedian != actor

I spread the JL lesbian rumour. A lesbian told me that she was and I figgured she had all sorts of special scene info.

All other rumours I have spread here have been true tho.

Ryan Stiles has a better career overall than Peter Cook I think.

Hot Shots > Bedazzled
Being Drew Carey's bitch > Being Joan Rivers' bitch
Pizza Hut adverts > Barclays Bank adverts you only got because Peter Sellers had a heart attack

Never seen "Hot Shots" (or have I?) but seriously doubt it could be better than "Bedazzled"

Poll?

Dudley Moore vs. Colin Mochrie?

Wayne Brady vs John Sessions

Robert Mugabe is funnier than John Sessions

^real talk

For those who never saw it posted before, Livejournal's John Sessions fan community:

http://community.livejournal.com/john_sessions

gawd.

15 year old middle class girls into "English Lit" + WLIIA repeats on satellite telly = dangerous combination