Posts by: hannahjay

Penko, 2 different songs are used on the Whose Line trailers. The first one was Creeping Up The Backstairs by the Fratellis, the one they show now is Dreaming Of You by The Coral.

I agree, Whose Line is the best show on TV, in fact thank you Dave for showing it coz I was only 5 when it ended! I say bring on the nothing but Whose Line weekend, I'm sure we've already had QI and Little Britain ones before!

I watch it on BBC2 and Dave, it's not like they're both on at the same time or anything.

I don't know, series 1 compared to the other series they've shown before seems so.. civilised. Bring on series 2, 3 and 4 though and the likes of Ryan, Colin, Greg and Brad!
They've gone and put every series of Whose Line on 4OD now, including 9 and 10!

It's gotta be Colin, I've even signed up to his website! Him and Ryan are unstoppable. They just work so well together, if you've ever seen the US version (without Clive) they certainly have their moments on there too! I also love Greg, the show wouldn't be complete without his and Clive's little arguments!

Haha I'm flattered you relied to me twice.
Watched Whose Line earlier, man what can I say, Tony in Authors was brilliant.

Some people prefer the UK version to the US and vice versa. I'll admit I only watch the US version for the Ryan + Colin magic, then again they are in every episode over there! Some brilliant moments, and I much prefer the American version of Greatest Hits, my favourite game, spurring such moments as the Arctic Tern and the Asteroid Boogaloo (if you haven't seen them YOU MUST!!!).
I have the American DVDs imported, volumes 1 and 2 of Season 1, these have not been shown on fiveUS and to be honest I can't see why not. Starting off they had far more different guests (including Stephen Colbert) whilst keeping the more familiar Ryan, Colin and Wayne.

As for the UK, well it's great to see so many different people and different styles with them. I LOVED Eddie Izzard when he was on, it was a shame he didn't come back. Mike McShane's songs were the best (and he has his own estate in Little Britain how cool is that!?). Gosh there's so many people on it that make me laugh.. I've already gone on about Ryan, Colin and Greg, but there's so many more.. Steve, Tony, Rory, Sandi..
To be honest I don't really get John Sessions but mainly that's because I don't understand the styles he does it in (particularly in stuff like Authors, when I'd never heard of the Author!) but he is very engaging to watch.

SabukuSands, you may now have competition in the rambling on stakes!

The radio version was on BBC Radio 7 not so long ago, I remember just coming across it by chance! I hope they repeat it again, I enjoyed it.

SabukuSands I do exactly the same! I started watching Kingdom coz I heard Tony Slattery was in it, absolutely love that show now!

I would love to have a Whose Line party, or have a little improv group or something like that.. it looks like so much fun. I make up hoedowns in the shower and I'm proud

Mock The Week's apparently the 'successor' to Whose Line.. many people who have been on WLiiA have been on Mock The Week, Rory Bremner was a captain, Sandi, Greg and Clive (hilarious moment about a wounded stag in his episode) were all on the panel as guests I think. The part at the end of the show - 'Scenes We'd Like To See' - is just like Scenes from a hat, just without the hat!

Another word to rhyme with halitosis: overdoses.

I could waffle on about this show forever!

I'm still off on school holidays too. Sometimes when I'm bored I just watch Whose Line again from like 3 hours earlier! Could never get tired of it.

Here's a question for you: Apart from the ones that have been on it already, which other people would you put on Whose Line if a new series was to be made? 2 people I would pick would be Andy Parsons and Rich Hall, they are seriously funny!

I think they should release a BIG boxset of all the series, like the ones you see for shows like Friends and stuff. I would happily part with £100 for that!

Oh and Kathy Greenwood should be ignored as much as possible. My favourite US episode, the Evil Tickler, has her in it. Ryan, Colin and Wayne are so funny in that episode you can't help but not take notice of her.

Indeed, in the Tickler episode, they play Helping Hands and Colin spills hot coffee on his hand. Drew actually believes that Ryan is in pain, that's how skilled they are!

You know they showed the UK compilations last night.. well haven't they missed out 1 or 2 episodes? If they started showing series 1 on Monday.. and it went through to Friday, that's 10 episodes, plus the compilations yesterday, that's 12. I thought there were more than that?

It's official, Dave also have Series 2! I just checked on their TV guide. Coming up this week: the debuts of Ryan and Greg!

OK I was wrong, they didn't miss out any episodes coz they showed the pilot yesterday. Man the studio looked strange! The other set is miles better.
I played Whose Line (the game, not the entire show) with my friend the other night, we just wrote lines for each other, it's so so fun to play! And then we tried Hoedown, I managed to come up with one after a minute or so, but it is quite hard!
Lol at Tony for PM, imagine the cost of school lunches - "That'll be £2.50 please!"

Here's one I made up on the Colin Mochrie forum (coz I'm cool) about having a pet:

We went and got our dog from a rescue home
She's a much better pet than a garden gnome
She is a lovely doggy, but we got her because
she was a tiny puppy, but now she's bigger than a bus!

Haha loving the whole halitosis thing!
I think the easiest way to think up a hoedown is think what is funny about the subject, find something that rhymes with it, then bung another rhyming couplet on before that, the hard bit is you have to do it very very quickly!
Oh yeah, if you haven't already, you should check out Greg's standup. I was listening to Back in the UK again last night, I laughed my head off. That's probably the best recording to start off with, it's over 10 years old but still funny, quite intelligent and observant, hilarious bit about 'the Hope Valley' in the Sheffield bit. £8 on iTunes! There's also some free clips from Live in Houston on his website too, if you wanna try before you buy if you know what I mean.

SabukuSands, if you wanna try ripping audio from Youtube videos try www.zamzar.com (I hope that shows up!) and then to cut it so you hear just the singing part open it in iTunes, go onto File --> Get Info --> Options Tab and enter the start and end times in the audio that you want to cut out and keep, click OK and then in the Advanced tab at the top pick Convert to AAC and it should work!

Totally agree about Whose Line 20 years on, if they did 5 shows with 4 contestants on each that would be 20 contestants altogether to fit in with the 20 theme!
Contestants I think should feature would be (and I'm going to list 20 here, brace yourselves!): John Sessions, Stephen Fry, Josie Lawrence, Sandi Toksvig, Mike McShane, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Steve Frost, Greg Proops, Brad Sherwood, Caroline Quentin, Tony Slattery, Chip Esten, Rory Bremner, Paul Merton, Jim Sweeney, Steve Steen, Wayne Brady and perhaps Phil LaMarr and Archie Hahn? Just trying to get a good mix of different improvisers.

Agreeing with the above point, Dave wouldn't show it practically every day if there wasn't a huge demand for it. It's immensely popular for several reasons: it's entertaining, funny, witty, clever and it appeals to all audiences.

If I'm ever out when it's on I record it. XD
Series 3 started today, Dave you are spoiling us! My fave series along with series 6.

Yeah, you gotta love Jim and Steve. Jim had one of the best debuts I've seen.
As for Colin's, well.. Salmon Man explains it all!

Maybe Dave want to show every series in order, and trying are trying to settle a deal on Series 4..?

The last episodes Dave have shown have all been dated 1991 - series 3. Plus series 4 has Steve Frost, Brad Sherwood and Chip Esten who haven't debuted yet, and the 4th series would be dated 1992.
God I'm such a geek.

They haven't. They only showed series 5 onwards, I swear.
Anyways it's on tonight at 7 (2 hours!), tomorrow and Tuesday, and that's all I've found for this week. Keep a look out for 1992 dated at the end, if it says that, it's definitely series 4.

Twas Series 9. I saw one from that the other week, had one of the funniest games of Animals I've ever seen, nearly as good as the dinosaur one. It was with sheep. Watch it if you can find it, I nearly died laughing.

What is your biggest plan then SabukuSands? Something to do with Tony I'm guessing?