Posts by: SabakuSands

Darn, how on earth did you find out? :P Yeah, maybe. One day I shall go to London and see him and say hallo!

True, I am being very optimistic! Oh well, it's not one of my biggest plans...bwahahaha! You like the programme? What do you like, or whom do you like? :D

That angers me! But then again, it was on for a few hours last...Sunday, I think, but it was Series 8, so my Tony withdrawal just got worse. I am annoyed. I remember when it was on every weekday except Monday, two episodes a night *sigh* Those were the days.

Also, I don't know, because I'm female, and not attracted to other females :P But I think that she is good-looking. Besides, it's okay for you- Josie Lawrence hasn't aged a bit, she looks the same now as she did in about series 6 or 7, whereas people get on my case because I like Tony, and he's matured a bit!

Diablo: I am assuming with your posting rampage, and the peak times of your posts, you, in fact, do not venture out beyond your front door often? I shall valiantly steer this thread back on-topic:

I would like to see Shooting Stars also.

Diablo: There you go again, posting something that has nothing to do with the thread topic here. I am quite adamant that the topic of advertising revenue has nothing to do with Fifth Gear, and for your information, Dave listens to its' posters a lot more than you bother to pay attention to the subject of the thread. Thank you for your time.

Diablo: I would be interested to know who is forcing you to watch adverts, and I extend my condolences. Have you tried telling whomever it is to stop forcing you? Wait, what did you say? Nobody's forcing you, it's just on the channel? Then perhaps you are not being forced- merely you lack the willpower to seize the remote and press a single button. Also, I believe this thread is nothing to do with adverts, therefore you are taking it off-topic. If you wish to complain about the adverts, please do it the proper way like everybody else and make a new topic.

I assume you must be pally with the employee in charge of revenue if you know that lots of cash is generated, and if so, why don't you tell him/her yourself that they have enough money to negotiate the rights to other programmes. And like I said before, you must turn on your television at a specific time if all you can find on Dave is Billy Connolly and Dragons' Den. How many times must I explain to you that you are essentially refusing to watch advocates of witty banter like Paul Merton? There is no purpose complaining if you, like the unfortunate complainer here, are not qualified to make a judgment because of your narrow-mindedness and refusal to watch anything but Mr. Connolly and Dragons' Den.

Finally, if you detest Dave so much, why do you seem to enjoy spending hours of your life on their messageboard? It either presents the rest of the general populace with a contradictory view, perhaps a tad hypocritical, or maybe you are unfortunately in denial that you, in fact, do like to watch Dave sometimes.

Well, there would be no competition if there wasn't a chance of winning. Besides, Dave didn't have to offer prizes, but they do anyway, which is quite good for a station that you don't pay for.

It's only on at the weekends for an hour, Saturday and Sunday, just in time to clash with primetime TV, so that parents/other household members will win a fight to watch something else. However, the first series are quite impressive (and they have an abundance of Tony Slattery :D), and we can see how games such as Helping Hands evolved.
Series 8 is good, but you don't get the variety of comedians that you had in the earlier series. That, and Tony isn't in Series 8 so it's not as fun to watch.

Well, why not? Craig Charles is in it, and Dave shows him in Red Dwarf, and I could see this show being broadcasted by Dave. The last time I watched Robot Wars was on BBC1 or 2, whenever it was originally on, when I was a small person! We used to like watching it, and I had a model toy of Matilda and the other one, Sir Killalot. I'd forgotten about this show before you reminded me of it! Also, didn't Hypnodisc feature on it again and again? I think I had a model of it.

Lol! By the way, it's on now until 4pm, apparently. It's been on for a while now. I'm assuming this is an act of appeasement, but my friend had to ring me up and tell me it was on. Oh well. At least this way, I won't miss it due to after-school commitments. It seems like they're running series 4 today...Ooh, I love this one! Tony is mistranslating European porn in Authors :D

hannahjay: Not really! I just didn't know that Brad was in it. I assumed that, as an American comedian whom we don't see in the earlier series, he would only be in series 9/10. When I said that they'd shown series 4 before- I meant in January or previous to it. Therefore, if they'd already shown it, why would they need to re-negotiate?

X Gem X: He is quite funny, but as I prefer the UK series, he doesn't compare to other comedians, in my opinion. I have no idea what is going to happen with the schedule now, but it seems that Dave is an unfair channel.

perhaps, but haven't they already started on Series 4? And that reminds me, I believe that back before the earlier series were to be broadcast, did they not show S4-S8? Regardless of their reason, it is very disappointing to see the schedule jump around without prior warning.

There's always 4oD, it won't suddenly cancel Whose Line just when it's getting really exciting.

Oh, Dave...As soon as you get the schedule perfect, you remove Whose Line from the weekdays. Now, it's only on at the weekend- Saturday and Sunday. Whose Line fans who have tirelessly campaigned for it to get a good spot in the schedule, and who have been extremely grateful to Dave for recognising their requests, have let us down again. Granted, it could be worse- they could remove it from the schedule completely, but there are a very small amount of people who will be in on Saturday night, prime-time viewing. Dave, you have let people down.

eejit: Indeed! It was superbly superb. I'd say that the partnership between Jim and Steve was as good as the one between Ryan and Colin!

hannahjay: Best debut ever! But then again, I did enjoy Tony's debut (series 1, episode 1, when the camera looks over the audience, you can see him in it!) I haven't seen Colin's yet, I shall see it soon.

Am I just talking rubbish, or does Steve Steen really have a pretty decent voice? And go vote for Paul Merton on the Wit List in the Dave Lounge! :D

eejit: Fascinating schedule! I am loving the two hours of Whose Line on May 10th, and all the extra eps at the weekend. Sadly, can't see Whose Line tomorrow, but if I had Dave +1, I could. I wonder if I could talk my parents into getting it. Probably not :( Julian Clary was a bit poor when I last saw him, can't remember when!

eejit: It was the last compilation of series 2, I think! (I hope so, as if not, I can't see it on my DVD :() You could watch it on 4oD if you desperately want to see it (and I do recommend it, you should have heard what he said about fishing for trouts!) Helping Hands was very very different from what we know! I'm guessing they used 3x01 to test new musical games as they only had Rap and Musical. Then they'd probably go from there and use the ones that worked! I remember Tony singing in a Spanish accent in an ep a few days ago, it was rather exciting! His voice sounded all light, and cute, and it was the first time I'd seen him not singing in either an American accent or just his normal one (which is, of course, equally lovely!)

Indeed, we are being spoiled! I will learn how to use my recorder one day.

Clive's rap was absolutely thrilling- he bobbed his head to the beat (lol!), and said it in a cool style :D And now we all know where the head-desk picture of Clive on the compilations come from :D Jim Sweeney was superb in his first appearance, which is quite impressive considering the amount of one-show wonders! But then, he was a Comedy Store Player, and Josie his co-Player was with him :D You can see where the games Psychiatrist and Helping Hands started, so now we know the history of the game! Did anyone think that 3x01 was quite musical compared to previous ones?

I now have Tony on my iPod, which is wonderful! I now more or less know all the works.

eejit: I'm not going to be able to see Whose Line at 7pm tonight, since I'm out (which is atrocious!) Which episodes are on today? I think it must be the last two episodes of series 2- I really really need to see Tony as the Marquis de Sade, I've heard people raving about it. If it's on my DVD, I'll watch it over the weekend :D I do love Whose Line, and it cheered me up yesterday after a hellish day! Tony and Rory are amusing together, they end up giggling and just playing off each other

Then you are not qualified to make a judgement, I'm afraid. Watching five minutes does not make you an expert, just like reading one book on something doesn't make you a professor of it. There's no point complaining if you don't know anything about what you're complaining about, it merely makes you look foolish.

Actually, you'll find that Dave play them over and over again because lots of fans asked them too- please don't make them out to be people desperate to fill up time between programs, it's an insult. They are extremely accommodating and listen to their viewers. I believe you do not understand: there's comedy (Fawlty Towers, etc.), and improvisational comedy (Whose Line. Trying to compare them is like trying to compare horror films and romance films- it just doesn't work because they're different genres.

Like I said before, the people on Whose Line are comedians, ergo they are funny. Please do read posts before you reply, otherwise you'll make people repeat themselves, which is most irksome. They are talented, as said by their many fans- one person against a majority says nothing. Finally, charades is never actually played on the show.

Please tell me, have you ever watched one full episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway? I would love to know just where you are getting your misguided judgement from.

Excuse me, but most of the comedians, if not all of them, in Whose Line Is It Anyway? are not nobodies. They are famous, and have very good careers. If you've bothered to read the Dave messageboard, there are many people who are thrilled by Dave's choice to keep it on. There have been at least four threads at once asking why it wasn't on, and many people have replied. Go figure. And owing to the fact that it ran for 10 series, there were full audiences at every taping, and that lots and lots of people have bought the DVDs, one would think that they were in fact succeeding at being funny, owing to the fact that they are comedians. Finally, if you look up how many awards it's won, then you'll finally get an informed view about it.

I would be interested to know which children's programmes you watch that can be better than Whose Line. I assume that if you do, in fact, enjoy showings of Teletubbies and the like, and fail to appreciate Whose Line, you may be lacking a sense of humour, and you may want to get this checked, as it can be a problem. Either that, or the sophisticated humour of John Sessions may be slightly above your comprehension.

Dave is "the home of witty banter" and of "cutting-edge comedy", as it bills itself. Whose Line is extremely humourous, and John Sessions provides enough witty banter for all four contestants. Therefore, I'm inclined to think that Dave want to live up to their taglines, and keep up brilliant executive decisions by keeping their schedule as it is at the moment.

Regards,
SabakuSands

Oh, wow! Thank you very much for the help with that, now I won't have trouble finding out how to do that technological wizardry.

I agree with your choices, except that I'd prefer contestants from series 1-8, because I don't think that a lot of people have seen series 9-10! I think that it would be interesting to see Archie in it again. It would also be nice to see Chip, haven't seen him much on the US one.

hannahjay: Thank you very much! Halitosis is interesting, though if you want to do a hoedown about it, make sure you compile a list of what rhymes with it, because only very specific words rhyme with it. You can then build around it :D I think I'd be worse at actually singing the hoedown, because when typing, it's slower than singing, so you have time to get an idea and make it all refined!
I've never thought to look on iTunes with anything connected to Whose Line, and I am now kicking myself! I might look into getting Greg's standup stuff, but I've been meaning to somehow nab Tony's singing from youtube using special programs, so that's a bit of a priority. I like the "if you know what I mean"! :D I'll look into that sometime.

Whose Line Fan: Of course! A 20th anniversary is a very good reason to have a reunion. I think that perhaps it would be interesting to include Griff Rhys Jones, and see how he does now. However, I wouldn't include any of the other 'guests'- comedians who only appeared in one or two episodes, because some of them were poor, like Ardal O'Hanlon, bless him! He can do comedy, but his improv skills were sorely lacking! And Russell Fletcher. I would like to see Rory McGrath and Stephen Fry also, because they were funny, even though they didn't feature in many episodes.
The ideal scenario for a reunion would be a small number of anniversary episodes- basically, Clive hosting, and four people in each episode. You would have all of the comedians, each in one episode. If it was done that way, it'd be more special and lasting than just one special episode, and you wouldn't have people like Josie complaining and refusing to do another series: it wouldn't be another series, it'd be a one-off. Maybe if we suggested it to Hat Trick Productions, and said that we'd like to see Jimmy Mulville, then they'd take that idea into account, since he is, I believe, a co-founder of Hat Trick.

I wish that Hat Trick Productions let people do work experience there, it'd be a really amazing opportunity

Whoa, lots of action here! And lots of Sessions-esque rambling to reply. By the way, he did ramble over poor Archie Hahn in today's first episode, but Tony was absolutely marvellous! Archie also shone along with him in Sound Effects. I really really really really enjoyed that episode, and the one after it wasn't too bad either!

WhoseLineFan: Don't worry, I ramble too! And everyone here puts up with it :P

hannahjay: Hoedowns are difficult! You have to have the tune in your head so you can get the rhythm of the words right! Also, Whose Line-the-game is rather amusing when Ryan and Colin play it. However, I don't think we'll beseeing that until later series!

eejit1990: Ah yes, the days when everyone had more hair :D Good times! Also, in a very underrated 1993 sitcom named "Just a Gigolo", Tony played the lead character...a French teacher! He did learn French at Cambridge though, and thanks to watching him, I can now say one word in a real French accent! "la parapluie!" And also "sensuelle" and "sexuelle"...you can see why it's called Just a Gigolo. Although the person who says those two words is an older woman looking for an escort! You can find all the episodes on youtube, and I recommend watching it if you like Tony, it's extremely hilarious, and believe it or not, it's pretty tame when it comes to naughty things! Nice hoedown too- hoedowns bring out the songwriter in people!

hannahjay: That studio depressed me, and no amount of Film and Theatre Styles could cheer me up when I saw it! I really do love the red and black standard set. Nice hoedown too!

Here's one I made earlier, on the Tony Slattery Fanbase forum (if you haven't figured it out already, yes, I am obsessed with Mr. Slattery!) It's the "Bad Breath" hoedown. See if you can spot where I'm inspired by Josie Lawrence's hoedowns!


My friend is a dentist,
he treats patients, you see
extractions, dentures, fillings,
with torturous glee,

but there is something he hates-
the worst case, he supposes,
is having to hover over
a patient with halitosis!

hannahjay: As soon as I read your post for the second time, I worked it out: Dave didn't show episode 8, the pilot episode, in which they all look rather dreary in a grey and blue studio. I'm really glad that they went for the red and black in the end! Colin and Ryan are psychic! :D Also, I believe that Dave are showing series 1-8 again, but please correct me if I'm wrong. If you haven't seen it already, you will enjoy series 2!

eejit1990: I wish my friends were interested in Whose Line! Then maybe we coudl try improvising scenes :( Hoedowns are superb! My next mission is to try and sing and play at the same time. If I try both, I mess up the playing... I completely agree with you, and some hoedowns of mine have included voting him as president and ruler of the universe :D I watched his dirty Helping Hands, and it was hilarious! Though I did feel sorry for him when he got his finger bitten- it would have been interesting to see his face and how much pain he was in, because it looked like Josie bit hard! However, I object to the words "old fool"! Could we call him a dirty young man? Pleeease?