Daily Whose Line

[filkertom]

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Who would be your ultimate Whose Line cast? British and American shows, guest stars they've had on count. I would be hard-pressed to find a better config than Wayne Brady, Brad Sherwood, Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles, but my man-love for Mike McShane is nearly as great as my hubba-hubba for Josie Lawrence.

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[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Josie would be my #1 choice, both to balance gender and because she kicks serious butt in all the musical bits. Add Colin, Greg Proops, and Ryan. But also, let's cast the All-Star Guest Star Edition right away: Stephen Fry, Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Colbert, and George Wendt (though I'd rather let Drew Carey play, instead of hosting).

Now read the credits in a style appropriate to a Mel Brooks movie :-)

I like Brad but...

[http://users.livejournal.com/deidre_/]

I would have to include Greg Proops. He and Clive have my favorite piece of banter from the British series. Setting up a game of Superheroes with Greg as Captain Teddy Bear:
Clive: "Our world crisis is perishing elastic."
Greg: "Perishing elastic?"
Clive:"Elastic - it's this substance we have here. It stretches..."
Greg (hands on hips): "When's the hostility going to end Clive?"
Clive: "When you give us our colonies back."

Re: I like Brad but...

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Hee. I remember that one. Yeah, lots of love for Greg -- honestly, the only reason I feel Brad eclipses him is because he's a little better at teamwork -- musical stuff with Wayne, general stuff with Colin.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

I do believe Robin Williams has been on at least one episode; am I recalling wrong? He would have to be in my All-Star WLIIA edition, no question.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, and it was a great ep. So was the one with Richard Simmons.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Tom: you might want to add these links into the main post:

British full cast including all guest stars

American full cast including all guest stars

I don't see Robin Williams as a guest star on either version.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. Weird, though -- I've not only seen the Williams ep, I've downloaded it.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Now that I think of it, wasn't Hugh Laurie on as well?

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

The episodes cast list (US (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163507/epcast) and UK (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094580/epcast)) both show guests that aren't on the "full cast" listing. The cast list doesn't seem to show anyone who wasn't on more than one episode, so maybe that's the problem.

Robin Williams is indeed listed: Episode 3.9 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0748095/)

My own choices start with Josie Lawrence and Greg Proops, beyond that I really don't care much! (I'd love to include Dawn French in which case we can drop Greg and pretty much anyone else since I can happily spend a lot of time watching her and Josie ...)

[ponderoid.livejournal.com]

I found the Robin Williams episode on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAYOcTpKjg

*** Ponder

[saganth.livejournal.com]

I didn't like the first 10 mins, as I've never cared much for the musical parts of the show (and actually I never really cared for the American version at all), but once they got to 'Party Quirks' it got VERY funny. Thanks for sharing this!

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

I always loved Tony on the Brit version, mostly cause he was insane and unpredictable, but he didn't have the music chops of the others.

[ericcoleman]

Josie, Mike, Greg and various 4ths

[zellion.livejournal.com]

The American cast is excellent, we just need to replace Drew Carey with a BBC host.

[jacob-day.livejournal.com]

I agree completely with your original post, except that you never specify who the host should be - I definitely vote Clive over Drew.

Although Tony Slattery *was* hilarious to watch whenever he crashed and lost control of the scene - possibly the best train wrecker on the cast, so to speak.

Question though - you're an improvisor. Why do you not list yourself as a Mary Sue guest star?

I would!

[maikujaku.livejournal.com]

I also rather liked Chip Esten and Greg Proops. But Colin and Ryan, man they were comedy GOLD when they got started.

[maikujaku.livejournal.com]

Oh and Nice pants! MEOW!

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

Och aye!

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

Definitely Colin, Ryan & Wayne. Gotta have those guys. Chip for musical help, Greg especially if they're doing impressions. And Colbert thinks pretty quick on his feet, I bet he could pull it off. And doesn't Wil Wheaton do improv?

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

Oh man, "Whose Line" was required viewing in my house...and I agree with everyone else, it just isn't WL without Colin, Ryan, and Wayne. As for my fourth...eek, that's tough...I actually liked Jeff Davis, though he was only in a few...he was the tall, lanky, shag-haired guy always in a suit. He had a way with the dry one-liners and an expressive face.

But I'll go with Greg Proops as the 4th, the tiebreaker being my absolute, all-time favorite WL moment...the game was "Theater Styles" and he was playing against Ryan...the style was "Greek tragedy"...Greg walked to the side of the stage and called out "Testicles!" (test-tee-cleez) and Ryan walked over very...bow-leggedly, let's say.

I fell off my couch laughing, and to this day, just remembering it sends me into hysterics.

Oh, and hey!! We can't forget Laura Hall at the piano!

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I'd like to give some love to Josie Lawrence here. She could compose and rhyme musical improv faster than anybody.

Wayne Brady played a Jaffa warrior on "Stargate: SG1" one time. I kept waiting for a joke but he played it completely straight. Someone else was comedy relief that day, apparently.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Ryan, Colin, Greg...most likely Wayne as the fourth. Tough call, as I'm also fond of Mike McShane, Niall Ashdown (who inexplicably only appeared twice--he was fantastic), Tony, and Paul.

Clive as host and Richard Vranch at the piano, though I'd love to see Richard get a chance to improv as well, seeing as how he's a proper improv comedian himself.

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

My selection would be people I used to watch weekly at Disney's Comedy Warehouse, before the Mouse shut them down: Philip Nolan, Layden Sadesky, Krista McKinley, Mark Lanier and a guy named "John" whose last name I never learned. Although I've been occasionally attending Sak Comedy Lab in downtown Orlando, and there are some very good people in their novice and intermediate classes too.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

It's hard to narrow it down to just four, but I'd have to go with:

Wayne Brady, Josie Lawrence, Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles. With Clive Anderson as the host.

[skemono.livejournal.com]

Ngh... hard to narrow it down to just four. I love them all!

Well, except Kathy Greenwood. Never cared much for her.

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

Kathy Greenwood used to annoy me SO MUCH, because she was really meh in her episodes but truly hilarious things would happen around her (like the party quirks where Colin breaks the neon light on Drew's desk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC4dZ0O4LME), or the African chant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRO-ovd17IQ)), and I could never erase the episodes where she appeared. (This was back in the day before Tivos - we walked through five feet of snow, uphill both ways, to use a VCR.)

[leareth26.livejournal.com]

My cast of choice would be: Wayne, Tony, Josie, and Ryan w/ occasional fill-ins from Robin Williams and Greg.

Clive would be the host.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Clive definitely needed to be host. Meanwhile, rotate through the remaining improv artists (including Drew Carey).

[jonbaker.livejournal.com]

Josie: Here, I've made a gun out of a squeezy bottle!
Paul Merton: Oh, I've been doing it backwards, I've been making squeezy bottles out of guns.

* * *

Josie:
Picking up sea-shells by the sea-shore
Picking up sea-shells by the sea-shore
Isn't they lovely, isn't they cute?
Let's go show them to the prostitutes!