Yay!
Tony Slattery as host would be awesome!
This is one of the few shows that actually made me laugh so hard that I’d have tears running down my face…in a good way. I can’t wait to see it again. Anything with Wayne Brady in it has got to be good…well, not everything (Let’s make a deal. Not funny!)
I loved the original; I will definitely check this out.
He LOVED Hoedown. Everyone else (especially Ryan) loathed it.
Cool! I’ve got tickets to see Ryan in April with Greg Proops, Chip Esten and Jeff Davis, titled “Whose Live Anyway.”
He may not be robust enough to host a show, sadly.
Is he unwell?
I agree that Drew wasn’t that great, but neither was Clive. And the Americanization of the show made it a lot funnier, to me at least. Before then, Ryan and Collin often had to rescue the others jokewise. When they weren’t there, jokes often fell flat, as they often do at improv shows. (I do wonder if their appearance coincided with the heavy editing.)
I couldn’t stand Drew as a host. And I absolutely hated when he read off the long-ass suggestions that pretty much wrote what the “improv” had to be. So instead of “two drunks trying to get on a bus” you’d get “two drunks trying to get on a bus and one of them has to go pee so he can’t step up without wetting his pants and the other one has a fear of urine.” Um, haha. :rolleyes: He may not have been the one responsible for those stupid ideas, but they pretty much ruined the show for me.
I might watch it once and try to give it a chance, but I’ve been disappointed too often to be optimistic.
Speaking as someone who recently discovered ‘WhoseLine Online’ and has been working his way through a marathon of every episode :
EEEEEEEEEE.
Erm. My giddy squeal sounds more manly in person, I assure you.
Heavy editing was part of the original concept. That’s why the point system is arbitrary, because they wanted to feel free to cut any dud segment, and thus the points would never add up correctly.
Was the “point system” ever intended to matter? I thought it was just a way for the host to make disparaging comments about the performers.
“…and a thousand points to Ryan, in gratitude he chose to be the superhero No-Shoes-Man instead of No-Pants-Man.”
He had a massive cocaine and booze fuelled breakdown in the late '90’s. He seems to have recovered somewhat, and does some acting jobs, but from an interview I read a few years ago, he’s still not where he used to be.
Did my post not answer that question?
The point system was designed to be arbitrary from the beginning so that they could freely cut segments that weren’t funny. The original show filmed more games than were actually included in episodes. I thought I heard that the Drew Carey production was much more reluctant to dump failed games.
All British-style panel shows have to be like this. On QI, Stephen (as the host) once got something like 3.78 x 10^38 points. I’m sure the studio audience have won it at least once too.
Is this “Questions Only” ?
I get that the joke was that Whose Line was ostensibly a game show/competition, though the “points” are just an excuse for the host to make a post-sketch comment. I gather the point system was “designed” for that purpose and nobody at any stage ever had the impression that a serious tally was being taken.
A hair-split, probably. Not important.
Well, on the British show, the “winner” got to (had to) read the creditsin a particular style, although players usually only got through three or four names before going off the rails.
Anyway, if you’ve ever wondered who won the US cumulative count, it was Wayne.
Hurray!!! One of my favorite shows of all time. I loved all versions and their spin-offs.
Thank god they’re here!
…Ok, I wasn’t a huge fan, but I felt like somebody needed to say that.