WLiiA Meme: Day 2

Day 2: Favourite  Returning Cast Member


It was at one time a tie, between Brad Sherwood and Chip Esten.

Brad Sherwood

Chip Esten

Brad because he was childish (meaning immature) and in a way endearing, and Chip because he was the one who would make fun of others just because he could. He was also the white man who could sing and dance and was pretty attractive. :)

How can you not find him attractive? He's no Zac Efron, but..... hell, in my mind he and Zac Efron are pretty damn close.  Plus, when it comes to Whose Line he played a mean Chippendale. (Haha. Chippendale. I just got that.)

Yes I am a hormonal teenager.

But there is a winner, and I don't know what the final push was, but there is a winner.

Drum roll please.

My favourite returning cast member would have to be..... Brad.

Cue the Brad rant.

What can I say about Brad? I'll start with well-known stuff, and see how/if that progresses into petty observations.

Brad's signature on the show is most likely that he has the crudest, most immature sense of humour. I mean, let's face it. It's not a coincidence that they only play If You Know What I Mean whenever he's on. They do that because If You Know What I Mean is one. Huge. Double entendre. Basically, a big That's What She Said. It takes someone with a well-tuned sick mind, and whenever they play it Brad leads the thing. Sure Ryan follows closely behind, but Brad starts the thing and the scene flops on the ground dead without him. And then they stick Colin in the middle of the scene just to make Brad work harder (Colin freaking SUCKS at If You Know What I Mean. He spends most of the scene taking imaginary shots. He is the creator of such famous (or infamous) Whose Line-isms as "I'll fluff your Garfield, if you know what I mean," "Let's not turn this into a Fox special," "Don't get your nosehairs in a burning trajectory over Moscow," and my favourites, "Look what I can do with the donuts!" and "I like mine with icing!" But enough about Colin. This rant is about BRAD.)

But it doesn't only show in the If You Know What I Means. Pretty much anything he can he shows his immature sense of humour, and it can be pretty freaking funny.

During Hollywood Director:


Drew: Wayne falls into an ice-hole. Yes, that's right, an ice-hole. 


LATER


Brad: Agh, you threw my dogs into a big hairy ice-hole!

Or what about:

Drew: Pick up lines of drill sergeants.


Brad: I just wanna stand here and stare at my privates.

^That one had me laughing for a long time.

But besides the immaturity, which I assure you he has plenty of, he's also the one that is not afraid to say things that the others might have thought of but don't wanna be censored all the time. I think that's because a lot of the time he doesn't think it through, but that's what's funny. And it's very funny.

Such as:

Brad: You guys wanna see my fingers turn blurry? (flips them the bird, which the censor has covered with, instead of the classic CENSORED sign, blurriness.)


Or

During If You Know What I Mean


Colin: I've been having trouble..... uh.... *snickers* I've been disqualified for an early start, if you know what I mean.


Ryan: Well why don't you just clean and jerk, if you know what I mean?


Brad: Nothing better than a two hundred pound snatch, if you know what I mean.


Everyone: *utter shock* *thinking: DID HE JUST SAY THAT ON TELEVISION?!*


LATER


Brad: IT'S A WEIGHT LIFTING TERM!


Let's just say that Brad is kind of the censor's nemesis.

And sometimes the immaturity and whatever just comes from NOWHERE. Like, it had nothing to do with his character and it just kind of spews out of his brain. I just have no idea. I'm talking about times like these:

During Let's Make A Date:


Wayne: Bachelor Number One, I wanna know, if you were a lipstick colour, what would you be?


Brad: *playing an Amish guy* Well, I'd be lemon flavoured ass kiss.

^Honestly, where did that come from?!

Oh, I probably shouldn't forget to mention that a few times on Whose Line, water has been spilled. Tables have been knocked over, tables with jugs of water on them. Water has been thrown across the room, dousing chairs and floors and people. And whenever that happens, Brad is usually involved. Perhaps it's a fluke, a coincidence. But as a person who watches a whole frackin lot of Whose Line, I really don't think it is. :)

Anyways, back to Brad's actual persona. Besides the immaturity and all that, he also has the ability to laugh at himself and the sometimes outrageous choices he makes while in the state of "Oh god what do I say?" that improv constantly has you in (his words, not mine). Choices like naming himself Chesterfield Snapdragon Mcfisticuffs, and then struggling to remember it later on in the game. Or like bringing a children's song that was supposed to be on the album about constructions workers into about how the child was "dizzy from three bottles of wine", and then smirking as he watches Wayne attempt to work with that.

Brad: On top of a mountain/I'm feeling fine/ I'm a little dizzy from three bottles of wine. *stops abruptly at the realization of what he just said*


Wayne: I'm..... on top of a mountain/Where do I begin?/ My mom's an unfit mother and she's always drunk on gin/I can see my house from here.


Brad: I can see it too.

I love Brad's smirk.

I think that video is worthy of putting the whole video on here. It was unaired, so I loved it before I saw it. :)

Basically, he's okay with laughing at himself. And we can see that, for instance, in the bloopers. In the middle of Drew talking, Brad starts to fall asleep. So the producer Dan Patterson says the infamous "Hold please", so that he could tell Brad to not do that. "Yeah, Brad! Stop f*cking around!" Ryan says loudly. And Brad sits there with his innocent little smirk on his face and takes a sip of water.

But besides all of that, Brad has pretty good chemistry with the rest of the cast, which is not something you can learn or teach, right? It actually comes from past experiences. If I recall correctly, Brad had already met Colin because Colin's wife had been doing a gig with him and they met and befriended each other, and Brad and Wayne had worked together in theatresports. And of course he knew Ryan from the old UK version of WLiiA, so they at least knew each other if they weren't really friends. But I think they were friends because they seem to feel perfectly fine laughing with one another and all that.

The show wouldn't be the same without the friendships. That is a fact I discovered a long time ago.

Also, Brad can be a bit of an icehole, if you know what I mean. (HAHA TWO BRADISMS IN ONE!) In a funny way of course. For instance, in games of Newsflash, often instead of giving hints like Ryan does, like he's SUPPOSED to, he asks Colin to specifically describe in great detail what is going on behind him - and without the hints that Brad is holding from him, Colin doesn't have a clue. Sometimes Ryan will do that by accident, and Colin usually deters that by explaining how it started (my favourite is still "It all started with a badly timed bald joke!" but "canadians with an attitude" is up there too) but Brad does it ON PURPOSE and refuses to be deterred. After Colin explains how it started Brad starts asking him for details about what's going on as if he couldn't see it himself. It's those moments that you're thinking "Wow.... what an icehole."

OH! Can I say something more that kind of fits in with Brad's childishness, but in a different way? Who the hell am I asking for permission? This is my blog.

The first story has to do with Brad serenading a girl called Niroshi, who was majoring in political sciences and economics. Yeah. Try coming up with some good rhymes to that.

Well, Brad didn't manage to come up with any good rhymes, but he came up with some stuff along the lines of "I'll put on some suntan loshi" and "I'd cross the Pacific Oshi" and so on. It's so bad, but it's so funny.

The second story has to do with Wayne and Brad serenading a girl (don't remember her name) who interpreted for deaf people. Not having known any real sign language themselves.... they totally and completely butchered it. And it was hilarious.

"This means bunny!"

To his credit, he asked what "I'm sorry" was in sign language and sincerely apologized after.

Brad's and Wayne's sincere apology.

Come to think of it, that video is worthy of this blog too. 

Anyways, mostly because I've just discovered how to post Youtube videos like this, I'm totally exploiting it. So, here are two videos that show the essence of Brad:

This is a famous If You Know What I Mean. It's awesome. 

These bloopers are one of the many reasons I love Brad, and really, Whose Line in general. Yes, get this straight: these are BLOOPERS. How can improv have bloopers? When Drew messes up the card, or someone says something so not right that they can't just censor it, and so on and so on. 

Anyways, I've talked enough.

Peace out, homebuddies.

P.S Nothing like a two hundred pound snatch if you know what I mean. (Still gets me everytime).