Whose Line Winner (SEASON 1)

Yeah, I wrote down all the points from season 1, and we'll see who the winner is. I haven't got all the points for the entire series yet - season by season I'm working on it! - but this is what I've got for season 1.

(By the way, I didn't write down all the points that were ever given out. A lot of them went to guests and "the guy who burns the props" and stuff like that, so I stuck with whoever actually stays relatively constant or actually contributes to the show if that makes sense).

Audience: One million points. (1 000 000)

Camera man: One thousand points. (1 000)

Laura Hall: One thousand points. (1 000)

Greg Proops: Four thousand and seven hundred points. (4 700)

Wayne Brady: Three million, seven thousand, five hundred and seventy five point five points. (3 007 575.5)

Colin Mochrie: One million, five hundred and thirteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty point five points. (1 513 750.5)

Ryan Stiles: Five hundred and fourteen thousand, one hundred and fifty point five points. (514 150.5)

Brad Sherwood: Five thousand, three hundred and twenty five point five points. (5 325.5)

Karen Maruyama: One thousand points. (1 000)

Kathy Kinney: Fifty points. (50)

Denny Siegel: Four thousand points. (4 000)

Ian Gomez: One thousand points. (1 000)

Stephen Colbert: One thousand points. (1 000)

Also, in the Stephen Colbert episode, there was a Canadian score, so the Canadian scores are:

Colin Mochrie: One million, five hundred and twenty two thousand, seven hundred and fifty point five points. (1 522 750.5)

Ryan Stiles: Five hundred and twenty three thousand, one hundred and fifty point five points. (523 150.5)

Wayne Brady: Three million, sixteen thousand, five hundred and seventy five point five points. (3 016 575.5)

Stephen Colbert: Ten thousand points. (10 000)

And the rest of them stay the same.

In a season of twenty episodes, Greg won three times, Wayne won four times, Colin won nine times, Ryan won twelve times, Denny won one time and Stephen Colbert won one time.

Interesting how Colin and Ryan went from winning all the time to not winning at all, eh? It's because winning meant playing the game in season one, not sitting at the desk. They would never have Colin or Ryan sit at the desk.

Anyways, the season one winner is............. WAYNE BRADY!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, these pictures aren't from season one, but that's okay.

Congratulations, Wayne!!!!!! Even though no one actually cares, since the points don't matter.

Peace out, Whosebuddies.

MeganH

P.S Drew: If you're keeping track of the score at home, I pity you.

P.S.S Drew: If you're keeping track of the score at home, medical help is on the way. Don't argue with them, just go where they take you. 

Trust Us With Your Life: REVIEW

Honestly; it was hilarious.

As a person who loves talk shows and as a person who loves improv (well, watching improv), I must say it was a success. It's great to see Colin back in business on TV, great to see Wayne back to improv, and people like Jonathan Mangum in action..... it was just awesome to see some new TV improv again, especially after Improv-a-Ganza crashed.

I love the fact that they mixed it up - you know, a few games from Whose Line, a few games from Improv-a-Ganza, adding a few factors from a different game to a new game here and there, like changing the styles of it now and then.... a lot of it was like Hollywood Director, except without the actual director part, just the host changing the styles of the scene.

I heard someone saying they didn't much enjoy the premise of the show, about celebrities telling stories, and then our beautiful improvers acting out the story we just heard. And it is a weird sort of set-up, I suppose, but I honestly think it worked, and here's a few reasons why:

• It just about proves that they are, in fact, making it up as they go along. No script. Because who has ever heard of a script for a talk show? (I, of course, never doubted that for a second, but I know there are lots of people who have. And I believe it was Colin Mochrie who said "Who, when watching Whose Line, thought that we knew beforehand what was going to happen?" A few people clap. "Yeah? You people are bastards.")
• It was still funny. That's the point of the show, and it gets across, and that's really the main thing, isn't it? To make you laugh.
• It stays compelling. At least for people who like talk shows, anyways. And really, who doesn't like talk shows? The stories are still interesting and, you know..... amusing. And the scenes based off of them make them downright hilarious.

I really enjoyed the little touches they had, too, like cutting to the celebrity in question whenever something particularly outrageous happened. I love watching reactions, and the reactions of the celebrity are usually priceless. 

That being said, there were one or two things I think they could have done better, and hopefully that'll be improved upon as the series goes on (fingers crossed that it'll go to series!).

First of all, the stories. That was one thing that took away from the talk show part of the show. The host always asks for a particular story that he already knows about them. And that bugged me, it made it seem to me like the show was already set up with what stories he wanted them to act out. Looking at Conan as an example, he doesn't right out ask for the story. He'll say something along the lines of "I heard something about........ [insert story subject here]. Is that true? What was going on?" And I know Trust Us With Your Life isn't a talk show, it's not trying to be a talk show, and I know the interview part or whatever it is shouldn't take TOO much time....... we wouldn't want to take time away from our wonderful improv heroes. But make it more casual for god's sake. Don't force them into telling a story you haven't interested them in telling.

If it were up to me, I would have the performers themselves talking to the guests, taking turns talking to the guests. Sort of like they did on Improv-a-Ganza, where they took turns introducing the scenes and everything. That, for me, would be ideal, but I suppose on a show in this format you do sort of need a host, so I guess there's that.

All in all...... it was good. I liked it and it has definitely become my new Tuesday show. It was pretty great in fact, it made me laugh pretty hard. 

But let's not fool ourselves. It was no Whose Line. Whose Line had just the right collection of everything, it was a masterpiece, and nothing can live up to it. 

But Trust Us With Your Life was in fact, great. I rate it 8.5/10 stars, and to any lingering Whoser wondering, I recommend you watch it, just to see our boys back in action. 8) It's good, it's funny, it's interesting.... it's very well put together. Watch it.

Peace out

MeganH

WLiiA Meme: Day 8

Day 8: Best Wayne Song


Okay, I know I'm saying like every single one is hard for me now, but this one really is because I don't watch a whole lot of Wayne singing, and most of my favourites aren't just Wayne, they're Wayne and Brad, usually.

The YMCA one comes to mind, though, where the thing accidentally gets sped up. That one was good.

OH! Or the...... Coffee Grinder I think it was? He had to do it like the Rocky Horror Picture Show. That's a classic.

I'm trying to think of some Greatest Hits, but all the good Greatest Hits were with two people. But the Blink 182 one for Songs of the Hitman (I believe that one was with Chip) or the famous Harley of Seville for Songs of the Motorcycle (that one was with Jeff)...... those are kind of fantastic.

OH! The Blues Brothers one with Brad - that's one of my favourites. (Video on this post)

OH OH! The one where Wayne had to do it as Prince - that was awesome.

Or anytime where Wayne has to be Michael Jackson.... good gracious. It's brilliant.

But right now, the Coffee Grinder is probably one of my favourites to hear/watch. I mean, I've never even seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show and am probably missing a million references, but it's just fun to watch and hear.

Peace out, Whosebuddies.

MeganH

P.S H - O - R - W - A - R - D it's HOWARD! xD

Quotes to Help With Life: the fifth

True friends say farewell, never goodbye.

- Unknown

WLiiA Meme Day 7

Day 7: Best Impression


Well that's very difficult for me to answer, since I don't actually know what the actual people they're impressioning sounds like.........

Alright, after a little bit of research, listening to some of the more common impressions they do (John Wayne (Ryan), Peter Graves (Colin), Bill Cosby (Wayne)), I've gotta say that the best one is definitely Ryan's Carol Channing. It's uncanny how much he sounds like her. I looked at a video where Carol Channing was talking and my first thought: Holy crap. My god, he's just spot on, man. It's unbelievable.

Of course that's closely followed by Greg's Daffy Duck. That one is pretty amazing too.

But Ryan's Carol Channing is frackin' unbelievable.

This video's kinda long, but it shows all his Carol Channing - and the infamous Carol Channing Incident, I might add. Even if you don't know what that is..... believe me, you'll know it when you see it.

And compare that to just this video of the ACTUAL Carol Channing talking............ (you don't have to watch the whole thing)

It really is uncanny, isn't it?

But, here's the thing; the BEST impression is not the same as my FAVOURITE impression.

And that is probably between Jeff's Christopher Walken, Chip's Snagglepuss, Wayne's Bill Cosby, Colin's Humphrey Bogart, or Colin's Craig T. Nelson. 

And after thinking long and hard about that, I must say that my favourite out of those is probably:

Colin's Humphrey Bogart. 

If you wanna see it, just look up Questionable Impressions. He does it in almost every one. You won't be able to tell, of course, until he says something about a "hill o' beans". It's awful. And awesome.

Peace out Whosebuddies,

MeganH

P.S I'M SPARTACUS!

WLiiA Meme: Day 6

Day 6: Favourite Slip-up


Aw man that's really hard. The first one that comes to mind is the Carol Channing incident, but that's really not my favourite. Just the most memorable.

Some others that come to mind are Chip mixing up the words wrestler and professor.

Or Chip leaping onto Colin's foot.

Or Chip leaping onto Ryan's back (wow, Chip really screws up a lot).

Or the time Ryan couldn't get his words out in a game of Narrate.

Ryan: But what he didn't was - know was - or was no........... was that I was dyslexic.


And later:


Drew: Each a thousand you points for.


Ryan: That made sense to me!


Or Brad saying "Nothing like a two hundred pound snatch if you know what I mean," in a game of If You Know What I Mean.

Or Colin's Nice Pants.

Or Colin's "Really? That sucks."

Or Wayne in Questions Only going up and saying "Ecuador."

Or Kathy actually ripping out some of Colin's chest hair.

Or Wayne in Greatest Hits, Songs of Marriage singing as the Backstreet Boys "I'm going to find myself a guy!"

Or the Animal Porn incident.

Or Ryan (who actually has a wide enough range of half decent impressions) going up in Questionable Impressions and sort of faking one.

Drew: Who was that, by the way?


Ryan: I don't know.....


Or, you know, every single one of Colin's impressions.

Or Colin in Multiple Personalities getting all the props and attempting to do a mixture of Braveheart, Jimmy Stewart and Carol Channing (which apparently equals some kind of duck monkey).

Or Colin's "Joe had a nice bone."

Or the Wrong Name in Bed Irish Drinking Song:

Wayne: One night I was getting freaky.


Drew: *garbles his words* With my largarlelane.


Colin: Boy we had some fun!


Ryan: Lalahrouaroua.


Wayne: *cracks up laughing*


Drew: *cracks up laughing*


Colin: Meow!


Or the Three Headed Broadway Star where Drew's in it and messes up bigtime.

Drew: And take me on a.......! Oh wait, one word.


Ryan: Trip so beautiful!


Wayne: I love you!


Or David Hasselhoff's Three Headed Broadway Star. Gawd, that was painful.

Or Ryan always calling Colin Charlie when he was supposed to be Bosley.

Ryan: What do we do, Charlie?


Colin: I'M BOSLEY!!!!!!!!!


Oh, good memories.

Now, my FAVOURITE slip-up from the US Whose Line is definitely Colin spilling coffee on himself.

They were playing Helping Hands (Colin stands behind Ryan, Ryan has his hands behind his back and Colin is his hands) and the producers had decided it was a good idea to put hot coffee in a scene where one of them can't see what they're doing.

So as Colin's pouring the coffee, he spills it on his hand.

So he drops the coffee cup and coffee spills all over the floor.

No one knew at the time that it was actually hot, but Colin certainly knew the minute it hit his hand.

If you pay close attention, you see Colin's eyes close in pain and you can hear a tiny squeaking sound - which, in the conversation after the game, Colin says is him screaming into Ryan's back.

So Kathy, being at the side and probably able to see Colin, realizes that Colin is in pain and goes to pour cold orange juice on his hand to help.

But Ryan is acting like he is the one in pain, because Colin's hands are supposed to be his, and he's yelling, and Colin, heroically playing along (or not playing at all) is spasming his hands around to demonstrate it. Unable to see Kathy with the orange juice, his spasming knocks it out of her hand, and the glass pitcher full of orange juice falls to the ground and shatters.

It was chaos.

Beautiful, Whose Line-ic chaos.

But my ultimate favourite Whose Line slip-up is actually from the UK version.

They were doing a hoedown about their worst nightmare. It was Ryan's turn. And as I can't accurately describe it without hearing his voice, I'll just give you the video.

That's gotta be one of my favourite Hoedowns, right beside the Colin Mochrie Hoedown - both of which, now that I think of it, are from the UK version.

Peace out, Whosebuddies.

MeganH

P.S "I didn't feel a thing!"

*FANGIRL FLAP*

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I just saw the schedule on my TV and got all excited because I'll be able to watch Trust Us With Your Life here in Canada, like I'd hoped.

Then I get on the Internet and find that Colin Mochrie is going to be on Craig Ferguson, one of my favourite talk shows besides Conan?!?!?!?!

WILL THE DREAM NEVER END? :'D I'm so happy I might actually cry. Like oh my god.

SO. FRACKIN'. EXCITED.