Six Degrees of Separation

So, just yesterday, I was thinking "Can it possibly be true that we know everyone in the world through just six degrees of separation?" I thought of the fact that I knew Mother Theresa through less than six degrees, and various other celebrities, and naturally, my thoughts wandered to the Whose Line boys (Wayne, Colin, Ryan, etc.). And, in spite of the fact that Colin and Ryan had grown up in Vancouver, I couldn't think of any possibly way I knew them.

Well, today, whilst driving home from high school with my neighbour Carly and her mother Laura, we were talking about a boy in a few of my classes called Tora, who Laura and Carly had met yesterday. Now Tora's a nice kid.... when you first meet him. But try filming a school project with him. He's a pain in the ass.

So anyway, I said "Yeah, Tora's nice when you first meet him. After that he's EVIL." Then added, for Anna's sake, "But he likes Whose Line, so it's okay."

"He likes what, love?" Laura asked.

"Whose Line - oh. You don't know this yet, but I'm obsessed with the show Whose Line."

"What's that?" Laura asks hesitantly.

"Whose Line is it Anyway?"

"Oh! I remember that show. The improv one, right?"

"Yeah," I said, getting excited.

"It's true. She rants on and on," Anna added. "Ask me anything about Whose Line or Colin Mochrie, she tells me everything." Then added, just in case, "Colin Mochrie's the bald canadian one."

"Oh, I know," Laura said. "He's hilarious."

"He is, right?!" I said it loudly but I wasn't trying to be loud. I was just minorly fangirling again.

"Isn't he hilarious?" Laura said. "You know, I used to work with his cousin."

My mouth dropped open. "NO WAY."

"Way."

"NO WAY."

"Way!"

"NO WAY." I sounded so stupid, but it was the only thing I could manage to say without squealing like a little girl. I started to have a seizure - which in this context means that I flapped my hands around like a retard and giggled loudly and obnoxiously like a four year old.

Soon after that conversation returned to normal topics, and it was gone from my mind for the time being. And now, after a little thought and an episode of Improv-a-Ganza and an episode of Whose Line to clear my head, I realized that I actually DO know Colin Mochrie - through just three degrees of separation now. Which means I know everyone in the Whose Line universe through four degrees of separation. I realized that while Wayne and Colin were reading the credits, and I had to suppress manic giggling and fangirl flapping as I realized it.

Three degrees.

Just three.

NO WAY.

WLiiA Meme: Day 28

Day 28: A General Favourite/Worst Moment

Um, that's a big category. Holy crap. The first thing to pop into my head is the Hollywood Director where it's supposed to be set in Mexico, with Ryan as Zorro and everything (least I think it was Mexico) and they're all doing AWFUL accents. It starts with Kathy doing this incredibly bad slip up in her accent, and then when Colin comes on as the director he's got this mixure of german and russian and, like, asian accent......... god, that just never fails to make me laugh. Gotta be my favourite playing of Hollywood director, and that's a great game.

Actually, whenever Colin has to do an accent. Right there, that is my favourite moment out of Whose Line. Everytime Colin has to do an accent. Be it british, french, german, scottish, he will do terribly bad. And it will be great. And I will laugh.

*sigh*........ ah...... yeah.

Peace out, Whosebuddies,

MeganH

P.S "Yore from Cahnahdah, ahren't you?" "Ches, and my modders from Sveeden." xD

I'm Not Creepy.......

Conversation I had with my mom just now:

Me: Mom, I told you I need to rant to keep my sanity, right? Here, just look at my blog so you see what I mean.

*scrolls through quickly*

Mom: Okay, there's way too much of Colin on there. That's creepy.

Me: It's not creepy. You know what's creepy? This is creepy. *shows her the Tumblr "F*ck Yeah Colin Mochrie*

Mom: Okay, that's enough.

*later, after scrolling through a few pages of my blog*

Me: You know, now that you mention it, I do seem to be favouring Colin a little, don't I? 

The understatement of the century.

The funny thing about this is that I deny it to other people, but I know I am a very creepy fangirl. I have spent at least forty five minutes, one night, scrolling through the White Pages and searching for Colin's house in Toronto so I could have his home address. Turns out, he, nor his wife, post their home address in the White Pages (probably so creepy people like me don't find it) although I may now have their home number! (Hee hee).

But it's okay, because I have a new plan. Okay, it might take time and determination and perseverance. But that's okay, cause I have all that. Besides, what else am I going to do while Gorillavid loads, right?

I'm not creepy.

Yes I am.

BUT NO ONE NEEDS TO KNOW.

And now, to complete this post, a picture of Colin.

Someone I HAVEN'T Previously Quoted

Was watching an interview with Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson (the creators of Whose Line), and they said this, which is kind of a great mixture of fascinating and adorable.

Mark Leveson: I think we should mention Ryan... cause Ryan Stiles was..... and always was..... fantastic on the show. 

Dan Patterson: He was fantastic.

Mark Leveson: He was just - 

Dan Patterson: But what we hadn't realized in the early days was that we didn't realize how important it was for people to be with people they improvised with a lot. And Ryan came over and did the show and he was really good. But it was only when we started putting him with Colin that we got this real magic. Because they have a telepathy, they worked - it was like Sweeney and Steve. They were good individually, but when they came together, they were very good, and the same with Ryan and Colin is that they were so used to working with each other and doing stuff, that.... we realized, suddenly, that you had to have them together throughout the - and Colin did two or three shows on his own, and..... wasn't that good.

Mark Leveson: When we first - when we, when we saw him originally, Colin was one of the funniest people I think we'd seen onstage. We saw him in Toronto, didn't we?

Dan Patterson: Yeah.

Mark Leveson: And he was - he really was hilarious, and he could do scenes like nobody else. And when we brought him over to Britan - and Colin's very shy - and.... he found it very difficult at first, didn't he?

Dan Patterson: Yeah.

Mark Leveson: And he.... I think other people were probably saying "Why are you keeping him on?" But we were just waiting for the magic to happen.

Dan Patterson: And it happened really.....  but Colin always says that he came over, and I said, um, you know..... something like "Make sure your flight isn't 'til Monday" or something like this..... you know, in the idea that he may get another show, and he did a show and then didn't hear anything, so he just flew off again, and he's always said "Oh, I guess I didn't really do that well." 

They later go on to say:

Dan Patterson: You know, people said we were quite ruthless, that people would come on and we just wouldn't use them again, but.... we - it was that fear, it was just that there was this thing of  - you can't have somebody and - and, uh...... they're just okay for a long time and never do - the one exception was Colin, because he took a time to warm up, but we knew that he was just brilliant, and we thought that if we can get his - 

And that's when they stopped talking about Colin and I lost interest.

I just find this so cool that A) They were able to recognize how amazing Colin and Ryan were together, and B) They gave Colin a few chances because he had impressed them so much at the audition. Isn't that cool? I think that's cool.

By the way...... I kind of have to do this.

Young Colin and and young Ryan. They're so cute.

P.S Colin actually documented Dan's story about the monday plane in his own words. I'll just put that here.

"My first performance on “Whose Line”…how can I put this? Oh, yes – it sucked. I met the other improvisers two hours before we shot the show. I totally psyched myself out. Before the show, producer Dan Patterson said “Colin, if the show goes well, you can do the Sunday show tomorrow.” After the debacle, he said, “So you leave on Monday, do you?”"

And I find that great because I'd read that before, and Colin makes it sound like they were, I dunno, taking a chance on the new guy they found or something, someone they'd try but wasn't all that sure about, you know? But if you listen to Mark Leveson and Dan Patterson, he was one of the funniest people they'd ever seen onstage, and THAT'S why they gave him all those chances - because THEY KNEW HE WAS AWESOME.

Again - a great mixture of fascinating and adorable. 

ARE YOU READY FOR A FREAKING MASSIVE FREAK OUT?!

COLIN MOCHRIE WAS IN AN ACTION MOVIE!!!!!! LIKE WITH GUNS AND STUFF!!!!!!

WHAT?!

WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?!

WHY HAVE I ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS NOW?!

HE'S ALL PUTTING A GUN TO A GUY'S HEAD!

AND HE'S ALL -

AND I'M LIKE -

WHAT?!?!?!?!

DOES NOT COMPUTE

COLIN MOCHRIE WITH A GUN

COLIN MOCHRIE USING A GUN

I DON'T UNDERSTAND

WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?!?!?!?!

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P.S The best part is, even when he's holding a gun to a guy's head..... he's STILL adorable. He just can't help it. :)

P.S.S This guy is sooooo underrated as a real actor. He can do more than improv, guys. He can pull THIS off, for god's sakes. Come on.

P.S.S.S Colin: Lord, grant me the serenity to blah blah blah, and kill the people who annoy the hell out of me.

Unknown guy: Ricky Pope. Well, it looks like I'm the cheese in a CIA sandwich. 

Colin: If you actually mattered....... I might waste the lead on you. As it is....... fleh.

MY GOD IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER WHAT REALITY HE'S IN, HE JUST CAN'T HELP BUT BE MADE OF EPIC. 

WLiiA Meme: Day 27

Day 27: Best Newsflash Backdrop

This would be hard if it wasn't so easy.

It's tied up between the Colin Newsflash (which I believe I've spoken of before) and the Ryan Newsflash.

Colin's because it's Colin. And the bald jokes. And the badly timed bald jokes. It's awesome.

And Ryan's because Ryan can actually see all the stuff he's doing and he's wincing at himself from embarassment and when Colin figures it out..... ah. Good stuff.

Peace out, Whosebuddies,

MeganH

P.S "It all started with a badly timed bald joke!" It just NEVER gets old!!!!! xD

WLiiA Meme: Day 26

Day 26: Worst Impression

Somehow I feel like I've covered this. But, well, let's see.

Surprisingly, I'm actually inclined to say Wayne's Jar Jar Binks. I mean, it's funny because it sounds like an asian stereotype, and the only way you can tell that Wayne is not being that racist is because he flaps his hands around his face to imitate Jar Jar Bink's ears. It's just not good.

While I'm at it, Wayne's Woody Allen is pretty horrible as well. It's like a weird mixture of all the impressions Wayne does. It's just..... weird.

But don't think Colin's off the hook just cause I haven't mentioned him yet. All his impressions are pretty awful, but that's why they're loved, so in this context it's almost like a paradox.......? They are considered great because they're awful. So I guess Colin is kind of off the hook for now. I'd just like to give a shout out to Colin's Colonel Klink. Oh, and Colin's Peter Lorre is perhaps one of the funniest things I've ever seen. To be clear, it's because they're awful.

Consider Wayne's Jar Jar Binks and Wayne's Woody Allen and Colin's Peter Lorre tied.

And because Colin's Peter Lorre will never cease to make me laugh, I post that playing of Questionable Impressions here.

Peace out, Whosebuddies,

MeganH

P.S "Would you like to see my BADGE? O.o" xD