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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: A&E
EAN: 0733961768145
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
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Label: A&E Home Video
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Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
MPN: AAE-76814
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Running Time: 762 minutes
Studio: A&E Home Video
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Product Description:
A British show in which actors and comedians improvise sketches in various "theatre-sports"-type games based on audience suggestions. The games might include singing a Hoedown about Tory Politicians acting out a soap opera as hamsters becoming bizarre super-heroes or making up a musical about the life of an audience member.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 733961768145 Manufacturer No: AAE-76814
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Few things are more of-the-moment that improvisational comedy, yet the first two seasons of the original British Whose Line Is It Anyway? are startlingly fresh and funny, despite debuting in 1988. Hosted by blithe and zippy Clive Anderson, the format is the same as the American version: Four improvisers are put through a variety of games, ranging from one where each player tells part of a story in the style of a different writer, to one in which two teams have to find different ways to use a common object, to one in which players act out an ordinary situation as it would appear in different film genres or theatrical styles. Pretty much every episode features some moment so flabbergastingly precise and funny you'll have trouble believing it was made up on the spot. Regular Josie Lawrence tosses off uncanny versions of a Stephen Sondheim or an Edith Piaf song about telephones and garden hoses; John Sessions, who anchored the first season, does a spot-on impression of Humphrey Bogart; Archie Hahn creates sounds for Paul Merton's mime that are amazingly synchronized. The first season, before American guest improvisers Greg Proops and Ryan Stiles began to appear regularly, is particularly distinctive--not because Proops and Stiles are poor improvisers, but because the Brits just aim at more surprising targets. (Let's face it, the American version didn't feature many stories told in the style of Samuel Beckett or Gabriel Garcia Marquez, let alone in the style of poets like Coleridge and Philip Larkin.) These episodes are like potato chips; you'll just keep gobbling them down. Early guests include such unexpected pleasures as Stephen Fry (Wilde), Jonathan Pryce (Brazil), and Peter Cook (Bedazzled). --Bret Fetzer
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- Classic Improv ****1/2If you've only seen and enjoyed the American version of this show hosted by Drew Carey, you're in for a treat. This is the original, which debuted on Britain's Channel Four in 1988 and ran for ten seasons, later becoming a staple here in the States on Comedy Central. It started off with an all-British cast and weekly regular John Sessions, as well as occasional guests you might recognize like Stephen Fry, Peter Cook and Jonathan Pryce. Soon regulars like Tony Slattery, Paul Merton, Sandy Toksvig, ... Read More
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- Can't Wait for the Rest of the Series!Thank you so much to the powers that be for finally releasing my favorite TV show ever on DVD in the US. Ever since I purchased this set a month ago it has been playing pretty much non-stop in my apartment.
If all you've ever seen is the American version, you don't know what you're missing. Believe me when I say you don't have to be British to appreciate the British Whose Line series - I was born and bred in New York City (although admittedly I am an Anglophile, so I may be a bit biased ... Read More
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- Will The REAL "Whose Line" Please Stand Up!The American version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" is fine, but it just doesn't compare with the original British version. I used to watch this show religiously on Comedy Central, and there were times when I'd laugh so hard I'd cry. That's how funny the British version of "Whose Line" can be when all four players are operating on the same comic wavelength, with the marvelous ringmaster Clive Anderson overlooking the proceedings. Sure, there are gags that misfire, but so what? That's the risk of improv ... Read More
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- Whose Line Is It Anyway (British 1st season) The performances in the first season and pilot were lame. I LOVE this series, and the subsequent seasons are fantastic. It just got off to a shaky start. It's a miracle the show lasted, as bad as the pilot was. When it's funny, though, it's hilarious!
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- great! what about the other seasons?I'd like to ask A&E Home Video to release the rest of the UK seasons! this DVD was great - we want the whole series please =)
thank you
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