Hey, Hey it's Saturday?
Apr 10th 2010, 9:53 pm
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Re: Hey, Hey it's Saturday?
Yes I'm well aware of "Who's line is it anyway", I grew up watching it. But they weren't always British on it, Gregg Proops (canadian) was one of my favourites, and Ryan Styles (american, appeared in the Hot Shot movies).
I'd still love to believe they were unscripted or at least unplanned, but having heard Frankie Boyles test run shows of his supposedly spontaneous quips on 'Mock the Week' I've a feeling we've been getting duped for all these years. They get 2 days warning of what they have to joke about.
JTL
Oh and yes, Hamish Blake is the exception to the rule, he is very spontaneously funny
I'd still love to believe they were unscripted or at least unplanned, but having heard Frankie Boyles test run shows of his supposedly spontaneous quips on 'Mock the Week' I've a feeling we've been getting duped for all these years. They get 2 days warning of what they have to joke about.
JTL
Oh and yes, Hamish Blake is the exception to the rule, he is very spontaneously funny
Apr 10th 2010, 10:07 pm
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Apr 10th 2010, 10:18 pm
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Re: Hey, Hey it's Saturday?
I've always avoided that programme assuming it was the usual American rubbish with canned laughter but the husband was watching it the other month and weirdly I've got in to is, quite clever script for an American sit com.
Apr 10th 2010, 10:25 pm
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Re: Hey, Hey it's Saturday?
In the UK they rely on 2 writers to produce the script and hope the jokes are good.
In Australia they just make it up as they go along.
JTL
Apr 10th 2010, 11:47 pm
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Re: Hey, Hey it's Saturday?
Apr 11th 2010, 12:09 am
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Re: Hey, Hey it's Saturday?
Greg Proops is not Canadian. He was born in Phoenix Arizona and raised in Northern California. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Proops Colin Mochrie is Canadian though having emigrated to Montreal from Scotland when he was 6. He lives in Toronto (friends of ours were his neighbours a few years ago) and Ryan Stiles' is both American and Canadian.
. jeez this could turn in to a really boring argument,So lets leave it there.
JTL
