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    TV Shows - 1980s TV Shows - 1990s Variety 2 Mins Read

    Whose Line Is It Anyway?

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    1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 8 (UK)
    136 x 30 minute episodes
    1 9 9 8 – 2 0 0 6 (USA)
    220 x 30 minute episodes

    Beginning as a radio show on BBC Radio 4 in 1987, this half-hour show of improvised comedy based on studio audience suggestions – where “everything’s made up and the points don’t matter” – was performed by alternating ‘alternative’ comedians under the sceptical eye of chairperson (and ex-barrister) Clive Anderson.

    Several of the performers went on to additional TV things: Josie Lawrence in Josie, Paul Merton in Have I Got News For You?, Mike McShane in S&M and The Big One (with Whose Line regular Sandy Toksvig) and Tony Slattery in S&M and The Music Game.

    In the mid-1990s, the series filmed occasional episodes in the United States. The popularity of these outings led to an American version of the series being launched in 1998, with Drew Carey chairing.

    Clive Anderson was asked to host this version as well but declined because he neither wanted to move to or commute to Los Angeles, although the final season of the British programme was in fact filmed on the set of the American version. By that time, aside from Anderson, the majority of the performers were American, with only the occasional British performer guest-starring.

    UK
    Clive Anderson
    John Sessions
    Paul Merton
    Josie Lawrence
    Greg Proops
    Mike McShane
    Tony Slattery
    Ryan Stiles
    Arthur Smith
    Sandy Toksvig
    Steve Frost
    Jonathan Pryce

    USA
    Drew Carey
    Colin Mochrie
    Ryan Stiles
    Laura Hall
    Wayne Brady
    Linda Taylor
    Greg Proops
    Brad Sherwood
    Cece Worrall Rubin
    Charles Esten
    Kathryn Greenwood
    Denny Siegel

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