Just A Minute

--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Cat <camc_84@...> wrote:

From: Cat <camc_84@...>
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Edinburgh recordings
To: just-a-minute@...
Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 11:37 AM

Yeah, almost unrecognisable. I don't have any pictures from the night
though.

RE: what you said about the short form Impro, I think quite a few
performers felt that way - I'm sure I read something on the Comedy
Store Players about why they prefer their style of show. I prefer the
longer form, but understand why a 30min tv show would be mande in that
particular way. But the US one was a bit too much like Mike McShane
has described, for me anyway. Still funny though.

--- In just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, Dean Bedford <dbedford@.. .> wrote:
>
>
> On Saturday, August 9, 2008, at 07:49 AM, Cat wrote:
>
> > Really? That would actually make more sense as they sort of phased him
> > out of the UK show towards the end....I don't remember seeing him much
> > after series 5ish (in my opinion the peak!).
> >
> > Saw him with Paul Merton's impro chums in May. Stole the show as a
> > headless man running into A&E asking for help!
>
> I read an interview with him a few years ago and he said he got bored
> with the very short form improv on Whose Line which he thought
> encouraged a quip, a gay joke and thats it. But he also said he was
> disappointed not even to have been asked to appear on the American
> version.
>
> Still, this is all a long time ago. You've seen him recently, is it
true
> he's lost a lot of weight?
>