Basically a rip off...
...of "Whose Line is it Anyway?", but I find it very funny.
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Yeah I hate how they copied the use of improvised comedy. Oh wait no, I'm not pedantic.
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In fairness it is by the same producers as 'Whose Line is it Anyway'.
I like the improvisation sketches but some of the one liner rounds need a lot of work.
Hugh Dennis does say at the start of the show that it takes the ideas of other shows and brings them all together..
I think its an awesome show. especially the interpretative dance from David Armand
You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper
Its a rip off but it can be surprisingly funny at times.
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Yeah, well we don't have Whose Line Is It Anyway? anymore. Isn't that a bit like claiming Diagnosis Murder is a rip-off of Sherlock Holmes because they're both detective series?
Whose Line and F&L are of the same genre. Nothing more. Sure, Dan Patterson might've wanted to return to improv after the revived interest in WLiiA? a few years ago (which I still think is a missed opportunity) but F&L seems to be a very different show in subtle ways. Even if it's just something as simple as the players' one-liners between games and the fact that there's six of them. All the activities are games rather than scenes too (even the ones that seem to be scene-based tend to be about fun more than improv, such as "Right Way, Wrong Way" and the lying-down game that I can't remember the name of right now). So if there's any similarity to Whose Line, it's only in the same way that all improvisational comedy bears a resemblance to Whose Line, in that it's the most famous improv show and therefore the yardstick.
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