Improvisation Shows
by plwimsett | created - 21 Mar 2016 | updated - 21 Mar 2016 | PublicHere is a list of improvisation shows. These are displayed to the viewers at home using a laser display...
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1. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988–1999)
TV-PG | 36 min | Comedy, Game-Show
Host Clive Anderson arbitrarily awards points as four players act their way through a series of improvisational games based on suggestions from either Clive or the studio audience.
Stars: Clive Anderson, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Richard Vranch
Votes: 5,925
So called the original improvisation show, though some radio shows predate it. There were a number of games such as guess the problems with the party guest, calypso and the World's Worst. Was an American version.
2. Mock the Week (2005–2022)
TV-14 | 29 min | Comedy, Game-Show
A comedic look at current events.
Stars: Dara O Briain, Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons, Ed Byrne
Votes: 8,567
A topical version, where you had games as guess the caption, voice the news and so on.
3. Fast and Loose (2011– )
30 min | Comedy
Hugh Dennis presents a fast moving and funny series of improvised games and sketches with guests.
Stars: Hugh Dennis, Justin Edwards, David Armand, Pippa Evans
Votes: 187
A short lived impro show with games as guess the song through mime and Fifties Jerry Springer.
4. Just a Minute (1994–1999)
30 min | Comedy, Game-Show
A panel of four celebrities are given a subject on which they have to speak for one minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Stars: Nicholas Parsons, Tony Slattery, Dale Winton, Tony Hawks
Votes: 44
Most popular adaption of the radio show with no hesitation, deviation or repetition.
5. I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (2008 TV Movie)
108 min | Comedy
Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton gives the panellists silly things to do.
Director: Chris Jury | Stars: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Jeremy Hardy
Votes: 47
The Antidote to Panel Games, most commonly heard on Radio 4.
6. If I Ruled the World (1998–1999)
Game-Show
Satirical panel-based quiz show in which contestants had to pretend to be politicians and view the studio audience as their 'electorate'.
Stars: Clive Anderson, Graeme Garden, Jeremy Hardy, Tony Hawks
Votes: 25
A political improvisation show with games such as "pager" and "disagreeing with the interviewer more".
7. Thank God You're Here (2006–2023)
60 min | Comedy, Game-Show
An improvisational comedy series in which a celebrity performer is dressed up in costume before passing through a door into a room where they are welcomed with the phrase "Thank God you're here."
Stars: Nicola Parry, Heidi Arena, Tom Gleisner, Ed Kavalee
Votes: 1,290
Featuring dropping performers into sketches where they didn't know what was happening.
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