Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Series 1 Compilation 1

Clive

Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Series 1 Compilation 1
Channel 4
2 December 1988
Improv Game Show
DVD
B-

Despite Clive joking in an episode this season that this programme aired live, in fact a lot of material was shot each week, and then edited down to the episodes we see.  The compilations of each series allow us to view some of the leftover material, which understandably was dropped in a few cases, and in others offers little gems.  The material on this first of two compilations of the first series has selections from 1.1., 1.5, 1.10, and understandably quite a bit from 1.9.  Some of the memorable moments here:

• Tony hosting Party Quirks for the first time, with Mike as a Kissogram (this would have an unexpected pay-off two or three years later);
• Clive rambling on about putting audience members into envelopes, as Tony indulges him;
• Josie reacting to one of Tony's celebrity insults (Anne Diamond) with "Oh, that's cruel!;
• Josie flirting with Paul in FATS, culminating in him inviting her to the back of his Volkswagon;
• John and Archie in their FATS respectively kicking (or at least miming kicking) Archie in the crotch, and saying the word "clitoris";
• Stephen and Josie flirting in their Film Dub, although they turn the male-female couple into students at a boys' school; 
• and Paul responding to the suggestion "It's only cotton wool," with "But I like it.  That's a Rolling Stones song, isn't it?"