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Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1998 · TV series · 22 min episodes · 8 seasons
The show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. Not a talk show, not a sitcom, not a game show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? is a completely unique concept to network television. Four talented actors perform completely unrehearsed skits and games in front of a studio audience. Host Drew Carey sets the scene, with contributions from the audience, but the actors rely completely on their quick wit and improvisational skills. It's genuinely improvised, so anything can happen - and often does.
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Meta: I'm guessing this is a play on name of the television series.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose_Line_Is_It_Anyway%3F_(British_TV_series)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose_Line_Is_It_Anyway%3F_(American_TV_series)
Humor is notoriously subjective and also dependent on mood.
The Goes Wrong Show is reliably funny for me; the premise is that a small-town serious theater troop has lucked into a time slot on a BBC channel, and they do their earnest utmost to do theatre well. But -- it all goes wrong. There's a stage version and two (UK) seasons of the show.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? typically manages a few howlingly good bits in any given show.
Key and Peele did five seasons and I get something hilarious out of basically every show, but I also think they fall flat several times per show.
Saturday Night Live has had good years and bad; they've always had a problem with knowing when to stop a sketch, but they're still worth watching, if not worth staying up for. There's a lot of survivorship bias with SNL: you can see the best bits of 45 years, and compared with that, how's this week's show going to rate?