Whose Line Is It Anyway Season 1

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

Whose Line is it Anyway: Season 1, Volume 1 (DVD) (Censored)

Whose Line Is It Anyway?, based on the British show of the same name, features some of the nation’s finest improvisational comedians, including Florida’s Wayne Brady, Canada’s Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles and Drew Carey from The Drew Carey Show. Each week, the preceding four and a rotating group of actors and actresses spontaneously play games with outrageous scenes, weird quirks, and hilarious songs.

This hysterical show is one of the few cases of the good use of a European concept for American television. The improv comedy unleashed by the talented cast can be surprisingly subversive and satirical, and Wayne Brady and Colin Mochrie in particular are truly brilliant improvisers. For those in a certain comedic frame of mind, Whose Line will keep in you in stitches guaranteed. But with all that being said, I agree with some of the other reviewers here in that the original TV show is 5-star, but this DVD package deserves lesser praise. There are just two very under-packed discs with a disappointingly meager selection of material. This “Volume 1” set offers just ten episodes from the first season of the show, and there is no info booklet or episode guide at all. As for bonus material, there are a mere six deleted scenes and two “gag reels” of bloopers and outtakes.

This is all perfectly uproarious for the enthusiastic Whose Line fan, and the brilliant cast will surely justify your love. But alas, the minimalism of this set is a bit of a disappointment. There is little reason why the entire first season shouldn’t be offered in a more robust three- or four-disc set, with similar packages for subsequent seasons. This arrangement would probably also be more affordable than the cumulative cost of the multiple smaller sets that will become necessary if the producers plan to release the entire series in the current fashion. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for the steady helping of laughs delivered by the Whose Line cast. But there should be more courses to this meal. You have to wonder if there will someday be a “deluxe edition” that will combine the smaller DVD packages like this one into something more useful and informative for the fans.

– doomsdayer520

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie
Producers: Dan Patterson, Denise O’Donoghue, Jimmy Mulville, Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles
Format: Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Language: English (Dolby Digital 4.0)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Region: Region 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 4
Rated: NR-Not Rated
Studio: WarnerBrothers
DVD Release Date: October 9, 2007
Run Time: 220 minutes