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Chat Show Roulette; Comedy Chat Show
Topic Started: Mar 23 2015, 10:43 AM (1,366 Views)
Mobson
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A bit of original comedy <laugh>

Chat Show Roulette is an improvised comedy show that gets away from all the overly-familiar theatre-sports games by having just one main idea, albeit one with endless room for variation and surprise.

Chat Show Roulette appears to be a conventional chat show. There is one host, three guests and a studio audience. However, the guests are all comedy performers and don’t know who they will be playing until literally seconds before they appear. That’s because their names, occupations and key character traits are chosen randomly from audience suggestions.

When they appear the host engages with them like any good chat show host and the performers must go with it. But even then extra curveballs are thrown along the way as more facets of the guests’ pasts are drawn from the audience suggestions. At the end of each interview the ‘guest’ is asked to give some kind of performance whether singing or a demonstration of a special skill.

Starting life as a live event back in 2012, guests for the initial Soho Theatre run included Julia Davis, Katy Brand, Phil Whelans, Simon Day and Matt Lucas, whose production company John Stanley Productions took the idea first to television for a non-broadcast pilot, and now to radio 4.

Series 1 x 6 aired it's first episode last Thursday 19th March on BBC Radio 4 at 11pm...Justin Edwards played host to guests Susan Calman, Marek Larwood and Kevin Eldon, with musical accompaniment from James Sherwood.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055jslz
Edited by Mobson, Mar 23 2015, 10:44 AM.
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