Welcome to the end of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Literally. The show
always ended in the unusual fashion of having a selected person or people
("the winner(s)") read out the credits in a certain style or imitation.
The tradition began on the original Whose Line, the radio show. In that
case, there was a legal obligation to read certain names, and Clive Anderson
decided to make it a little more interesting by making it the "prize" for
"winning." (Although, in the early radio shows, the winner was actually
the one with the most points!) Anyway, the tradition remained, even as Clive
himself later admitted he thought it probably wasn't the most creative idea
with which to end the show. 

After a year's hiatus on the new American version, the credit reading
returned in the second US season, with little difference other than a
large change of names (the British crew mostly didn't follow the 
performers across the pond). Many credit readings were quite memorable,
although it was rare for the reader(s) to actually mention all that many
of the names. (An exception is Josie's schoolmarm reading, which actually
includes every single name!) Every episode other than the compilations contains
a reading, making it (in a sense) the "most played" game ever on the show.

Whether you love it or simply tolerate it, the credit reading is an integral
part of Whose Line, and it's about time it got its own page!

Note: It will probably take a long time for this page to be complete. Many
episodes don't exist in clip form, mainly those from the first two seasons.
Nevertheless, this page shall press on with a semi-permanent "Under Construction"
sign. Enjoy what's here, contribute if you've got something that's missing.

And now, it just remains for me to thank all the cast and crew of the greatest
television show ever produced (or at least the greatest improv show).
This is me, bangdrum, saying "good night." Good night.

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Given that, let's hear the credits in the style of...

Radio Show
Episode 1: Dawn French wins, but no credit reading! 

Episode 2: John Sessions, as Edward Fox

Episode 3: Jimmy Mulville, as Murray Walker

Episode 4: Griff Rhys Jones, as Donald Sinden

Episode 5: John Bird, as a BBC official

Episode 6: Jon Glover, as Melvyn Bragg


UK TV

Season One

Episode 1: Archie Hahn, as an American sports commentator

Episode 2: Rory Bremner, as Barry Norman

Episode 3: Peter Cook, as a New York taxi driver

Episode 4: John Sessions, as Anthony Hopkins

Episode 5: Josie Lawrence, as an angry viewer

Episode 6: Jan Ravens, as Paula Yates

Episode 7: Rory McGrath, as his mother

Episode 8: Griff Rhys Jones and John Sessions, as Griff Rhys Jones

Episode 9: Mike McShane, as Jimmy Stewart

Episode 10: Stephen Fry, as an American announcer

Episode 13 (The Pilot): The only occurrence of credits without a reading in a regular episode
(The winner was Jon Glover)


Season Two

Episode 14: Greg Proops, as Elvis Costello

Episode 15: Tony Slattery, as Night Court

Episode 16: Griff Rhys Jones, as Frankie Howard

Episode 17: Mike McShane, as Brian Blessed

Episode 18: Tony Slattery, as David Attenborough

Episode 19: Ron West, as someone on Death Row

Episode 20 (Six person 45 minute Christmas special): All as a Christmas carol

Episode 21: Ryan Stiles, as Clint Eastwood

Episode 22: Archie Hahn, as an American gangster movie

Episode 23: Lee Simpson, as a Shakespearean actor

Episode 24: Arthur Smith, as Sidney James

Episode 25: Mike McShane, in as many accents as possible

Episode 26: Josie Lawrence, as a schoolmarm 
(The only time every single name was read!)

Episode 27: Sandi Toksvig, as Mae West

Episode 28: Mike McShane has just won an Oscar


Season Three

Episode 31: Tony Slattery, as though he's auditioning for an Australian soap opera

Episode 32: Josie Lawrence, as Janet Street-Porter

Episode 33: Mike McShane, as a 1930s radio announcer

Episode 34: Paul Merton, as a taxi driver

Episode 35: Tony Slattery, as the world's most enthusiastic man

Episode 36: Sandi Toksvig, as a headmistress

Episode 37: Steve Steen, as Jimmy Saville

Episode 38: Greg Proops, as Woody Allen

Episode 40: Ryan Stiles, as a bad Shakespearean actor

Episode 41: John Sessions, as Sean Connery

Episode 42: Ryan Stiles, as a fashion model

Episode 43: Jim Meskimen, as Popeye

Episode 44: John Sessions, as Phil Silvers

Episode 45: Greg, George McGrath, Ryan, and Mike, as tourists to New York

Episode 46: Greg Proops, as the stupidest person in the world


Season Four

Episode 48: Jim Sweeney, as a memory man

Episode 49: Paul Merton, as Sir Alec Guinness

Episode 50: Steve Steen, as Peter O'Sullivan

Episode 51: Tony Slattery, as a drunk Australian soap opera star

Episode 52: Chip Esten, as an auctioneer

Episode 54: Colin Mochrie, while making as many faces as possible

Episode 55: Archie Hahn, as various cartoon characters

Episode 56: Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie, as sports commentators

Episode 57: Sam Johnson, as a sarcastic TV critic

Episode 58: Jim Meskimen, as Kevin Costner

Episode 59: Greg Proops and Ryan Stiles, as bickering brothers


Season Five

Episode 61: Tony Slattery, as a youth TV presenter

Episode 62: Greg Proops and Ryan Stiles, as American TV critics

Episode 63: Paul Merton interviews sports star Tony Slattery, while Jim Sweeney and 
Steve Steen try to get into the shot

Episode 64: Greg Proops, Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles, as Tony Slattery

Episode 65: Greg Proops and Ryan Stiles, as hecklers

Episode 66: Ryan Stiles, as someone who's just been to the dentist

Episode 67: Steve Steen and Tony Slattery in a fight

Episode 68: Colin Mochrie, in as many positions as possible


Season Six

Episode 70: Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, as a director instructing an inept actor

Episode 71: Josie Lawrence and Mike McShane, as a bickering couple on their way home

Episode 72: Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, in the hall of mirrors

Episode 73: Tony Slattery, as someone trying to tell a joke, but cracking up before finishing

Episode 74: Josie Lawrence, going through Ryan's little black book

Episode 75: Colin Mochrie, as an angry viewer

Episode 76: Mike McShane, as a TV evangelist

Episode 77: Greg Proops and Ryan Stiles, as hecklers

Episode 78: Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, as cheerleaders


Season Seven

Episode 81: Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, as cool dudes checking themselves out and discussing chicks

Episode 82: Greg, Mike, Ryan, and Tony, as an all-boy group

Episode 83: Steve Frost, as a mother shouting out the window

Episode 84: Tony Slattery, as Eastenders

Episode 85: Ryan Stiles, as a wrestler

Episode 86: Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, desperate to go to the bathroom

Episode 87: Greg Proops and Ryan Stiles, pitching film ideas to a studio boss

Episode 88: Steve Frost, Josie, Colin, and Ryan, as excitable stock traders

Episode 89: Josie, Caroline Quentin, Colin, and Ryan, as a family in a car

Episode 90: Josie Lawrence and Ryan Stiles, as a couple caught on a security camera


Season Eight

Episode 93: Greg Proops and Ryan Stiles, as Beavis and Butthead

Episode 94: Rory Bremner, as David Attenborough

Episode 95: Colin Mochrie, snapping and telling Ryan what he really thinks

Episode 96: Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, as compulsive gamblers

Episode 97: Niall Ashdown, in as many accents as possible

Episode 98: Greg Proops and Colin Mochrie, looking through the Guinness Book of Records

Episode 99: Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, as a mafia supergrass and a police chief

Episode 100: Steve Frost and Greg Proops, as tabloid headline writers

Episode 101: Steve Frost, Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles, in the urinals

Episode 102: Steve Frost and Josie Lawrence, as bad actors, with Colin Mochrie and 
Ryan Stiles giving them prompts

Episode 103: Greg Proops and Ryan Stiles, as studs bragging about their conquests

Episode 104: Josie Lawrence and Caroline Quentin, as teenage boys in a locker room


Season Nine

Episode 107: Rory Bremner, as Peter O'Sullivan, commenting on the other players' race

Episode 108: Greg, Karen Maruyama, and Ryan, looking through a high school yearbook

Episode 109: Mike McShane, as a Latin American dictator

Episode 110: Stephen Fry, reporting on opening night at the opera

Episode 111: Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, as a temperamental French chef and a waiter

Episode 112: Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, as Michael Jackson and Bubbles

Episode 113: George Wendt, as the show's biggest fan

Episode 114: Greg, Debi Durst, Colin, and Ryan, as bolshie old people

Episode 115: Steve Frost and Ryan Stiles, as construction workers

Episode 116: Steve Frost, as the first man to Mars giving a report

Episode 119: Greg Proops, having a nightmare, with the others as the ghosts of his past

Episode 120: Karen Maruyama, as The Simpsons, later joined by the cast

Episode 121: Steve Frost and Ryan Stiles, as construction workers(same reading as episode 115)

Episode 122: Greg, George Wendt, Colin, and Ryan, as a family sending a video back home

Episode 123: Greg, Rory Bremner, Colin, and Ryan, at the after-show party (with Rory as Clive)

Episode 124: Josie Lawrence and Greg Proops, at a wine tasting, while Colin and Ryan get drunk in the background

Episode 125: Brad Sherwood and Colin Mochrie, as plastic surgeons


Season Ten

Episode 126: Wayne Brady and Ryan Stiles as a jazz singer and a trumpeter whose trumpet doesn't work

Episode 127: Ryan Stiles and Phil LaMarr, as a ventriloquist and his dummy

Episode 128: Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, as competing cattle auctioneers

Episode 129: Patrick Bristow, as the President issuing a denial

Episode 130: Brad Sherwood, doing a newscast from a dangerous location

Episode 131: Ryan Stiles and Catherine O'Hara, as a couple trying to turn each other on

Episode 132: Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, as two roller coaster riders

Episode 133: Colin Mochrie, as a TV chef getting drunker and drunker

Episode 134: Ryan Stiles and Debra Wilson breaking up

The credit reading returned in the second US season. Since the Anerican
show did not feature compilations, EVERY episode had a credit reading.
Since it would pose storage problems to present all of them here (not to
mention that most weren't really that great), I've decided to showcase
my opinions as to the "best" US credit readings. You may notice that I'm
ever-so-slightly biased towards Greg, but he did tend to do the
best readings! In any case, these are my choices. Agree? Great! Disagree?
Feel free to let me know which ones you think were better!

Episode 161: Ryan Stiles, trying to convince Chip Esten that he's not gay

Episode 179: Greg Proops, as a male stripper

Episode 185: Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, on a plane flight where Colin won't shut up

Episode 192: Colin Mochrie, as Captain Hair

Episode 218: Wayne, Chip, Colin, and Ryan, as toddlers learning to walk and talk

Episode 219: Greg Proops, as Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Episode 233: The Whose Line 100th show celebration turns ugly

Episode 234: Ryan Stiles, as Carol Channing, while the others pull glass from his head

Episode 246: Ryan Stiles, as the Crocodile Hunter

Episode 261: Greg Proops, as a dominatrix

Episode 280: All as "Drew Carey: The Musical"

Episode 298: Jeff Davis, as Christopher Walken doing his standup routine

Episode 299: Wayne Brady as George W. Bush, hearing about crises in the White House

Lots of folks to list here!

Thank you to:
Wisey1
Huzlinefan
ooops81
Bartmanblues
rosso
The Old Bean

Executive Producer: 
bangdrum

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