Sherwood & Mochrie Interview Con'd
BR: How did you get onto �Whose Line Is It Anyway?� and what advice would you give to someone who wants to get into the business?
CM: Get out! <All Laugh> Who needs it? No, but I was in Second City in Toronto and the producers were doing a cross-country audition tour, and so I basically auditioned and got in through that and over the years they got more confidence in me and started using me more. I think, Brad, you came in shortly right after that?
BS: Yeah, I was Ryan�s [Styles] understudy at Second City and the producer was coming into town to audition people and said that I should come down to audition and so I did and got on the show.
DB: So did you have any comedic role models when you were growing up?
BS:  Yeah, they�re SO old though <Turns to Colin> Tim Conway, Art Carney, Don Knots were three of my favorites, but now you can only see them now on �Nick at Nite� and TV Land!
CM: I can go back even farther. I loved the old Jack Benny Shows, Dick Van Dyke, Don Knots, the Monty Python guys�?
BS: Oh yeah, Monty Python!
CM: --Peter Sellers, but I�d say the most I got from was probably John Cleese.
BR: What�s the best part of doing a college show?
CM: The audiences love us! The audiences have been great; especially for the kind of show we do they�re such an important part of the night and if you have an audience tat just sits there, its hell. The college audiences are so up and there�s a nice playfulness between us and the audience and among everyone
BS: College audiences are just more excited overall and they haven�t paid huge amounts of night club or comedy club money, or theater ticket money to be there so they�re not adults who have babysitters who sit there <crosses arms> and says �Alright, you better make me laugh.� Or if they�re in a comedy club and they�ve had a few drinks now you have to make them laugh and get it through their slightly drunk brain.
CM: College students aren�t usually drunk when they come to these things, which is nice too.
BS: Yes, exactly. So that�s why the show ends early. <All Laugh>
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