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Date Posted: 14:26:18 02/27/02 Wed
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Hi all! I typed a transcript of Ryan's radio interview. Enjoy and happy reading!!!! :) :) :)
John : I’m John Tesh, this is the John Tesh Radio Show, and on the phone with me is a gentleman who has not one, but two hit primetime TV shows. On the Drew Carey Show he plays the tall, wacky character Lewis. And on Whose Line Is It Anyway? He is just himself, and that’s enough given his awesome ad-libbing abilities. We are proud to say hello to Mr. Ryan Stiles.
John: Hiya Ryan!
Ryan: Hi John. How are ya?
John: I’m doin’ fine. I should probably start off by saying that I had the great fortune a year ago or so ago of actually being on stage with you.
Ryan: *Laughs* Yes, at the school function, yes.
John: Yes, it was the school play, and ah, we were acting together.
Ryan: I’m on the road with that by the way. Brad Garret has taken over for you
John: *laughs*
Ryan: But, yeah, it was ah, one of the highlights of my career.
John: Well, I want to thank you for actually letting me do that. And, ah... (Ryan interrupts)
Ryan: Oh, I’m sorry, did I let you do that? Is that how that works?
John: *laughs*
John: But you folks at home should know that this was a school play. And, ah, it was parents doing a fundraiser thing. And it was more time than it takes to do the DCS and WL?, right?
Ryan: There’s actually pretty good talent in those school plays.
John: Yeah, but what I’m saying is, the actual time involved.
Ryan: It was three months rehearsal for a 10-minute bit! And we still messed it up!
John: Oh, man.
Ryan: But it was fun, I had a good time.
John: Yeah, it was great fun for me because I got a chance to be cool with my son for about a half an hour.
Ryan: Exactly. And it was for the school and I think they raised about $300 that night.
John: Yeah, it was perfect. Hey, how do you put together your life now? I mean most comedians/actors with one successful hit series end up in the Betty Ford center. And you have two.
Ryan: Ah, you didn’t finish that…
John: I know….*they both laugh*
Ryan: Well you know what, with Whose Line, we only shoot three weekends out of the year. So that doesn’t take up a lot of time cause we shoot ten shows in three weekends and we get more than one show out of every show. So if we shoot for three weekends, we might get 30, 40 shows out of that. So, it doesn’t really take a lot of time to do Whose Line. Um, and Drew’s just a regular sitcom so we’re down here everyday, so it beats digging ditches or it beats a real job, ya know?
John: Did you ever think that when you just started doing stand-up and doing improv that you’d end up having two primetime shows at the same time?
Ryan: I didn’t think I’d end up having one primetime show, so two is a bonus. So yeah, you can’t be too greedy when you start out. I mean I’ve been trying to find a way to do three, but I don’t know if I can work…But I’m not the first. I’m kind of think that I’m the Heather Locklear of the new Millennium. She had two, Saget (Bob) had two…so it can be done and we shoot on the weekends, which makes it really easy too.
John: You had to pull the Saget card on me, thank you very much…I appreciate that.
Ryan: *laughs*
John: What do you like better? Do you like the scripted stuff or do you, and it’s probably a loaded question, or do you like the improv?
Ryan: Well, you know they’re both kind of fun in their own way. And the great thing about Whose Line is that we can go in about a half hour before the show and just do it in about 2 and a half hours and be done. And the great thing about Drew is that, ya know, we have our trailers down here and it’s kind of a community, it’s kind of a family deal... I mean so it takes a lot longer to do Drew but they’re both rewarding in different ways. So, I’m just really lucky that I can actually do both.
John: You’re listening to the John Tesh Radio Show and we’re speaking with Ryan Stiles from the DCS and WLiiA? And Ryan, knowing you as a dad, from the school, one of the things that really surprised me is that you’re just not into this whole Hollywood thing at all are you?
Ryan: Well, we pretend that we’re like that around you, ‘cause you are show business people too, but anybody that’s not in show business, we don’t treat that well. No, my family doesn’t live in LA anymore. They live up north and it’s much better for them and, um, I ah see them about once a month or so or a week out of every month. But ya know, nothing lasts forever. And when Drew’s over, I’ll go up and join them and I’ll pretty well done I think.
John: The thing that also really knocked me out was the fact that I came over to your house and my daughter had a play date with your son…
Ryan: By the way, we don’t have play dates up north…you just show up at the door…they don’t know what play date is up there.
*John and Ryan laugh*
John: Isn’t that horrible
Ryan: Here it’s like ya know, “Can ah, Prima play with MacKenzie on April 23rd? Around 4?” And then you have to get you child’s planner out and arrange a play date. But we don’t do that up there. They just show up.
John: So it’s like a real life?
Ryan: Yup.
John: Yeah, that’s nice. And now you’re able to put me down, now that you’re out of town.
Ryan: But it was nice that you showed up at the door and have a visit like that.
John: But I came to the door, and ah, apart from the big screen TV, which I thought was nice, there was a pool that was a piano pool. And I said what’s the piano pool doing there? And you said, well…
Ryan: It’s Liberace’s house.
John: You live in Liberace’s house?
Ryan: Yeah. We don’t go upstairs. It’s kind of freaky upstairs. So we have two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs that have no furniture in them cause nobody ever goes up there. There’s all sorts of loud noises up there and stuff. But I had the pool redone, you can’t do anything else with a piano pool. I mean Pat, my wife, wanted to put a Jacuzzi off the side of the pool and I said you can’t really do that cause it will spoil the shape, unless you make it like a candelabra Jacuzzi or something.
John: Right, right, right.
Ryan: You know when we first bought the house and we were having renovations done to it, people would just wander off the street into the backyard through the gate and just be standing around the pool, and didn’t really realize that somebody owned the house and actually lived there. But it’s kind of a freaky thing. We got cedar-lined closets. Where do you find that?
John: Do you find yourself compelled to be funny at home?
Ryan: No not really. Cause the kids just think that you’re being kind of goofy, and ya know, they don’t really understand what you do for a living. I know Mac was getting off the bus up north from her school and outside the gate and I was waiting for her inside the gate and a whole bunch of kids saw me through the bus. And I could see them looking and talking to each other. She got off the bus and just kind of walked right by me and went “Thanks a lot, Dad!” So they’re not really into that whole Hollywood thing.
John: The ad-lib thing, Ryan. What kind of a mode do you have to get yourself into for WL?
Ryan: Well, it’s not really as much a mode as I think the group of people I do it with. I’ve known most of these people…Colin I’ve known 24 years, Greg I’ve known about 16. And it’s just when you get around these people you kind of get like that, ya know, and you cannot seen them for, I mean I maybe see Colin maybe a month out of every year. And as soon as you see each other it’s kind of back into it. But what a lot of people don’t realize is they think you’re funny on the show, they don’t see how often you fail but there’s always three other guys, or women or guys, to back you up. And ah, if you have someone on Whose Line who wants to be a hot shot and wants to be, ya know, a star, it’s not going to work. Everybody else will just shut them down. So you’re always good with the people you’re on stage with. So they really, we all help each other out. So we really aren’t as funny as we seem, it just that everybody’s working as a team, which is what makes that show work, I think.
John: Absolutely. (they took a commercial break here)
Ryan Stiles is on the phone with me, you know him from WLiiA? and the DCS on ABC. And Ryan, one of the things I love watching about Drew, is that all of you guys together, is that you guys have a hard time holding it together. I know I actually see you crack up on a show don’t I?
Ryan: Yup. That happens quite a bit actually. Well, Drew’s always been open to well we’ll shoot the scene the way it’s written and then after that you can add what you want and do a scene. Those are the ones we actually end up using so…But it’s always free to improvise during the show, so it’s kind of a fun thing.
John: Are you guys like the Friends cast? Do you negotiate your contracts together?
*Ryan and John laugh*
Ryan: No. Not quite. We’re nothing like the Friends cast, as a matter of fact. I wish we did. I’d love to make the money that the Friends cast does.
John: Uh-huh. The other thing that happened that I heard about from you that I thought was totally cool was how nice Drew is. I mean he took you guys on a cruise, right?
Ryan: Oh, it’s changed since then. No, he did. He took us on a cruise to ah, actually, it was like a secret vacation type thing, and he didn’t tell us where we were going. He told us what to pack. And he charted a jet to fly us down to Mexico and then he chartered the Windstar which is a big four mast sailing ship and just sailed down to Honduras and Belize and wherever we wanted to go, so it was kind of nice.
John: Sounds like a lot of guilt to me.
Ryan: He’s a great guy. I mean the liquor bill for 9 days was $110, 000. So, yeah there was 97 people on board.
(took a commercial break)
John: Welcome back to the John Tesh radio show. I am your host and we are fortunate because Ryan Stiles has decided he can stay just a couple of more minutes before he has to go back to rehearsals for the DCS and then he continues on the rest of the week with WLiiA? What a grueling schedule. Ryan, how much longer are you going to hang on to both of these shows?
Ryan: Well, WL I’d love to do forever cause we only shoot it three weekends out of the year so I could do that forever. Ah, Drew, I don’t know, well, I’ll stay on it until, ya know, it finishes. You know it won’t go forever. We’re already in our 7th year. So you know, it ah, goes after awhile. I’m going to wait for that and then when it happens, I’ll go. I’m having a good time now. That’s all that matters.
John: Well, you a certainly one of the funniest things on the show. And now that you know that you know I’m a comedic actor, I’m still waiting for you to call.
Ryan: I was surprised how funny you are. See, nobody thinks that John Tesh is a comedic type or actor like that but ah, I’m telling you, you should have your own…and we wear the same shoe size, which is great. That’s what I love about it.
*John Laughs*
Ryan: And how you fit into a Porsche, I’ll never know
John: Oh, you didn’t get the update. The Porsche is gone, I’m a family guy now, I got one of those suburban things.
Ryan: Now you can actually, ah, sit straight up in a car.
John: Well, God bless you, thanks so much!
Ryan: Thanks John!
John: And we do miss you at school.
Ryan: Aw, well thanks a lot and we’ll drop by when they get in town.
John: Thanks a lot, buddy.
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