Whose Line: The Aftermath - Ryan & Colin
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A continuation of The Aftermath, so I'm gonna need tags now :D This is the Ryan and Colin bit, continuing with the interview theme. I'm hoping it works!
Pairing: Ryan/Colin
Rating: R for some language. What does that mean? Of course it's language! Specifically, it's English!
Disclaimer: Don't own anybody 'cept me. I'm not even sure of that actually.
Whose Line: The Aftermath - Ryan & Colin
When You First Met
Ryan: We first met when we were doing TheatreSports. I had been doing stand up for ages, I think it was around ten years, and a friend introduced me to improv and I fell in love.
Colin: Aw, you romantic.
Ryan: I was meaning with improv.
Colin: Hmpf!
Ryan: I did with you later on! Anyway, we got thrown out for drinking whiskey during a workshop, which was fun.
Colin: Yeah, we were actually physically thrown out. I remember that, cos I landed on my ass on the sidewalk and I got a massive bruise covering one ass cheek.
Ryan: Thank God it didn’t impair your ass in any way.
Your First Kiss
Colin: Stage or real? The stage kiss was, um, probably about our third performance together. I felt completely comfortable on stage with Ryan very soon after we met, so I didn’t feel weird about kissing him on stage.
Ryan: I remember that. I had set you up expecting you to like, start dancing to something. Instead, he marches over, grabs my head and plants a kiss on me!
Colin: Don’t pretend like you didn’t like it.
Ryan: I did! Too much! I had to go to the bathroom afterwards.
Colin: Wow. I didn’t realised it had that much off an effect on you.
Ryan: It did. Nothing compared to our first real kiss though.
Colin: Yeah, it wasn’t that long after the stage kiss was it?
Ryan: No. I kept finding excuses to kiss Colin on stage all the time. At first, I was really nervous about how I felt. I was with Pat at the time, so I knew I shouldn’t have been feeling the way I was about Colin. The one day, after about five stage kisses in one performance, Colin was joking that I must actually like him to be kissing him so much, and I just couldn’t think of anything to say. Which was pretty bad for an improviser.
Colin: It is. I just wanted to know why Ryan was kissing me, and only me might I add, so much on stage, so I tried to cover the question with a joke, but when he didn’t say anything, I got scared.
Ryan: You didn’t run away though.
Colin: I think if my legs were connected to my brain that day I would’ve. But I stayed, and Ryan admitted that he did really like kissing me. And, like him, I couldn’t think of anything to say, so I kissed him. Properly. With tongues. And my God, it was good.
Your First Night Together
Ryan: Well, it must’ve been about two weeks after we kissed actually. We were both nervous about actually being attracted to each other, so neither of us was really ready to take that next step. But one night, we were both on a high from a performance, filled with energy, and when Colin took me aside to kiss me for a good performance, we somehow ended up back at his place.
Colin: Yeah, what started out as a kiss for being really good ended up a whole night of sex for being really good. And he was.
Ryan: During the performance or after?
Colin: Both!
Second City
Colin: Ryan got in and I didn’t. I was ready to give improv up but he convinced me not to.
Ryan: That was definitely the hardest part of our relationship.
Colin: I’d say the second.
Ryan: No, cos I know what part you’re thinking of, but we actually had each other through that, but this time we were actually apart.
Colin: Yeah, I suppose.
Ryan: Don’t suppose, I’m always right. (Colin rolls his eyes.) I saw that, you’re on thin ice mister. Anyway, yeah, I got in, so we were apart for six months. Pat moved with me, but I wanted Colin. And, the charmer that he is, got next time and started seeing the director of the company.
Colin: Yeah, Deb. She was nice, and I loved her, but, she just wasn’t Ryan. Plus, we both knew that if we came out then it would mean any chance of getting into show business. But the amount of times that we were nearly caught was unbelievable.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? UK Version
Ryan: I got that one first too. And did pretty well, without sounding too big headed about it.
Colin: You sound big headed anyway.
Ryan: That’s it, no more chocolate for you after midday.
Colin: Hmpf!
Ryan: But they really fucked Colin over the first time that he did it.
Colin: Really, really. I arrived about two hours before I was due to perform, met everyone else about an hour before, then that was it. We were supposed to get a couple of days to settle in you know. Big time change, loss of sleep and actually get to know the people you were performing with. But I didn’t get any of that. So I wasn’t asked back. But I did get a second shot. Thanks to somebody I’m sure.
Ryan: I have no idea what you’re talking about. They must’ve just reconsidered.
Colin: Sure.......
Ryan: Whose Line was great though. It allowed me and Colin to be away from the wives since we were both married by that time. We both had kids too right? Yeah, I had Mackenzie, and you had Luke. So we could continue seeing each other without being worried about being caught by the wives. But we were caught.
Colin: Yeah, Clive caught us once. I can’t remember what the scene before had been, but Dan called a break, Ryan grabbed my hand, and suddenly I was leaning over his couch. And then Clive walked in, mid thrust if I’m thinking right. We were panicking cos we thought that we were the only ones. But it turns out we weren’t.
Ryan: We definitely weren’t, although we were the ones who had been together longest. Greg was fucking Clive, but that’s all it was apparently. They were both away from wives, and had needs! But it worked for us. We could pretend that every time we were filming that it was only us, which sounds more cruel than I really mean it to be.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? US Version
Colin: They didn’t want me!
Ryan: I never really got that. Whose Line only came to America because of Drew. I was on his other show, and I mentioned it to him, and he wanted to try it in America. But when we were moving everything, Dan said that he didn’t want Colin because he looked too old!
Colin: I was bald, I wasn’t old.
Ryan: Not to me anyway.
Colin: I’m perfect to you, even though I do need things unnaturally clean. But again, Whose Line lets us continue our affair, which had been going on for over ten years by now. We were really stupid now that I look back on it.
Ryan: Why?
Colin: We should’ve just come out then. We had permanent seats, and they couldn’t throw us off because we were gay. I think we would’ve hurt a lot less people.
Ryan: Probably yeah. I was pissed when it ended though, cos we didn’t decide to finish it. We were all sitting in a bar one night, and Drew got a call saying that it had been cancelled, and I was ready to start tipping tables over. But Col just sat there. Fuming.
Colin: I’ve got Scottish in me, and a Scottish temper is not something that should be unleashed in a pub. I was unbelievably furious. I loved that show, I couldn’t have done it forever, but I definitely could’ve done it for a couple more years. And it meant that Ry and I had to give up our illusion.
Ryan: I was getting burned out completely. But I was still angry too. Col’s right though, after Whose Line ended, we had to face the serious situation that we were in love, but we had wives and kids now. So we were in a seriously fucked up situation.
Green Screen Show
Colin: It was good, but it wasn’t Whose Line. Mainly cos this goof didn’t do it.
Ryan: I had a new kid!
Colin: I know. You have a sex drive which would make a porn star jealous!
Ryan: It’s a gift.
Colin: Not at four in the goddamn morning. Anyway, Green Screen was good, it was fun, I did it mainly just to work with the guys again. But I definitely felt like the old guy there. Everybody there was under forty five, and I was pushing fifty. When that got cancelled, I was annoyed, but not as angry as Whose Line. But I think I am just a bad omen for shows. I appear on the show, poof! It’s cancelled.
Ryan: You’re not. People just must see that the shows just aren’t as good when you’re not on them.
Colin: He can be so sweet sometimes.
Touring
Ryan: I hate flying.
Colin: Which is why we didn’t tour together.
Ryan: We should’ve.
Colin: It would’ve made things easier. But instead, I went on tour with Brad, which was good actually, he’s the only one apart from Greg that I feel fully comfortable working with. And Ry went on tour with Greg.
Ryan: That was good too. We did Stiles and Proops Unplanned, where we didn’t actually move at all. We just sat on a couch and talked. And we could talk as well, like, properly talk which we hadn’t done for a long time. He missed Brad, and I missed Col, so we would sit, talk, smoke, drink and miss the men we loved.
Colin: I’m getting weepy!
Ryan: You’re just so unromantic.
Colin: Just outside of our house. But we did All Stars together, which was good. We could work with everybody again even if it was in the town of tackiness.
Ryan: Col doesn’t like Vegas.
Improv All Stars
Colin: Loved doing it Still love doing it even if I don’t do it all the time.
Ryan: You’re always busy.
Colin: What’s your excuse?
Ryan: I’m semi retired.
Colin: All Stars was brilliant. Especially when we filmed it. We made so much money!
Ryan: Like we need it. But, yeah, it was brilliant. It was good seeing all the guys again, and even better to work with them. We had new people that hadn’t been on Whose Line much, or not at all. Kathy Kinney had been on it once, Julie Larson and Sean Masterson hadn’t been on it either.
Colin: Jonathan Magnum too. They had been on Green Screen, but not Whose Line.
Coming Out
Colin: Ah. That was a weird day.
Ryan: Weird? I don’t think I’ve ever been so scared in my entire life. I wasn’t going to do All Stars that year, and Colin tried to persuade me to do it -
Colin: Since he begged me to do it the year before.
Ryan: - I didn’t beg, but I just didn’t want to do it. I asked him why he had said that he missed me too much. And I just couldn’t help it, something snapped in me and I just kissed him which was immensely stupid seeing as we were in my house.
Colin: And since Pat saw us too.
Ryan: Yeah, and that.
Colin: I like how you refer to it so casually! I actually crapped myself so much you could’ve made a house!
Ryan: A shit house!
Colin: With furniture and everything!
Ryan: We’ve went off track.
Colin: I don’t remember the question. Yes, I do! Well, after Pat saw everything and screamed and shouted at us both, I got the next flight home trying to get to Deb before Pat phoned her. But I didn’t make it, found my suitcases outside with a note saying ‘Don’t bother.’ So I text Luke - I am up to date with technology - saying that I was sorry, and that I’d still be in his life, and moved in with Ryan in LA. Which I hated.
Ryan: Moving in with me?
Colin: LA.
Ryan: I see. Well, we had a small gathering after, it was me, Colin, Greg and Brad - who had already ‘come out’ and Jeff and Chip. A
few beers -
Colin: A few?
Ryan: OK, a lot of beers. Next week, Chip comes out to his wife too.
Regrets
Colin: I wouldn’t have married Deb. I wouldn’t give Luke up for anything, but I think that if had just not bothered, we would’ve hurt less people. Which is the only thing I regret, is that I had to hurt people very close to me.
Ryan: Yeah, definitely. I would’ve done anything to not hurt my kids, but I think now, when they see how happy I am, that they think I’ve done the right thing. Mac and Sam think I have, which surprised the hell out of me.
Colin: I would’ve maybe fought to keep Whose Line going. I’m always asked if it is coming back, and it hurts me when I have to say ‘No.’ It would’ve been good for everybody I think cos we could’ve maybe carried on seeing whoever we were seeing, but then again, I don’t think I’d be living with Ry right now. I’d still be living a lie.
Ryan: I don’t think carrying Whose Line would’ve solved our relationship problems anyway.
Colin: How come?
Ryan: Cos I’ve always wanted you to myself, so one day, if Whose Line was still going, I would’ve asked you to choose.
Colin: It would’ve been you.
Ryan: I know, which is why I would’ve asked you.
Colin: He’s so cocky sometimes!
Ryan: Well, who wouldn’t want you to all for their own?
Colin: So selfish.
Ryan: It’s part of my charm.
Colin: Hmm...... I much prefer you for the size of your -
Ryan: Col!
Pairing: Ryan/Colin
Rating: R for some language. What does that mean? Of course it's language! Specifically, it's English!
Disclaimer: Don't own anybody 'cept me. I'm not even sure of that actually.
Whose Line: The Aftermath - Ryan & Colin
When You First Met
Ryan: We first met when we were doing TheatreSports. I had been doing stand up for ages, I think it was around ten years, and a friend introduced me to improv and I fell in love.
Colin: Aw, you romantic.
Ryan: I was meaning with improv.
Colin: Hmpf!
Ryan: I did with you later on! Anyway, we got thrown out for drinking whiskey during a workshop, which was fun.
Colin: Yeah, we were actually physically thrown out. I remember that, cos I landed on my ass on the sidewalk and I got a massive bruise covering one ass cheek.
Ryan: Thank God it didn’t impair your ass in any way.
Your First Kiss
Colin: Stage or real? The stage kiss was, um, probably about our third performance together. I felt completely comfortable on stage with Ryan very soon after we met, so I didn’t feel weird about kissing him on stage.
Ryan: I remember that. I had set you up expecting you to like, start dancing to something. Instead, he marches over, grabs my head and plants a kiss on me!
Colin: Don’t pretend like you didn’t like it.
Ryan: I did! Too much! I had to go to the bathroom afterwards.
Colin: Wow. I didn’t realised it had that much off an effect on you.
Ryan: It did. Nothing compared to our first real kiss though.
Colin: Yeah, it wasn’t that long after the stage kiss was it?
Ryan: No. I kept finding excuses to kiss Colin on stage all the time. At first, I was really nervous about how I felt. I was with Pat at the time, so I knew I shouldn’t have been feeling the way I was about Colin. The one day, after about five stage kisses in one performance, Colin was joking that I must actually like him to be kissing him so much, and I just couldn’t think of anything to say. Which was pretty bad for an improviser.
Colin: It is. I just wanted to know why Ryan was kissing me, and only me might I add, so much on stage, so I tried to cover the question with a joke, but when he didn’t say anything, I got scared.
Ryan: You didn’t run away though.
Colin: I think if my legs were connected to my brain that day I would’ve. But I stayed, and Ryan admitted that he did really like kissing me. And, like him, I couldn’t think of anything to say, so I kissed him. Properly. With tongues. And my God, it was good.
Your First Night Together
Ryan: Well, it must’ve been about two weeks after we kissed actually. We were both nervous about actually being attracted to each other, so neither of us was really ready to take that next step. But one night, we were both on a high from a performance, filled with energy, and when Colin took me aside to kiss me for a good performance, we somehow ended up back at his place.
Colin: Yeah, what started out as a kiss for being really good ended up a whole night of sex for being really good. And he was.
Ryan: During the performance or after?
Colin: Both!
Second City
Colin: Ryan got in and I didn’t. I was ready to give improv up but he convinced me not to.
Ryan: That was definitely the hardest part of our relationship.
Colin: I’d say the second.
Ryan: No, cos I know what part you’re thinking of, but we actually had each other through that, but this time we were actually apart.
Colin: Yeah, I suppose.
Ryan: Don’t suppose, I’m always right. (Colin rolls his eyes.) I saw that, you’re on thin ice mister. Anyway, yeah, I got in, so we were apart for six months. Pat moved with me, but I wanted Colin. And, the charmer that he is, got next time and started seeing the director of the company.
Colin: Yeah, Deb. She was nice, and I loved her, but, she just wasn’t Ryan. Plus, we both knew that if we came out then it would mean any chance of getting into show business. But the amount of times that we were nearly caught was unbelievable.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? UK Version
Ryan: I got that one first too. And did pretty well, without sounding too big headed about it.
Colin: You sound big headed anyway.
Ryan: That’s it, no more chocolate for you after midday.
Colin: Hmpf!
Ryan: But they really fucked Colin over the first time that he did it.
Colin: Really, really. I arrived about two hours before I was due to perform, met everyone else about an hour before, then that was it. We were supposed to get a couple of days to settle in you know. Big time change, loss of sleep and actually get to know the people you were performing with. But I didn’t get any of that. So I wasn’t asked back. But I did get a second shot. Thanks to somebody I’m sure.
Ryan: I have no idea what you’re talking about. They must’ve just reconsidered.
Colin: Sure.......
Ryan: Whose Line was great though. It allowed me and Colin to be away from the wives since we were both married by that time. We both had kids too right? Yeah, I had Mackenzie, and you had Luke. So we could continue seeing each other without being worried about being caught by the wives. But we were caught.
Colin: Yeah, Clive caught us once. I can’t remember what the scene before had been, but Dan called a break, Ryan grabbed my hand, and suddenly I was leaning over his couch. And then Clive walked in, mid thrust if I’m thinking right. We were panicking cos we thought that we were the only ones. But it turns out we weren’t.
Ryan: We definitely weren’t, although we were the ones who had been together longest. Greg was fucking Clive, but that’s all it was apparently. They were both away from wives, and had needs! But it worked for us. We could pretend that every time we were filming that it was only us, which sounds more cruel than I really mean it to be.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? US Version
Colin: They didn’t want me!
Ryan: I never really got that. Whose Line only came to America because of Drew. I was on his other show, and I mentioned it to him, and he wanted to try it in America. But when we were moving everything, Dan said that he didn’t want Colin because he looked too old!
Colin: I was bald, I wasn’t old.
Ryan: Not to me anyway.
Colin: I’m perfect to you, even though I do need things unnaturally clean. But again, Whose Line lets us continue our affair, which had been going on for over ten years by now. We were really stupid now that I look back on it.
Ryan: Why?
Colin: We should’ve just come out then. We had permanent seats, and they couldn’t throw us off because we were gay. I think we would’ve hurt a lot less people.
Ryan: Probably yeah. I was pissed when it ended though, cos we didn’t decide to finish it. We were all sitting in a bar one night, and Drew got a call saying that it had been cancelled, and I was ready to start tipping tables over. But Col just sat there. Fuming.
Colin: I’ve got Scottish in me, and a Scottish temper is not something that should be unleashed in a pub. I was unbelievably furious. I loved that show, I couldn’t have done it forever, but I definitely could’ve done it for a couple more years. And it meant that Ry and I had to give up our illusion.
Ryan: I was getting burned out completely. But I was still angry too. Col’s right though, after Whose Line ended, we had to face the serious situation that we were in love, but we had wives and kids now. So we were in a seriously fucked up situation.
Green Screen Show
Colin: It was good, but it wasn’t Whose Line. Mainly cos this goof didn’t do it.
Ryan: I had a new kid!
Colin: I know. You have a sex drive which would make a porn star jealous!
Ryan: It’s a gift.
Colin: Not at four in the goddamn morning. Anyway, Green Screen was good, it was fun, I did it mainly just to work with the guys again. But I definitely felt like the old guy there. Everybody there was under forty five, and I was pushing fifty. When that got cancelled, I was annoyed, but not as angry as Whose Line. But I think I am just a bad omen for shows. I appear on the show, poof! It’s cancelled.
Ryan: You’re not. People just must see that the shows just aren’t as good when you’re not on them.
Colin: He can be so sweet sometimes.
Touring
Ryan: I hate flying.
Colin: Which is why we didn’t tour together.
Ryan: We should’ve.
Colin: It would’ve made things easier. But instead, I went on tour with Brad, which was good actually, he’s the only one apart from Greg that I feel fully comfortable working with. And Ry went on tour with Greg.
Ryan: That was good too. We did Stiles and Proops Unplanned, where we didn’t actually move at all. We just sat on a couch and talked. And we could talk as well, like, properly talk which we hadn’t done for a long time. He missed Brad, and I missed Col, so we would sit, talk, smoke, drink and miss the men we loved.
Colin: I’m getting weepy!
Ryan: You’re just so unromantic.
Colin: Just outside of our house. But we did All Stars together, which was good. We could work with everybody again even if it was in the town of tackiness.
Ryan: Col doesn’t like Vegas.
Improv All Stars
Colin: Loved doing it Still love doing it even if I don’t do it all the time.
Ryan: You’re always busy.
Colin: What’s your excuse?
Ryan: I’m semi retired.
Colin: All Stars was brilliant. Especially when we filmed it. We made so much money!
Ryan: Like we need it. But, yeah, it was brilliant. It was good seeing all the guys again, and even better to work with them. We had new people that hadn’t been on Whose Line much, or not at all. Kathy Kinney had been on it once, Julie Larson and Sean Masterson hadn’t been on it either.
Colin: Jonathan Magnum too. They had been on Green Screen, but not Whose Line.
Coming Out
Colin: Ah. That was a weird day.
Ryan: Weird? I don’t think I’ve ever been so scared in my entire life. I wasn’t going to do All Stars that year, and Colin tried to persuade me to do it -
Colin: Since he begged me to do it the year before.
Ryan: - I didn’t beg, but I just didn’t want to do it. I asked him why he had said that he missed me too much. And I just couldn’t help it, something snapped in me and I just kissed him which was immensely stupid seeing as we were in my house.
Colin: And since Pat saw us too.
Ryan: Yeah, and that.
Colin: I like how you refer to it so casually! I actually crapped myself so much you could’ve made a house!
Ryan: A shit house!
Colin: With furniture and everything!
Ryan: We’ve went off track.
Colin: I don’t remember the question. Yes, I do! Well, after Pat saw everything and screamed and shouted at us both, I got the next flight home trying to get to Deb before Pat phoned her. But I didn’t make it, found my suitcases outside with a note saying ‘Don’t bother.’ So I text Luke - I am up to date with technology - saying that I was sorry, and that I’d still be in his life, and moved in with Ryan in LA. Which I hated.
Ryan: Moving in with me?
Colin: LA.
Ryan: I see. Well, we had a small gathering after, it was me, Colin, Greg and Brad - who had already ‘come out’ and Jeff and Chip. A
few beers -
Colin: A few?
Ryan: OK, a lot of beers. Next week, Chip comes out to his wife too.
Regrets
Colin: I wouldn’t have married Deb. I wouldn’t give Luke up for anything, but I think that if had just not bothered, we would’ve hurt less people. Which is the only thing I regret, is that I had to hurt people very close to me.
Ryan: Yeah, definitely. I would’ve done anything to not hurt my kids, but I think now, when they see how happy I am, that they think I’ve done the right thing. Mac and Sam think I have, which surprised the hell out of me.
Colin: I would’ve maybe fought to keep Whose Line going. I’m always asked if it is coming back, and it hurts me when I have to say ‘No.’ It would’ve been good for everybody I think cos we could’ve maybe carried on seeing whoever we were seeing, but then again, I don’t think I’d be living with Ry right now. I’d still be living a lie.
Ryan: I don’t think carrying Whose Line would’ve solved our relationship problems anyway.
Colin: How come?
Ryan: Cos I’ve always wanted you to myself, so one day, if Whose Line was still going, I would’ve asked you to choose.
Colin: It would’ve been you.
Ryan: I know, which is why I would’ve asked you.
Colin: He’s so cocky sometimes!
Ryan: Well, who wouldn’t want you to all for their own?
Colin: So selfish.
Ryan: It’s part of my charm.
Colin: Hmm...... I much prefer you for the size of your -
Ryan: Col!