Whose Line: The Aftermath - Greg & Brad

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Well, here is how the Greg and Brad section! I'm totally hyper tonight (Dad's getting his operation on Monday so happiness! Hopefully he'll be out the same day!).

Story: Whose Line: The Aftermath
Pairing: Greg/Brad
Rating: R for language, specifically English.
Disclaimer: I'd rather own Ryan and Colin to be honest, but I don't own anybody :( And a pizza. BUT THE PIZZA IS MINE!

Whose Line: The Aftermath - Greg & Brad

When You First Met

Greg: On Whose Line.

Brad: Yeah, my first ever episode was with Greg, Ryan and Colin.

Greg: I remember that! Your first scene was a Changing Emotions, and one of them was lust. And that's when I first look at him and thought 'Well.... hello.'

Brad: Really?

Greg: Totally. Especially when you bent over. I fell hard and fast.

Brad: I liked Greg as well, but I had heard things about him and Clive, and so, I didn't even think about going for him. Apparently he was already taken.

Greg: I wasn't 'taken', I saw Clive simply for a quick fuck whenever we needed it. But with Brad, there was definitely something deeper. I actually stopped seeing Clive about two months before we got together cos I felt like I was cheating on him, even though nothing had happened!

Brad: I was scared as well, because I had never found a man attractive before, so the thought scared me. But since I was single at the time, I thought that I should just give it a shot.


Your First Kiss

Brad: At the wrap party for the fourth series of Whose Line. Since I had filmed a couple of episodes I was invited along. I made sure Greg was going to be there first, and then went along.

Greg: We were pretty buzzed. I saw him standing talking to Mike, and felt, like, this rush overcome me to go over and tell him how I felt.

Brad: You did! He marched over, takes me by the arm, we go outside, he lights up a smoke, looks at me and says 'I really like you Brad.' I didn't know what to say so he starts panicking!

Greg: Wouldn't you? In my head, I had this perfectly eloquent speech to tell you, but instead, I just kind of blurted it out. But he didn't run away. He just looked at me, and asked about Clive. I told him that was over ages ago, he looks at the ground, I swear he scuffed the toe into the grass -

Brad: I didn't! I was thinking!

Greg: - and mumbles something like 'I like you too.' So I waited until he had enough courage to look back at me, and kissed him.


Your First Night Together

Greg: The same night actually! Once we started we couldn't stop!

Brad: I didn't actually intend to sleep with Greg that night. This was all new to me, so I thought that I had better go home and figure out what I was going to do. But Greg had already figured it out.

Greg: Well, what else could I do?

Brad: You could've said 'Brad, you've discovered this new thing about yourself. We'll wait til at least tomorrow night.'

Greg: I knew you wanted it to though.

Brad: Maybe. OK, I did. Get that smug look off your face.

Greg: Nope. This is staying on all night.

Brad: Good. The way this is going, it'll be the only thing that will be staying on.


Before Whose Line

Greg: Stand up. I still do it now, and I love it, but the only thing with it is that you are on your own. With improv, you've got people to support you if things go wrong. But with stand up, you're on your own, with some jokes you thought of, trying to make this audience laugh. With improv, the audience want to laugh.

Brad: I was actually Ryan's understudy at Second City! I was doing that for a while, and the show usually came round the established comedy groups and I managed to pass the audition, and do pretty well on my first show.

Greg: Well, Ryan mock vomited on you, and you flashed your ass at me on the first game. I thought it went pretty well!


Whose Line Is It Anyway? UK Version

Brad: Gave me my big break. Gave everybody on it their big break I suppose. But for me, it felt like a life changing opportunity. I was in Second City, but I wasn't a big headliner like Ryan and Colin were when they were in it. So Whose Line gave me that chance to show that I was good!

Greg: You are good! You're fantastic!

Brad: We're talking about improv.

Greg: You're good at that too.

Brad: I know.

Greg: Now who's smug? I was the first on Whose Line out of the semi regulars on the US version. My first show was on the second season I think. Yeah, I was on the first episode of the second season. They kept me on for the banter with Clive. Someone once told me that it was funnier than the actual scene sometimes.

Brad: It was funny. They're both intelligent guys, so they would always find things to argue about.

Greg: We didn't argue. We discussed.

Brad: Argued. It made him furious sometimes, which was infinitely good in the bedroom.


Whose Line Is It Anyway? US Version

Brad: I think I preferred doing the UK to be honest, simply for the censors. You could swear and get away with it, which was good for Greg and Ryan too, and you could do more ugly stuff which was good for me. Then again, the US version was more slapstick whereas the UK version were more about witty stuff I think. I prefer the slapstick stuff, you know, getting the quick, dirty laugh.

Greg: Yeah, the UK version for more about wit and how good you were, which I preferred. Drew was a good host as well, but I could never banter with him like I did with Clive. But you could make fun of Drew, and he would just take it whereas Clive would argue back which could slow things up slightly.

Brad: I think the point that was worst for us was the fact that we hardly worked together on it though. Cos they had Ryan, Colin and Wayne as the regulars and then a rotating fourth seat. So we hardly worked together on it at all. I think for the first couple of seasons we did a couple of times, but when Wayne was secured as the third seat, we didn't at all.

Greg: Yeah, I hated that. Because I was married at the time, and Brad had a girlfriend too. Which I never understood really.

Brad: Family pressures mostly. I thought that we could do the same as Ryan and Colin you know? Have the illusion of family men but it was you that I really loved. Looking back, I'm still not sure why I did it.

Greg: You're forgiven. I love it when you get all embarrassed and shy.

Brad: I'm not embarrassed!

Greg: You are. He is. But it gave us the chance to be together away from prying eyes. Mainly my wife.


Green Screen Show

Greg: It was good for us actually, because we actually got a chance to work together again. It was a lot easier on us.

Brad: Yeah, definitely. When we were doing Whose Line, the excuse of 'I'm just going to see them perform.' only works a couple of times. But when we worked together, we were away from the women, so it gave us the chance to continue our relationship without it raising too many eyebrows. The guys who worked on it knew what was going on, so we were never questioned.

Greg: You always hid when my wife came round though.

Brad: Yeah. I could never face her knowing that I wanted to steal you from her. I felt so much guilt the one time that I met her, that I couldn't face her again.

Greg: Aww, I feel bad now for putting you through that.

Brad: You see? Under all the cynicism and sarcasm, Greg actually has a soft side.

Greg: Though it's usually hard for Brad though.

Brad: Not a physical part honey.

Greg: Oops!


Touring

Brad: The Colin and Brad show! I absolutely adore touring with Colin. I was a bit scared at first, cos there was always rumours going around that without Ryan, Colin kind of withdrew into this shell of shyness, but it was really the opposite. He was, and is, brilliant and willing to put up with some of my more childish suggestions. But it was definitely weird the way we split up to tour.

Greg: It was! I toured with Ryan, and you toured with Colin. But it was good touring with Ryan, cos I've known him for a long time, so we felt comfortable touring together. But there was those nights that we sit, get drunk and moan about missing Brad and Colin.

Brad: Me and Colin were the same, so a couple of times, we booked venues near to where they were performing, or the same venues the day before so we would be around the same time they were. And those times were so good.

Greg: After being apart for so long, when we finally did see each other, we always booked a room with very solid walls. And double glazed windows.


Improv All Stars

Greg: Again, the perfect excuse for us to be together without it raising suspicion.

Brad: Yeah. It was fun to do actually, because nearly all of the people who had been on Whose Line were there, including a few who hadn't. So it was Whose Line, but with more people and a different name.

Greg: It was probably during those gigs that we all realised how much we missed each other. Some more than others for obvious reasons. Ryan and Colin would be the ones who wouldn't say a word to anyone else, just disappear off to their room for hours on end. Being apart was definitely the hardest on them because they had been together so long. Not that it was any easier for us. We've been together, what, nearly fifteen years? Fuck.

Brad: I know. Time just seems to fly when you're having fun. We would try and keep each other happy when we were apart. Greg likes to send saucy texts when actually helped in more ways than one in the end.


Coming Out

Brad: An awkward day, as I remember. I got married not long before actually.

Greg: Remind us of your side.

Brad: Bastard. (A smug look from Greg.) Smug bastard. Well, the wife actually found a text from said smug bastard. A particularly filthy text in which Greg detailed exactly what he was going to do to me when we next met, which was in a couple of days time. He would always send the filthy ones when we were close to meeting up. Anyway, she read it, confronted me, and I just said that it was true. I could've played it off as a joke but I just didn't want to anymore. I had been hiding it for fifteen years. God knows how Ryan and Colin managed to hide it for about ten years more than us.

Greg: Great skill I think. They've always been close, so people didn't think too much of it.

Brad: Probably yeah. Anyway, I moved into a hotel with one bag full of clothes, and then you came round after I told you what happened.

Greg: That phone call. I swear my heart stopped. Jen asked me why I was leaving, and when I told her, the edited version carefully excluding because of who you were now living in a hotel, I drove over. That night, well morning, we talked and decided that we might as well come out. Shauna wasn't going to keep it quiet, so I thought it best that Jen found out from me rather than somebody else. So the next day, I drove back and had the hardest conversation of my life. Like, ever.

Brad: He turns up at my hotel room about twelve hours later, carrying two suitcases. We've been living together ever since!

Greg: Extract the leaving the wives from that story, it almost sounds like a fairytale.

Brad: Oh, my hero.

Greg: Sarcasm noted there.


Regrets

Brad: Probably the same as Ryan, Colin and Chip. I would've come out earlier, not married Shauna. I did love her, and I still do, and I hated that I had to hurt her. But I'm glad it's done. I'm just so happy with Greg!

Greg: Aw, you're so sweet! Well, since I was already married to Jen, it couldn't be helped. I wish I had met Brad earlier, than I could've maybe avoided hurting her. To be honest, she was glad that it wasn't another woman!

Brad: Yeah. Shauna told me that she thought maybe I was sleeping with Colin!

Greg: Ha ha, no way! Colin's obviously in love with Ryan anyway, and Ryan's got a possessive streak the size of Washington. I would've maybe asked for more shows on Whose Line, preferably working with Brad of course. But I loved that show. I was pissed when it ended.

Brad: We all were. I was actually scared of Drew that day, I thought he was gonna hire assassins to kill the ABC executives or something!

Greg: He was definitely more angry than any of us. But I suppose, thanks to that show, I've met my soul mate. I can get him on the phone if you want.

Brad: You really are a bastard.

Greg: I'm also a fucker. Wanna find out why?

Brad: I find out everyday. But that had to be the worst chat up line ever.

Greg: I'm not chatting you up, I'm seducing you.

Brad: It's so unromantic.

Greg: Wait til we get home, I'll show you romantic.

Brad: Goodie!