The first thing I noticed during my trip to National Comedy Theatre was that the review they posted on a flyer on their door proudly states: "It's kind of like Whose Line Is It Anyway." But soon after your experience during the first half of the show, you realize that that National Comedy Theatre is much better than Whose Line Is It Anyway.

All of the ideas for NCT's skits come from suggestions called out by the audience. At first this prospect frightened me a great deal. A terrifying question came to mind: What if we turn a show with such great potential into something terrible? I then began to search the crowd for potential threats to the show (i.e. drunken idiots), but then I was pleasantly surprised when the first audience-based skit was really funny. Throughout the entire show, the skits remained refreshing and outrageous.

Other than the huge amount of audience participation, NCT has another great thing to offer: Its performers have an amazing range in the roles they can play, which is really saying something if you're doing improvisation, just making improv work as one character is hard enough, but try it with five.

I should also point out that this show is a competition between a blue team and a red team. So the team that wins each event is up to...yep you guess it, the audience. At the beginning of each event a referee asks the team captain which event they want their teams to do. Once that skit end, the other team does a skit of their own. Where is the audience participation in this? Well, not only do the skits revolve around audience suggestions, but at the end of both skits the team that gets the most applause wins.

Due to the wide range of the actors' abilities, the large amount of audience participation, and the outrageous skits that are result from the combination of the two -- I think that Whose Line Is It Anyway's trailers should include a clip saying: "It's kind of like National Comedy Theatre."