Authors
1988-present · UK / US
Also known as Narrator Styles, Author Styles
Two players improvise a scene as the host calls literary authors; players narrate and perform in each named author's prose style.
Known for
- A Whose Line UK staple — Tony Slattery doing Jackie Collins is a classic.
- Different from Film Styles: narration is first-person prose as the author would write it.
- Stephen King, Barbara Cartland, Dr. Seuss, Ernest Hemingway — the standard rotation.
- Rewards performers who actually read; punishes those who have to fake it.
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