De Lama's

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De Lama's
Format	Improvisational comedy
Created by	Dan Patterson Mark Leveson
Starring	Patrick Lodiers Ruben Nicolai Ruben van der Meer Tijl Beckand Jeroen van Koningsbrugge
Country of origin	Netherlands
No. of episodes	50 (as of September 28, 2007)
Production
Running time	35 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BNN Nederland 2 Nederland 3
Original airing	June 28, 2004

De Lama's (translation: The Llamas) is a Dutch television show made by BNN and first aired on 26 June 2004. It is based on the Channel 4 show Whose Line is it Anyway?.

Patrick Lodiers hosts the show, which contains both well-known and more obscure elements of theatresports. The most important of these is improvisation.

De Lama's consist of the following comedians: Ruben Nicolai, Tijl Beckand, Ruben van der Meer and Jeroen van Koningsbrugge. Jandino Asporaat, Ad-Just Bouwman, Sara Kroos, Arie Koomen, Kristel Zweers and Martijn Oosterhuis are ex-Lama's. Other than in the British and American series, every episode of De Lama's features a Guest Llama (Gast Lama), a well-known Dutch (or Belgian) person who offers suggestions for games and always joins the regulars for one or two games at the end.

At the end of 2006, regulars Sara Kroos and Arie Koomen left the show (the latter later returned for a single episode), leaving it with only three regular performers. To help alleviate this problem, broadcaster BNN organised a televised competition, Lama Gezocht, in order to find a new performer to round out the team. Ad-Just Bouwman eventually won this competition, and joined the Llamas. He, however, is no longer part of the troupe, reportedly because his artistic style didn't fit in with the other Llamas. Another recently 'llamafied' performer, Jandino Asporaat, left at around the same time to focus on his own theatre production, although rumour has it that his style clashed with the remaining three members as well. Jeroen van Koningsbrugge is the only new member to remain with the Llamas until this day.

In 2006, the show won the Gouden Televizier-ring, a prestigious Dutch television award for the year's most popular program on tv as chosen by the audience. It was the first show broadcast by BNN (founded in 1997) to win the 'ring'.

On the 4th of April 2008 The Llama's announced on a Fan day that they are going to quit with the TV-show and the theatre tour. There is going to be one more season on TV and they planned a goodbye tour through The Netherlands (and Belgium).

[edit] Original games

Diashow (Slideshow)
De dierenwinkel (The petshop)
De doventolk (The interpreter for the hearing impaired)
Slechtste slogans (Worst slogans)
De laatste minuut van (The last minute of)
Roetsjbaan (The Big Dipper)
De gehandicaptenscène (Variant of Change Letter, in this game, one letter cannot be used)
Eerste zin, laatste zin (First sentence, last sentence)
Het moordspel (The murder game)
Op en af met een woord (On and off with a word)
Verboden te lachen (No laughing)
De draaideur (The Revolving Door)
De scène met de zoemer (The scene with the buzzer)
Terugspoelen (Rewind)
De gedachtenscène (The thought scene)
Wereldvisie Songfestival (Worldvision Song Contest)
De Jabber (The Jabber)
Wereldkampioenschap in slowmotion (World Champion Ship in slowmotion)
Bedscène (Bedscene)
De specialist (the specialist)
Interview achteruit (reverted interview)