Quote Originally Posted by Yerushalmi View Post
Jumping in a bit late on the Drew vs. Clive debate:

Drew was awful as host. His "the points don't matter" each episode completely ruined the joke about giving out points, and whereas Clive often made game-relevant jokes on the amount of points ("very well done guessing all the party quirks within thirty seconds, you get a whole... two points"), Drew always gave "1000 points to everyone".

Drew was also absolutely terrible at the games. Have you ever seen him play alphabet? He never bothers to keep up the conversation, he just thinks up a random word that starts with the letter and shouts it, then fills in the rest of the sentence. "B... uh... baboons! Look at the baboons over there!" And then there's the famous Irish Drinking Song that Drew completely ruined at the very start (I love the accusatory "what the hell were you trying to say?" look on Ryan's face when he rhymes Drew's gibberish with his own - it's so hilarious) - and he even continues to spout completely irrelevant trout when the others actually try to return to the story.

Drew's only value was as a professional presenter, which he is, and as the butt of everyone else's jokes, which he was very good at being. But he is completely unsuited for improv.
I didn't notice a Drew vs. Clive debate in this thread. The context was Drew vs. the new girl, Aisha Tyler. Drew was good for the show for the exact reason you mentioned, he's easy to pick on. All in good fun. No, he's no improvisationist, and his attempts on the show were groan-worthy, but Tyler might be bad at both. I guess we'll see.