Whose Line Is It Anyway?

"Where everything's made up and the points don't matter."

If you've never seen or even heard of this show, I pity your very existence greatly. It is seriously one of the funniest things I have ever come across in my entire life! I go and watch clips of it on YouTube just to cheer myself up.

(Left to right) Brad Sherwood, Drew Carey, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady

It's an improv show. It's got a host and four performers with a live audience. The four performers play a bunch of different games, making up everything off the top of their heads. Some of the games include Scenes From a Hat (where suggestions/scenarios are pulled from a hat [ex: improper etiquette while meeting the queen, things bald people are tired of hearing, rejected state slogans, hillbilly fortune cookies, etc] and the performers act it out), Hoedown (where each performer has to make up a verse to a song), Let's Make a Date (when a performer is on a bachelor-type show where the others are contestants, and has to guess what each of the other performers are supposed to be [ex: a serenader who sings insulting songs, someone who is in love with shoes, a pick-pocket on Mission Impossible), Questions Only (where the performers act out a scene, but can only speak in questions), and many more.

The original aired show had host Drew Carey (he has a very contagious laugh, I'll tell ya). I kind of liked him better than the reboot's host, Aisha Tyler. I liked his banter with the performers. The regular performers include Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles. There was always a changing cast member sometimes a celebrity or other semi-regulars which included Brad Sherwood, Greg Proops, Chip Esten, or Kathy Greenwood.

The regular three are HA-larious! I can't pick a favorite. It's like picking a favorite child. Ryan and Colin are always paired together and it's too funny! I cannot even handle it. They have excellent chemistry.

I love all the running jokes. There's always stuff about Colin's baldness, Ryan's shoes, Drew's weight, Ryan's height, the Drew Carey Show, Wayne's skin tone, how Colin's always the woman, and Ryan's nose, to name a few.

Anyways, I've managed to pick out my top 11 favorite sketches. That's right, top 11. That's all I could narrow it down to. I can't pick a top 10, not a top 5, and most certainly not a favorite.

(Don't worry, they always explain the game before they start. And you'll catch on.)

GAME: Sound Effects
Situation: Ryan is the husband and Colin is his heavily pregnant wife. They are at an amusement park when Colin suddenly goes into labor.

I'm totally laughing the whole time, but I just lose it when Colin pushes the baby back in to climb down the roller coaster. "Put your pants back on. People are screaming at you with a baby hanging out of you like that." 

GAME: Hollywood Director

Situation: Ryan is a criminal breaking rocks in a prison yard, Chip is the tough prison warden who decides to frisk him because he suspects he's concealing a concealed weapon. Then Wayne flies in on a helicopter to help Ryan escape. Colin is the director giving them notes on how to improve the scene.

"Fu-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh". And the stomp!

GAME: Three-headed Broadway Star
Subject: The name of the "musical" is 'My Favorite Shoe' and the song is called 'You Got Sole'.

This one's such a train wreck, it's hilarious. The ones where they all break character just make me laugh harder.

GAME: Moving People
Situation: While tracking some dangerous outlaws, the Lone Ranger- Colin and Tonto- Ryan are ambushed by the outlaws.

"I imagine it's so beautiful over there." The suspense in this video is so great. Will he ever look away from that spot on the ground?

GAME: Stand Sit Lie

Situation: Wayne has talked her boyfriend, Colin into coming into Ryan's tattoo parlor.

When Colin faints XD "You want a barcode?"

GAME: Irish Drinking Song
Subject: Calling out the wrong name in bed

Again with the cracking up. This is a totally classic scene that you must see if you watch Whose Line. I know it seems like it might be inappropriate based on the subject, but it doesn't get very far before everything goes whacky. (In this episode, there was a running gag where Colin would always meow when he couldn't think of anything to say, making everybody else burst out laughing).

GAME: Three-headed Broadway Star
Subject: The name of the "musical" is 'Memorabilia' and the song is called 'I Lost My Legwarmers'.

Oh Colin. "You!" Then when Ryan does it, everyone is all confused XD

GAME: Narrate
Setting: A burger fast food joint

Colin was totally asking for that! (Did anyone else notice that Colin was drinking his fries?)

GAME: Sound Effects
Situation: Batman and Robin get the call that one of their archenemies is wrecking havoc on Gotham City.

This is SO classic. You can't watch Whose Line without watching this scene. "I sure wish those ghosts would leave."

GAME: Living Scenery

Situation: With special guest, Richard Simmons. On a luxury cruise liner, a couple makes the most of a day of sunbathing, water sports, and entertainment.

(This was seriously the best I could find. I'm so mad. At least it's something). I DIE every time I watch this. OMG, I cannot handle it! Their faces! And the audience totally losing it in the background. Poor Wayne. And Greg "I'm just so happy"XDD

GAME: Improbable Mission

Situation: Doing the laundry for the Meir of Moofungistan, washing his burnoose.

You have to skip to 10:52. This was seriously the only clip I could find for some reason. Which I don't get because this is another totally classic scene. The game is two secret agents are assigned a mundane task, but carry it out as though it were any other top secret mission.

"THE CAT!!!" Colin is just so random sometimes, but somehow it always works.