History Series / DrewCareysImprovAGanza

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-->'''Drew''': (singing) "They're gonna pull your nose off - And put nails in your feet - Cos that's {{Transformers}}!"

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Colin playing Yahtzee in a game of ''Freeze'' looks like... [[ADateWithRosiePalms something else]].

** Audience member Wendy claimed to have grown up in a town called Forks - and ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' jokes were noticeably amiss. Similarly, the suggestion of "Kazakhstan" in "Options" led to Drew and Jonathan talking in an incomprehensible gibber rather than a ''Film/{{Borat}}'' impression.

* NamesTheSame:[[invoked]] By some cosmic coincidence, Ryan's pick of an audience member for "Song for a Lady" has a husband named Ryan.
--> '''Ryan''': "...You couldn't find me?... [[SarcasmMode Well, doesn't that make Ryan... feel good...]]"
** Even better, ep. 38 had Drew picking this bespectacled guy from the audience, ''also'' named Drew.''
--> '''Ryan''': "[[TakeThat Do all Drews have bad eyesight?]]"
** In one episode Chip managed to pluck both a Jeff and a Heather from the audience ''in the same game.''
*** Coincidentally, the cast members Jeff and Heather were both absent from the episode.
** There's been two different Michelles picked for "Song For a Lady".
** Greg pulled out a Greg out of the audience in one episode.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: one game of "Reverse" that started with the vague suggestion of "ancient history" led to Jonathan portraying a [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dinosaur-riding caveman.]]
** In a game of "Sentences" with Chip and Jeff, all it took was the word "velociraptor" [[MythologyGag to get Colin in on the action.]]

* CreativeClosingCredits: Opening rather than closing, but the cast members have [[CreditsBrandProducts their names on assorted signs, cards, game machines etc. throughout the resort.]] It's done alphabetically, so if you're alert, you can tell who will be featured. [[StealthPun Drew's face is quite appropriately on a Joker, as is Bob Derkach on the nametag of a dealer,]] but you'd think putting Chip's name on gambling chips would be an obvious one...

* {{Corpsing}}: Often.

* AerithAndBob: Ryan favors names like [[RunningGag Gary and Phil]]. Jeff prefers Tamberline and Amantha. Note that the latter is a corruption of [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Samantha]], which prompted Chip to take it UpToEleven with Tevan (Steven), Tan (Stan), and [[TheTriple Burnoose.]]

''Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza'' is currently cancelled, but Drew Carey still owns the rights to the show and another is being planned. Meanwhile, most of the old gang went to UsefulNotes/{{London}} and filmed a summer 2012 series for Creator/{{ABC}}, ''Series/TrustUsWithYourLife'', based on the "Day In The Life" improv game. In 2013, ''Whose Line?'' itself was revived with Ryan, Colin, and Wayne returning, but ''not'' Drew.

** On a musical game, Kathy Kinney and Jeff Davis jump from a plane, but only Jeff dies, because Kathy is pregnant with his child and ''[[InfantImmortality pregnant women don't die on TV]]''.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_L46YE_3o "What did I say to the judge I would do to get points? Albania."]]
** A bit hard to catch if you're not paying attention, but after Jonathan recites his [[PrecisionFStrike handcuffs poem]], when Chip changes the genre back to horror Jonathan can be seen giving Drew the [[http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Gesture#Italian_elbow_gesture.2A Italian elbow gesture]] repeatedly.
** Mostly visual, but still:
-->'''Colin''': ([[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything shaking gesture]]) YAHTZEE!
-->'''Jeff''': (breaking character) Oh, thank God, I thought you were doing something completely different.

** Used in episode 11's "Two-Headed Expert" (see above for link) twice when "Jorge" wanted to make an escape.

** At the end of the game "Two Headed Expert" at the Eiffel Tower, Chip and Jonathan escape Drew and Heather using this move.

* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Used in episode 11's "Two-Headed Expert" (see above for link) twice when "Jorge" wanted to make an escape.
-->'''Chip/Jonathan''': Look! It's... uh, Puff Daddy!

* LookBehindYou: At the end of the game "Two Headed Expert" at the Eiffel Tower, Chip and Jonathan escape Drew and Heather using this move.

An improv comedy show hosted by comedian Creator/DrewCarey, the show is a gathering of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' veterans and fresh faces, as well as new guest stars. The format has changed somewhat, as Carey is not the solitary host and others take turns explaining the games. The setting is at the MGM Grand theatre in UsefulNotes/LasVegas instead of a sound stage in UsefulNotes/{{Hollywood}}, which gives it more of a traditional stage improv feel.

* {{Earworm}}: "Flap My Jack". It's improvised, ''fast'', harmonized by Chip after hearing the chorus only once, and the ''[[CrowdSong entire audience starts singing along]]''.
-->''Flippity-flap, flippity-flap''\\
''Put the pancake on the stack''\\
''Everybody flap my jack!''

** Jonathan briefly became this [[http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/freeze-left-hand-red during one game of Freeze Tag]] when he humiliated himself with a seal rendition of Flight of the Bumblebees. The others then spent the rest of the game making him the butt of as many jokes as they could, including mocking his jacket, smacking him, and feeling him up.

--> '''Drew/Jonathan''': (alternating) "I am sure [Cancun] is one word too... BIATCH!"

--> '''Drew''': Shall we operate?\\
'''Jonathan''': Yes, the operation area is over here... ''(needs one more word)'' Biatch.
*** Jonathan has mentioned on his Twitter that he doesn't think he's allowed to say "biatch" anymore.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Bob Derkach often flavors up the non-musical games much like Richard Vranch used to.
** The "suspiciously" bit gets played up in one session of "Sound Effects", when [[http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/sound-effects-surprise-party Greg opening a drawer]] [[PornStash somehow makes a porn groove.]]

* NationalStereotypes: In a game of "Two Headed Expert", Chip and Jonathan as an expert on the Eiffel Tower accidentally out themselves as Spanish, then try to pass for French by claiming that the Premier of France is JerryLewis.

'''Ryan''': "[[RealitySubtext Thanks for reminding me I'm out of a job.]]"[[note]]Except it's just been confirmed they're merely adding Creator/AshtonKutcher to the cast and not cancelling ''TwoAndAHalfMen'' now.[[/note]]

** For some reason, they decided it was a good idea to put a microphone into the hand of a post-''TwoAndAHalfMen'' Creator/CharlieSheen.

An improv comedy show hosted by comedian Drew Carey, the show is a gathering of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' veterans and fresh faces, as well as new guest stars. The format has changed somewhat, as Carey is not the solitary host and others take turns explaining the games. The setting is at the MGM Grand theatre in UsefulNotes/LasVegas instead of a sound stage in UsefulNotes/{{Hollywood}}, which gives it more of a traditional stage improv feel.

* ChekhovsSkill: Apparently, Drew can ''[[SoCoolItsAwesome break dance]]''.

* [[CreativeClosingCredits Creative Opening Credits]]: The cast members have [[CreditsBrandProducts their names on assorted signs, cards, game machines etc. throughout the resort.]] It's done alphabetically, so if you're alert, you can tell who will be featured. [[StealthPun Drew's face is quite appropriately on a Joker, as is Bob Derkach on the nametag of a dealer,]] but you'd think putting Chip's name on gambling chips would be an obvious one...

-->'''Drew''': "I wouldn't call it 'drugging you' ''per se''... I would call it... ''preparing'' you..."\\
'''Jeff''': "New choice."\\
'''Drew''': "I would call it... getting you ''ready''..."\\
'''Jeff''': "New choice."\\
'''Drew''': "I would call it... ''making you amiable''..."\\
'''Jeff''': "''Less creepy choice!''"