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Awesome moments in Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK version

• Stephen Fry (yes, that one) has a very unique way of playing Number of Words (normally one of the harder games) here. You even see him counting off on his fingers a few times.
  Fry: I'm going to count... to six.
  • "Well, I'm sorry, but it gets." (Beat) "My goat to hear her talking."
• A game of Expert (obviously from the show's early years) had "taxidermist" as the suggestion for what Ryan was an expert on. Greg is then faced with the task of interviewing an unresponsive Ryan, who spends the entire game ''completely motionless" and staring fixedly at the camera. He doesn't flinch. He doesn't blink. He never once cracked a smile until the buzzer sounded. Even on repeat viewings, it's a mesmerizing, awesome performance.
• An early game of Song Styles for John Sessions, where he's tasked to sing about a television set In the Style of folk music. Richard Vranch, for all his musical talents, isn't equipped to play a folk song, so with barely a moment's hesitation, John does it a capella. The result is unfiltered John Sessions; a cynical, stream-of-consciousness ramble of a song that's probably his best single performance on the show. Say what you want about John, but the man had talent.
• See the Josie Lawrence "faux-Albanian" clip. That was Jim's very first time on the show, where he got the idea to follow the trend of taking potshots at Josie. And he pulled it off.
  "Sheep come in lots of different sizes. Little, middle and big. I like stroking the big ones... Some of those sheep play really hard-to-get..."
• Caroline Quentin's Song Styles duet with Josie, from the incredible pipes she unleashed to Colin and Ryan's standing ovation. To think the song was supposed to be about a beached whale.
  • Quentin's Hoedown verse about being stood up also deserves a mention. She does it with an authentic country twang and it took her all of fifteen seconds to come up with the verse as she was the first performer.
• On the last season of the British version of the show, Colin makes an awesome crack at Clive in World's Worst.
  "I'm Clive Anderson and I used to have no neck. But with new Neck Insert...Look! (rotates neck to the left and right)"
• In one of his first British appearances, Ryan is chosen to be the host of Party Quirks. He immediately guesses every quirk mere seconds after the guest walks in the door, and never has to be the host ever again.
• An odd place to get a MOA, but in a game of Hey You Down There about learning to pilot an aircraft, there's a part of the scene where Colin slices his hand off, and Ryan... uh, hands it back to him. There's something about how Ryan uses his own hand for a prop that looks quick, seamless and fluid. It's a small moment, but it's brilliant.
• The game of Props where Steve Frost has the nerve to make a bald joke about Colin (as if Steve Frost is one to talk), and Colin responds with one of the most savage burns of the entire UK series. See here.
• The game of "That'll Be Charlie Now", 3 contestants describe their weird friend Charlie and the 4th then arrives and acts out all the strange quirks they have given him.
  Josie Lawrence: So, is Charlie still grabbing men by the nipples?
  Tony Slattery: (quick as a flash) Yes and women too now I hear?
  • Josie spends the rest of the sketch with her arms folded over her breasts.

First US version

• Fans knew almost immediately upon the show debuting in America that Wayne Brady was going to be something special. Perhaps the moment that cinched it was this Greatest Hits playing, "Songs Of The Bus Driver," where he not only crushes a Michael Jackson impression just as a warm-up, but, inspired by Ryan, he proceeds to do a country & western song with sound effects instead of any actual lyrics. And then makes a "bring it on!" motion to Ryan and Colin over the audience applause. That's the kind of chutzpah that made him a series regular as soon as possible.
• There were a couple of episodes where Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg as special guest. She had Questions Only down pat, lasting almost the entire game, until Colin finally went the distance with her, and she admits defeat by kissing him. An awesome moment for Whoopi and Colin.
• One of Colin's best must have been during the "Going Bald" hoedown, after both Drew Carey and Brad Sherwood had riffed on Colin's distinct lack of hair. The look on his face as he is about to deliver it just cements it:
  Colin: People always kid me 'cause I'm losing all my hair / I can't really help it that I'm follically impaired! / It really is quite horrible, but my life is not through / I still get way more sex than either Brad or Drew!^note Colin is married. Brad and Drew were not at the time. [crowd goes BALLISTIC]
• During a questions only about the wild west, Ryan seems to have cornered Colin, but he flips it right back at him
  Ryan: You ready to draw?
  Colin: …draw what?
• This Newsflash game is widely considered the show's single funniest game and the most awesome and heartwarming for Mochrie, if only for the line:
  Colin: It all started with a badly-timed bald joke!
  • Which ironically makes it the best timed bald joke ever. Also, you can calculate to the second where it dawns on him that it's a montage of him from earlier episodes.
• "We're watching animal porn!" Colin says something stupid, realizes how stupid it was, and delivers a spectacular punchline to his own stupid statement... all in less than seven seconds.
  • Best part, Colin is so professional and so good at keeping a straight face (while Colin often gets Ryan to crack, Colin himself almost never breaks) that after the punch line, he consciously avoided looking at Ryan in order to help himself keep a straight face and didn't loosen up until Ryan broke character, signaling the scene was temporarily over.
• And from that same episode, we have Wayne and Jeff performing a jaw-dropping operatic song about motorcycles. It has to be seen to be believed.
• Considering the unscripted nature of this show, a few Moments stem from the genuine unplanned accidents that take place. Special mention must be made here of Ryan Stiles, who accidentally shattered the neon light on Drew's desk with his head, and refused to break character until the scene had ended. Less damaging but equally Awesome 'accidents' include:
  • Colin turning around an impossible rhyme in Irish Drinking Song (Slept With An Ugly Woman), ending the song with an apparently random, but horribly sexist and yet fitting line. 'She looked like someone had beat her'...
  • Wayne and Chip are tasked with making up a Police song, and somehow both men get the idea to mimic early Sting's signature 'Eeee-yoooh!' at the exact same moment.
  • At the end of one Newsflash game. Involving footage of numerous rats, Drew admits that he didn't get Ryan's reference to the early Michael Jackson song "Ben", upon which Ryan and Colin start singing one line of the song. Again, at the exact same time. Crosses into Heartwarming Moments in a way.
  • In one Film Dub game, Wayne makes the assumption that one person in the film is about to get violent. It pays off.
    • Even better, this follows a line from Ryan suggesting that the characters' outfits make them look gay. Right after he says it the other characters take off their suit jackets.
  • In this classic Song Styles segment, Wayne sang to Samantha, a beautiful aerobics instructor, in the style of Riverdance (Irish step-dancing). Wayne was suitably impressed to find out that Samantha actually could step-dance (and kept in step with him perfectly without even looking down at her feet). He gave her a standing ovation afterwards.
    Wayne: Well, she'll get busy and dance
    I thought that there was my chance
    But let then me tell you, all don't you see, I didn't know she could actually riverdance!
  • When she returns to her seat Drew asks her male companion if she's his girlfriend and gives him an enthusiastic thumbs up when he replies that she's his fiancee.
• A not-as-accidental one: Ryan, Wayne and Chip find out during one Hollywood Director game that the Stomp style of musicals actually fit perfectly into the show's improvised format. The fact that the whole audience is clapping along by the end says it all.
• In a similar vein, this Sound Effects involves Colin as a monk who sneaks out of a monastery for a night on the town, so Ryan sort-of-beatboxes a club theme with Gregorian chanting thrown in. It works.
• And of course the infamous Y.M.C.A parody where Wayne and the others sing to a crowd member named "Howard". After Laura Hall mistakenly presses the wrong button on her keyboard, the song suddenly speeds up out of nowhere, so the whole cast goes all-out trying to keep up.
  • And in the same game, Wayne manages to misspell Howard ("H-O-R-W-A-R-D!"). Throw in Howard's profession (designing closures for hazardous waste sites), Howard's enthusiasm and lack of rhythm, and the silly hats, and you have a perfect storm of hilarity.
• The Newsflash game is known for its use of increasingly obscure footage that most people wouldn't even believe existed - yet Colin has not only guessed very closely each time, but in one case, gave the movie's exact name.
  "Oh, it's so horrible!... right here, in the Valley!... of... the Gwangi!"
• Chip's killer Snagglepuss impression during a Weird Newscasters, finishing by running off and leaving his stool rocking just like in a Hanna Barbera cartoon. It's pretty much impossible to tell if that was deliberate. The only way it could have been better is if he actually got Colin to crack up afterwards; as it is he still needs a few seconds to regain his composure, something he's usually doing to everyone else.
• Awesome for Wayne and for the show's musicians - watch the back and forth between Wayne (singing in the style of Louis Armstrong) and the trumpet player here. It helps that Wayne's Louis Armstrong is one of the best impressions in his arsenal, which, considering this is Wayne Brady we're talking about, is saying a lot. A career-high performance for him.
• One round of Weird Newscasters had Chip, as a gameshow announcer, inadvertently sabotaging Colin's Theme Naming shtick by calling out his actual name. It doesn't stop him.
  "Iiiiiiintroducing COOOOLIIIIINN!!!!"
  (Beat) "...Welcome to the 6 o'clock news, I'm Colin Themarines."
  • And later on in the same game, he manages to make this legendary gag:
    "This just in - Beverly Hills, 90210... Cleveland Browns 3."
    [camera cuts to Drew, who nearly has a Spit Take at the joke]
• After the director stops a sketch from being about Hitler, all the performers run with it for the rest of the show, sneaking references to Hitler into almost every sketch to make absolutely sure they're forced to air it. Drew gets into the act by keeping a list of all the things it's apparently more okay to make fun of than Hitler.
  • Apparently the list includes Native Americans and bouncing boobs.
    • Video here - the "up yours" to the director at the end is great - especially if you know Ryan's history with Hoedown.
• The crowner for Colin could have been that one game of Greatest Hits where he joined in on all of the dancing.
  • Seen here. Impressively, he keeps up with Wayne.
• Ryan said that his best time on the show was the game of Dubbing when he gave a passionate kiss to Florence Henderson.
  • Speaking of, Florence's whole appearance belongs here. She makes lewd gestures in Dubbing, has a passionate kiss with Ryan and Colin, continues to make a complete mockery of her prim & proper TV mom image in Helping Hands, and does it all with a wicked grin on her face. Her love of poking fun at her own image puts her among the best guest stars ever.
• Sid Caesar's guest appearance. It's great to pay tribute to a comedy legend, but when he came on stage, he looked a little worse for wear. Then he breaks out into the greatest round of Foreign Film Dub the show has ever seen.
• Brad finds words that rhyme with the name Naroshi, resulting in a fan favorite Song Styles, and proof of what Brad is capable of without Wayne (who wasn't a series regular yet). Even funnier when Drew jokingly dares Brad "try rhyming that!" To say that he does is a vast understatement. Bonus awesome points for actually making Ryan crack up laughing.
• Wayne working the word pachyderm into a song.
• One game of Greatest Hits featured Wayne and Josie having to sing in the style of GILBERT AND SULLIVAN. But really, all of the songs are just awesome.
• From another Greatest Hits playing, the incredible rendition of opera song "The Harley of Seville."
• Colin Mochrie is Captain Hair!
• Wayne's absurdly high note at the end of this game of Greatest Hits.
• Once when Wayne, Ryan, and Chip were playing Motown Group: Wayne and Chip turned in their usual brilliant musical performances; Ryan, who's usually so-so at the musical games, busts out w/ a phenomenal bass verse, stealing the scene from Wayne and Chip.
• Stephen Colbert's appearance. He was hilarious throughout but his CMOA was probably Foreign Film. The fake language was German and since Colbert actually speaks German every line he said was an actual German phrase including a line from one of Hitler's speeches ("Heute Deutschland, morgen die Welt!"/"Today Germany, tomorrow the world!").
• A nice pair of zingers between Colin and Wayne during a game of World's Worst TV Advertisements.
  Wayne: Order Colin Mochrie's guide to dialects in different countries! You get French, "HALLO!", Spanish, "HALLO!", Indonesian, "HALLO!"
  Colin: The Wayne Brady surfboard - with a bump big enough to sit on!
• The episode with Robin Williams as a whole. Awesome for Robin because he fit the show's format like a glove, and awesome for Ryan, Wayne and Colin because they managed to hold their own with Robin Williams, one of the most manic improvisers that ever lived. Colin has even said in interviews that as opposed to overwhelming the show (as Robin Williams was an infamous Motor Mouth and Large Ham), he found Robin actually brought out the best in the whole cast.
  • Watch Robin's interactions with Colin — multiple times during the show, Colin says something that completely throws him, and the face he makes is priceless. When Robin Williams is taken aback by you, that's an achievement.
  • This episode's game of Scenes From A Hat is often considered the best ever played, which is saying a lot considering what a mainstay that game has been over the years.
• One episode ended with Drew participating in a World's Worst "priest or rabbi"; his impression of Jerry Lewis as a rabbi practically brought down the house.
• Denny Siegel makes the best Let's Make A Date guess of all time. You know you've scored one when you can get a reaction from Colin AND Ryan.
  Denny (guessing Wayne, who's actually Jar Jar Binks): Wait a minute, bachelor number one, are you dating Woody Allen?
  [Drew, Ryan and Colin completely lose their shit, audience OOOHs]
  Drew: No, but that's a great guess, though.
• For Kathy Greenwood:
  Drew: (reading) "Things You Can See From The Moon Other Than The Great Wall of China."
  Kathy: Hey look, those are Ryan's shoes!
  • One round of Song Styles has her effectively humping Colin and Wayne in the chest - and Wayne loves it!
    Drew: I gotta say Kathy Greenwood, that was some of your best work!
  • She actually got a playing of Party Quirks completely right. Because it's a special occasion for Kathy, Drew gives her 3000 points.
• The game of Party Quirks where Colin is obsessed with confirming everyone's gender. His total commitment to this role sells it. Definitely Crosses the Line Twice.
• During a game of Props, Ryan and Drew are horsing around with horseshoe-shaped pink foam pads. Drew doesn't miss the chance for comedic gold and has Ryan play the appropriately shaped tall and skinny pole while Drew flings his "horseshoes" at him with granny-style tosses. Drew misses the first toss miserably. Not expecting to nail the second, he chucks it at Ryan's head... and gets it hooked around his neck. Cue cheering from the amazed crowd, Ryan smiling with utter humility (his expression says, "I can't believe he actually did it - and now I look like a fool again"), and a priceless look of sheer astonishment and happiness on Drew's face as he celebrates with a victory dance.
• After Richard Simmons has some fun in Living Scenery, his insane, over-the-top antics have Ryan and Wayne laughing their asses off, Greg can barely contain himself from his seat, Colin, the hardest to crack out of the guys, has completely lost his composure, Drew's in tears from laughing so hard, and everyone in the studio audience is thrashing wildly with the greatest laughter ever triggered in one single show, something so rare and unprecedented it may very well be THE funniest episode Whose Line ever spawned during the course of the whole series.
  Kinley Mochrie: That man (referring to her father, Colin) did things with Richard Simmons that no one else would do!
• Drew's comeback to a fat joke Ryan makes at the beginning of this video
  Drew: A lot of people forget that on The Drew Carey Show, Ryan and I have been totally naked.
  Ryan: Of course, some of us needed a wide angle lens.
  Drew: And some of us needed a zoom.
• Ryan's incredibly moving (as well as hysterical) monologue during a game of Weird Newscasters, in which he plays a demanding temperamental Hollywood actor trying to give an Oscar winning performance. Given the standing ovation he got from both the audience and other performers, he succeeded big time.
  • Made even better when accompanied by sad violin.
• This game of African Chant sung to Julia, a dance instructor who definitely stole the show when she started leading the performers with dance.
• During one episode, when Drew announced Colin, Ryan, and Wayne for the next game, the audience cheered even louder than ever, to the point where the three ended up giving a bow before the game even began!
• Colin as Disco Boy in this game of Superheroes. His dance moves were surprisingly swift, and the entire room roared in thunderous applause (Drew even gave him a standing ovation).
• The Greatest Hits about taxi drivers had three great songs: "I Can't Pronounce the Driver's Name" (in the style of disco), "I Think We're Goin' Around in Circles" (in the style of Elvis), and "Your Air Freshener Smells Like Crap" (in the style of heavy metal). Jeff and Wayne had amazing singing chemistry.
  • This is from Jeff's very first episode, and his utter confidence, inspired performances, and boyish charm and good looks made him an instant sensation in the fandom, marking one of the best debuts in Whose Line history. He was an indispensable part of the unit from then on, through Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and Drew Careys Improvaganza right through Aisha Tyler's version.
• Brad does a fantastic impression of Fred Schneider from The B-52s, and always gets an enthusiastic audience response. In the first instance he did this (in the Greatest Hits about ant farmers), the audience applauded/cheered after he had only sang two words.
• Let's face it: we would buy absolutely anything if only it was advertised by Colin and Ryan.
• In general: The cast famously hated Hoedown. But Drew loved it and kicked ass at it. A game that was loathed by a collection of some of the world's best improv comedians for being so dang difficult, and the host, not a trained improv performer, was the best at it.
  • In one particular Hoedown, Ryan actually couldn’t come up with anything and essentially bowed out of the game. Drew, who had already given his own verse, came up with a second one and performed it from behind Ryan while he tried his best to mouth along.
    • Even better — this episode came from the taping where Ryan compared Drew to the bottom of the evolutionary pole, so Drew bailing him out is great payback. Chip and Colin come over to shake Drew's hand while Ryan slinks back to his chair in (good-natured) defeat.
  • This hoedown, of the rare Ryan-less variety, is perhaps the crowning achievement, with all of the performers firing on all cylinders and Chip giving the absolutely perfect final line.
• In one Let's Make a Date, Wayne is an "Excited teenage girl who decides she can't play the game without bringing her best friends on stage to do it with her" who brings an audience member Carol up with him. Unlike most audience members who let the cast play it out or get embarrassed, she actively plays along with Wayne. At the end of the game Drew praises her and jokes that she has some contracts to sign so she can appear on more episodes.
• In episode 233 while playing the game Greatest Hits the topic was wrestling. Ryan gave Wayne and Brad, Italian Love songs as the song style in attempt to stump them. Wayne and Brad proceed to do so well the audience gives a standing ovation. Ladies and gentleman, I give you the hit song "Pile Driver of Love."
• This particular "Questions Only," with the theme "Frankenstein's Castle." Everyone is just really on their game and it flows remarkably well. It's basically Whose Line meets Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• This season 7 playing of Foreign Film Dub, one of the best ever played. From Colin making a non-translation just for fun and cracking Drew up for a good ten seconds, to Drew forcing Ryan to tell a whole joke that includes the word "complimentary." And Ryan pulls it off, quick as a flash!
  • As a side note, Kathy doesn't get enough credit for her skill at faking languages; her Ukranian gibberish is spot-on.
• In the Greatest Hits game, Ryan and especially Colin have a lengthy history of trying their best to give difficult styles of songs for Wayne to sing, trying to trip him up. In one famous instance, Colin and Ryan nearly lose their self-control getting out an intro for "one of those rare Scottish blues singers." Drew (plus Greg in the back) are doubled over laughing at how insane their intro sounds. And after all that, Wayne still crushes it.

Second US version

• Wayne was named an executive producer. He has a lot of good ideas, and he has given a lot to the show. He deserves it.
• While the first episode was good but a bit uneven, the second episode of the new CW version demonstrated that Whose Line has made a solid comeback with one of the funniest Scenes From A Hat rounds in series history. Clearly they needed that first episode for practice.
  • The musical games have come back, with Laura Hall and Linda Taylor once again providing the music.
  • They also brought a bunch of the old crew back. The buzzer even makes the same sound as before. It's like coming back home.
  • During the Helping Hands segment, Ryan passes popcorn to special guest Kevin McHale by pouring it into his own mouth and shooting it to Kevin's. Kevin catches one
  • Also, by the third episode Aisha Tyler has started making Canada jokes and issuing joke points. While she's not as good as Drew yet, she's clearly opening up to the cast.
  • The revival got renewed for a second season within two weeks of its premiere because of high ratings.
    • The first two episodes brought in an average of 2.96 million viewers (only one other show on the network that week managed to get over 1 million viewers) and averaged a 1.15 rating among viewers 18-49, whereas most shows on the network over the summer are lucky to get a 0.5 18-49 rating.
  • Kyle Richards (from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) doing the splits.
  • In What's in the Bag in the first episode, Colin finds a pair of sunglasses in the bag, puts them on, and tells Wayne "Sorry, there's just a bit of a shine." That's right, Colin finally made a bald joke at someone else's expense.
• Speaking of which, the first Gary Anthony Williams episode. You can see him gesturing for Wayne and Colin to join him on stage for the "bad hairloss commercial" one. That's right, it was his idea.
  • In his next appearance, he scores another personal one by getting Wayne to corpse first.
• The Kevin McHale episode. Colin's claim of holding a note for 50 minutes may not actually pan out that way, but YOU try making one breath last 15 seconds.
• Wilson Bethel plays a doctor-themed Helping Hands with Ryan and Colin. Ordinarily, this is a game where Colin gets to shove potentially disgusting things into Ryan's mouth. So you think you know where the scene is going when Ryan/Colin picks up a "urine sample" (likely just apple juice, but you never know!), but instead, Wilson shows what a good sport he is and makes his prognosis by chugging it like a shotglass just to take one for Ryan. Aisha actually cheers at the bravado.
  • As a follow-up, the very next season, football hero Rob Gronkowski, of all people, was not only surprisingly able to keep pace with Ryan on the improv side of things, but the guy chugged a horrendous Gatorade/chocolate milk mixture and followed that up with raw carrots, to make another gem of a Helping Hands game. Who expected that much good improv from Gronk?
• The Lisa Leslie episode.
  • Ryan actually getting to work with a woman his size.
  • Heather Anne was happy and honored to meet Lisa. It was a definite girl power moment for her.
• The second Nyima Funk episode, with Living Scenery. After Ryan brings up waffles, Nyima gets the idea to pose prettily and remain very still, giving Ryan the idea to treat her like a particular brand of waffle syrup known for a distinctive bottle design.◊ Possibly the only time you'll see one of the old guys follow the new guy's lead.
• Another one for the "Greatest of Greatest Hits" collection: Wayne and Jeff sing "Pulling Sally's Pigtails" as Kanye West and Neil Diamond.
• One episode brought back the Irish Drinking Song, and well, let's just say that Colin Mochrie STILL got it after all these years!
  • Similarly, the return of Hoedown, in particular, how excited Aisha was knowing that the fans had been waiting for it for so long (judging by the huge applause it got when it was announced), and that she'd get a front-row seat to the players having to suffer through their favorite game in the world.
• Linda Taylor played some EPIC guitar riffs during the game of Dubbing with Jack Osbourne; Aisha even awarded her 5,000 points for it.
• Nyima Funk had a moment of awesome in the Scenes From a Hat where the topic was "Tattoos you don't want to discover on a new partner's body". Wayne said "Next rest area ten miles?" and without missing a beat... well, you gotta see it for yourself.
• One word: boing.
• I have performed in a choir full of a-holes, but never this literally.
• If you're only familiar with Ryan's (or any of 'em really) ridiculous Elvis Presley impression, you may not be prepared for Wayne's near-perfect rendition of Jailhouse Rock-era Elvis.
• Kunal Nayyar's Metal Scream.
  • Also from that episode, Aisha interrupts Ryan's suggestion in Scenes from a Hat where he's playing a Doctor. Ryan glares at her, and says "he's in the middle of fucking surgery."
• Ryan being a sperm cell in Party Quirks and tackling a "didn't want to come" joke. It got past the censors!
  • Also from this round, Wayne playing a wide array of video game characters. His references include Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros., Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Gauntlet.
• Much like Wilson Bethel above, Padme Lakshmi from Top Chef scores one when she gamely eats something that Colin was going to feed to Ryan.
• 11x03 has a fantastic moment from Keegan Michael-Key. During the "Songs Of New Orleans" Greatest Hits, Colin sets up Wayne to do a stadium rock song where the mic keeps cutting out during the song. By itself, it would've been just a fun bit from Wayne, but Keegan, who's never even in Greatest Hits, jumps into the proceedings as a roadie trying to fix the cables. Multiple times. He even somehow gets Aisha to jump in and help, which only adds more chaos as they keep handing him new microphones. Keegan ultimately fleshes out what could've been a silly gimmick song into a fuller, crazier scene. Props to Aisha too, for always being incredibly game in situations like this.
• Forget Breaking the Fourth Wall, Kathie Lee Gifford breaks the first wall by taking what Colin would've fed to Ryan to feed Brad and Wayne!
• The fans get one for following through on their calls for a revival, watching Whose Line? lovingly, and quickly earning the show a third season.
• The entire "sexy jobs" Scenes from a Hat, and pretty much that entire episode was a Crowning Moment of Awesome. From Wayne finally getting the best of Aisha with the waxing gag, to Jeff Davis milking a bull, to Wayne's impression of Stephen Hawking, to Jeff taking over the camera, Ryan taking over Aisha's buzzer, and Aisha herself smacking the buzzer with her breast... It transcended funny and went right for awesome.
  • For those who wanted to see said awesomeness in action. Season 10, Episode 19's Scenes from a Hat... Sexy Jobs included.
• Gary Anthony Williams plays a British metal singer in a game of Duet. And pulls it off remarkably well!
  • Gary again in a ragtime number in Greatest Hits, which earns uproarious applause.
• On Thanksgiving Day 2014, Whose Line? aired in a two-hour block from 8P.M. to 10P.M., just like ABC used to do when their schedule was lean. Treat for the fans, perfect ratings opportunity, win-freaking-win!
  • They did it again on Thanksgiving Day 2015, with even higher ratings.
  • On Thanksgiving Day 2016, they did it yet again.
• Ryan, Wayne, and Jeff parodying Les Misérables during a game of Hollywood Director. The "Do You Hear the People Sing?" style song that the three come up with is purely epic, and Wayne even manages to gather an entire crowd of audience members to play the ensemble!
• The singing part of Scenes from a Hat in the Heather Morris episode, which went from funny to epic as practically everyone brought their singing A-game.
• The game of Living Scenery where Colin lifts Randy "The Natural" Couture. Yes, that Randy Couture. Damn!
  • To clarify: Colin picks up Randy Couture. Not the other way around. And hits Wayne with him. (okay, it's a light tap, but still)
  • He does it again in the episode with Chris Jericho.
• Starting in season 11, Aisha took an unforeseen leap by getting out of the chair and actually joining in for Scenes from a Hat. It's a little something for anyone who missed the game Drew Carey used to play at the end of his shows.
• A fun Let's Make A Date game becomes legendary when it comes time for the guessing, as Brad Sherwood hits it out of the park three times in a row. Aisha flips out over Brad nailing all three of them as well as he did. These guesses are almost to a one:
  Brad: Yes, I think that Wayne is either a bipolar cyborg... or he's Robocop that had a glitch that turned him to a life of crime.
  Wayne: [shocked] What?!?
  Aisha: [buzzes] Yeeeeeees! Perfect guess! A perfect guess! Yes!
  Brad: That was the easy one. Uh, Colin I think was a shipwrecked cannibal who loves... [trying not to laugh] having sex with his dinner.
  Aisha: [buzzes] Yes! I mean, essentially! Essentially, yes!
  Brad: And I think, uh, Ryan was an easily scared, either gazelle, or-
  Aisha: OH MY GOD!!! [buzzes as the audience EXPLODES] OHHH MYYYY GOOOOOD!!!!! [Brad stands up and starts strutting around the stage like a badass, before getting a hug from Aisha]
  [back at the chairs]
  Wayne: The best guesses in Whose Line history. [audience shows Brad some love] My boy's smart!
• They got Bill Nye the Science Guy on the show. Seriously. One of the few special guests who can match Colin and Ryan in age... and can still bust more dance moves than both of them combined!
• More representation from Dancing with the Stars in season 4 with Alfonso Riberio. After getting around the implications of three black guys in an 80s hiphop number, Alfonso proceeds to light the stage on fire.
• In a way, the sea creatures Newsflash leads to the audience becoming surprisingly quiet and well-behaved for a change, most likely fixated with the shots of seldom-seen sealife.
• The game of Props from the same ep really shows how the guys have learned to step up their game, from Jon spitting water as part of his bird bath act to Wayne putting his own shoes on his hands for... well, just watch. For some, it's just the fact that Jonathan Mangum did a long overdue Doctor Who reference that the audience got!
• After they barely get the stage back up when Alfonso Riberio lit it on fire, Brett Dier proceeds to tear it down.
• Taking Audience Participation up a notch, one Let's Make a Date has Ryan as a busy worker ant who rallies the audience behind him as the rest of the 'colony'. He empties an entire block!
• Brad Sherwood again, this time earning some kind of medal of honor when Scenes from a Hat does "if Olympics athletes were drunk". Brad as a pole vaulter breaks into a shaky run, makes a full U-turn and runs back up the stage, where he makes a fantastic flying leap off the edge!
• The episode with Tony Cavalero churns out two for the price of one:
  • Song Styles - Wayne grabs an additional suggestion from Tony and does his song about pro wrestling, leading up to a playful mock-grapple between them. Tony reaches to tag Colin in the back, and he flat out rejects it - Wayne reaches to tag Aisha, who literally leaps with both feet into action, pinning and straddling Tony on the floor.
    Wayne: Let's hear it for Tony Cavalero and defending champion Aisha Tyler!!
  • Dubbing revisits the Jack Osbourne one with Linda Taylor lending impromptu guitar riffs again, but then goes even further when Wayne successfully gets Laura Hall to jam out on the piano at the same time. Ryan and Colin sorta-singing in time with the beat just adds to it.
  • Much like Brad's death-defying stunt above, Greg flips a big one to everyone who thought the older guys would be less relevant now, by snarking it up across the whole episode.
• Chip Esten. Guest starring. On Whose Line. Season 13!
  • And now Colin is an executive producer as well, along with Ryan and Wayne.
• One Special Guest is Wanye Morris of Boys II Men fame. Put him alongside Wayne for Song Styles and already you have epicness in the making.
  • Wanye in Helping Hands leads to another historical moment - not only the guest digging into the same stuff Colin normally feeds to Ryan, but also for spitting it all into Colin's hands just like Ryan always does. Wanye celebrates along with the audience, and rightfully so.
• The long-awaited tribute to Hamilton in season 5 episode 14. Since Wayne actually starred in the show at one point, it's clear that he knew exactly what he was doing throughout the song.
• In this game of Party Quirks, Wayne has to act out a series of violent movie scenes in Slow Motion. He eventually starts doing 300, and gets an entire section of the audience to stand up so he can "slaughter" them one by one. Then he shoots an imaginary arrow and wipes out an entire row of people at once (the fact that they all knew to "die" at the same time in order to achieve the effect is pretty impressive in itself). Jeff can't help but comment on how awesome it was afterwards.
  Jeff: That thing with the arrow was the coolest bit of Audience Participation of all time.
• Duet with Wayne, Jeff and Cornelius Smith Jr. That's right, Malcolm Walker actually slays with his rap flow.
• Weird Newscasters assigns Ryan with the daunting task of acting out "The Wizard of Oz in 30 seconds". It clearly takes him longer than that, but Ryan manages to go through all the important parts of the movie in point form - special mention must be made of going through three different poses to cover the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion, and remembering that Dorothy took a blow to the head to explain the All Just a Dream ending. The applause at the end is rightfully earned.
• In the 2019 season, Chip is back in the third chair, and all is right with the world.
• After a playing of Mixed Messages, Wayne reveals that the sister of the person whose phone he borrowed for the game did not realize Whose Line? was still on the air (or perhaps even revived in the first place). Rather offended by this remark, he calls the sister on Facetime, prompting the other panelists and Aisha to crowd the camera and flip her off! See it here!
• They set a new benchmark for Audience Participation in 2020, with a game of "Sound Effects" with Ryan and Colin as Canadian Mounties. Ryan claims he's going to sing a classic song out loud, and the woman paired with him clearly has heard of "Oh Canada" but has no idea how it goes, and ends up improvising an "Oh Canada" to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree".
• In perhaps a Call-Back to his dancing cameo from the Drew era, Colin boasts in a playing of Greatest Hits that he plays guitar on a blues track, so he gets Linda Taylor to play guitar for him Helping Hands style, and Linda's still almost as good a guitar player when she's got Colin obstructing her vision and reach!
• The rap duet with guest star Tiffany Haddish. The song quickly becomes a trio when Haddish dishes out some killer verses, trap-style. Wayne is so impressed with her improv that after the song ends, he gets her to do an encore, complete with the audience singing along to the chorus.
• 20x12's Greatest Hits throws us one of the great curveballs in the entire franchise. Jonathan and Wayne are the pitchmen, and Ryan and Colin sing the songs. Wayne, justifiably, wastes no time in giving Ryan and Colin "23 years of pent-up anger," and tries to trip them up like they used to do to him, particularly with the Rat Pack song — specifically, all of the members. Ryan and Colin mostly emerge with their dignity intact, save for Ryan's horrendous Sammy Davis Jr. which leaves Wayne and Jonathan killing themselves laughing. Really, the whole game is a treat for longtime fans.

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