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** CanadaEh



* CanadaEh: She is from Canada, but Drew tends to save all the Canada jokes for [[ButtMonkey Colin]].
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* CanadaEh: He doesn't usually sound like a stereotypical Canadian, but his being from Canada is often referenced in various ways. He also, upon hearing that one audience volunteer was visiting from Canada, immediately jumped up and ran to hug her even though he wasn't involved in the skit for which she was assisting.

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* CanadaEh: CourteousCanadian: He doesn't usually sound like a stereotypical Canadian, but his being from Canada is often referenced in various ways. He also, upon hearing that one audience volunteer was visiting from Canada, immediately jumped up and ran to hug her even though he wasn't involved in the skit for which she was assisting.
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* OnceAnEpisode: Or in this case, Once A Game. As the Drew-era version got into its third season's tapings, Wayne became increasingly fixated on finding a way to get Drew involved with his Weird Newscasters quirk, usually in some kind of humiliating fashion. The show's writers leaned into this by making Wayne's Weird Newscasters quirks more and more carnal and/or physical, which made it ''impossible'' for Wayne to resist the temptation. The writers clearly tried to get this recurring bit going again for Aisha's version, but it wasn't quite the same -- Aisha was much more willing to play along by comparison, and thus a lot harder to humble.

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* BewareTheQuietOnes: Every so often, Kathy would come up with a surprisingly vile joke for someone so mild-mannered -- in her first Scenes From A Hat game she makes a yeast infection joke, and one Hollywood Director game ended with her and the others performing the scene as supermodels, so Kathy spent the scene posing, runway-walking, and then making herself ''vomit.''

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* BewareTheQuietOnes: BewareTheQuietOnes:
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Every so often, Kathy would come up with a surprisingly vile joke for someone so mild-mannered -- in her first Scenes From A Hat game she makes a yeast infection joke, and one Hollywood Director game ended with her and the others performing the scene as supermodels, so Kathy spent the scene posing, runway-walking, and then making herself ''vomit.''''
** One that a lot of people remember is the Song Styles game where Wayne sings about goats in the style of ''Theatre/WestSideStory,'' and Kathy, Colin and Ryan play dancing goats behind him. Kathy's idea of "goat-like behavior" involves a lot of headbutts, lifting one leg(?), and... uh, humping, for lack of a better term. The game ends with what looks like Colin and Wayne giving her ''an Eiffel Tower.'' No one expected that level of suggestiveness from ''Kathy,'' and it becomes a RunningGag, making for one of the rare episodes where Kathy's the center of attention.

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--> '''Ryan''': "I had to just, think about what that's be like cos I've never... ahem..."
--> '''Colin''': "...[[SarcasmMode AAAAHAHAHAHA!]]..."

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--> '''Ryan''': "I I had to just, think about what that's that'd be like cos I've never... ahem..."
ahem...
--> '''Colin''': "...'''Colin''': ...[[SarcasmMode AAAAHAHAHAHA!]]..."



* DeadpanSnarker

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* DeadpanSnarkerDeadpanSnarker: In his own right. You'd have to be if you're gonna work regularly with Colin. He particularly loves employing this whenever a scene goes OffTheRails or has a particularly noticeable plot hole.
* DirtyOldMan: Was never shy about being filthy-minded right from his very first UK episode, so he basically aged into this, still doing dick jokes well into his sixties.



* BerserkButton: PlayedForLaughs when all the ribbing between her and Colin reaches a head (so to speak). She makes a crack about BitCoins, which Colin claims he misheard as '[[PrecisionFStrike bitch]] coins', leading to Aisha ''getting out of her chair [[TheCoatsAreOff and tossing her jacket.]]''

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* BerserkButton: PlayedForLaughs when all the ribbing between her and Colin reaches a head (so to speak). She makes a crack about BitCoins, Bitcoins, which Colin claims he misheard as '[[PrecisionFStrike bitch]] coins', leading to Aisha ''getting out of her chair [[TheCoatsAreOff and tossing her jacket.]]''



* GuestStarPartyMember: As the revival's gone on Aisha's been getting up from her desk to make occasional contributions to Scenes from a Hat. [[note]] Most often seen in Scenes From a Hat, a few World's Worst games, and at least one game of Props. [[/note]] This leaves one of the panelists (usually Wayne or Ryan) to hit the buzzer on her behalf.

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* GuestStarPartyMember: As the revival's gone on Aisha's been getting revival went on, Aisha got up from her desk more and more to make occasional contributions to Scenes from a Hat. [[note]] Most often seen in Scenes From a Hat, a few World's Worst games, and at least one game of Props. [[/note]] This leaves one of the panelists (usually Wayne or Ryan) to hit the buzzer on her behalf. Taken even further in a season 20 game of Living Scenery, where Jeff sits at the desk on Aisha's behalf, so Aisha can be one of the human props!



* OlderThanTheyLook: Born in 1970, which means she started hosting this show at ''43''. She looks ''a lot'' younger than that.

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* OlderThanTheyLook: Born in 1970, which means she started hosting this show at ''43''. She looks ''a lot'' younger than that.that, only beginning to look slightly older when season 20 rolled around.

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* VitriolicBestBuds: With Drew Carey.

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* {{Troll}}: Ryan was always quick enough to mess with his longtime comrades, but as Ryan got older during the CW version, he started getting even more willfully obnoxious about it (for cheap laughs, of course). His latter-day Greatest Hits games with Colin are often just Ryan gleefully undermining Colin and driving him nuts, such as the game where Ryan plays a slobbering drunk the entire time just so Colin has to carry things. In one Irish Drinking Song, he just gives up and starts ending all his lines with "cheese." Aisha {{Facepalm}}s at the cheap cop-out, and Ryan just sits down afterward and says "Nailed it!" This is what happens over time when you've truly done it all on ''Whose Line.''
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Drew Carey. More and more with Colin as the years go by.

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* GuestStarPartyMember: As the revival's gone on Aisha's been getting up from her desk to make occasional contributions to Scenes from a Hat. [[note]] Most often seen in Scenes From a Hat and at least one game of Props. [[/note]] This leaves one of the panelists (usually Wayne or Ryan) to hit the buzzer on her behalf.

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* GuestStarPartyMember: As the revival's gone on Aisha's been getting up from her desk to make occasional contributions to Scenes from a Hat. [[note]] Most often seen in Scenes From a Hat Hat, a few World's Worst games, and at least one game of Props. [[/note]] This leaves one of the panelists (usually Wayne or Ryan) to hit the buzzer on her behalf.



* VitriolicBestBuds: With Colin. They snark at each other but they are clearly good friends.

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* VitriolicBestBuds: With Colin.both Colin and Wayne. They snark at each other but they are clearly good friends.


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* AmusingInjuries: Because Jonathan will do ''anything'' for a laugh, he's the most likely to risk seriously hurting himself for the sake of a gag. He got a cut on his forehead from hitting Wayne's belt buckle ''with his face,'' and one round of Forward/Rewind ended with him falling off the back of the stage and nearly shattering the stage lights under him. He's okay, but the loud '''thump''' scares the hell out of everyone.
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* Ardal O'HanlonCreator/ArdalOHanlon

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* HeroicBSOD: Two mild ones. One comes after he [[HoYay gets a little too close]] to Richard Simmons. The other is the result of [[TinyGuyHugeGirl the Jane Tricker incident.]]


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* HeroicBSOD: Two mild ones. One comes after he [[HoYay gets a little too close]] to Richard Simmons. The other is the result of [[TinyGuyHugeGirl the Jane Tricker incident.]]
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* FairCop: upon singling out a beautiful woman from the audience to sing to he discovers she's an LAPD detective and automatically "assumes the position" for comic effect.
-->'''Drew''': "In your DREAMS Wayne!"
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Chip has a reputation for using surprisingly big words in singing games. In his very first show in the Drew version, he managed to squeeze "bicuspid" into a song.
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->''"I've got lots and lots of scarlet fishes. That's nothing to do with the party, that's a [[IncrediblyLamePun red herring]]."'' [[CollectiveGroan (audience groans)]]

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->''"I've got lots and lots of scarlet fishes. That's nothing to do with the party, that's a [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} red herring]]."'' [[CollectiveGroan (audience groans)]]

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* MadeOfIron: Brad's deliberate pratfalls have a disturbingly loud thump.
** Falling on his front while wearing a Lapel mic can have that effect.

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* MadeOfIron: MadeOfIron:
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Brad's deliberate pratfalls have a disturbingly loud thump.
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thump, though falling on his front while wearing a Lapel mic can have that effect.effect.
** One Scenes From A Hat game saw him respond to the prompt "If Olympic games were performed drunk" by doing a staggering pole vault over the chairs in the back and ''right off the stage.''



* RefugeInAudacity: The game "If You Know What I Mean" is a specialty of his.

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* RefugeInAudacity: The game "If If You Know What I Mean" Mean is a specialty of his.



** From an Olympic-themed "If You Know What I Mean", "There's nothing better than a 200 lb [[spoiler:snatch]] if you know what I mean...", which prompted Ryan to say "That's never gonna make it to air, if you know what I mean..."

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** From an Olympic-themed "If If You Know What I Mean", Mean, "There's nothing better than a 200 lb [[spoiler:snatch]] if you know what I mean...", which prompted Ryan to say "That's never gonna make it to air, if you know what I mean..."



* SitcomArchNemesis: Wayne's back & forth with Aisha Tyler may be the CW's answer to Greg Proops vs Clive Anderson. Neither Wayne nor Aisha ever want to let the other have the last word.



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* SitcomArchNemesis: Constantly has a snarky back & forth with Wayne, which sometimes brings Clive Anderson and Greg Proops to mind. Aisha is usually the one to take Wayne's braggadocio down a few pegs.



* TwoferTokenMinority: A Black woman. May be a threefer, if rumors of her in a same-sex relationship are true.

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* TwoferTokenMinority: A Black woman. May be a threefer, if rumors of her in a same-sex relationship are true.

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* ComedicUnderwearExposure: Spent an episode of the CW version invoking this trope, and finding various excuses (however flimsy) to pull his pants down and show the audience his fancy blue briefs -- just another day for a LargeHam like Wayne. Aisha is sure to note to the audience that you don't wear fancy underwear like that if you ''don't'' intend on showing them off.




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* UncoolUndies: Like his buddy Wayne, Jonathan is willing to [[ComedicUnderwearExposure drop his pants]] to get a cheap laugh. ''Un''like Wayne and his shiny briefs, Jonathan's only got the tighty-whities.

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