History Characters / WhoseLineIsItAnyway

* {{Retraux}}: The suit, that hair - he'd fit right in with TheBeatles, really

** {{Lampshaded}} when Drew mentioned his resemblance to Paul [=McCartney=].

-->'''Wayne:''' (''during "Scenes From a Hat"'') Yea! [[TwoGentlemenFromVerona The two revenuers from Verona]] approacheth! (''dead silence'') Read a book, people!

* TheAce: With a bit of TheBigGuy thrown in

* CargoShip with the mobile boom cam on stage right (his left)

* HeterosexualLifePartners with Colin
* HoistByHisOwnPetard Any time Ryan's attempts to strongarm the current act in a direction of his own choosing is [[HilarityEnsues thwarted by Colin]].

** He was upset when "Bill Cosby and Hitler are roommates," was suggested for a game in the American version, and ExecutiveMeddling stopped the game before it even started.
* StockCharacters: ElvisPresley, Carol Channing, JohnWayne, animals of all kinds
* SuicideAsComedy: He's mimed hanging himself several times

* StockCharacters: SassyBlackWoman(!), UncleTomfoolery, Bill Cosby, Sammy Davis Jr, MichaelJackson... [[NWordPrivileges there's a pattern here]]...

-->'''Wayne:''' (''during "Scenes From a Hat"'') Yea! The two revenuers from Verona approacheth! (''dead silence'') Read a book, people!

* RefugeInAudacity: The game ''IfYouKnowWhatIMean'' is a specialty of his.
--> "I hope my husband li[[spoiler:cks [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Bush]]]] tonight..."

* TakeThatMe: Combined with the trope immediately below hosting one game of "Party Quirks."

* SelfDepreciation: Combined with the trope immediately below hosting one game of "Party Quirks."
--> "It's a 'Come as a Greg Proops joke' party. Ocelot! Ocelot! [[AnnoyingLaugh Nehehehehehe]]--[[TakeThat God, you're bald, Clive.]]"

* MemeticOutfit: The glasses and the suit, especially the jacket that Wayne borrows at times

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Her 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 [[LyricalDissonance a beached whale.]]

* LastSecondWordSwap[=/=]SubvertedRhymeEveryTime: his was a specialty of his during the UK run.

A regular towards the end of the UK run, Colin quickly became a crowd favourite for all the right reasons (and a few [[CrossesTheLineTwice wrong ones]]).

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Rory won many of the games he appeared on. He was also always given a chance to show off an impression he was good at, or another subject he knew about. See for example the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZAAdkALnZE Tory Politicians Hoedown]], which was the topic when the other three contestants were North American. Greg is able to show off his UK politics knowledge, but Colin and Ryan just sort of flounder.

* AchillesHee: Her tendency to crack up - and it's not even her own fault, since at some point she became...

* ButtMonkey: at least once a season, someone ''will'' go "hello, I'm Clive Anderson" before getting buzzed out.

* DeadpanSnarker (Not even the audience is spared, as he ''will'' pick at the more ridiculous suggestions they throw at him.)
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment ("Our next round is called 'Different Games', because different games are played in this round...")

* KickTheDog ("Unfortunately that was a non-scoring round...")

* TheNapoleon (While Clive's actual height in comparison to the players never comes up, his wideset build and noticeable... ''lack'' of a neck qualifies him for this trope)
* NotSoStoic (getting him to crack up is a challenge of sorts. The US players, being US players, went to town in this aspect.)
* SelfDeprecation (at some point Clive learned how to get out of the bald and 'neck' jokes... by doing them first)

* TakeThat (Once after declaring the winner of the game to be Tony Slattery, he assigned him to read the credits in the style of a comedian who was constantly cracking up while trying to tell a joke. Tony was not amused.)
* TakeThatAudience (Often mocked the audience during the "Film and Theatre Styles" round for suggesting low-brow and proletarian styles from TV. To be fair, so do some of the players)

* AchillesHeel (Sure he had his references down pat, and he pulled off a credible Leonard Cohen the one time they made him sing, but the one thing that would always be a problem for him was ''the actual improvisation''. Seriously, he messed up a couple of the guessing games by ''giving the answer away''.)

* CloudCuckooLander (intentional or not, John's habit for ignoring the buzzer and carrying on one of his spiels was legendary)
* FirstInstallmentWins (Like it or not, you can pick out the hardcore ''Whose Lines'' fans if they can name ''him.'')

** HoistByHisOwnPetard (season 2 episode 12 had a new guest performer, Chris Langham, who could give John a run for his money.)

* MeaningfulName (someone named Sessions becoming a regular on a show with this format, what are the chances?)

* TheScrappy (He may not have been the least funny person to ever appear on the show, several different guest stars could compete for that title, but he is hailed by many fans to be the most consistently unfunny regular the UK version ever had. The fact he appears in almost every episode for the first two seasons compounds the issue.)

* EagleLand (not deliberately, but [[AcceptableTargets he's been singled out for it anyways]])
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange (his return to the show after getting PutOnABus saw him sporting a ponytail. [[KickTheDog He didn't stay for long.]])
* ManOfAThousandVoices (Impressions were Archie's primary strength - one end credits reading saw him going through random cartoon voices, including DonaldDuck.)
* TheScrappy (he's been accused of unbalancing the games by keeping a few personal props on hand, including a whistle and some castanets. Factor in his status as a semi-regular, and you've got the reason why John Sessions didn't take as much of the heat as he should have at the time.)

* {{Adorkable}} (she was more like this during the show's DorkAge)
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign (Her faked foreign accents are sometimes as charming as they are convincing, check out her [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBK1rMmoANI faux-Albanian]].)
* AchillesHeel (her tendency to crack up - and it's not even her own fault, since at some point she became...)

** KickTheDog (even semi-regulars like Jim and the US players like Ryan did it too)
*** [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding (she appeared in US series AndTheFandomRejoiced)]]
* EightiesHair (In the earlier seasons...from the 80s.)
* IWasQuiteAFashionVictim (That pic up there is really one of her more flattering looks)
* {{Nakama}} (When Josie went to America to film the US version of the show, she stayed with Greg and his wife at their LA home. Say it with me: ''aww.'')

* ThanksForTheMammary (Josie bites Tony's hand during a game of Helping Hands with Tony providing the hands for Josie. He gets his revenge by openly groping her for the rest of the scene.)

* ThreeFacesOfEve (Josie is Sweet)

* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine (his routines with Tony tend to fall into this rut. ''Which'' of them gets ''which role'' [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation depends on who you ask,]] though)
* CloudCuckooLander ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwuT1wQFvl4&feature=related From Volvos to bestiality in 5 seconds flat.]])
* CrazyAwesome (one time he pieces together a complete joke even while matching Steve Steen's pace during ''Expert Translation''.)
* DeadpanSnarker (Paul took this UpToEleven. He was THE person who could stop a routine completely dead with a single comment.)
* OnlySaneMan (parodied)
* PerpetualFrowner (Clive: "And next we have Paul Merton, whose radiant, smiling face...we have yet to see.")

* TheStoic (Paul's schtick, although he doesn't take it to the extreme some comics do.)
* TheUnfunny (Inverted, as Paul's appeal stems primarily from acting like this)

* AchillesHeel (Tony is very, very good at laughing. Often at himself. Jury's out on whether or not he has an AnnoyingLaugh.)
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation (Is he really the Grand Old Duke of RefugeInAudacity as the fans know him, or a hyperactive ManChild who's often just as surprised as anyone else at [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud what comes out of his own mouth?]])
* AmbiguouslyGay (Tony's sexuality is a favorite topic amongst fans with too much time on their hands.)

* TheCastShowoff (he was pulling dance moves long before Wayne Brady)

* DownerEnding (he was fired after a bad episode in season seven. After this, he had a nervous breakdown.)

* EmbarrassingMiddleName (Not only does Tony have ''[[OverlyLongName two]]'' [[OverlyLongName middle names]], but one of them is "Declan." [Pronounced like "Dek-lin" not "The Clan".])
* EstrogenBrigadeBait (Let's just say that the audience was ''very happy'' when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_eEAo-SSBE he was the Chippendale in Party Quirks]].)
* FacePalm (Tony had a very nice one when the audience suggested and Clive told him to make up a song about him being in love with an ''inflatable pig''.)
* HoYay with ''[[AnythingThatMoves anyone and everyone]]''
* IWasQuiteAFashionVictim (It says a lot that the end of his tenure was marked by some of the most unflattering outfits in the show's history)

* LovableSexManiac (to the extent of whatever passed for MemeticMutation in those days)
* TheNapoleon (it's not obvious till much later that Tony really is one of the shortest players on the stage, especially after more Americans join in)

* PrecisionFStrike (After a particularly disastrous playing of Party Quirks, Tony yelled "Oh, well, FUCK OFF!" at Clive...consequently losing ''every point he'd ever won on the show up to that point''. We all know ThePointsMeanNothing, but ''damn''.)

* RefugeInAudacity (Some of the dirtiest lines on the show are attributed to Tony.)
* RunningGag (sneaking a VomitDiscretionShot into any session of ''Props'')
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness (Occasionally. For example, during one Party Quirks, Greg was playing a "compulsive liar." Tony guessed that he was a "[[SophisticatedAsHell inveterate bullshitter]].")
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute (Tony was suggested as a replacement for Stephen Fry when Stephen backed out of becoming a regular on the show. The producers were skeptical, but he quickly won them over.)
* TakeThat (Tony's occasional throwing out of the name Patricia, rumored to be an old girlfriend of his. Also note some of his initial guesses.)

* ThisIsSparta ("Shut. Your. Face.")
* WhatTheHellHero (When playing film and theater styles, Clive would sometimes give the style: "Musical." If that happened, Tony would say to the other: "You know a song about that don't you? Well, off you go then!" Only Greg Proops was able to give a good response by encouraging the audience members to sing with him.)

* {{Acrofatic}} (He ''will'' bust out the dance steps if needed)

* HeyItsThatGuy (Mike was Friar Tuck to Kevin Costner's RobinHood - [[EnsembleDarkhorse and scores major points]] for getting the accent right)

* HypocriticalHumor (Mike once made a bald joke about Clive. Clive wasted no time in pointing out the hypocrisy in this when he has a noticeable bald patch as well.)

* IResembleThatRemark (When suggesting a song for a Bartender game, a member of the audience suggested Mike was drinking to forget a problem with his diet. He fired back with: "Wow, all these weight references, I've never heard them before. Get some original material.")

* {{Nakama}} (Rumor has it that Mike quit the show when Tony Slattery was fired during season seven in a display of camaraderie and to protest how Tony was treated by the producers. He did however make one more guest appearance on the show in season nine.)
* PlayingAgainstType (he often did female roles, long before Colin became known for it)

* AchillesHeel (any musical games)

* IncrediblyLamePun (her primary strength)
* TheLadette ([[HideYourLesbians There's a reason for that...]])

* MemeticOutfit (It's been speculated that the jockey outfit was all they had in her size...)

* ThreeFacesOfEve (Sandi is Sour)

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome (See the Josie Lawrence "faux-Albanian" clip above. That was Jim's very first time on the show, where he got the idea to follow the trend of taking potshots at [[ButtMonkey Josie]]. ''And he pulled it off.'')

* {{Keet}} (The real reason he brought his longtime partner Steve Steen on the show - their chemistry. Partner Jim with someone else, and the building nervousness makes him look like he's been [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb-nxqa7iaA&feature=related shooting up on caffeine]].)

* AchillesHeel (Steve was especially bad at the Hoedown game. He had a terrible sense of rhythm and his rhymes made no sense.)

* BoisterousBruiser (to the extent that his turn on "Weird Newscasters" as a "soccer fan" started becoming disturbingly realistic.)

* CrazyAwesome (Steve's greatest strength was slipping into assorted personas for ''Old Job New Job'', from hairdressers to roughneck laborers)

* MakeMeWannaShout (he's known for his very loud and sharp whistle, able to cut right through the pace of whatever act he was in)
* MemeticOutfit (It's been speculated that those baggy Hawaiian shirts were all they had in ''his'' size...)
* RefugeInAudacity (actually lowered his pants for a laugh twice)
* StockCharacters (Jimmy Saville ("Now then now then now then!") )
* ViolentGlaswegian (Practically oozes this.)
* YouFailBiologyForever (During the vasectomy hoedown, Steve described the procedure as: "Gonna cut your balls off, and put 'em in a jar!")

* CatchPhrase (Ironically, none are actually ''his own''. He's known to have milked Murray Walker's [[ThisIsSparta "Look! At! That!"]] a few times)

* NerdGlasses (Actually carried a pair for his more specific impressions)
* SpotlightStealingSquad (Rory won many of the games he appeared on. He was also always given a chance to show off an impression he was good at, or another subject he knew about. See for example the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZAAdkALnZE Tory Politicians Hoedown]], which was the topic when the other three contestants were North American. Greg is able to show off his UK politics knowledge, but Colin and Ryan just sort of flounder.)
* StockCharacters (Implied to have a dozen, but his British politicians and EagleLand acts come to mind)
* TakeThat (his impressions of ''co-stars'' can be pretty spot on, check out his takes on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6p2gvm3t6s Tony]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9get9IVoJzk Clive]].)

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome (her 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 [[LyricalDissonance a beached whale.]])
* CrowningMomentOfFunny (Several, but one that isn't quite so overshadowed from the shock value (more on that below) comes from the same episode as the [=CMoA=] example above, where she and Josie are portraying female Arctic explorers... the first thing they do is ''complain about the weather and how it's drying their hair and everything.'')
* {{Fanservice}} (What? She's hot.)
* FetishFuel (One game had her playing a pregnant woman giving birth. It started with Tony sitting right in front of her with [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything her ankles up around his neck.]])

* LesYay with Josie(!)
* RefugeInAudacity (In American terms, she was the Colin to Josie's Ryan)

* ThanksForTheMammary (Much like the example with Josie, Caroline is groped by Tony in revenge after she slaps him in the face. She counters to this by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard openly grabbing his crotch]] immediately afterward.) Can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6QkxXtk-YQ here]].
* ThreeFacesOfEve (Caroline is Spicy)

* MemeticOutfit (How often is he seen ''without'' those earphones of his?)
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist (he slings a guitar alongside that piano, and there's a synthesiser on top and probably some other musical implements behind it)

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic (he's also known for impromptu piano playing to flavor up the non-musical games)
* TheVoiceless (Richard Vranch rarely spoke during all of his years on the show. He did smile and occasionally move his head though.)

* AchillesHeel (It's quite hard for the show to get funny enough to make Drew crack up - but harder still to get him to ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqi3qtwI9Xo stop]]'')

* KickTheDog ("A thousand points to everybody ''but Wayne''...")
* MemeticOutfit (not just the suit but the suspenders struggling with his pants)
* NerdGlasses (carried over, not from his sitcom or even his standup routine prior, but from his days in the US Marine Corps)
* PetTheDog ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riof3CoMtfY "A thousand points, and my heart goes out to all of you man..."]]
* SelfDeprecation ("...the points don't mean anything. Just like my treadmill...")

-> "Yes Mister Patronising Barrister, we do have trampolines in America..."

* FourEyesZeroSoul (Heavily invoked, despite the similarity to Drew's NerdGlasses)

* HeyItsThatVoice (Greg was, at one point, the American voice of BobTheBuilder. Really.)
* IWasQuiteAFashionVictim (you wouldn't know it by looking at him, but Greg [[http://i41.tinypic.com/rr8tw8.png was]] [[http://i39.tinypic.com/5u0ne1.png not]] [[http://i40.tinypic.com/j14i2c.png always]] the suave, suit-sporting man he is now.)
* LastSecondWordSwap[=/=]SubvertedRhymeEveryTime (this was a specialty of his during the UK run)
* ManOfAThousandVoices (his most underrated strength, possibly because of an unshakeably nasal tone in all of them.)
* MemeticOutfit (the glasses and the suit, especially the jacket that Wayne borrows at times)
* SitcomArchNemesis (To Clive Anderson)

* TotallyRadical (looking back, his early appearances have shades of this; it's hard to tell how much of it is self-mockery/exaggeration and how much is genuinely what hip Californians talked like then...)

* TheAce (with a bit of TheBigGuy thrown in)
* ButtMonkey (meta-example - from being fed with the weirdest suggestions in the cards to being fed with ''pretty much anything'' by Colin in ''Helping Hands''.)

* CakeEater (That episode with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBa5qyYTbKw Florence Henderson...]])

* ChivalrousPervert (it's been pointed out that he's a bit ''too familiar'' with the subject of strippers.)

* GagPenis (from imaginary ones to actual ones thanks to some of the ''Props'')
* [[spoiler:GameBreakingInjury: Ryan's bad back has come up once or twice, even resulting in the only [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx7HdjzKLjQ Ice Skaters]] game ever being aborted)]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard (any time Ryan's attempts to strongarm the current act in a direction of his own choosing is [[HilarityEnsues thwarted by Colin]].)
* IncrediblyLamePun (one of his specialties)

* MadeOfIron ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67iNkmENs9k Takes a neon light to the head and keeps on going.]])
* MemeticOutfit (the shoes)

* MultipleChoicePast (Sort of. Ryan was born in the U.S. but spent much of his childhood in Canada. When he needs an excuse for getting something wrong, it's usually something along the lines of, "I'm Canadian. It's different there." But he's still allowed free passes to mock Colin for being Canadian, implying Ryan isn't.)
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent (Accents are not his strongest point... [[LampshadeHanging and he knows it, too.]])

* RuleOfFunny (To the extent that the nickname "Anything-for-a-Laugh" has been used [[strike:in-universe]] on the show.)

* RunningJoke (Ryan would tend to make as many references to [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] or impressions of AdolfHitler as he could get away with, especially in the Helping Hands game.)

* StockCharacters (ElvisPresley, Carol Channing, JohnWayne, animals of all kinds)
* SuicideAsComedy (he's mimed hanging himself several times)

* AchillesHeel (Any music-based game - except possibly the [[GameBreaker Irish Drinking Song]].)

* BaldOfAwesome (And the other actors never let him forget it)
* BewareTheNiceOnes (See TheWoobie below - when he finally decides that it's time for a comeback, expect [[CrowningMomentOfFunny comedy gold]].)
* ButtMonkey ("Hey, make fun of the bald guy! I'll be your Lightning Rod of Hate[[AC:(tm)]]!")'

* ChivalrousPervert ("I'm gonna stick my nose in there!...")
* CrossesTheLineTwice (usually by accident - OrIsIt?)

* DorkAge (You may not believe it, but Colin attempted some GagPenis jokes early on, before leaving them to the expert ie. Ryan.)

* EnemyToAllLivingThings (Colin's earlier performances usually involved miming the killing of small animals - and ''people''.)
* IWasQuiteAFashionVictim (While nearly everyone who'd been in the UK series prior were hit with this, Colin stood out thanks to some very ill-fitting jackets.)

* MeaningfulName (Someone who's done equal amounts of time on the [[DeadpanSnarker giving]] and [[ButtMonkey receiving]] end, named ''Mochrie''. Think about it. He even punned on it in one late UK Hoedown)
* OverlyPreparedGag (one of Colin's specialties. Considering that any 'preparing' [[CrazyPrepared starts from the moment he sits down...]])
* PetTheDog ("Canada - the UPSIDE!")
* PlayingAgainstType (You do ''not'' cast the balding middle-aged man as the ''romantic female lead''. [[NauseaFuel One can only]] [[RuleOfFunny wonder why.]])

* RefugeInAudacity (not just in the usual sense but in-game - how else do you explain him filling his third of a session of "Three-Headed Singer" with repetitions of "YOU!" ''up to nine times.'' And copping out of ''Hoedown'', of course.)
* UnfortunateImplications (One could make a laundry list of the number of his non sequiturs that veer into bestiality.)

* TheWoobie (inter-player banter and teasing always happens, but Colin noticeably drew some audience sympathy for it.)

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome (One word: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aU8vPo8tJw Naroshi]].)

* LovableSexManiac ("Did you see the jugs of that girl in row 4?")
* MadeOfIron (Brad's deliberate pratfalls have a disturbingly loud thump)
* RefugeInAudacity (the game ''IfYouKnowWhatIMean'' is a specialty of his)

* AchillesHeel (Wayne ''is'' known for cracking up the most often - given what show he's on, can you blame him?)

* BewareTheNiceOnes (parodied - he's known to slip briefly into psychotic personas for a gag, but otherwise ''almost never'' snarks or teases.)

* ButNotTooBlack (Partially in retrospect from ''ChappellesShow'' jokes about Wayne. It's made even funnier when Wayne makes jokes like in a DidIJustSayThatOutLoud bit saying "No one realizes that I'm white!")

* ButtMonkey (Happens literally after his big secret[[hottip:* :He's ticklish.]] came out... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8bDsxIy5Dc&feature=related (Skip to the end credits here.)]])
* TheCastShowoff (How often has the second or third game of each episode been a Wayne showcase?)
* EstrogenBrigadeBait (Lampshaded and parodied in equal amounts - note all the times they pick a ''male'' audience member for ''Song Styles'')
* FunnyAfro (loves to mime having these)

* {{Keet}} (The man can move, [[MotorMouth and talk in some cases]].)
* MemeticOutfit (Tight tees... [[spoiler:and [[UnderwearOfPower The Thong]].]]
* NamesTheSame (A variant of this trope occurs with special guest Florence Henderson, better known as Mrs ''[[TheBradyBunch Brady.]]'')

* SesameStreetCred ("[[LampshadeHanging Aren't you supposed to be good at making things up in a moment?]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edA7vOfdcZg&feature=fvst Good luck!]]")
* StockCharacters (SassyBlackWoman(!), UncleTomfoolery, Bill Cosby, Sammy Davis Jr, MichaelJackson... [[NWordPrivileges there's a pattern here]]...)

* TokenMinority (appeared to be this at first, but proven in time to be a full-fledged [[TheAce Ace]]). Also joked about it with good humour.

* MemeticOutfit (She wears that same outfit--either with or without suspenders--in ''every single episode she's in''.)

* NWordPrivileges (her MeLoveYouLongTime routines - even if her acts don't specify it)
* StockCharacters (MrsRobinson)
* ThreeFacesOfEve (Karen is Spicy)
* TokenMinority (Asian)

* CloudCuckooLander (not just in-character, note some of her answers during guessing-type games)
* ShesGotLegs No really, has anyone looked at her legs, in the episodes where she wears a skirt instead of pants? She has beautiful legs.
* ThreeFacesOfEve (Denny is Sour)
* TokenMinority ([[ANiceJewishIndex Jewish]])

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign (Faking European accents is her most underrated strength - and a bit of an AchillesHeel as it bled into her attempts at anything different.)

* CuteButCacophonic: her turn as "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHDrO3f_XaY whiny girlfriend of gangster boss Colin]]" in ''Weird Newscasters''.

* TheScrappy (Also [[KickTheDog thanks primarily to more appearances]].)
* TheSmurfettePrinciple (first regular female for the US run)

* ThreeFacesOfEve (Kathy is Sweet)

* IWasQuiteAFashionVictim (two words: UK hair)
* {{Keet}} (especially notable as he's gone toe to toe with Wayne on occasion)
* LargeHam (in his UK debut, Clive brought up Chip's stage musical experience, and it ''really'' shows)
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname (Watch the end credits - sometimes they say ''Charles'' Esten)
* PutOnABus (first appeared in the UK version, then took a long hiatus before reappearing in the US one)
* {{Retraux}} (his chiseled good looks invoke '60s screen idols, and has been lampshaded once)

* MemeticOutfit (the shinyish suit)
* {{Retraux}} (the suit, that hair - he'd fit right in with TheBeatles, really)

* StockCharacters (ChristopherWalken)

* FirstInstallmentWins (first regular female musician, a job arguably harder than the actual improv)
* NotSoStoic (she's never failed to deliver whatever music is required, but noticeably messed up at least once - her piano play went OffTheRails thanks to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSDW6Tjpp2U one Irish Drinking Song]])
* ThreeFacesOfEve (Laura is Sweet, at least for no-Kathy eps)
* TheQuietOne (Has only two lines for the entire run, and only after [[ThrowItIn the keyboard crashed]].)
* YamatoNadeshiko (carried out all her usual duties ''while being very visibly pregnant'' for a stretch. That, folks, is what we call a trooper.)

To add versatility to the music center of the show, guitarist Linda was added to Laura's corner - enforcing a noticeable trend of female-only musicians (later eps would have brass specialists Cece Worral-Rubin or Anne King joining in)

* AffirmativeActionGirl (she's usually seen standing and has her hair in that bleached-blonde crewcut. Hmm.)

* CuteButCacophonic: her turn as "whiny girlfiriend of gangster boss Colin" in ''Weird Newscasters''.

* SpotlightStealingSquad (Rory won many of the games he appeared on. He was also always given a chance to show off an impression he was good at, or another subject he knew about. See for example the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZAAdkALnZE Tory Politicians Hoedown]], which was the topic when the other three contestants were not British. Greg is able to show off his UK politics knowledge, but Colin and Ryan just sort of flounder.)

** Don't forget the winking!

* ThanksForTheMammary (Much like the example with Josie, Caroline is groped by Tony in revenge after she slaps him in the face. She counters to this by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard openly grabbing his crotch]] immediately afterward.)