An improve comedy show with a twist: what if you could actually see what the performers were making up? Hosted by Drew Carey who came up with the idea during a game of "Moving People" in the US version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, which this show is a sort of follow-up to and includes many of the same comedians. The performers would do their thing in front of a giant green screen; then their footage would be sent to various animators who would fill in what the performer's imaginations created with, oftentimes extra hilarity would result from the animators inserting extra gags of their own or purposely going wild with what the performers gave them. The styles and methods of animation would vary greatly from skit to skit, from hand drawn to CGI to puppets to stop-motion.
Drew Carey's Green Screen Show provides examples of:
- Always a Bigger Fish: The one thing the monstrous spectral Bertha is afraid of is her supervisor, the giant protoplasmic Gigantor.
- Anthropomorphic Food: The Onion Sam story has three: there is Onion Sam himself who is a colossal onion man, his girlfriend Becky who has the head of a hamburger (with bacon for hair), and the French Fry Kid who is a living roast chicken.
- Eldritch Abomination: Gigantor, a grumpy old undead spirit who just wants a donut.
- Fan Disservice:
- The big burly guys dressed as game show hostesses in "Clean My House".
- The exceedingly fat and flabby body of the Evil Overlord from the game with mermabeasts.
- Fat Bastard: Paul from "The Superb Ego" is a rotund guy who, as the title suggests, is incredibly arrogant and vain.
- Funny Background Event: Alongside what the improvers do, much of the show’s humor comes from various random gags the animators insert.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: Brad loves to end stories like this."When you turn a peninsula into an island, your not going to have a merry isthmus."
- Plot Twist: Lampshaded by the King in the story of "The Superb Ego" as he makes the competition be about who is the most humble."See the twist?!"
- Short-Runner: Lasted only one season despite good reviews. The expensiveness of the animation is generally thought of the reason why it got canned so quickly.
- Silent Snarker: Some of the cartoons inserted are this. The racing horse from a game of One-Syllable Words being a particularly good example, rolling her eyes and laughing at the performers who mess up in the game.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Jimmy the antelope from “The Little Antelope That Could” finally wins an Oscar... Only to be eaten by an impatient lion.
- Wolf Man: Jeff turns into one in one of the games.
