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A new improv comedy show hosted by comedian Drew Carey, the show is a gathering of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' 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 [[Viva Las Vegas|Las Vegas]] instead of a sound stage in Hollywood, which gives it more of a traditional stage improv feel.
''[[Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza]]'' has been cancelled, but Drew Carey still owns the rights to the show and [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|another is being planned]].
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: "Song for a Lady" is much more elaborate than the traditional ''Duets'', involving asking the audience member about her hobbies and education and what country she'd like to visit, among other things. Also counts as [[Adaptation Distillation]] compared to the even-more-elaborate "American Musical" game from the old UK ''Whose Line''.
** Similarly, "Options" does this with the classic "Film TV Theater Styles", incorporating "Number of Words" and "Change Letter".
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Ryan favors names like [[Running Gag|Gary and Phil]]. Jeff prefers Tamberline and Amantha. Note that the latter is a corruption of [[Spell My Name With an "S"|Samantha]], which prompted Chip to take it [[Up to Eleven]] with Tevan (Steven), Tan (Stan), and [[The Triple|Burnoose.]]
** It works with nicknames too. Audience member Jen's husband Bob calls her Shortcake. Jen calls her husband...Bobby.
** From a game of ''Sentences'', Jeremy and... Jawarhalla.
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* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Two [http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/drew-and-ryan-stone-carvers different] [http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/sentences-ice-age attempts] at a caveman setting quickly [[A Worldwide Punomenon|devolved]] into this. A third one had Wayne busting out his [[Sassy Black Woman]] act while acting as "tribal women" in "ancient history".
* [[The Announcer]]: Rich Fields, with whom Drew worked for a couple years on ''[[The Price Is Right]]''.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: "VOLCANO!" "New choice." "GEYSER!" "New choice." ([[Beat]]) "FREE STEW!"
* [[Ass Shove]]: in several gags and at the end of [http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/new-choice-school-fundraiser this one.] Notice how Drew shakes hands with Ryan and ''doesn't'' shake hands with Colin...
* [[Audience Participation]]: Many games involve bringing in random audience members to assist in the games. One confessed she was drunk but Colin quickly stated "Being drunk doesn't really hinder being on stage."
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{{quote| Colin: "Why... don't you make the nose even bigger?" <br />
Ryan: "Are we really going to start?! 'Cos I will..." }}
** This also doubled as a [[Call Back]], alluding to all the times Colin made fun of Ryan's nose in ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line]]''.
* [[Big "What?"]]: Jonathan (and Drew) in a game of Forward/Reverse.
** The first time around, Drew says:
{{quote| '''Drew:''' Oh no! I forgot my mop! I'll walk back!}}
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** In one game of ''New Choice'', in one of those huge sections where Jonathan says "new choice" [[Overly Long Gag|over and over again]] until they say something he enjoys, Ryan says to Greg "I want you to wear this" which is then replaced by a new choice. Later in the game, Greg is caught in a stream of new choices of his own, one of which is "I'm wearing it."
** "Songs of the Stripper". Jeff started off with the line "Hey there mister, Hey there son", and two verses later Jonathan added [[Your Mom|"the stripper is his mom"]].
* [[Buffy
** "Merit badge stuff..."
** "Huge office ball clacker..."
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus "Wings and snakes going around like that..."]
* [[
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Jonathan and Sean, mostly. So far, Sean has been in both "Mouse Trap" games.
** 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.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker|Deadpan Snarkers]]: The Whose Line Alumna. They're used to bad suggestions and poor audience participation.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Often in "Options", whenever "Shakespeare" comes up as a subject.
* [[Did They or Didn't They?]]: Played for laughs in ep. 38 when the ''Price is Right'' models guest star, and Jeff is shown leading one of them back off the stage. One [[Beat]] later, they come back up, with Jeff wiping his mouth off and the model playing along.
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: "New Choice" seems designed to trigger this.
{{quote| Drew: "I wouldn't call it 'drugging you' ''per se''... I would call it... ''preparing'' you..."<br />
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''Put the pancake on the stack''<br />
''Everybody flap my jack!'' }}
* [[
* [[
** In a recent game of "Sentences" with Chip and Jeff, all it took was the word "velociraptor" [[Mythology Gag|to get Colin in on the action.]]
* [[
{{quote| Brad: "I'm just gonna pick up this rock..." (Steve Kamer makes an odd sound) "Actually, it's a hibernating bear! I like to use a hibernating bear that ''looks'' like a rock so that when it's coming in, it's a big surprise to the enemy! They'll think, "Just a rock." But no, it's an angry bear that's been woken from its sleep in mid-hibernation!"}}
* [[Evil Laugh]]: When Ryan and Kathy are doing a scene about garbage collection, one joke has Sean laughing out loud. The way the mics pick him up (and then fade away) it sounds like Sean has something truly terrible in store for them.
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* [[Genre Busting]]: The last number in a CATS musical to be sung in just three words at a time? Kung Fu Vaudeville?
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: [http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/question-medulla-oblongata "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 [[Precision F
** Mostly visual, but still:
{{quote| '''Colin''': ([[Does This Remind You of Anything?|shaking gesture]]) YAHTZEE!<br />
'''Jeff''': (breaking character) Oh, thank God, I thought you were doing something completely different. }}
* [[Go Look At the Distraction]]: Used in episode 11's "Two-Headed Expert" twice when "Jorge" wanted to make an escape.
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'''Drew''': ALL RIGHT! }}
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Chip and Jeff. They're often paired together in games, always sit next to each other when in the background, and generally have a bromance going on. According to Jeff, he and Chip "have this brotherly ESP connection."
* [[Hey
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: While it isn't any less raunchier than the original Whose Line, GSN has cut and censored far less for broadcast.
** Some of the [[Lighter and Softer]] approach from ''Drew Carey's Green Screen Show'' has been retained though, like the time they get a kid to voice ''Sound Effects'', and Ryan calls out Jeff for even suggesting "[[Howard Stern]]".
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** From one game of "Questions":
{{quote| '''Greg, as game show host:''' Everyone has one point except for Senior-<br />
'''Ryan, as Neil Patrick Harris, Sr.:''' ENNHT! [[Breathless Non
'''Greg:''' Indeed, we are! }}
* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]
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{{quote| Heather: [[Innocent Innuendo|Hold on, I have to blow (this flute) into the right part...]]<br />
Jeff: [[If I Had a Nickel]] for that! }}
* [[
{{quote| Ryan: "...you couldn't find me?... [[Sarcasm Mode|Well, doesn't that make Ryan... feel good...]]"}}
** Even better, ep. 38 had Drea picking this bespectacled guy from the audience, ''also named Drew.''
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* [[Piss Take Rap]]: from the new "Kick It!" game to stuff like [http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/chip-jeff-and-jonathan-lethal-injection this.]
{{quote| Ryan: [[Lampshade Hanging|I'm so white!]]}}
* [[Precision F
{{quote| Greg: "So what happened is, we were on the street where we came across this kid<ref>[[Charlie Sheen]].</ref> and he said "I love you guys, I've seen your improv and your comedy, and I wonder if there is any tickets to the show", and so I told him... "No f--k off, we're sold out..." "}}
** And Jeff towards the end of the gangsta rap "Lethal Injection":
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** Jonathan in "Song for a Lady":
{{quote| "She's a nurse, and he's a cop; that's like ''cardiac arrest''!"}}
* [[Ripped
* [[Running Gag]]: Thanks to the venue, jokes about gambling come up a lot.
** Jonathon being the [[Butt Monkey]] has become a recurring theme.
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** In episode 35, Greg and Jeff go "gloogloogloogloogloo" and "DING" when demonstrating how pudding can fluff panties.
* [[Schadenfreude]]: Much during the Mousetrap game.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Played for laughs when one session of ''Freeze Tag'' [[It Makes Sense in Context|leads to more and more people clinging to Wayne's back.]]
** Done by Jeff in another game of ''Freeze Tag'' after [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Jeff was forced to remain in Downward Dog for the entire game.]]
** [http://tv.gsn.com/shows/improv/blog/freeze-approaching-cave Same with Jeff in a later game.]
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{{quote| Drew: (singing) "They're gonna pull your nose off - And put nails in your feet - Cos that's [[Transformers]]!"}}
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Noticeably missing from the lineup are Kathy Greenwood from ''Whose Line'' and Julie Larsen from ''Green Screen'' - instead, we have Kathy Kinney and newcomer Heather Anne Campbell taking turns to be the ''one'' woman on the stage. More astute viewers will have noticed how their names get the exact same spot in the opening credits.
* [[Special Guest]]: A literal [[Hey
{{quote| '''Steve''': "Tonight... [[Charlie Sheen]], on ''Inside Edition''..."<br />
'''Ryan''': "[[Reality Subtext|Thanks for reminding me I'm out of a job.]]"<ref>Except it's just been confirmed they're merely adding [[Ashton Kutcher]] to the cast and not cancelling [[Two and A Half Men]] now.</ref> }}
** Three of the ''Price Is Right'' models recently participated in the first ever 3-man "Moving People".
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' and ''Green Screen''.
* [[Suspiciously Apropos Music]]: 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] [[Porn Stash|somehow makes a porn groove.]]
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* [[Technology Marches On]]: one "Hits Compilation" had Jonathan mentioning that they were switching to USB keychains instead of CDs.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Special guest [[Charlie Sheen]], anyone?
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "Eight seconds, bitch!"
** And one session of "Two Headed Expert", quite conveniently:
{{quote| '''Drew/Jonathan''': (alternating) "I am sure [Cancun] is one word too... BIATCH!"}}
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** From one session of "Freeze":
{{quote| "This is Jeff Davis reporting live on the scene... It is indeed raining men."}}
* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]: Invoked in episode one by Greg during Colin's explanation of "Moving People" - which doubles as a [[Continuity Nod]] to [[Drew Careys Green Screen Show]], where Greg had a similar problem with the same game.
** Jeff said this in a game of ''Sound Effects'' when he picked audience members who proceed to make sounds that don't make sense.
** Also, in the game with the prostate exam, Ryan says this to Colin. [[Tempting Fate|Sure enough:]]
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** In the game of ''Options'' starring Kathy and Colin, Mexican dialect was brought up. Cue Colin speaking with a [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Scottish accent]]. While Kathy had [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign|a French or something-or-other accent]]. At least Colin had the excuse of being a tourist.
** For some reason, they decided it was a good idea to put a microphone into the hand of a post-[[Two and A Half Men]] [[Charlie Sheen]].
* [[What Do You Mean
** Also singing a song about going to the bathroom. And prostate exams. And flapjacks.
* [[What the Hell, Player?]]: A game of "First Date" wherein the couple being featured [[Another Side Another Story|disagreed about the sequence of events.]] They ring the bell and honk the horn at the same time, leaving the cast at a complete loss.
* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]: In a game of Options starring Drew and Colin.
{{quote| "Freeze. ''French'' dialect."}}
** Jeff in a game of ''Sentences''.
{{quote| '''Jeff''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Also, I started out English and now I moved to kind of south of the border.]]<br />
'''Ryan''': I can never figure you out! }}
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Heather Anne as a ten-year-old kid, abandoned by her parents years ago and raised by her neighbours, and develops telekinetic abilities that can [[Your Head Asplode|burst people's heads]] and [[What Do You Mean
* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: The actual game called "Whose Line" was changed to "Sentences" because "Whose Line" is tied directly with the trademarks of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]''.
** Had the same name on the Green Screen Show. Probably for the same reason.
{{quote| Chip: "This is [[Jeopardy (TV)|the game show where the contestants must give all their answers in the form of a question]], and we have changed the name so that we don't put ourselves in legal... [[Title Drop|jeopardy.]]"}}
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