African Chant: Wayne sings a song about an audience member in the style of an African chant. The other three performers dance and sing in the background.

Animals: Three contestants act out a soap opera-type scene, each as an animal Drew tells them to be.

Award Show: Two performers are presenters at an award show, the other two are the eventual winners sitting in the audience. The topic of the award show is given by Drew.

Ballad of...: Duet where the singers sing about the audience member in a country ballad.

Change Emotions: Three contestants are given two props. Each prop has a particular emotion attached to it, so if a performer is holding that prop, they must display that emotion.

Change of Cast: Three contestants perform a scene, being periodically interrupted by Drew to act as different kinds of people.

Dating Service Video: The four performers split up into two groups of two. Each group is given a box of hats and costuming props. Using those, the performers must create examples of the world's worst dating service video, with Drew buzzing between the two groups.

Daytime Talk Show: One performer is the host of a daytime talk show. Two performers are guests on the show. Another performer is a member of the audience of the talk show. The show's topic is suggested by the audience.

Dead Bodies: The idea behind this game is that some people were onstage performing a scene, but they all suddenly died. A contestant (usually Colin) has not died, and manipulates the corpses to act out the scene. The scene usually starts off with one improvisor sitting onstage dead along with an audience member. Another improvisor walks in during the scene and dies.

Doo-Wop: Three performers sing a song in doo-wop style. The subject of the song is an occupation suggested by the audience.

Dubbing: Two performers act out a scene with an audience member. The audience member doesn't speak -- instead, the audience member's dialogue is provided by a third performer off to the side.

Duet: Song Styles with two singers.

Fashion Models: An occupation is suggested by the audience. Two contestants are the announcers at a fashion show, while the other two contestants are the models.

Film Dub: A clip from a movie or television program is shown, with the audio erased. An appropriate number of performers provide dialogue for the characters in the film, based on a scene from Drew.

Film, Theater, and Television Styles: Two or three performers act out a scene while Drew keeps interrupting them to make them perform in different styles suggested by the audience.

Foreign Film Dub: Two contestants are actors in a foreign film, speaking in a language suggested by the audience. Two other contestants provide translations of what the actors are saying. The film's fictional title is also suggested by the audience.

Gangsta Rap: Duet with the performers singing about an audience-suggested occupation in the style of a gangsta rap.

Good Cop, Bad Cop: One performer calls for the help of two other performers for some task. Of the two called performers, both used to be police officers, and employed the good cop, bad cop method of interrogation. They apply those methods while talking to the person needing their help.

Greatest Hits: Ryan and Colin pitch a compilation album about a profession suggested by the audience. One or two performers sing snippets of the songs Ryan and Colin talk about.

Hands Through: See Helping Hands.

Hats: See Dating Service Video.

Helping Hands: Ryan and another performer act out a scene with a table full of props. Ryan cannot use his hands, so Colin places his arms under Ryan's armpits and provides the appropriate hand gestures and motions.

Hey You Down There: A contestant narrates a 1950's-era public informational video, with Colin and Ryan acting out the advice and responding to the narrator.

Hoedown: Four performers sing a song in the style of a Hoedown about a suggestion given by the audience. The rhyme scheme is usually AABB.

Hollywood Director: Three performers act out a scene. Colin is the director of the scene. He keeps interrupting, having the others act the scene out in styles written on pieces of paper given to him.

If You Know What I Mean: Three performers are given a setting. They then have to have a conversation, peppering their dialogue with nonsense phrases that sound like euphemisms.

Improbable Mission: The audience gives a suggestion. One performer plays the voice of the tape in this "Mission: Impossible" parody. Ryan and Colin are the two agents who must complete the mission given to them by the tape.

Infomercial: Colin and Ryan are given a box of objects. Drew takes a suggestion from the audience for a product sold in infomercials. The two performers then have to act out an infomercial for that product, using the props as miracle solutions.

Irish Drinking Song: Four performers make up a song in the style of an Irish drinking song about a topic suggested by the audience. The performers make the song up one line at a time, with the rhyme scheme being ABCB. Each performer takes a turn starting two verses.

Let's Make a Date: One contestant plays a bachelorette on a "Dating Game"-style show, with the other three performers having specific traits suggested by the audience before the show. Through questioning and observation of what each bachelor is doing, the bachelorette must guess the quirks.

Living Scenery: Two performers act out a scene. All of the props and other scenery pieces in the scene are played by the other two performers.

The Millionaire Show: A parody of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". One player is the host, another the contestant. A third performer dispenses advice from the audience, and a fourth performer is the phone consultant.

Motown Group: Three performers sing about an audience topic as a Motown group.

Moving People: Two players perform a scene. They cannot move unless they are moved by one of two members of the audience. The performers must provide dialogue to correspond to the movements they are exhibiting.

Multiple Personalities: A game for three players. A prop is handed to each one. Each prop causes the holder to assume a certain celebrity's personality and mannerisms. When props are exchanged between players, so are the personalities.

Narrate: Colin and Ryan act out a film noir scene, narrating their thoughts and information about the other person. Mood music plays in the background.

News Flash: Two contestants are reporters in a studio. A third player is a reporter in the field. The third performer stands in front a green wall. That shade of green can be replaced electronically with video of a scene. Thanks to the monitors in the studio, everybody but the person "in the field" knows what scene is showing. With what the two reporters in the studio say as their only guide, the third player must identify the scene behind them.

90-Second Alphabet: Starting with a letter given by the audience, two or three performers must improvise a scene, with each successive line starting with the next letter of the alphabet until the original letter is reached again.

Number of Words: All four performers act out a scene. Each can only speak in sentences of a certain number of words, however. The number of words per sentence is different for each performer.

Old Job, New Job: Two performers interact with a third performer. The third performer is a member of a certain occupation, but during the scene incorporates qualities found in a second occupation that they used to have.

Party Quirks: One contestant is the host of a party. The other three contestants are guests at the party. Each of those three has been given a strange way of behaving by the audience before the program. It is the host's job to guess what they are portraying.

Press Conference: One performer plays a public figure holding a press conference. The other three performers play reporters asking questions of the public figure. The identity of the public figure is unknown to the performer playing the public figure. The reporters are told the public figure's identity. Through the reporters' questions, the public figure must determine his or her identity.

Props: The performers split into two groups of two. Each group is given a prop or props, and they must think of different ways to use the props. Drew buzzes between groups.

Questionable Impressions: Questions Only where the performers also have to do a different impression each time they come on.

Questions Only: All four performers are involved. Two stand on stage, two stand offstage, on either side. They must perform a scene while speaking only in questions. When a contestant fails in some way, they are buzzed out and replaced by the performer waiting offstage.

Quick Change: Three performers act out a scene. Every time the fourth performer says "Change," the person that just spoke has to come up with a new line.

Remote Control: Each of the four performers is a different TV show. All of the shows are dealing with the same topic (provided by the audience). Drew randomly buzzes from show to show.

Reunion: Three performers, all with the same occupation, meet at a reunion. After conversing, they all sing a song in unison.

Scene to Rap: All four contestants must improvise a scene, the entire time rapping. Two contestants start the scene, then Ryan walks in, then Colin walks in.

Scene with an Audience Member: Drew chooses an audience member to interact with two performers in a scene.
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The audience member is given a card with sentences on it. When prompted by a performer, the audience member reads the next sentence on the list.

Scenes Cut from a Movie: Drew collects several suggestions of real movies from the audience. He then has the performers act out scenes that didn't make the final cut of each of those movies.

Scenes from a Hat: Drew has a hat filled with scene suggestions from the audience. All four performers act out the scenes.

Show-Stopping Number: Three performers act out a scene suggested by the audience. When Drew presses his buzzer, the performer that just spoke must take the last sentence he/she last spoke and turn it into a brief musical number.

Song Styles: An audience member is chosen to come on stage to have a song made up about them by a performer in the style Drew gives. Alternatively, a suggestion of a household object is taken from the audience and sung about in a Drew-suggested style.

Song Titles: Two performers stand on stage, two stand on opposite sides. The performers on stage must create a scene talking only in song titles. If a performer fails, the other takes their place.

Sound Effects: Colin performs a scene to the sound effects Ryan provides.
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Two audience members are brought onstage and given microphones. Each is assigned to perform sound effects for either Ryan or Colin. The two improvisors have to adapt to the sounds the audience members make.

Sportscasters: Two performers are sportscasters, announcing the competition between the other two performers, who move in slow motion.

Stand, Sit, Bend: Three contestants act out a scene. At all times one must be standing, one must be sitting, and one must be bending over. If one performer changes positions, another must move to accommodate this rule.

Stand, Sit, Lie: Three contestants act out a scene. At all times one must be standing, one must be sitting, and one must be lying down. If one performer changes positions, another must move to accomodate this rule.

Superheroes: A performer is a fictional superhero suggested by the audience. A crisis, also suggested by the audience, is occurring, and it is the superhero's job to solve it. The other three performers come in, each playing a superhero suggested by the performer before them.

Survival Show: Three people are contestants on a reality-based survival show set in a location suggested by the audience. The fourth is a host that oversees the ceremony where the contestants vote to determine who will be kicked out.

Telethon: Ryan and Colin try to raise money for an unlikely charity, suggested by the audience. The other two performers play the menagerie of stars who have volunteered their time to sing a song about the charity. Starting in season two, Ryan and Colin announce the stars' names before the performers start singing in those styles.

Theme Restaurant: Two performers are diners at a restaurant. The other two performers act as employees of the restaurant. The waiters act in unusual ways to the theme of the restaurant.

Three-Headed Broadway Star: Three contestants must make up a song by taking turns saying one word only.

Title Sequence: The audience gives a title of a fictional TV show. Two performers sing the theme song to that show while the other two act to the song.

Two-Line Vocabulary: Three performers act out a scene given by Drew. One performer can say anything he/she wants to say. Another performer is given two sentences, and can only say those two sentences in the scene. The third performer is given two different sentences, and can only say those. The scene is then acted out.

Wedding: Drew finds a married couple, and asks the husband what one of his wife's faults is. Then the wife goes to the stage to be the bride in a mock wedding. One improviser is the groom, another improviser is the leader of the wedding ceremony, another improviser is a relative, and the final improviser sings a song to the couple.

Weird Newscasters: One contestant plays the anchorperson of a news show. Another plays their co-anchor, who has a specific trait. Another contestant plays the sportscaster, who has a different trait. Ryan plays the weatherman, who also has a trait. The traits are suggested by the audience before the show.

What Are You Trying To Say: Colin and Ryan act out a scene. They are both easily offended people, going off on mad rants after misinterpreting an innocent comment made by the other.

Whose Line: Colin and Ryan are given two lines each. They must then act out a given scene, incorporating the lines into the scene.

World's Worst: All four contestants line up on the red step. They must individually step forward to give examples of the world's worst (suggestion by Drew).

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