21.4 – Maile Brady

EPISODE 1212

Host Aisha Tyler with Wayne Brady, Jeff Davis, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall and Linda Taylor accompanying, and special guest Maile Brady.

PRESS CONFERENCE – Colin is announcing that he’s slept with all of the Muppets with Ryan, Jeff and Wayne as reporters.

DUET – Wayne sings to Maile Brady in the style of R&B.

MIXED MESSAGES – Colin is the captain of a space ship that is getting sucked into a black hole and summons his crewmen Wayne and Jeff to figure out what to do. Wayne and Jeff can only speak using text messages from Charlie and Tatum’s phones from the audience.

PROPS – Wayne, Colin and Maile vs. Ryan and Jeff.

FILM DUB – All four dub the film An Evening Gone Wrong.

DUBBING – Influencers Wayne and Maile are trying to perfect a song and dance routine for TikTok. Colin is the rival TikTok-er challenging them to a dance off. Ryan provides the voice for Maile.

CREDITS – Wayne reads the credits with Maile as choreographers trying teach some moves to the world’s least sexy dancers, Ryan, Colin and Jeff.

Taped: January 21, 2023      Sister Shows: 21.5, 21.12

7.3 – Episode #7003

Host Drew Carey with Greg Proops, Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, and Laura Hall on the Piano

AWARD SHOW – Greg and Wayne present the bitter divorce award to Ryan and Colin.

PRESS CONFERENCE – Colin is Noah announcing he’s eaten all the animals on the ark with the others as reporters.

INFOMERCIAL – Ryan and Colin do an infomercial for a product to help you stop drinking.

SOUND EFFECTS – Lynn and Mary from the audience make sound effects for Ryan and Colin, who are two musketeers who are with their French-speaking third musketeer. They’re getting ready to ride off to a heavily-guarded castle to spring the man in the iron mask from the dungeon.

IRISH DRINKING SONG – Wayne, Greg, Colin and Ryan do the first car Irish Drinking Song

PROPS – Wayne and Drew vs. Ryan and Colin.

CREDITS – Everyone reads the credits as if they are at a Jimmy Stewart sound-alike convention.

Taped: November 3, 2001     Sister Shows: #510, #608, #612

6.6 – Episode #505 “Valentine’s Day Episode”

Host Drew Carey with Wayne Brady, Chip Esten, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall on the Piano, Linda Taylor and CeCe Worral-Rubin accompanying, and special guests Loyola Marymount University Cheerleaders

PRESS CONFERENCE – Colin is the Queen of England announcing her affair with Ryan.

SOUND EFFECTS – Ryan and Colin perform a scene with audience members Neely and Andrea providing the sound effects.

DUET – Brad and Wayne sing an R&B song to the cheerleaders from Loyola Marymount University.

LIVING SCENERY – Ryan and Colin perform a scene with the cheerleaders as the props.

IRISH DRINKING SONG – An Irish Drinking Song about “passing wind”.

Notes: This episode was originally scheduled to air February 14, 2003 but was preempted by an airing of America’s Funniest Home Videos. Then, it (and every episode thereafter) were preempted one week from their original airdates, for various reasons.

Taped: October 13, 2001     Sister Shows: #602, #604, #7005

5.31 – Episode #520

Host Drew Carey with Brad Sherwood, Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall on the piano, and Linda Taylor accompanying

HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR – Ryan and Wayne are two competing explorers on the last leg of their journey at the North Pole when one of them falls into an ice hole. Brad, a rival German explorer with a team of huskies, rushes in to help. Colin directs them in the styles of Spanish game show and x-rated censored version.

TWO-LINE VOCABULARY – In the Wild West, Ryan, Colin and Wayne are three outlaws holed up in a shack with a sheriff and a posse approaching. Colin can say anything he wants, but Ryan can only say “Don’t worry I’m a doctor” and “What do I look like?”, and Wayne can only say “Let’s not go there” and “Did you hear that?”

PRESS CONFERENCE – Colin is Yogi Bear announcing that he killed Boo Boo, with Ryan, Brad and Wayne as reporters.

IMPROBABLE MISSION – Colin and Ryan are on a mission to shovel snow, with Wayne as the voice on the tape.

IRISH DRINKING SONG – Brad, Wayne, Colin and Ryan sing about a first kiss.

CREDITS – Brad reads the credits as a tour guide showing off the animatronics at the Whose Line hall of fame.

Notes: This episode was originally scheduled to air April 24, 2003 but was preempted after ABC decided to air a different episode of Whose Line in its time slot. It was rescheduled for May 8, 2003 but was then preempted for All-American Girl.

Taped: November 1, 2001     Sister Shows: #508, #512, #517

5.29 – Episode #606

Host Drew Carey with Wayne Brady, Kathy Griffin, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall on the piano, and Linda Taylor accompanying

PRESS CONFERENCE – Colin is the first astronaut to make love on the moon with Ryan, Wayne and Kathy as reporters.

SOUND EFFECTS – Colin is the chief of police and Ryan is a leader of a mob making their way to Frankenstein’s castle to hunt down the monster, while audience members Valerie and Ann provide sounds.

IRISH DRINKING SONG – Wayne, Kathy, Colin and Ryan sing about graduation.

PARTY QUIRKS – Kathy is the host of the party, Wayne is Kathy’s chatty manicurist possessed by an evil Scottish demon, Colin is a wannabe stud who practices pickup lines in the mirror but can’t use them on real women, and Ryan is an apartment maintenance man who’s come to fix things but acts as though he is in an action movie.

HELPING HANDS – Ryan is a wedding planner and entertainer going over last minute details for Kathy’s wedding with Colin providing Ryan’s hands.

THEME RESTAURANT – Drew and Kathy are dining with Ryan and Wayne as waiters at a restaurant with the theme of “The Wizard of Oz”.

CREDITS – Kathy reads the credits as a waitress at a late night coffee shop running down the menu items to a group of drunks.

Taped: November 2, 2001     Sister Shows: #509, #514, #610

5.18 – Episode #609

Host Drew Carey with Brad Sherwood, Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall on the piano, and Linda Taylor accompanying

PRESS CONFERENCE – Colin is Batman announcing he’s coming out of the closet with Ryan, Brad and Wayne asking him questions.

INFOMERCIAL – Ryan and Colin sell products for doing face-lifts.

ALL IN ONE VOICE – Colin and Wayne sing together as Miss Piggy and Ryan and Brad sing as Kermit the Frog serenading each other with the song “The First Time We Kissed”.

CHANGE LETTER – One night in the ER, Brad is the attending physician and Colin is the nurse, Ryan and Wayne are patients who enter later. Everyone must replace the letter “B” with the letter “F”.

SCENES FROM A HAT – The scenes include the world’s worst news anchor, what our cameramen are thinking right now, baby Drew’s first words, and things you might say about your computer but not your girlfriend.

IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN – Ryan, Brad and Colin are three soldiers in the barracks.

CREDITS – Brad and Wayne read the credits as 1950’s variety show hosts saying goodbye to all their guests.

Taped: September 9, 2001     Sister Shows: #503, #7020

4.13 – Episode #418 “Too Hot For Whose Line”

Host Drew Carey with Greg Proops, Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall at the piano, Linda Taylor, and Cece Worral-Rubin accompanying

PRESS CONFERENCE – Colin is the Tin Man announcing the birth of his child with Dorothy, with Greg, Wayne and Ryan as the reporters.

HATS – Greg and Wayne vs. Colin and Ryan in dating agency videos.

MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES – Ryan, Colin and Greg are on the Poseidon cruise ship that just hit a wave and has capsized, whoever’s holding the telescope is Rain Man, the captain’s hat is John Wayne, and the life saver is Liberace.

GREATEST HITS – Ryan and Colin describe songs of retirement, with Wayne performing the songs, including “Puttering Around the Garden” (Destiny’s Child), “I’m Gonna Torch the Place” (Polka) and “Shut Those Kids Up I’m Trying to Sleep” (Metal).

WORLD’S WORST – Greg, Drew, Colin and Ryan do the world’s worst self-help videos.

CREDITS – Greg and Ryan as two news anchorman who don’t realize the cameras are still on.

Taped: March 9, 2001     Sister Shows: #410, #427, #7010

4.10 – Episode #419 “Too Hot For Whose Line”

Host Drew Carey with Brad Sherwood, Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Laura Hall at the piano, and Linda Taylor accompanying

PRESS CONFERENCE – Colin is Santa Claus announcing his retirement with the other three as reporters.

IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN – Ryan, Brad and Colin are in an office.

SHOW-STOPPING NUMBER – Colin, Ryan and Wayne are at the veterinarian.

DUBBING – High school quarterback Colin is making a move on star athlete Betty from the audience, voiced by Brad, who is stretching by the track. Ryan, her boyfriend, arrives to train with her.

SCENES FROM A HAT – Topics include what Olympic medalists are really thinking while listening to the national anthem, times when eenie meanie miney moe is not an appropriate selection method, what Alexander Graham Bell really said the first time he used the phone, things the pilot wishes he hadn’t said when the intercom was on, first lines of the worst poems ever written, things that shouldn’t have ejector seats, and things found in Drew Carey’s appointment book.

HOEDOWN – Wayne, Drew, Colin and Ryan sing the “doctors” hoedown.

CREDITS – Colin, fluffing his Garfield.

Notes: This show was preempted twice, once on September 13, 2001 and again on October 4, 2001.

Taped: February 9, 2001     Sister Shows: #407, #424, #8014