Games played: Let's Make A Date, If You Know What I Mean, Duet, Title Sequence, Scenes From A Hat, Hoedown.Games played: Let's Make A Date, If You Know What I Mean, Duet, Title Sequence, Scenes From A Hat, Hoedown.Games played: Let's Make A Date, If You Know What I Mean, Duet, Title Sequence, Scenes From A Hat, Hoedown.
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- TriviaIn "Title Sequence", Drew initially takes the suggestion from the audience of Bill Cosby and Adolf Hitler as two unlikely roommates, but is stopped from using it by the stage manager. Instead, Wayne and Brad sing about Bill Cosby and the Insurance Salesman. In retaliation for this, Drew and the performers work in many Hitler and censorship references throughout the rest of the episode.
- Quotes
Ryan Stiles: [in "Hoedown", about directors]
[singing]
Ryan Stiles: Our director, he really is the boss. / For yelling and screaming, he's never at a loss. / He's the meanest guy that you will ever see. / He should sprout a mustache and move to Germany!
[audience cheers]
- ConnectionsEdited into Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Show No. 7024 (2005)
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Drew And Friends Stick It To Censorship
This episode of the ABC incarnation of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Is famous for doing one thing: making fun of a censor-happy man who is against a joke that is basically harmless.
At the start, Drew and the performers for the episode, Brad Sherwood, Wayne Brady, Collin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles, would perform in this show, which for those who have heard of this for the first time, is an improv comedy show that is is under the guise of a contest (as everything is made up and the points don't matter). The show goes as normal, but when it gets to the fourth game, Title Sequence, then the episode starts to kick into gear, as when an audience member mentions Bill Cosby and Hitler, the director stops to tell Drew he cannot make fun of Hitler, forcing him to change it Cosby and the insurance salesman.
While they could have edited it out, Drew and the guys left it in, as after the game, they would get back at the director, slipping in jokes about it (and even Drew making witty comments in Scenes from a Hat where they can't make fun of Hitler, but they make fun of Tonto, who is a Native American). Nowadays, doing that would get you cancelled, as the network would not be happy about one staff member being made fun of for doing his job, but this was back in 2002, when people didn't lose it over a joke. This is a funny episode where the performers and Drew had a good first part, but once the problems began, they had fun sneaking in the jokes and Drew basically told truth about the double standards being allowed.
At the start, Drew and the performers for the episode, Brad Sherwood, Wayne Brady, Collin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles, would perform in this show, which for those who have heard of this for the first time, is an improv comedy show that is is under the guise of a contest (as everything is made up and the points don't matter). The show goes as normal, but when it gets to the fourth game, Title Sequence, then the episode starts to kick into gear, as when an audience member mentions Bill Cosby and Hitler, the director stops to tell Drew he cannot make fun of Hitler, forcing him to change it Cosby and the insurance salesman.
While they could have edited it out, Drew and the guys left it in, as after the game, they would get back at the director, slipping in jokes about it (and even Drew making witty comments in Scenes from a Hat where they can't make fun of Hitler, but they make fun of Tonto, who is a Native American). Nowadays, doing that would get you cancelled, as the network would not be happy about one staff member being made fun of for doing his job, but this was back in 2002, when people didn't lose it over a joke. This is a funny episode where the performers and Drew had a good first part, but once the problems began, they had fun sneaking in the jokes and Drew basically told truth about the double standards being allowed.
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- jeremycrimsonfox
- Nov 4, 2023
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