Drew Carey's Green Screen Show
Drew Carey's Green Screen Show is an improvisational comedy television series that aired in the fall of 2004 on The WB Television Network, and the fall of 2005 on Comedy Central. The show was hosted by Drew Carey, and was somewhat a follow-up to the show he formerly hosted, Whose Line Is It Anyway?. The distinguishing feature of the show was that the improv games were performed in front of a "green screen", with animation, music and sound effects inserted in post-production. The show was otherwise very similar to Whose Line? and featured many of the same performers and games. On an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien when "Green Screen" premiered, Carey claimed that he got the idea during the Whose Line? game "Moving people" when he thought how funny it would be if you could not see the people manipulating the players. The show's theme song was La Trampa, performed by Tonino Carotone and Manu Chao and the show's underscore was composed by Michael A. Levine.
Cast: Drew Carey, Jonathan Mangum, Charles Esten
Season 1
13 episodes
- 1. Episode #01The show begins with ""Freeze Tag"" with the entire cast in on the action, continuing with ""Sentences"" featuring Drew, Jeff, and Julie on Zeppelin. Colin and Brad teach us how to box with Jeff giving a ""New Choice"" and ""One Syllable Word"" featuring Colin, who lost a bet to the horses.CC30minOct 7, 2004
- 2. Episode #02In ""Syllables,"" Colin attempts to make a man out of Brad in the army. ""Sentences"" has Drew and Greg in an old west showdown. In ""New Choice,"" Brad and Colin show us ""How to Have a Baby"", and the entire cast plays off ideas in a game of ""Freeze Tag.""CC30minOct 14, 2004
- 3. Episode #03In Game Show, Brad hosts ""Catch That Knife"" with Drew, Chip, and Greg as contestants. In Sound Effects, Colin teaches Drew how to train animals. New Choice features Greg and Jeff, and everyone joins in for Freeze Tag.CC30minOct 21, 2004
- 4. Episode #04""One Syllable Word"" features a trip to the dentist, while ""Sound Effects"" takes a trip to Alaska. ""New Choice"" features Colin as a man who repairs toasters, and the entire gang tells the ""Story"" of Onion Sam.CC30minOct 28, 2004
- 5. Episode #05In ""One Syllable Word"" the gang tries to cure a sick dog at the vet. ""New Choice"" features Shakesphere in Bakersfield, California with Brad and Jeff featuring Colin calling. ""Sound Effects"" features Drew and Jeff as mad scientists, and the entire gang tells the ""Story"" of the man who stole Florida.CC30minNov 4, 2004
- 6. Episode #06In Styles, Chip and Jeff are roommates arguing over each other's underwear, with Brad calling. In Game Show, Greg hosts "You Bet Your Pants." The entire cast trade off ideas in Freeze Tag. Finally, with Drew pointing, all of the cast tell the Story of "Bertha and the Haunted Municipal Building."CC30minSep 26, 2005
- 7. Episode #07Jeff, Jonathan and Greg play New Choice and fight to the death in Tahiti. Sound Effects has Brad and Jeff on a mission to blow up a meteor. Brad, Sean, and Jeff try to rescue Boogie Oogie Oogie the cat from a tree. Sean, Greg, Drew and Jonathan play Hollywood Moment as storm chasers. Finally, Jonathan, Greg, and Jeff play Styles as a Nurse and Patient.CC30minOct 3, 2005
- 8. Episode #08In Game Show, Brad hosts an episode of "Guess My Disorder." In Sound Effects, Brad and Jeff attempt to fix an airport conveyor belt. Brad, Jeff, and Colin play New Choice and try to show you "How to Clean a Fish." Finally, Jeff and Greg play Moving people and celebrate the momentous holiday of "Whiner's Day."CC30minOct 10, 2005
- 9. Episode #09In Sound Effects, Greg and Brad work at a noisy construction site. Drew and the rest of the cast act out a Sci-Fi/Adventure/Fantasy Movie based on the monster of the "Mermabeest" (half-mermaid, half-wildebeest.) In New Choice, Greg and Jeff work in a French foie gras factory where one of the machines is a minister of Satan, with Brad calling. Finally, Jeff tries to get rid of a computer virus (Sean) and get back his data (Kathy) with help from Spyware (Drew), the legal department from Warner Bros. (Brad) and his porn (Julie and Greg).CC30minOct 17, 2005
- 10. Episode #10The show starts off with the entire cast (staring with Colin (kneeling) and Julie (on one foot)) playing Freeze Tag. In Game Show, Greg hosts “Clean My House.” In Montage (Harold) the entire cast play different skits based on the opposites of “good and evil” and the emotion of “sad.” Finally, Greg tries to prevent Jeff from drinking a poisonous Martini.CC30minOct 24, 2005
- 11. Episode #11In Sound Effects, Brad is Jeff's bodygaurd demonstrating how to use rifles. In New Choice, Greg and Chip go on a clay-modeling safari in search for armadillos with Brad calling. In Sentences, Colin shows Drew his invention, a wooden dunking toucan, but Chip attempts to steal it. Finally, the entire cast, with Jeff pointing, tell the Story of "The Superb Ego."CC30minNov 1, 2005
- 12. Episode #12In Fill in the Blank, Greg, Colin, Jeff and Brad (reprising the Grim Reaper) act out "In a _Hotel_ with _Santa Claus_," where Colin is an always joking St. Nick who always claims to be dying. The entire cast, with Drew pointing, tell the Story of "The Little Antelope That Could." Chip and Greg race each other in England. In Sentences, Drew and Jonathan run a restaurant disguised as a dry cleaner. Finally, in Montage (Harold), the cast trade off ideas based on the fear of spiders and the image of Dali's melting clock.CC30minNov 7, 2005
- 13. Episode #13No synopsis available yet.CC30min
Drew Carey's Green Screen Show
Drew Carey's Green Screen Show is an improvisational comedy television series that aired in the fall of 2004 on The WB Television Network, and the fall of 2005 on Comedy Central. The show was hosted by Drew Carey, and was somewhat a follow-up to the show he formerly hosted, Whose Line Is It Anyway?. The distinguishing feature of the show was that the improv games were performed in front of a "green screen", with animation, music and sound effects inserted in post-production. The show was otherwise very similar to Whose Line? and featured many of the same performers and games. On an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien when "Green Screen" premiered, Carey claimed that he got the idea during the Whose Line? game "Moving people" when he thought how funny it would be if you could not see the people manipulating the players. The show's theme song was La Trampa, performed by Tonino Carotone and Manu Chao and the show's underscore was composed by Michael A. Levine.
Creators and cast
- Created by
- Drew Carey, Robert Morton, Ron Diamond
