An Evening With...

Last Friday night, my wife and I went to see An Evening With Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood from Whose Line is it Anyway?

They came out on stage and made up everything they performed based on audience suggestions and other randomness. It was hysterical. After their introduction, Colin kicked things off by saying, "Well, let's make up some ####."

In no particular order:

"Change"

They did a variation of the "change" game. This is the game where they do a scene, but every time somebody says, "Change!", they have to change the last thing they just said.

They gathered up three kids from the audience and gave them all squeaky bicycle horns. Then, an audience suggestion and a random page from the phone book became the basis for their scene. I don't remember the scene, but I do remember that one of the kids really got happy with his horn, which led to:

Brad: Here, let me pour you a drink. I'll just mix up some lime and some rum...
SQUAAA-HEE!
Brad: I'll just put in some vodka and some lemon...
SQUAAA-HEE!
Brad: Some jagermeister and a donut...
SQUAAA-HEE!
Brad: Some roses and gin...
SQUAAA-HEE!
Brad: A live monkey and 3 apples...
SQUAAA-HEE!

This went on for a full minute. After the "live monkey" line, I was almost in tears. I don't remember the rest. Colin stayed deadpan the entire time. Finally, the honking stopped and the roar of the audience slowed down enough to hear Colin say, "Hm... Got anything with Live Monkey in it?".

"Whose Line"

They did a variation of the "Whose Line?" game. This is the game where throughout the scene, they would pick up a card and read the line that was written on the card. The cards were filled out by audience members early in the show. The scene was The Old West, and the audience suggestion for "Why would the sheriff be afraid of this bandit?" was, "Because he's naked."

During the scene, Sheriff Brad picked up a card from the hat and said to Colin, "'Ole Naked Bart is gonna come ridin' into this town, and when he and his naked posse show up, you know they'll be shooting their guns in the air and shouting, [looks at his card], 'Your anger and depression is a choice.'"

"Changed Letter"

During the "Changed Letter" game, every time they said a word with the letter "S" in it, they had to substitute in the letter "D". Colin called Brad a sissy, which came out as "diddy". Brad replied, "People like you make me sick!". I'll let you substitute that one on your own. :)

"If you know what I mean"

This game was pretty similar to the version from the TV show. Due to audience suggestions and random phone book pages, Brad was a florist and Colin ran a restaurant in Italy. Every line they spoke was very suggestive and was followed by the phrase, "If you know what I mean." The subject matter quickly turned to the meat from Colin's restaurant, *ahem*, if you know what I mean.

"The mousetrap game"

This one was simply unbelievable. They took 100 (yes! 100) live mousetraps and put them in a large squarish area on stage. Brad and Colin played the Alphabet Game... this is the game where they go back and forth saying lines, and each line has to start with the next letter in the alphabet. They got the scene from an audience suggestion (building a house). They were barefoot. They were blindfolded (yes! blindfolded!). And every line had to be sung in the style of an opera.

Just imagine two blindfolded men, cautiously feeling their way around stage and singing lines to each other. It went something like this:

"Haaaaa-mer! Oh wheh-air is my haaaaa-mer! Oh have you seen my [snap] YEEEAOOOW!!!"
"I think your hammer may be over here."
"Just.... gimmie a minute...."

At one point Brad literally had a mousetrap protruding from his toes. It looked painful. As more and more traps got sprung, both men started getting lower and lower to the ground (doubled over in pain). Then, Colin found a mousetrap with his hand. It didn't snap shut on him, so he picked it up and tossed it toward Brad's voice.

The game quickly got out of hand. Mousetraps were flying. Amusingly, most of the ones Colin tossed were at about the right height to hit Brad near his crotch. Most of the ones Brad tossed snapped shut on his own fingers before they could get airborn.

Near the conclusion of the game, Colin took off his blindfold. Then, the traps *really* started to fly. Brad didn't know Colin wasn't blind anymore. He actually wound up with a mousetrap hanging from the bottom of his untucked shirt.

After writing up that long description of the mousetrap game, my wife went and found a video of them playing it. Click here to see some videos (including Mousetraps!) from Colin and Brad's show.


It was a grand show. I highly recommend it, if you get the chance. At least twice during the show I was literally wiping away tears.