Drew Carey's Green Screen Show (2004)

Directed by

Marv Newland, Cordell Barker, Eli Noyes, Janet Perlman

Genre

comedy television program

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Drew Carey hosts an improv comedy show where performers act out scenes in front of a green screen. Animation and sound effects are added later to create cartoonish gags.

improvisedplayfulsillyfast-pacedlightheartedabsurdwhimsical

What happens

Drew Carey's Green Screen Show is an American improvisational comedy television series that aired from October 7 to November 4, 2004 on The WB, and from September 26 to November 8, 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" (similar to the "Newsflash" game from Whose Line?), 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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