June 18, 2025 • 11 mins
Colin Mochrie is performing at the San Diego County Fair and stopped by the studio to say hi!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are very excited to have our next guest hanging
out with us in studio. You all remember the show
Whose Line Is It Anyway? I mean it was on
TV I think for what fifty a long time. Well,
one of the main players on Whose Line Is In
any Way? Is joining us. Colin Mockery is hanging out
with us because Colin has a big performance at the fair.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You made it.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Congratulations, thank you, We're very excited. Yeah, now, Colin, I
gotta tell you, I'm a big fan of the show.
I loved watching the show so much so that I
did get to see you live. When you guys did
the show live, it was This was probably gosh, ten
years ago at least, when you guys came to town
one time and the whole gang was there, Ryan, everybody
was there. It was great. And when I watched the
(00:51):
show live, I can't tell you how impressed I was,
because even when you watch the TV show, you kind
of assume, ah, well, they get the information beforehand, you know.
I'm sure you've heard that a million times.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yes, many times. Yes, there's nothing better than having your
entire career dismissed.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, I get it, But why do you get live
legitimately they asked the audience, the audience yells stuff out
and then they do it like whatever the scene is,
and so it is legit improv.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, it's I mean, it's really easier than people. I
mean everyone said, how can you do this? So hard?
It's not. It's just you have to go against everything
you do as a person. You have to listen, you
have to accept ideas and work together to get angil.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So uh, and I mean that cast was great, so
it made it very easy. But yeah, people always think,
well I can't do it, so how can anyone else?
My thing is I can't do brain surgery, but I
believe in it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, I'm sure somebody can trying. Yeah. Yeah. Thor when
I mentioned that you were coming in, he yelped. He
was so big fan.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I remember watching his lie. I watched two things as
a kid growing up, Saturday and Live and Who's Lies
In any Way? And I wanted to be on both shows.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Those are the only two things.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well that was like my two favorite shows and sports,
and those are my two favorite things.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
They wrote their stuff, yeah, they wrote all their stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, and they did a lot of drugs.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But but on whose lines in any way, I actually
ended up taking improv classes because I wanted to try it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You did, I did, But it's just like it's it's
really hard.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Because it's like it's so uncomfortable at first for me,
Like it's so uncomfortable and like you have to get
over that fear. And I never really have the same
thing with stand up. I always want to do that,
but I do every day. I know, I just I
don't know why. Like this, you know, improv classes they
start you you find like these You go to an
improv class and it's like this one teacher who has
(02:45):
had like a bit part on like a King of
Queen's episode thirty years ago, and then they make you
do like serious things and it's so weird and uncomfortable.
But did you ever have like an actor come in
who was like a really good actor but then they
just completely bombed doing Who's and you had you guys
had to like cow you them.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm dying.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I'm trying to think. I think most of the people
we had on was pretty good. I mean people constantly
like Richard Simmons pretty much surprised.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Richard Simmons came on. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It was responsible for I would say one of the
funniest things that was ever on television all because of him.
He was committed. He just did everything you're supposed to
do in improv. He I always tell people if you
don't quite understand what improv or whose line is, I say,
watch that scene, Richard Simmons.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Really yeah, people are frantically youtubeiz.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yes, yes, so tell us about the show that's gonna
happen at the fair because it's a it's a wild combination,
not just improv, but also there's a hypnotist involved. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We took hypnosis and improv, two things people don't believe in,
to bind it into one art form just the same time. Yeah.
So say a great hypnotist asked for twenty volunteers, he
hypnotizes them, gets it down to the best four or five,
and then then I form an instant improv troupe and
do it improv show.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And it's the weirdest I can't even imagine.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Most Yeah you can't, I can't these times. What I
love about it is it showcases on the nights it
goes really well. It showcases what people can do when
they get out of their own.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Way, like door was just talking about it because like
being committed is like the hardest part to me.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They're not thinking yep, they're just immediately reacting to everything
I say. Or and there's just the there was one
I do a duet with one of them, and this
guy I was singing with. It was it was like
I was singing with James Brown. Oh wow, it's amazing.
And then afterwards I saw him with his family and
I went up and he was self effacing, very quiet.
(04:56):
His entire family was crying. They'd never seen him sing
before or heard him.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, so things like that happened all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Okay, so when they're getting hypnotized, they're not like pretending
to be a chicken or something like that.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't even mention it to the hypnotis my my
bad because you see, when there's two things he hates more,
no one is going to cluck and the good good
and we don't use any plants.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Okay, okay, good? So So what kind of study? How
does he hypnotize you to be in it? Like, I
don't know, I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't. Every night I stand there going how is
this going to work? I'm watching him and he's doing it.
He's just kind of talking to him, and they're really relaxed.
And there. I think a reason a lot of people
don't believe in hypnosis is because they have misconception. Sure,
I mean all of my facts about hypnosis came from
the Flintstones. Yeah, apparently it was wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It looks like they're sleeping their sluck, but they're hearing everything.
They'll do a scene and they'll reference a scene that
happened three scenes before that they weren't in. It's just there,
really relaxed. They're still themselves. We haven't turned into zombies.
People who can now improvise because they don't have any
hang ups.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, the hell came up with this idea. This is
one of the crazier ideas I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, he was taking classes at Second City and he
realized what they were sort of teaching to get out
of your head and to do unconscious comedy was what
he does. We thought, oh, I wonder if I can.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, so did they contact you and say, well, we
need the best of the business, come.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
On, greatest living improvise, Thank you?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Wayne Brady went what I.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Write all of his stuff? Yeah, so he contacted me,
and I thought, one of the things I worry about
after doing this for so long is getting comfortable. And
I always have more fun when I'm outside of my
comfort zone. When I'm working with Brad, We're constantly coming
up with new games that take us right out of
our comfort zone because I find that's where the most
(06:58):
fun is. So I thought, nothing can be more outside
than working with people I've never met before who were hypnotized.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You gotta imagine every show is different.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Every shows totally different. What I love is they make
choices that quote real improvisers unquote.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
We did a Superhero scene where I'm looking for a
new sidekick and we got from the audience the Gibraltar kid.
So I said to the guy, so, what's your superpower?
Are you become like a rock? He said no, no,
I've a residency in Gibraltar, so if anything happens there,
I can take care of it. And I said, so
your superpower can work where you live and went yeah.
(07:39):
I said, but I well I need you in the States.
I don't have papers, and so it became this whole
home man. I know, it just went off into a direction.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yes, it's unbelievable. So this is happening tonight at the fair.
This is going to be a great thing to check
out though. I mean, this sounds amazing. It's gonna be
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Fine, it's really different from many you'll ever see. And
I recommend once you've seen it, go up and talk
to the people who were hypnotized, because still there are
still people. Goes, well, yeah, all plants and our thing
is both of us are fairly cheap, so that means
we have to spend a lot of money volunteers.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And well, if I were to ask, what's the number
one rule of improv that like the number one tip
you can give somebody, what is it?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Saying yes? And it's the hardest thing for people. We
were teaching a corporate workshop trying to get and we
spent the entire time just to get people to say
yes to someone's idea. If I'm doing a scene with
like Ryan or someone and he gets his idea out first.
If I have the greatest idea in the world, it
doesn't matter, it's gone. Now I have to support this one.
(08:47):
People will not let go of their ideas.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So it's really hard for people to understand you got
to get rid of the ego and you can still
work your stuff in, but you work it in throughout,
you know, organically, whatever the scene.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Is, that's great. Cool, I'm telling you, there's nothing more
impressive to me.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well, that leads me to my question, Colin. How do
you feel when an actor like is so proud and
they're like, I improved that line, Like the whole movie
was written for you and you did like one line.
Do you respect that or to kind of go like, oh.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, yeah, impressive.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Sure, I mean, yeah, there are there have been some
great lines improvised the history of film. Yeah, yeah, great?
And go on, do you teach a class?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Have you ever done that? So interesting?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, I'll go I'll just watch them and go, No,
that doesn't really help this teacher, Okay, I just I
think part of it is I don't really know what
I do. You just do it other than saying listen,
accept ideas, that's all I have.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
YEA very short wait.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I paid thirty.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And the opposite of my earlier question, who's the who
are your favorite like big time celebrities? The improv with?
Have you ever the improv with Will Farrell or Steve Crown.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Weirdly, I I was supposed to do a show in
LA but from Canada and they couldn't get the papers
in time, so they replaced me with Steve Carrell. Yeah,
I'm not saying I'm responsible for his career. I mean
(10:35):
I got Robin Williams was on the show and that
was I.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Believe.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, just like one of those dreams where we meet
our hero and he's everything you want him.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
But you see, Colin, this is one night only. It's
called hyprov hip hop. There's another thing. Don't mention chickens
and don't say high pro are so sensitive.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, I can tell that I better be hypnotized. Yeah,
tonight it's at the Fairy. You definitely want to watch this.
This is gonna sound like an amazing show called Thanks
for Coming In. Thanks absolutely
We are very excited to have our next guest hanging
out with us in studio. You all remember the show
Whose Line Is It Anyway? I mean it was on
TV I think for what fifty a long time. Well,
one of the main players on Whose Line Is In
any Way? Is joining us. Colin Mockery is hanging out
with us because Colin has a big performance at the fair.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
You made it.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Congratulations, thank you, We're very excited. Yeah, now, Colin, I
gotta tell you, I'm a big fan of the show.
I loved watching the show so much so that I
did get to see you live. When you guys did
the show live, it was This was probably gosh, ten
years ago at least, when you guys came to town
one time and the whole gang was there, Ryan, everybody
was there. It was great. And when I watched the
(00:51):
show live, I can't tell you how impressed I was,
because even when you watch the TV show, you kind
of assume, ah, well, they get the information beforehand, you know.
I'm sure you've heard that a million times.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yes, many times. Yes, there's nothing better than having your
entire career dismissed.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, I get it, But why do you get live
legitimately they asked the audience, the audience yells stuff out
and then they do it like whatever the scene is,
and so it is legit improv.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, it's I mean, it's really easier than people. I
mean everyone said, how can you do this? So hard?
It's not. It's just you have to go against everything
you do as a person. You have to listen, you
have to accept ideas and work together to get angil.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So uh, and I mean that cast was great, so
it made it very easy. But yeah, people always think,
well I can't do it, so how can anyone else?
My thing is I can't do brain surgery, but I
believe in it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, I'm sure somebody can trying. Yeah. Yeah. Thor when
I mentioned that you were coming in, he yelped. He
was so big fan.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I remember watching his lie. I watched two things as
a kid growing up, Saturday and Live and Who's Lies
In any Way? And I wanted to be on both shows.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Those are the only two things.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well that was like my two favorite shows and sports,
and those are my two favorite things.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
They wrote their stuff, yeah, they wrote all their stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, and they did a lot of drugs.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
But but on whose lines in any way, I actually
ended up taking improv classes because I wanted to try it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You did, I did, But it's just like it's it's
really hard.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Because it's like it's so uncomfortable at first for me,
Like it's so uncomfortable and like you have to get
over that fear. And I never really have the same
thing with stand up. I always want to do that,
but I do every day. I know, I just I
don't know why. Like this, you know, improv classes they
start you you find like these You go to an
improv class and it's like this one teacher who has
(02:45):
had like a bit part on like a King of
Queen's episode thirty years ago, and then they make you
do like serious things and it's so weird and uncomfortable.
But did you ever have like an actor come in
who was like a really good actor but then they
just completely bombed doing Who's and you had you guys
had to like cow you them.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm dying.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I'm trying to think. I think most of the people
we had on was pretty good. I mean people constantly
like Richard Simmons pretty much surprised.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Richard Simmons came on. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It was responsible for I would say one of the
funniest things that was ever on television all because of him.
He was committed. He just did everything you're supposed to
do in improv. He I always tell people if you
don't quite understand what improv or whose line is, I say,
watch that scene, Richard Simmons.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Really yeah, people are frantically youtubeiz.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yes, yes, so tell us about the show that's gonna
happen at the fair because it's a it's a wild combination,
not just improv, but also there's a hypnotist involved. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We took hypnosis and improv, two things people don't believe in,
to bind it into one art form just the same time. Yeah.
So say a great hypnotist asked for twenty volunteers, he
hypnotizes them, gets it down to the best four or five,
and then then I form an instant improv troupe and
do it improv show.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And it's the weirdest I can't even imagine.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Most Yeah you can't, I can't these times. What I
love about it is it showcases on the nights it
goes really well. It showcases what people can do when
they get out of their own.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Way, like door was just talking about it because like
being committed is like the hardest part to me.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They're not thinking yep, they're just immediately reacting to everything
I say. Or and there's just the there was one
I do a duet with one of them, and this
guy I was singing with. It was it was like
I was singing with James Brown. Oh wow, it's amazing.
And then afterwards I saw him with his family and
I went up and he was self effacing, very quiet.
(04:56):
His entire family was crying. They'd never seen him sing
before or heard him.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, so things like that happened all the time.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Okay, so when they're getting hypnotized, they're not like pretending
to be a chicken or something like that.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't even mention it to the hypnotis my my
bad because you see, when there's two things he hates more,
no one is going to cluck and the good good
and we don't use any plants.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Okay, okay, good? So So what kind of study? How
does he hypnotize you to be in it? Like, I
don't know, I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't. Every night I stand there going how is
this going to work? I'm watching him and he's doing it.
He's just kind of talking to him, and they're really relaxed.
And there. I think a reason a lot of people
don't believe in hypnosis is because they have misconception. Sure,
I mean all of my facts about hypnosis came from
the Flintstones. Yeah, apparently it was wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It looks like they're sleeping their sluck, but they're hearing everything.
They'll do a scene and they'll reference a scene that
happened three scenes before that they weren't in. It's just there,
really relaxed. They're still themselves. We haven't turned into zombies.
People who can now improvise because they don't have any
hang ups.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, the hell came up with this idea. This is
one of the crazier ideas I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, he was taking classes at Second City and he
realized what they were sort of teaching to get out
of your head and to do unconscious comedy was what
he does. We thought, oh, I wonder if I can.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, so did they contact you and say, well, we
need the best of the business, come.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
On, greatest living improvise, Thank you?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Wayne Brady went what I.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Write all of his stuff? Yeah, so he contacted me,
and I thought, one of the things I worry about
after doing this for so long is getting comfortable. And
I always have more fun when I'm outside of my
comfort zone. When I'm working with Brad, We're constantly coming
up with new games that take us right out of
our comfort zone because I find that's where the most
(06:58):
fun is. So I thought, nothing can be more outside
than working with people I've never met before who were hypnotized.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You gotta imagine every show is different.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Every shows totally different. What I love is they make
choices that quote real improvisers unquote.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
We did a Superhero scene where I'm looking for a
new sidekick and we got from the audience the Gibraltar kid.
So I said to the guy, so, what's your superpower?
Are you become like a rock? He said no, no,
I've a residency in Gibraltar, so if anything happens there,
I can take care of it. And I said, so
your superpower can work where you live and went yeah.
(07:39):
I said, but I well I need you in the States.
I don't have papers, and so it became this whole
home man. I know, it just went off into a direction.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yes, it's unbelievable. So this is happening tonight at the fair.
This is going to be a great thing to check
out though. I mean, this sounds amazing. It's gonna be
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Fine, it's really different from many you'll ever see. And
I recommend once you've seen it, go up and talk
to the people who were hypnotized, because still there are
still people. Goes, well, yeah, all plants and our thing
is both of us are fairly cheap, so that means
we have to spend a lot of money volunteers.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And well, if I were to ask, what's the number
one rule of improv that like the number one tip
you can give somebody, what is it?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Saying yes? And it's the hardest thing for people. We
were teaching a corporate workshop trying to get and we
spent the entire time just to get people to say
yes to someone's idea. If I'm doing a scene with
like Ryan or someone and he gets his idea out first.
If I have the greatest idea in the world, it
doesn't matter, it's gone. Now I have to support this one.
(08:47):
People will not let go of their ideas.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
So it's really hard for people to understand you got
to get rid of the ego and you can still
work your stuff in, but you work it in throughout,
you know, organically, whatever the scene.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Is, that's great. Cool, I'm telling you, there's nothing more
impressive to me.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well, that leads me to my question, Colin. How do
you feel when an actor like is so proud and
they're like, I improved that line, Like the whole movie
was written for you and you did like one line.
Do you respect that or to kind of go like, oh.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, yeah, impressive.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Sure, I mean, yeah, there are there have been some
great lines improvised the history of film. Yeah, yeah, great?
And go on, do you teach a class?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Have you ever done that? So interesting?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, I'll go I'll just watch them and go, No,
that doesn't really help this teacher, Okay, I just I
think part of it is I don't really know what
I do. You just do it other than saying listen,
accept ideas, that's all I have.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
YEA very short wait.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I paid thirty.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And the opposite of my earlier question, who's the who
are your favorite like big time celebrities? The improv with?
Have you ever the improv with Will Farrell or Steve Crown.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Weirdly, I I was supposed to do a show in
LA but from Canada and they couldn't get the papers
in time, so they replaced me with Steve Carrell. Yeah,
I'm not saying I'm responsible for his career. I mean
(10:35):
I got Robin Williams was on the show and that
was I.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Believe.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, just like one of those dreams where we meet
our hero and he's everything you want him.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
But you see, Colin, this is one night only. It's
called hyprov hip hop. There's another thing. Don't mention chickens
and don't say high pro are so sensitive.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, I can tell that I better be hypnotized. Yeah,
tonight it's at the Fairy. You definitely want to watch this.
This is gonna sound like an amazing show called Thanks
for Coming In. Thanks absolutely
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