Any show that’s been on as long as Whose Line Is It Anyway? is bound to grow a bit stale. There’s nothing wrong with a little tinkering, after all, especially when you’re looking for a way to make it resonate with a modern audience. Comedian and video editor Dominick Nero has an idea: Make it a video game. Kids love video games.
Using Mortal Kombat as his template, Nero swapped out Sub-Zero and Scorpion for Brady, Styles, Mochrie, and Carey (with a cameo from Greg Proops). He nails the blurry pixelation of the SNES and Genesis era, as well as the looping, herky-jerky movements of its players. The menu screen allows players to choose from the show’s signature games—“Scenes From A Hat” and “Irish Drinking Song” among them—but in a devilish twist the comedians don’t improvise at all. Instead, they beat the shit out of each other, perhaps in an acknowledgment that there’s nothing more punishing than bad improv.
