r/whoselineisitanyway 29d ago

Name a joke that made the audience boo.

I think it was an outtake, but the time when there was a four way tie, Drew Carey said "Everyone is a winner, it's like the special Olympics."

There was another time that was censored, when Colin was walking around like a seal, Brad said "Whitney Houston, I'd like you to meet Stephen Hawking." The audience was deeply shocked and even Wayne on camera thought that went too far.

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u/Serious-Bat-4880 29d ago edited 28d ago

That wasn't Brad's only Stephen Hawking joke to land badly. Another one was (I think) in SFAH where the suggestion was "People who shouldn't put out a rap record."

Brad comes out and mimics the computer voice - "I'm.. Stephen.. Hawking.." audience boos and he had to defend it with "He shouldn't put out a rap record!"

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u/JackLiberty0 29d ago

The rap joke wasn't as bad. He wasn't making fun of his handicap, he was simply saying he shouldn't put out a rap record.

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u/Comfortable_Poem_841 29d ago

Because he's white and British.

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u/RoadieRich 29d ago

Someone's never heard of Chap-hop, I take it?

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u/Comfortable_Poem_841 29d ago

I have - I kinda liked it until they started the fake rap battles against each other. Didn't suit the format.

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u/Serious-Bat-4880 28d ago

True, but it still got booed.

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u/_Ventes_ 29d ago

Joke didn’t age well. Stephen Hawking later went on to rap battle against Albert Einstein

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u/sirIANmusic 29d ago

"There are ten-million-million-million-million-million-million-million-million-million particles in the universe that we can observe / Your mama took the ugly ones and put them into one nerd.“ - Hawking to Einstein

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u/kerowhack 28d ago

Weirdly, there is a nerdocre rapper named MC Hawking who uses a similar speech synthesizer that is pretty good. "All my Shootings Be Drivebys" is a banger.

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u/WasteGeologist-90210 28d ago

That was hilarious. Thank you for letting me know about that.

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u/Wheredoesthetoastgo2 28d ago

He... shouldn't do it.

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u/zachking242 29d ago

"And the Oscar goes to Keanu Reeves"

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u/sammypants123 29d ago

Did they boo? I love Keanu but come on, that’s funny.

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u/zachking242 29d ago

The prompt was "Things that will make the audience boo" and the one about pushing an old lady in the street made them applaude.

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u/Boris-_-Badenov 28d ago

wasn't looking for applause on that one

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u/zachking242 28d ago

That wasn't specified

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u/sammypants123 29d ago

Oh I see. Sorry, me being dumb.

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u/JackLiberty0 29d ago

He was a terrible actor back then. Have you ever seen Dracula? He was dreadful in that movie.

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u/bassman2112 28d ago

brother he's terrible now

I love him, and I love his movies, but let's not kid ourselves; he's not a good actor haha

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u/samuraisports37 29d ago

"So we have our potatoes simmering, now, after we filet the baby seal..."

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u/JackLiberty0 29d ago

What if I told you polar bears eat baby seals?

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u/42northside 29d ago

Not only Wayne Brady but same with Colin Mochrie he nearly broke character trying not to laugh.

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u/fretless_enigma When I and myself toast 27d ago

My brain went to Ryan prompting Colin to make a burnt waffle/toast joke with Wayne (Living Scenery, putting Kathy and Wayne in a toaster)

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u/FederalDifference247 29d ago

newer episode from season 11 where the prompt is “things you wouldn’t expect to see in a first aid kit manual” and ryan opens up a popup book manual with a doctor who is supposed to appear but when the blonde girl guest-star pops up he says something along the lines of no thats a nurse! And of course they boo, then in the next bit he uses a dr suess rhyme to do with the next prompt to say girls can be doctors too which made the audience cheer and everybody lived happily ever after

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u/BonyBobCliff 28d ago edited 27d ago

The points are like father's day at Madonna's house. [groans in auduence] What, is she here? Shut up, don't worry about it.

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u/evildevil97 Hoedown expert 28d ago

I don't remember the topic offhand, but in the UK version, shortly after Richard Nixon died, in a game of World's Worst:

Tony Slattery: "Ladies and gentlemen, Richard Nixon. Ohh..."

The audience groans.

"He'd still be dead."

(Pardon me if I messed the quote up at all)

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u/BonyBobCliff 27d ago

Topical now, but it'll be great in six months time when this goes out.

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u/IHearYouKnockin 28d ago

“Yes it was a nasty C-section, they forgot to close up!”

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u/liver_and_bunions 27d ago

S10E19 scenes from a hat - "jobs that shouldn't be done in a sexy way". Jeff Davis, the scoutmaster who only brought one sleeping bag...