With the exception of Sessions in the first series and Stiles and Mochrie starting with the seventh and eighth series ( respectively ), there were no fixed regulars on the show, though there were many recurring regulars ( including Fry ).

The Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza show also premièred in 11 April 2011 in another improvisational comedy show featuring Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Greg Proops, Brad Sherwood, Jeff Davis and Chip Esten.

One is " Greatest Hits ", where the infomercial hosts ( usually including show regulars Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles ) attempt to sell an album of " greatest hits " about unloikely subjects, with songs mentioned usually sung by the other show regular Wayne Brady.

Colin Andrew Mochrie (; born November 30, 1957 ) is a Scottish Canadian actor and improvisational comedian, most famous for his appearances on the British and U. S. versions of television improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway ?.

After the British version of the show ended its run, Mochrie joined the American version of Whose Line hosted by Drew Carey on ABC.

His co-stars on the show would frequently mock him for being Canadian and for his receding hairline, though this did not come until later as very early on in the UK version, Mochrie still had a fairly full head of hair.

In the production, Mochrie plays the character as caffeine-fueled, jittery, and neurotic, an exaggeration of the Mike Brady television character, who often had a coffee in his hand on the show.

Shortly before his move to the U. S. version of Whose Line in 1998, Mochrie starred in Supertown Challenge as the host of game shows, which the show spoofed.

On August 29, 2007, it was announced that Mochrie would host the Canadian version of the game show Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader ?.

Since 2002, Mochrie and Sherwood have intermittently toured North America as a two-man stage show called " An Evening with Colin and Brad ," playing primarily in small theater venues.

Mochrie lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife, Debra McGrath and his son Luke, who is a regular contributor on the comedic website That Guy with the Glasses with the show Film Conscience.

Colin Mochrie, a prolific Canadian comedy actor best known for his work in the British and American versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway ?, made a cameo appearance as part of a joke about how he seems to turn up on every Canadian TV show.

The show also brought in numerous celebrity judges " for Season 2 including such celebrities as Colin Mochrie from Whose Line Is It Anyway, Olympic gold medallist Sami Jo Small, MLB star Chris Woodward, environmentalist David Suzuki, and German folk singer Heino.

Set in the early 1960s, Getting Along Famously starred real-life couple Colin Mochrie and Debra McGrath as the hosts of a television variety show.

He lived in London for four years when he was doing the show and lists McShane and Colin Mochrie as among his best friends.

This often-surreal comedy show featured a number of sketches strung together that formed a rough narrative having Mr. Interesting and his best friend Eddie ( a giant talking carp played by Colin Mochrie ), smuggle themselves across the United States-Canada border and who are then beset by a number of odd situations and characters.

" Mochrie originally had parts in plays while working for the group, though after a time working for the TheatreSports League became a full-time job for Mochrie.

In 2003, Mochrie, Leslie Nielsen, Wayne Gretzky, and Roy Halladay appeared in print and television advertisements to encourage people to visit Toronto after the SARS outbreak that struck the city.

The gag had Mochrie appear shortly after the character Brent mentioned that Mochrie has a cameo in nearly everything.

Stiles and Colin Mochrie were the only two performers to appear in every episode of the US version, although Wayne Brady also became a regular near the beginning of the second season.

After the two met, Stiles and Mochrie began working at TheatreSports together.

It has been stated that the two met while members of Second City, though, according to Mochrie, this is untrue.

As a member of the touring company, he performed in many skits, including one where he and two others are at a bar, and they help him to rewrite an anecdote from his youth involving his father taking him to a baseball game ; and a five-minute version of a James Bond movie, complete with Mochrie in a downhill ski chase and parachuting off a cliff.

Mochrie has been nominated for five Canadian Comedy Awards, and has won two.

Mochrie worked for The Second City for three years, co-writing and starring in three productions and directing three seasons of their national touring company.

However, Stiles would sometimes stand up to or make jokes at the other performers ( including Drew Carey ) who made fun of Mochrie's baldness or Mochrie in general, notably during Scenes From A Hat.

Mochrie has stated that audition was a good learning experience because while improv is about setting other people up to be funny, auditions should be about giving yourself chance to stand out.

In an interview, it was revealed that in 1999 Mochrie worked on the Miloš Forman film Man on the Moon, but his scenes were deleted from the final movie.

Other guest panelists included Coolio ( semi-regular on the 1998 Match Game ); Mike O ' Malley ( host of Nick's Get the Picture and GUTS from 1991 – 1995 ); Colin Mochrie ( regular on Whose Line Is It Anyway?

The U. S. version of the series became an inexpensive hit ( though less so than the British version ) and ABC kept Carey on as host, with Mochrie and Stiles as regular performers.

Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie first appear in the second and third series respectively ; they each gradually increase the frequency of their appearances to the point that both appear in every episode from the eighth series on.

Most of the North American performers, including regulars Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles, began performing on the U. S. version.

Mochrie appeared on every episode from its debut in August 1998 to its finale in 2006.

On July 19, 2010, Mochrie starred as the divorce lawyer working on the case of Spinner and Emma in Degrassi Takes Manhattan.

In 2011, Mochrie appeared as a regular cast member on Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza on GSN.

* Audio interview with Colin Mochrie, 18 January 2006

Mochrie in 2006

Mochrie starred in Getting Along Famously in 2006.

By 2004 Mochrie was appearing in so many media spots that a new Canadian television series, Corner Gas, made light of it by having him do a cameo appearance in the tenth episode.

* Colin Mochrie appeared in one episode as Alan Roy's mentally hadicapped brother who, as part of an elaborate tax dodge orchestrated by Alan, was revealed to be the true CEO.

Colin Mochrie would generally speak his lines instead of singing them for musical games.

The ending came when ratings were beginning to slump, which critics believe Mochrie and Stiles ' permanent fixtures were a factor of.

Some of the players include Colin Mochrie, Wayne Brady, Greg Proops, Jonathan Mangum, and Nicole Parker.

* Colin Mochrie ( 2001 – 2003 ) as anchor Anthony St. George and various correspondents and sketch characters.

Mochrie was the first change to the original cast, following the departure of Rick Mercer.

Stiles had first met Colin Mochrie years before while performing stand-up.

There were a number of games which exclusively paired Mochrie and Stiles at every playing.

In return, Mochrie often made jokes about Stiles's height, nose, attractiveness, and tendency to wear exotic, flamboyant shoes.

Others in the cast included Sonny Blake, John Hamblin, Victoria Nicholls, Jill Forster, Joy Chambers, Peter Mochrie, Kim Lewis, Penny Cook, Shane Porteous, Sheridan Jobbins, Rosalind Speirs, Queenie Ashton, Vince Martin, Ivar Kants, Lenore Smith, Noel Trevarthen, Michael C Smith, Tom Burlinson, Jan Kingsbury, Joanne Stanley, Todd Boyce, Simon Burke, Jacqui Gordon, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Bunney Brooke, Lisa Crittenden, Marty Morton, John Ewart, Benita Collings, Rebecca Rigg, David Franklin, Peter Cousens, Robyn Gibbes, Deborah Kennedy, David Argue, Alita Fahey, Martin Sacks.

Colin Mochrie was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, the oldest of three children.