Scenes From A Hat

Overview:

Scenes From A Hat, commonly refered to as SFAH, is game played on British and American versions of ''Whose Line Is It Anyway? '' The audience members, before the show, would write down suggestions on pieces of paper. Stage hands would collect the suggestions and put them in a hat to be used in the game.

Rules:

The host of the show (either Drew Carey/Aisha Tyler [American] or Clive Anderson [British]) would draw a note from a hat that have suggestion writen by the audience on them. Once the suggestion is read the performers would go center stage to perform their take or idea on the suggestion, or perform a short 3-5 second scene, hence the name Scenes From A Hat. If the performer has gone over a time limit, lingers, finishes their thought, or has gone too far the host would press the buzzer and the performer would go off stage again. In the American series often people would suggest things like "Little known facts about Drew Carey" which then Drew would buzz the performer out before they even step on stage. They would follow his buzzer because they like their jobs.

Example of the sketch: