The recent hubbub over the fact that Gov. Sarah Palin supposedly identified Africa as being a country, rather than a continent, immediately reminded me of one of the funniest episodes of the U.S. version of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Host Drew Carey made the exact same mistake, calling Africa a country in the setup to one of the games. I think it was probably a mis-statement, a slip of the tongue, rather than ignorance on Drew’s part. (To be fair, that might have been the case with Sarah Palin as well.) The panel immediately gave Drew a hard time about it, and — as often happened on that show — the gaffe became a running gag, with Ryan Stiles finding ways to work Africa into several of the subsequent improv games in order to needle Drew.