| 2026-05-04 | Improvise, as a speech |
| 2026-02-12 | Speak extemporaneously |
| 2025-12-02 | Wing it onstage |
| 2025-07-20 | Fly by the seat of one's pants |
| 2024-09-27 | Extemporize |
| 2024-09-15 | "Here's looking at you, kid" or "You can't handle the truth!," famously |
| 2024-08-29 | Go off script |
| 2023-06-17 | Cut the cards, perhaps |
| 2022-09-04 | Improvised comment |
| 2022-06-23 | Wing it |
| 2022-05-01 | It comes off the top of one's head |
| 2021-05-06 | Improv comic's forte |
| 2021-03-15 | Speak extemporaneously |
| 2021-01-12 | Do some improv |
| 2020-08-17 | Off-the-cuff remark |
| 2019-11-02 | Jack Nicholson's classic line "You can't handle the truth," for one |
| 2019-10-09 | Wing it |
| 2019-05-04 | Fashion lines? |
| 2019-01-27 | Wing it |
| 2019-01-08 | Off-script remark |
| 2017-08-30 | Forgo the teleprompter, say |
| 2017-08-05 | Skip the lines, say |
| 2017-01-17 | Deal with a broken teleprompter, say |
| 2016-03-24 | Wing it, in a way |
| 2015-10-17 | It can't be canned |
| 2015-09-30 | Ditch the script |
| 2015-08-11 | Depart from the prepared text |
| 2015-05-19 | What the Marx Brothers often do in their films |
| 2015-01-22 | Go off line? |
| 2014-08-26 | Wing it |
| 2014-08-11 | Off-the-cuff remark |
| 2014-03-11 | Wing it |
| 2013-03-19 | Wing it |
| 2012-12-18 | Wing it |
| 2012-11-01 | Wing it |
| 2012-09-11 | Extemporize |
| 2012-02-16 | It's not scripted |
| 2011-03-02 | Ignore the cue cards, say |
| 2011-01-05 | Wing it |
| 2010-11-17 | Forgo the script |
| 2010-03-04 | Proceed without notes, say |
| 2010-02-17 | Remark that might get you in trouble |
| 2007-09-11 | Improvise |
| 2007-03-04 | Remark that might get one in trouble |
| 2005-07-31 | Not practiced |
| 2005-06-03 | Forgo the script |
| 2005-05-09 | Off-the-cuff |
| 2004-08-11 | Wing it |
| 2004-07-21 | Seat-of-the-pants performance |
| 2003-07-10 | Spontaneously |
| 2003-06-20 | Offhand |
| 2003-06-08 | Not scripted |
| 2003-05-16 | Unrehearsed |
| 2003-02-21 | Improvised |
| 2003-01-28 | Speak off the cuff |
| 2002-09-23 | Improvise |
| 2002-09-06 | Wing it |
| 2002-08-06 | Go off script |
| 2002-08-02 | Off-the-cuff |
| 2001-05-31 | Unrehearsed |
| 2000-09-14 | Impromptu |
| 1998-09-07 | Wing it, speechwise |
| 1998-06-02 | Improvisation |
| 1998-03-02 | Unprepared comment |
| 1997-11-17 | Speak without notes |
| 1997-08-09 | Robin Williams comment, maybe |
| 1997-05-10 | Wing it |
| 1997-03-02 | Unmemorized words |
| 1996-12-15 | Wing it |
| 1996-09-15 | Wing it |
| 1996-04-29 | Wing it, speechwise |
| 1996-04-01 | Ignore the script |
| 1994-10-27 | Wing it |
| 1994-08-31 | Extemporize |
| 1994-08-30 | Improvise |
| 1994-05-11 | Make up on the spot |
| 1994-04-01 | Robin Williams forte |