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| Birth Name(s) : Drew Allison Carey |
Date of Birth: May 23, 1958 |
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| Achieving stardom through his television show with the same name, Drew Carey overcame years of depression and suicide attempts to get where he is today. His high school jokes on "The Drew Carey Show" are partly true -- he really did play in his high school marching band. |
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Drew Allison Carey (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actor, and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marines and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey eventually gained popularity starring on his own sitcom, The Drew Carey Show, and serving as host on the U.S. version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Carey has appeared in several films and television series, and has written an autobiography.
Carey was the youngest of Lewis and Beulah Carey's three boys, and raised in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. When Drew was eight years old his father died from a brain tumor. According to his autobiography, he played the coronet and trumpet in the marching band of James Ford Rhodes High School, from which he graduated in 1975.
In 1994, Carey wrote his own stand-up comedy special which aired on Showtime, entitled Drew Carey: Human Cartoon, for which he won a CableACE Award for Best Writing.
In 1998, Carey hosted the American version of the improvisational comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? He would announce the improv guests, direct the games, and then would usually involve himself in the final game of the show. The show ran for a total of 215 episodes between 1998 and 2006. In 1998, the New York Friars' Club made Carey the newest inductee of the group's Comedy Central Roast. His friend Ryan Stiles (who costarred in The Drew Carey Show and Whose Line Is It Anyway?) served as the roastmaster.
In 2007, Carey began hosting game shows. His first was the CBS game show Power of 10, a survey-based quiz with a top prize of $10,000,000 (annuity) which premiered on CBS on August 7.
After taping the pilot episode for Power of 10, he was contacted by CBS regarding the opening caused by the retirement of Bob Barker at The Price is Right. On July 23 2007, Carey officially announced on the Late Show with David Letterman that he would succeed Barker as host of the program beginning in fall of 2007. The game show will have a local connection, as announcer Rich Fields is also from the Cleveland area. His first actual episode of The Price Is Right was taped on August 15th, and his shows began airing on Monday, October 15th.
In 2000, Carey starred in the made-for-TV movie Geppetto for an ABC presentation of the Wonderful World of Disney.
He provided the entertainment for the 2002 Annual White House Correspondents dinner. Once he completed his standup routine for the 1,800 guests, President George W. Bush made a joke of his own noting Carey's improv work, "Drew? Got any interest in the Middle East?" In 2003, he joined Jamie Kennedy to host the WB's live special Play for a Billion, which was sponsored by Pepsi and aired on September 12, 2003.Drew Carey performing at Al-Asad Airbase, Iraq on September 28, 2003
For The WB's 2004-2005 prime time schedule, Carey co-produced and starred in Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, a spin-off of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. It was canceled by the WB, but picked up shortly afterward by Comedy Central.
On June 8, 2006, Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures debuted on the Travel Channel. Carey travels throughout Germany to photograph multiple FIFA World cup soccer games while he immerses himself in the culture of towns and states he visits.Drew Carey, pictured in the center, featured in The Sims
Carey has also made a cameo appearance in the computer game The Sims, but only in the House Party expansion pack. To make him appear, the Sims must throw a successful party, which will cause a limo to show up and he will join the festivities. Drew is a fan of The Sims series and during one April Fool's episode of The Drew Carey Show, a scene takes place completely within The Sims.
A former United States Marine reservist, he adopted his crew cut hair style during his time in the service. Carey has had refractive surgery to correct his vision and therefore did not really require glasses (any glasses he wore in public were merely props to help the audience recognize him). However, while this was true for several years, on the May 17, 2006 episode of the Jimmy Kimmel Live show he revealed that when he turned 40, he actually developed a need for bifocals. Carey currently lives in Los Angeles and New York City.
Carey is known for his support of libraries, crediting them for beginning his successful comedy career. On May 2, 2000, in a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, he selected the Ohio Library Foundation to receive his $500,000 winnings. He later went on to win an additional $32,000 on the second celebrity Millionaire, making him one of the biggest winning contestants on Millionaire that did not win the top prize. Carey also has played on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Cleveland Public Library charity. In June 2007, Carey offered to donate up to $100,000 (in $10,000 increments) to the Mooch Myernick Memorial Fund if anybody could beat him at the video game FIFA Soccer 07 for the Xbox 360. He dared five players from both the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams to compete against him. Carey ended up donating $100,000 plus $60,000 for losing two games out of the six games he played.
Carey has starred in only a few television shows and films, but also has numerous guest star appearances in a variety of other sitcoms and comedy shows. |
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| When asked if he enjoys being famous: Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't. I've always been a people watcher. I like to go to malls and just sit, and I can't do that very easily anymore. |
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