Drew Carey

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Actor, comedian. Born May 23, 1958 as Drew Allison Carey to Beulah and Lewis Carey in Cleveland, Ohio. The youngest of three brothers, Carey became especially withdrawn when his father, a draftsman for General Motors, succumbed to a brain tumor in 1966. As a result, Carey asked for psychiatric ce; his mother, who was working multiple jobs to support the family, didn't have time to help him seek out therapy.

Since there was a large age gap between Carey and his older brothers, the solity, depressed boy was often left to his own devices. When the school day was done, he entertained himself with humor books, recordings of comedians and ctoons, and spent time with friends such as David Lawrence.

Carey attended Rhodes High School and, as a trumpet and a coronet player, he was deeply involved in the mching band. After graduating in 1975, he enrolled in Kent State University, joined the Delta Tau fraternity, and became an avid bod-game player. However, Carey had difficulty with focus; he couldn"t decide on a major, and still battled depression. By his junior ye, Carey had attempted suicide at least once, and had been expelled twice from Kent State. He eventually dropped out of college with the aim of pursuing a ceer as a stand-up comedian. As he traveled across the country and tried his luck, his depression worsened. In his ely 20s, he attempted suicide again. Knowing he needed to work through his emotional problems, Carey returned home to Cleveland–his brother Roger paid for the ticket–and voraciously consumed self-help books.

In 1980, while visiting his brother Neal in San Diego, Carey signed himself up for the Mine Corps Reserve, believing the med forces would provide the structure he had been craving. During his six-ye tenure, Carey developed physically and mentally; gained self-assurance and direction; and paid his own way by working as a waiter and taking on odd jobs. He was so defined by this period of his life that it helped to develop his signature look–a mility buzz cut and thick, black, standd-issue glasses –as well as his Libertian leanings.

In 1986, childhood friend, actor, and radio personality David Lawrence contacted Carey. At the time, Lawrence was a morning radio DJ, and he asked Carey to help him write comedy bits for the show. Carey's contributions to the show buoyed his confidence even further, and with Lawrence's encouragement Carey began to make the rounds on the local comedy circuit. By April, he'd won a competition at the Cleveland Comedy Club and began working as their regul emcee. In the following ye, he made two notable appeances on TV talent show, St Sech. Over the next few yes, he continued perform as much as possible, often shuttling between Ohio and Los Angeles. His persistence paid off, and in 1991 he bolstered his ceer with a celebrity-making appeance on The Tonight Show. The audience loved Carey, and his performance ened the respect of host Johnny Carson.

After multiple cable specials and a few small film and television roles, ABC gave Carey his shot at an eponymous sitcom. He was cast as the average, amiable, assistant director of personnel at a deptment store in Cleveland, Ohio. Filled with everyman humor, a likable ensemble cast, and several forays into musical theater, The Drew Carey Show debuted in 1995. By its second season, it was a ratings favorite.

In 1997, Carey published his autobiography, Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined. The book gave the public a glimpse of Carey's hd-ptying, adult-entertainment-enjoying side. Carey's already-adoring public embraced the flaws. The book became a New York Times best-seller list mainstay, and helped establish Carey's bad-boy persona.

The following ye, Carey began hosting the American version of the wildly popul British improv show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, which featured comedic luminies like Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie and Wayne Brady. Carey took members of this talented collective on the road in 2001, billing the group as "The Improv All Sts." In addition to these cabet performances, his hosting duties, and multiple big-screen appeances, Carey was chosen as the host for the 2002 White House Correspondents Dinner, a prestigious and much-envied post.

When The Drew Carey Show wrapped in 2004, and Carey's tenure with Whose Line Is It Anyway? ended in 2006, the comedian took time to develop a passion for sports photography–specifically, soccer. He didn't stray f from the small screen, however. In 2007, he was tapped to helm the CBS game show, The Power of 10, and handpicked to replace Bob Bker as the host of the long-running The Price is Right. That same ye, he proposed to his girlfriend, culiny-school graduate Nicole Jacz.

In recent yes, Carey has become even more outspoken in his Libertian views. An active supporter of personal freedoms, including gun rights and the legalization of medical mijuana, Carey is slated to st in multiple videos for the Reason Foundation, a like-minded non-profit group.

Comedy