Drew Allison Carey was born on May 23,1958 and is an American comedian, actor, and game show host.
70 Facts About Drew Carey
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Drew Carey then appeared in several films, television series, music videos, a made-for-television film, and a computer game.
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Drew Carey is interested in a variety of sports and has worked as a photographer at US National Team soccer games.
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Drew Carey is a minority owner of the Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders FC, which won the MLS Cup, first in 2016 and again in 2019.
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Drew Carey briefly participated in professional wrestling, entering the 2001 Royal Rumble, and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011.
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Drew Carey was born on May 23,1958 to Lewis and Beulah Drew Carey.
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Drew Carey is the youngest of three brothers and was raised in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.
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When Drew Carey was eight years old, his father died from a heart attack.
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Drew Carey played the cornet and trumpet in the marching band of James Ford Rhodes High School from which he graduated in 1975.
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Drew Carey continued on to college at Kent State University and was a part of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity.
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Drew Carey was expelled twice for poor academic performance and left KSU after three years.
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Drew Carey moved to Las Vegas for a few months in 1983 and for a short time worked as a bank teller and a waiter at Denny's.
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In 1985, Drew Carey began his comedy career by following a suggestion by David Lawrence to go to the library and check out books on how to write jokes.
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Drew Carey performed at comedy clubs over the next few years in Cleveland and Los Angeles.
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Drew Carey was working as a stand-up comedian when he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in November 1991.
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In that same year, Drew Carey joined the 14th Annual Young Comedians Special on HBO and made his first appearance on Late Night with David Letterman.
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In 1993, Drew Carey had a small role in the film Coneheads as a taxi passenger.
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Drew Carey initially earned $60,000 per episode in the first seasons, then renegotiated for $300,000.
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The program had a total of 233 episodes over its nine-year run and Drew Carey was one of four actors to appear in every episode.
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Drew Carey would announce the improv cast, direct the games, and usually involve himself in the final game of the episode.
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Drew Carey was one of the founders of the Improv All-Stars, a group of 11 actors who perform in unscripted skits.
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Drew Carey has retained the application of Barker's closing comment about spaying and neutering pets.
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In 2022, Drew Carey celebrated his fifteenth anniversary as host of the show.
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In 2000, Drew Carey was given a cameo appearance in the House Party expansion pack of the computer game The Sims.
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On January 21,2001, Drew Carey entered as Vince McMahon's guest entrant in the Royal Rumble match.
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Drew Carey provided the entertainment for the 2002 Annual White House correspondents' dinner.
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On June 8,2006, Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures debuted on the Travel Channel.
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In early 2008, Drew Carey appeared in Matt Groening's The Simpsons as part of the episode "All About Lisa" as a guest on the Krusty the Clown Show.
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Drew Carey surfaced in the second season of Community playing a well-liked former boss to Jeff Winger.
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On March 4,2014, it was announced on Good Morning America that Drew Carey would compete on the season 18 of Dancing with the Stars.
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In 2018, Drew Carey appeared in an episode of NCIS as a retired Marine.
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Drew Carey's character was a sergeant, the last rank he held in real life.
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In 2020, Drew Carey appeared as a contestant on the third season of The Masked Singer as "Llama".
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In 2021, Drew Carey participated in Celebrity Wheel of Fortune alongside Teri Hatcher and Chrissy Metz.
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Drew Carey beat his fellow competitors in the first bonus round, but failed to solve the final bonus round puzzle.
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Drew Carey wrote his own material in his early stand-up career before writing sitcoms.
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In 1997, Drew Carey published his autobiography, Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined, wherein he shared memories of his early childhood and of his father's death when he was eight.
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Drew Carey revealed that he was once molested, had suffered bouts of depression, and had made two suicide attempts by swallowing a large number of sleeping pills.
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Drew Carey's images are sold via wire services under the pseudonym Brooks Parkenridge.
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Drew Carey was at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in the summer of 2006, for his television show Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures.
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Drew Carey adopted his crew cut hairstyle while serving in the United States Marine Corps.
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Drew Carey underwent refractive surgery to correct his vision and, for a time, did not require glasses, but continued to wear them for purposes of recognition and celebrity identity.
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Drew Carey proposed to Nicole Jaracz in 2007 and is a father figure to Connor, her son from a previous relationship.
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Drew Carey expressed his distaste for the Bush administration's management of the Iraq War, specifically on the September 14,2007, episode of Real Time with Bill Maher.
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Drew Carey made donations to Ron Paul's presidential campaign for the 2008 election.
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Drew Carey has voiced his political beliefs in several interviews, and in 1998, led a "smoke-in" in defiance of California's newly passed no-smoking ordinance inside bars and restaurants.
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Drew Carey has hosted a series of mini-documentaries, The Drew Carey Project, on Reason.
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Drew Carey endorsed and donated money to Joe Biden in the 2020 United States Presidential Election.
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Drew Carey is a devoted fan of the US National Soccer Team, Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Guardians, and Columbus Blue Jackets.
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Drew Carey attended the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
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Drew Carey is a minority owner of the Seattle Sounders FC who began to play in Major League Soccer on March 19,2009 and won two MLS Cups.
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Drew Carey is a fan of FC Barcelona and was a season ticket holder for the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2006.
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Drew Carey has shown his support for the Cleveland baseball team by throwing the first pitch at an August 12,2006 game against the Kansas City Royals.
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Drew Carey was rewarded by them for being "the greatest Indians fan alive" with a personal bobblehead doll made in his likeness that was given to fans.
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In 2001, Drew Carey was the first television actor to enter World Wrestling Federation's 30-man "Royal Rumble" match, which he did to promote an improv comedy pay-per-view at the time.
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Drew Carey appeared in a few backstage segments before his brief participation in the match.
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Drew Carey competed against five other celebrities in the first celebrity edition of the 2003 World Poker Tour.
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Drew Carey placed fifth, beating the only other actor, Jack Black.
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On May 15,2011, Drew Carey completed the Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon in 1:57:02; then, on September 4,2011, he completed the Disneyland Half Marathon in 1:50:46.
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On October 30,2011, Drew Carey finished the Marine Corps Marathon with a chip time of 4:37:11, placing 10,149th out of 20,940.
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Drew Carey is a supporter of libraries crediting them for beginning his successful comedy career.
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On May 2,2000, in a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Drew Carey selected the Ohio Library Foundation to receive his $500,000 winnings.
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Drew Carey later went on to win an additional $32,000 on the second celebrity Millionaire, making him one of the biggest winning contestants on Millionaire who did not win the top prize.
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Drew Carey has played on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Cleveland Public Library charity.
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Drew Carey dared five players from both the US Men's and Women's National Teams to compete against him.
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Drew Carey ended up donating $100,000, plus $60,000 for losing two games out of the six he played.
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In October 2009, Carey made a bid of $25,000 in a charity auction for the @drew Twitter account.
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Drew Carey later increased his offer to $100,000 if the number of followers of his account @DrewFromTV reached 100,000 by the end of the auction.
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In September 2014, Drew Carey promised $10,000 to help find the perpetrators of a faked "ice bucket challenge" involving an autistic 14-year-old Ohio boy who, instead of being doused in ice cubes and water, received a shower of feces, urine, tobacco spit, and cigarette butts.
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Drew Carey has starred in only a few television shows and films but has made numerous guest-star appearances in a variety of sitcoms and comedy shows.