Carey was working as a stand-up comedian when he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in November 1991. Carey's first national exposure was competing in the 1988 Star Search. He performed at comedy clubs over the next few years in Cleveland and Los Angeles. The following year, after winning an open mic contest, Carey became Master of Ceremonies at the Cleveland Comedy Club. In 1985, Carey began his comedy career by following a suggestion by David Lawrence (a disc jockey friend who had been paying Carey to write jokes for Lawrence's radio show in Cleveland) to go to the library and check out books on how to write jokes. He 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. Upon leaving the university, Carey enlisted into the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1980 and served for six years as a field radio operator in the 25th Marine Regiment in Ohio. He was expelled twice for poor academic performance and left KSU after three years.

Ĭarey continued on to college at Kent State University (KSU) and was a part of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. Drew played the cornet and trumpet in the marching band of James Ford Rhodes High School from which he graduated in 1975. When Drew was eight years old, his father died from a heart attack. He is the youngest of three brothers (Neil, 1946–2010 and Roger, born 1952) and was raised in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. Marine Corps uniform, with rank insignia of a CorporalĬarey was born on to Lewis and Beulah Carey. Carey briefly participated in professional wrestling, entering the 2001 Royal Rumble, and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011.Įarly life and education Carey in his U.S. He 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. Carey has hosted the game show The Price Is Right since October 15, 2007, on CBS.Ĭarey is interested in a variety of sports and has worked as a photographer at U.S. He then appeared in several films, television series, music videos, a made-for-television film, and a computer game. version of the improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, both of which aired on ABC. Marine Corps and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey gained stardom in his own sitcom, The Drew Carey Show, and as host of the U.S. Drew Allison Carey (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actor, and game show host.

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