These days, Drew Carey keeps busy as the host of 190 episodes of The Price Is Right each year, in addition to hosting The Price Is Right at Night. However, there was a time when he thought another series, his long-running show The Drew Carey Show, would be his “golden goose.” Unfortunately, the show is not easily accessible to audiences in 2024.
“It’s not in syndication… because of music rights and stuff,” explains Carey. As the show approaches its 20th anniversary since the series finale, there is hope to make it more readily available. While it can be streamed for a fee on platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV+, it has not been made available for free to subscribers. “We’re going to try to change that around and get it back out there,” teases Carey.
Carey is confident that if The Drew Carey Show becomes more widely available, it would attract new generations like Friends or The Office. “It’s pretty funny, and a lot of it’s kind of timeless. It was weird, too. We were all Mad Magazine fans and stuff, so we weren’t afraid to go bananas.”
WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?, Drew Carey, Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, 1998-2006. © Warner Bros. Television / Courtesy: Everett Collection
Despite his success with both The Drew Carey Show and The Price Is Right, Carey believes his legacy show will be the sketch comedy series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, which he hosted from 1998 to 2007. When the show was revived in 2013, Aisha Tyler took over as emcee.
“I always told Ryan Stiles that Whose Line was going to be our legacy show,” Carey recalls. “That was the funniest show on TV ever. We have iconic moments like Richard Simmons on the show.”
While his time awarding points on Whose Line is over, Carey now shares a studio with former costar Wayne Brady, who currently hosts Let’s Make a Deal.
“Yeah, we laugh about it every time we get together,” he says. “We can’t believe it.”
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— Reporting by Kate Hahn
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