Drew Carey
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276 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Drew Carey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I'm acting like an idiot, just like drunk out of my mind. Fucked up drunk, but in a really good, happy way. Like, we got to do something with Drew. And somebody had the idea, let's put Drew in a wheelchair and wheel him out of here. So they got the Disney guy to get a wheelchair, put me in the wheelchair, and they're going to wheel me out of there, which they do.
And I'm in the chair just like fireworks going off.
I enrolled in Kent State. I filled out the paperwork.
One year they honored me and put me in the homecoming parade, and I think I got an honorary degree and met the president of the— This is the only degree I have from Kent State now. Yeah. They really treated me right once I got famous and had money.
Well, I was in the reserves when I started doing stand-up. I was just at the end of my sixth year. About to finish up my sixth year in the Marines when I was like, okay. And then when I decided to do my first amateur night, that's just how I had my hair. That was once a month. The drill was once a month. What are you going to do? You can't grow your hair out. So that was just my haircut.
And then the glasses. The Marine Corps, I don't know what they do in the Army. In the Marine Corps, they call them BCGs, birth control glasses. That's what the drill instructor called it. That's what every other Marine called it. I don't know why they officially just don't call them that. But even when you're getting ready... Don't forget your BCGs. I got to go get new BCGs.
Nobody would just say glasses. Oh, God, that's really funny. It became a part of your brand, right? Well, that's how I look. And the thing is, back then I was broke, stone broke. Paycheck to paycheck, shift to shift when I was waiting tables. I had cash on Friday that lasted the next week when I got cash tips. And that's how I was living, literally counting my pennies.
I had a journal where I would keep track of everything. Like one of those little accounting journals you'd buy at the CVS or Walgreens. back then. And I keep track of every expense, pack of gum. I knew down to the penny and the change in my pocket. Good for you. How much I had. Wow. That's how broke I was. You don't do that now, I assume. No. Okay.
I have a general idea, but that's what I did back then. And like, I remember with my brother, back then it was like the oil embargo. Suddenly, we were learning about drafting behind trucks on the freeway, getting an extra couple miles a gallon.
And, oh, let's get behind this truck, and then we'll draft, and we'll drive into Columbus or something. We'll get an extra two miles a gallon.
Yeah. A little, but not that. My brother's an engineer, and we were obsessive about keeping track of our miles per gallon. Yeah. made like a game of it. I wouldn't fill it up. I didn't have that money.
$2 worth. I need a gallon of gas to last me this next couple days, and I'm getting 30 miles per gallon. I need to get 30 miles today. So let me just get my dollars worth, or two gallons, and I would hand the guy two $1 bills. That's just how I lived. I need enough to get me through to the next time I can afford to put five bucks in. I really felt like a big shot if I could fill it up.
I lived in Vegas for a time, and I was just, again, stone broke, counting change in my pocket, and I would have enough change... And spare cash to get a box of Kraft macaroni and cheese. And then I would buy like the quarter stick of butter. But I couldn't afford the little pint of milk. Or I could afford the pint of milk.
And then I would use water instead of milk.
It's the story. The punchline is once I got on the Drew Carey show and made money, I would buy Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Deluxe. Liquid cheese you squeeze out of the foil. No mixing. And I'm rich, bitch. Who knows what chemicals are in there? Didn't even care.
Squeeze the Velveeta bag into the thing with the pot on and pray. George makes jokes all the time about when you have frozen dinners or stuff as one of the grocery items. He'll go, just like mom used to throw in the microwave, just like the can mom used to open. That's funny. Do people recognize you, by the way, without your glasses on?
You've had glasses your whole... I've been wearing glasses since I was eight. They do and they don't. It depends on the context. And in LA, nobody cares. And if they do, they don't show it.
It's not cool to show it in L.A. No, like there's this diner I go to all the time, Swingers. And tons of celebrities go in there regularly and come in and out to actors. And the servers all know that they're regulars. And when you see them in there, there's no line to get their autograph. But when I was on the Drew Carey show and really banged out my first fame, I couldn't go anywhere.
Everybody recognized me. In Cleveland? Yeah, or outside of L.A. I remember I went on a driving trip. pulled into Holiday Inn or whatever roadside thing where I could just pull in and park. I wanted to be able to park my car outside my door. It was those places. And they'd be like, what are you doing here? My joke was the Celebrity Hotel was closed. What are you doing at 7-Eleven?
People would recognize me. Oh, my God. What are you doing at 7-Eleven?
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