Drew Carey
speaker
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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Bill Burr is walking in his shadow, honestly. Bill Burr would recognize Bill Hicks and go, yeah, that guy. Right up there with Lenny Bruce, as far as I'm concerned, as far as freedom on stage to do whatever you want. But funny. No offense to Lenny Bruce. When Lenny Bruce was going through his trials, he would get up on stage and read his transcript for his trials and complain.
Like, he wasn't telling jokes. He was just ranting. And it was interesting, but it wasn't like, here's my act. It's a ballsy move, though. Yeah, but, like, he didn't give a fuck. Yeah, clearly. Which was great. But when he was funny, like a groundbreaker, no doubt about it. But then he just was, like, angry man. And no kidding, they were trying to put him in jail and putting him on trial.
And I'd be pissed, too, if I got arrested after my act. Like what happened to him? And I was like afraid nobody would book me because you didn't want the police raiding the place because you're saying the word fuck on stage.
Like crazy. So Bill Hicks was like, he had the freedom and the rights that people like Lenny Bruce earned for him. And then he was able to just talk about anything. So the story I heard, which is a true story, was the club owners were like, hey, Bill, welcome to the club. And they picked him up at the airport. Glad to have you here. And we know what your act is, but we're Christians.
And we'd really appreciate it if you didn't say the word fuck. That's really our only rule. Right. And he went, all right. And first of all, Christians made them an enemy. Because he came up with Sam Kinison and the same club in Texas. And they were like part of these Texas Outlaw comics. There was Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison, and a couple other guys. But those were the two main ones.
So that was his attitude. Fuck you. I'm going to get up here and do whatever I want. And I'm going to do a bump before I come on stage and tell you I did. And everybody knows I'm on cocaine right now. Go fuck yourself if you don't like what I'm saying. Leave. And that was his attitude. And he got up on stage and for as long as he could talked about fucking a child. Oh, my God.
Until everybody left, and he walked the whole audience. Like, one by one, people were, like, upset. They didn't want to hear it. He just stood there and looked them in the eye, and the graphic, as horrible as he could make it, and they all paid their checks and walked out until the very last couple got up and left. And then he was like, great, there you go. I didn't say the word fuck.
He never said the word fuck. There, you want me to not say the word fuck? This is what's going to happen. Oh, man. You give me complete freedom or I'll tank my career. It's like a political statement almost, yeah. And he never got as famous here as in England. Like wildly popular in England. Huh. But here he was popular with comics and people in the know and people that were hip to him.
Yeah. There was no Bill Hicks sitcom because the people were like, what do we do with you?
No, not that guy. He would just be arguing all the time with the writers about how he can't talk about what he wants to talk about.
How can I talk about drugs and how they should be legal? You do that now? Yeah. He had a great bit about how great drugs were. You never hear that from people, do you? Jeez. Drugs are great.
They make you feel good. Why can't you take drugs?
I never met Steve Martin, believe it or not. One of my idols growing up. You might take your call at this point. I don't know. Get a little plate of banjo. He's still Steve Martin and I'm still Drew Carey. You know, he's legend. He's like Mount Rushmore.
Yeah, I don't know. He's like untouchable to me in my head. That's God. You're going to meet him. He's going to be like, oh, I saw every episode of your show. Knowing what I know, he's not a Drew Carey show. Too smart. Too above it. But his first album that came out, I read every interview and he said in an interview, that's 10 years of comedy there. That's my best stuff from 10 years.
And now my next album, it's like, what do I do now? I don't have 10 years. They want me to do another album in a year. And I know if I do it, I'm going to get this extra money. And it's almost like you're putting out B material. If an author had one big novel that they've been burning inside and they write it, that was great.
A band has their big hit breakout album, and the next album is, oh, it was pretty good. Yeah. But that happens to comics. You don't have five hours, four hours. Nobody puts eight. Jerry Seinfeld said he did. I believe Jerry Seinfeld wrote eight hours a day, treated it like a job. But he might have been using eight hours a day.
It could have been six hours and two hours of having coffee and fucking around until he got back in the mood, like how writers do.
Yeah, I knew he took it seriously enough to go like, okay, this is my job and this is part of my day. I'm telling you, from being on the road, comics didn't do. Most comics did not treat it that seriously. And if they wrote, they did it a couple times a week and go, I think I'm going to write for an hour. Oh, all right. Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah. Yeah.
So all of a sudden, then you're famous, and now you've got meetings to go to. You've got other projects to do. When I was on The Drew Carey Show, I didn't have time to write. Any writing I did, all the jokes went to The Drew Carey Show. I wasn't writing jokes for my act, and I was famous enough as a stand-up then, if They wanted a stand-up special. I could have done one.
But if they wanted me to do a second one, when am I going to write it? When am I going to have time to go on stage? How do you guard against that? You said you have to guard against that, so I assume you came up with a way to guard against that? Yeah, plus another thing is you don't live a normal life anymore. When you're rich, your assistant's doing things for you.
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