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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You're getting dropped off at the VIP. to go into the club. You're not dealing with the everyday frustrations that people deal with. Are you stuck in traffic like everybody else, in your shitty car like everybody else? In LA, yes, but everywhere else, maybe not. Yeah. When you're a good stand-up comic, it's every man against the world. You're speaking up to power. Why are these people doing it?
Why is this technology doing this to us? Why are we living in this system that's so frustrating? This is hypocritical. This is stupid. This is wrong. Ha, and you make a joke of it. That's how every successful comic works.
You're in that world now. What are you going to make fun of? You're the guy next door because you're rich too? It really hurts you. So you have to be in a mindset of drive yourself. Do your own fucking shopping if you can. Try to be as normal thinking as you can. Because the more you insulate yourself from the world, the less you have to joke. Like, what are you going to joke around?
There was a guy named Martin Mull, a really famous guy from Cleveland Comic. I used to watch him on The Tonight Show because it would be Martin Mull or Steve Martin when I would look at comics on The Tonight Show. Sometimes I got mixed up. When I was first following them, I go, Martin.
One of the Martins. Yeah. Martin Muller had his albums. Really famous, really good, funny songwriter. So he'd be on The Tonight Show with a couch and a guitar to do funny songs. He wasn't like a stand-up, but he'd pat her in between. On one of his albums, he has a song called Rich Person's Blues. And it was, I woke up this morning. I saw both cars were gone. I felt so low down deep inside.
I threw my drink upon the lawn. God. broke when I heard that. I was just a fan. I thought it was the funniest thing to me. Yeah. I listened to it over and over on an album. Rich man's blues. So what are you going to joke about? What frustrates you? My jet was late. Yeah. Go fuck yourself.
Or live that mindset. Live that mindset, eh? Be aware of it. It's tough. Recognize that you're in a private jet because you're famous and rich. Yeah. And Disney got you a private jet at that time, which they did to me, or somebody's flying you somewhere because you have to get somewhere, or make a joke about how rich you are. You've got to do something to humanize yourself for everybody.
You got to find a way to ground your... That's why I love being about the price is right because everybody there is normal. Yeah, it looks like you're having a fun time every day. So many average Americans in there. Like, you want to know what America is like? Go to a Price is Right taping. That's how Americans dress. That's what they look like. This is what they believe.
Just being a guy and loving sports, I would think that everybody loved football. Because everywhere I go, I can strike up a conversation about... how the football team was doing. And I would watch ESPN and I'd watch it so I knew some stats because when I started a conversation, I didn't want to look like an idiot in front of my friends.
And I would catch them and me repeating stats I heard on ESPN or talking points I heard on ESPN or sports radio. I really had to know that because I didn't want to look like a fool when I talked to my friends. I see. You know what I mean? I go to the Price is Right audience and I'm like, boy, did everybody see that game? And blanks. Really? No. Middle of America, not watching football?
Nobody gives a fuck. That's funny. There's guys there that do. There'll be a few guys that'll raise their hand, but the average person, if you look at the ratings... The Rams or whoever, they get a percentage, just like everybody else, of the ratings.
So when I was doing stand-up, they would have you do radio shows on Friday morning because it was always a local rock and roll station or country station, depending on where you were, that would sponsor the club.
Or you'd be in the morning zoo show, somewhere with their version of the morning zoo. And they would be, oh, this guy's great. He gets eight share. What does that mean? So 8% of the people listening, listen to him, which would like in this market, if you get a two share, three share in LA, you're a God. But then it's like in Indianapolis or someplace, if you get an eight share, like forget it.
And then I would think to myself, man, I'm getting up at fucking six in the morning. I worked last night. I got to do two shows tonight. So we're all getting up early to do radio. And then we're going to take a nap and fucking figure out, go to Applebee's or whatever. So we can get our shit together, take another nap. All because we can do this. It was every week.
This guy's really big, gets an eight chair into my head, I would think, oh, so you mean 92% of the people in the city aren't listening to this guy? And that's only the people they're measuring who are listening to the radio? That doesn't count people who are just driving in their car in silence or have a cassette tape in? Psychopaths driving in your car without music.
Or aren't driving anywhere and just sleep in and don't listen to them? I'm supposed to be kowtowing in awe of this eight dude? No. No. Not going to do it. And on the Drew Carey show, they were like, oh, you know, like 15 share. Watched the Drew Carey show. So 85% of the people watching TV don't give a fuck about me.
Oh, that was huge also. Yeah. I remember talking to Dietrich Bader, like, hey, man, have you seen West Wing? I go, no. He goes, oh, it's so good. You really need to watch it. And I go, it's the fuck?
But that was my attitude just from doing those radio shows. It was my strength, too, because I knew... I just needed a sliver of the pie. The Lamb of God doesn't need to be a household name like Kiss or Taylor Swift. And even Taylor Swift, I'll argue, artists like her have a sliver of the pie.
And you hear a lot about them, but as much as you hear, it doesn't match the record sales in the big market because people buy country music, classical music. They go to jazz clubs. They go to no clubs. They know the song because it's played in the mall. They know the song because it's on the radio when they're Maybe listen to the radio or people reference her when you're watching the game.
But average person doesn't know every song on a Taylor Swift album. That's true. And that's just how it is in show business. You can be famous, but everybody only has their own little sliver of the pie. And you have to service your audience. You have to service your sliver of the pie and really make sure they're happy. Seattle Sounders, we have a sliver of the pie in the soccer world.
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