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Drew Carey Spent 30 Minutes Crafting Bored Reaction to Historic 'Price is Right' Win

Kyle Buchanan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:26:10 EST

It's been over thirty years since a contestant on The Price is Right guessed the exact price of their Showcase Showdown. So why was Drew Carey's so unenthused when it happened yesterday?According to TMZ, Carey's blasé delivery of "You got it right on the nozzze...spayed and neutered...I'm outta here" wasn't just the simple, tossed-off gesture of a man late to the afternoon hot wings special at Crazy Girls:

A TMZ spy who happened to be in the audience during the taping says when Drew knew the guy hit the exact number, he stopped taping and had a pow-wow with show producers for nearly 30 minutes. Our spy thinks they were trying to figure out how to handle the situation on camera. Unfortunately, when they resumed taping, Drew's reaction was a little less than spectacular — while the crowd went insane.

To be fair, the crowd goes insane at the merest glimpse of the Plinko board, but still! Had Bob Barker delivered the news, he surely would have brought it the deserved sense of occasion; we can envision him now, giving one of the Barker's Beauties a celebratory fondle while spaying the vanquished Showcase contestant in a little-known, terribly bloody consequence of her competitor's exact guess.

"Price Is Right" Miracle, Drew Couldn't Care Less [TMZ]

Drew Carey Already Working Miracles On His First Day On The 'Price Is Right'

Seth — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:19:10 EDT

Everything after the final notes of its familiar theme, from the playing out of a highly suspect "perfect game," to the friendly sign-off reminder to "help control the sex-worker population: Have a hooker spayed or neutered today," suggested a new era has dawned at The Price is Right. Gone is Bob Barker's well-calibrated "atmosphere of terror." In its place is new host Drew Carey's atmosphere of congeniality, where every contestant is referred to as "buddy" or "man," and where new cars are given away with a frequency that would make Oprah blush.

In honor of his first day on the job, Carey sat down with another emcee of a CBS show featuring a wide array of dimwitted Americans doing impossibly stupid things for cash and prizes, Julie Chen, to relay first-hand what it feels like to shepherd a congregation of Plinko-board-worshiping revivalists.

The Price is Right [CBS]

Even the stripper-obsessed can find love!...

Seth — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:13:05 EDT

Even the stripper-obsessed can find love! "[Drew] Carey, the new host of The Price Is Right, got engaged to Nicole Jaracz, a recent graduate of culinary school, on Tuesday, said his spokeswoman, Christina Papadopoulos." We wish the couple a strong marriage, and an even stronger prenup—otherwise Carey's looking at paying out in powers of ten for every year they manage to make it last. [cnn.com]

Olly Girls Alive And Well

Seth — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:55:46 EDT

· We realize we left many of you hanging last week when we posted the shocking clip in which the beloved Olly Girls of Sunset Tan were let go for failing to fully commit to their accelerator-pimping duties. As this Yo on E! clip plainly shows, however, the girls are in good spirits, and ready for whatever spray-on-nozzle-clearing challenges lie ahead.
· Drew Carey waxes philosophical about suddenly finding himself in a game show ghetto.
· Now it's Virgie Arthur vs. Howard K. Stern on the Anna Nicole Sue-Go-Round.
· Every lyric from Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire," explained with a hyperlink.
· No, your eyes are not deceiving you. That's Barbara Walters making out with Star Jones on a New York city street!

What Elizabeth Hasselbeck Sees When She Closes Her Eyes

Seth — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:14:54 EDT

We're not entirely sure what to make of this Pringles-can-eye-view of Rosie O'Donnell recently uploaded to her Flickr stream. Perhaps the digitally altered portrait is message-art, there to remind Drew Carey—recently chosen over her to host The Price is Right—that despite his recent casting coup, the planet still very much revolves around O'Donnell's blinding star, and that he should remain grateful that she doesn't choose to dispense of the bespectacled comedian by incinerating him with her sapphic UV rays or one blow of her hurricane-powered super-breath.

photobooth [Rosie O'Donnell's Flickr Stream]

Drew Carey To Host 'Price Is Right' Despite Having No Stated Opinion On Pet Neutering

Seth — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:21:42 EDT

Having determined that Hi Lo matches would in no way be enhanced by a clinically depressed hostess who'd interrupt the popular pricing game to vengefully accuse announcer Rich Fields of having betrayed her, producers of The Price is Right opted not to go with Rosie O'Donnell as Bob Barker's successor. Instead, TV Week reports, CBS has made an official offer to former sitcom star and improv referee Drew Carey:

Drew Carey has accepted CBS's offer to replace Bob Barker as the new host of "The Price Is Right," sources confirmed.

The plan was to have Carey announce on CBS's "Late Show With David Letterman" tonight.
Carey was offered the position after CBS saw his hosting skills in its new game show "Power of Ten." CBS had no comment.

Carey seems a logical choice for several reasons: His buttoned-down persona suggests the kind of 1950s accountant who might actually care about the exact price of Jiffy Pop, and his likable demeanor would be sure to put nervous contestants at ease. Then again, rumors of his home's spongy-walled sex dungeon hint at the comedian's playful, darker side, and CBS might want to take every precaution to ensure their new employee doesn't get overly handsy with Carey's Cuties while the cameras' red lights are off.

Carey Will Host 'Price' [TVWeek.com]

Brian Grazer To Play Cowboys N' Aliens

Mark — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:43:09 EDT

· Imagine's Brian Grazer will superproduce an adaptation of the graphic novel Cowboys and Aliens for DreamWorks and Universal, a project the spikey-haired seeker described as the "perfect realization of all the cowboys-meeting-aliens-related ideas I've been quietly developing since I was a hyperactive six years old locked in my bedroom with a chest full of toys." [Variety]
· Fox's show about people who think they can dance continues to shame their one about people who think they can direct movies, pulling in more than triple the viewers of the last On The Lot installment. [THR]
· Another famously overweight TV personality rumored to be under consideration to replace Bob Barker is Drew Carey. [Variety]
· Advertisers give a $2.4 billion upfront vote of confidence to Steve McPherson's vision for ABC, with one Madison avenue booster gushing, "Have you heard about this Cavemen thing? It's like a sitcom and car insurance commercial all rolled into one! Think of what they could do with that Coke ad with the polar bears." [THR]
· Stripping off his shirt and smearing his entire body in warpaint, CEO Howard Stringer whipped 7,000 employees into a frenzy at a shareholder ceremony in which he dramatically declared himself the "Sony Warrior." [Variety]

Drew Carey And The Chamber Of Secrets

Mark — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:00:32 EDT

A spy for NY Daily News JV gossip Lloyd Grove escapes from Drew Carey's Hollywood compound, filing this brief report about a very special room tucked away in the actor's house:

Looks like comedian Drew Carey takes the comfort of his houseguests very seriously. A Lowdown spy who recently visited Carey's Hollywood Hills home discovered a large, windowless chamber with padded walls. It's apparently nicknamed the "make-out room" and is filled with candles, blankets, pillows and "a bunch of mattresses on the floor."

Indeed, "The Make-Out Room" sounds much more enticing and harmless than its unofficial name, "The Last Place Anyone Saw Those Strippers From Crazy Girls."

BARGAIN BASEMENT? (fourth item) [NY Daily News]