Drew Carey has been a near-constant presence on our TV screens for 30 years, first with 9 seasons of The Drew Carey Present, after which with The Value is Proper, which Carey has hosted since 2007. However to listen to the actor and comic inform it, he nonetheless approaches each job with the assumption that “nothing’s assured.” Whereas engaged on The Drew Carey Present from 1995 to 2004 with co-creator Bruce Helford, Carey remembers, “We weren’t pie within the sky about what the TV enterprise was. We knew we needed to work and be humorous and give you the products each week, or we had been going to get canceled.”
With the long-awaited full DVD field set of The Drew Carey Present lastly launched (beforehand, solely the present’s first season was accessible), Carey and Helford spoke to ReMIND concerning the present’s early days, how Carey and one other one of many present’s stars had been “actually unhealthy at auditioning,” and feeling that “any day I might be fired. I might be let go.”