1on1: Drew Carey (cont'd)

On the way to the racetrack, as he passed cars in his police escort, he hung his head out the window and gave fans a big NASCAR-like yell. The responses were mixed: some were shocked it was Carey, others yelled back. "We were bummed out we didn't have a sunroof," he said. "I would have taken my shirt off and just waved it around."

Q: Tell me about The Price is Right.

Carey: It's a game show where you get prizes -- cars and coo-coo clocks, trips to places.

Carey's career

Yr.	Title	Role
'93	Coneheads	Taxi passenger
'94	The Good Life	Drew Clark
'95-'04	The Drew Carey Show	Drew Carey
'98-'06	Whose Line is it Anyway?	Host
'00	Geppetto	Geppetto
'05	Robots	Crank
'07-'08	Power of 10	Host
'07-	The Price is Right	Host

Q: Really? What a concept.

Carey: Yeah, it's pretty fun.

Q: How challenging is it compared to the other shows you've done?

Carey: It's not. It's really fun. I had to learn the games. You have somebody over who's never played Risk, so you're like, 'All right, you roll two dice, I roll one. If you attack, this is what you do. You have your armies. You try to take a continent.' So it's like you're having to explain these rules of a game to everybody all the time.

You're hosting a party anyway. When I'm getting dressed and my makeup on, I can hear people doing the wave. And there's nobody asking them to do the wave, nobody starts it. It's all the fans who come in and do it on their own. They're dancing and doing the YMCA. That's without a warm-up guy. They've been in line since two or three in the morning. The DJ puts on some music, same music every time, and the whole place is so full of joy and happiness and positive feelings. I used to go to a Pentecostal church when I was in junior high and it's like that. Everybody's clapping and really getting into the singing and up on their feet. It's really powerful. It's such a great atmosphere.

Q: What do you do on Tuesdays?

Carey: I watch you on NASCAR.COM.

Q: Where is your favorite vacation spot?

Carey: Vegas or my own house. Honestly, sometimes if I'm just all by myself at my house, I can just be around my dogs and enjoy my backyard, it's great. I have three dogs. I have a Labrador Retriever, a German Shepherd mix and a Rottweiler. So if I can just hang out and just chill, that's my favorite thing to do, especially if I have no responsibility. That's a vacation. I'm one of the few people who enjoy plane rides. If I go from here to New York, that's five and a half hours nobody can touch me, nobody can call me, nobody can ask me anything, I don't have to make a decision, I can eat, I can relax. It's great.

Q: What time do you wake up?

Carey: On a work day, I get up about 9, 9:30. I have to be at work around noon. It's a rough day for me. Some of my friends hate me because of that. You have to do what? Yeah. You don't wake up until when? Yeah. You don't have to be at work until 1? Yeah. You make how much? Yeah.

Q: How much was your first paycheck?

Carey: McDonald's. I got like $1.20 an hour -- whatever the minimum wage was then. I think it was like $1.20, $1.30 an hour. Making shakes.

Q: Tell me a joke.

Carey: A clean one or a dirty one?

Q: Either.

Carey: Alright. Um. OK, there's a -- I can't tell a dirty joke. I'm trying to think of a clean one now I can tell. It was a dirty joke. That's all we've been doing, me and my friends on the way over here, just telling dirty jokes.

Here's one you can tell your kids. A snail gets mugged by two turtles. He calls the police. The police show up and ask what happened. Snail says, 'I don't know, it all happened so fast.'