As Drew Carey never failed to remind people, improvised classic TV comedy Whose Line Is It Anyway was the show where the points didn’t matter. (No matter how loudly Chris Hardwick might yell about them many years down the line.) Even so, Carey dutifully handed them out over the years, slowly filling the virtual…
Every week, John Teti hosts The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti—it’s right there in the name!—and on a recent episode, he makes a personal dream come true by visiting the set of The Price Is Right. In this exclusive outtake from that episode, John and TPIR host Drew Carey nerd out about a specific game on the show that…
The Price Is Right is a game show that’s as much about strategy as it is about chance. Whether you’re guesstimating the price of a new washing machine or undercutting your fellow contestant by only betting a dollar, it’s important to think through all your options before telling host Drew Carey what you want to do.…
The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti is about to go on hiatus for a month, so at the production office, we’ve been treating this week’s episode—episode 20!—as our “midseason finale.” To send us into the break with a bang, we headed to CBS Television City in Hollywood, where we spent a day behind the scenes of the…
Last Friday, the morning of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, there was one healing salve: the image of Connor, a scrappy young hell-raiser straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting, who was so pissed off at the state of things that he was forced to create a fire, such that the destruction in the world might…
One of the most noteworthy things about The Drew Carey Show, which ran for nine seasons on ABC from 1995 to 2004, is how the typical-looking sitcom managed to smuggle in some genuinely weird material despite its generic trappings. There was the time Lewis (Ryan Stiles) thought he had contracted a fatal cold, and ended…
During its nine-year run, The Drew Carey Show—which premiered on September 13, 1995—lured a cavalcade of guest stars to its fictionalized version of Cleveland. These included everyone from Donald Trump and Tammy Faye Baker to Jay Leno and the then-mayor of real Cleveland, Michael White. But the sitcom’s abundance of…