After graduating in 1975, he enrolled in Kent State University, joined the Delta Tau fraternity, and became an avid board game player. Education and Mental HealthĬarey attended Rhodes High School and, as a trumpet and a coronet player, he was deeply involved in the marching band.
When the school day was done, he entertained himself with humor books, recordings of comedians and cartoons, and spent time with friends such as David Lawrence. Since there was a large age gap between Carey and his older brothers, the solitary, depressed boy was often left to his own devices. As a result, Carey asked for psychiatric care, but his mother, who was working multiple jobs to support the family, didn't have time to help him seek out therapy. The youngest of three brothers, Carey became especially withdrawn when his father, a draftsman for General Motors, succumbed to a brain tumor in 1966.
Early Lifeĭrew Allison Carey was born on May 23, 1958, to Beulah and Lewis Carey in Cleveland, Ohio. He also was the host of the improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? and is currently the host of The Price Is Right. After spending time in the Marine Corps, Drew Carey turned his attention to comedy and his stand-up act led to a primetime sitcom, The Drew Carey Show.
