Drew Carey is sharing his honest feelings about watching himself on TV.
The Price Is Right host, 66, opened up about the subject while chatting exclusively with Parade amid celebrating the long-awaited release of the 30th anniversary edition of The Drew Carey Show: The Complete Series on DVD, out this fall.
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“Not a lot of my fans know [that] I don’t like watching myself on TV. I have a real hard time,” he says. “I’ve sat in the editing room a few times on The Drew Carey Show, and I had to leave. I don’t do it that often because every time I saw it, I was like, ‘That’s what I look like? And that’s [how] I walk?’ I get so tired of seeing myself.”
Noting that one of the producers on The Price Is Right told him that he wanted to give him some notes regarding his onscreen performances, Carey says he was made to watch himself so he could understand what production was talking about.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ He was like, ‘I know, I apologize.’ And he really had to twist my arm to make me watch myself, even on The Price Is Right,” he continues. “So I’ve always been like this. I don’t watch The Price Is Right. I don’t watch The Drew Carey Show. Once in a while, I’ll put it on [to] just like see a minute of it, or Whose Line [Is It Anyway?].”
The Drew Carey Show co-creator and executive producer Bruce Helford, who was also interviewed alongside Carey, goes on to tell Parade why the 30th anniversary DVD set of the beloved sitcom is such a meaningful release for fans.
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“I’ve got three bins of VHS cassettes of all the episodes, and it was a hassle to watch things,” he explains. “But I went [and] picked out my favorite ones, or the [episodes] that were really unique…so I wanted to show the kids. But this is going to be great for people to have it handy like this, and to be able to watch.”
He adds: “I got to tell you that when you watch nine years of this, you will go, ‘Wow.’ More than any other comedy show you watch, you’ll be like, ‘Wow, they did that?’ So it’s really cool.”
The complete series of The Drew Carey Show will be available on DVD for the first time this fall.
Drew Carey Reveals How He Truly Feels About Watching Himself on TV (Exclusive) first appeared on Parade on May 22, 2025
