Getting paid to give away prizes that, growing up, he could never imagine affording is still a little surreal: 'When you're a guy in Cleveland that's just a regular guy, you can only dream of so much, realistically.
Carey was a blue-collar comic from Cleveland. 'But at the same time, every day, it's 'From the Bob Barker Studio,' and people still show up with Bob Barker, his pictures on their shirts.'Īt the time, Barker was practically Hollywood royalty. 'It's, like, unheard of anymore.'Ĭarey remembers meeting Barker at the legendary old Hollywood haunt Musso & Frank to discuss the very real fear that when Barker left, 'The Price Is Right' might feel all wrong.Ĭowan asked, 'Does that all seem like ancient history to you now? That big transition and everyone talking about it?' Drew Carey, host of 'The Price Is Right' for the last 15 years. 'I never meet anybody who had a job that long,' laughed Carey.
