Before he became synonymous with The Price is Right , Drew Carey was one of the lucky comics of the '90s who managed to weave a killer stand-up performance on The Tonight Show into mainstream sitcom success. Premiering on ABC in 1995, The Drew Carey Show took bizarre, gonzo risks while maintaining broad viewership for its first few seasons. The show’s constant experimentation was an outlier compared to other mainstream TV comedies at the time. Episodes often involved drag, surprise musical numbers, and surreal daydream-like scenarios — a far cry from ABC’s top sitcom that decade: Tim Allen 's wholesome, family-oriented Home Improvement . Sure, Seinfeld was already breaking from live-action sitcom norms by being "the show about nothing," but The Drew Carey Sho

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