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Carey no stranger as game-show host.

Article from: Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH) Article date: July 29, 2007

Byline: Rich Heldenfels

Jul. 29--When Drew Carey becomes host of The Price Is Right this fall, he won't exactly be entering unknown territory.

He hosted Whose Line Is It Anyway? an improv show with TV-game elements, and the show remains lively and funny in reruns. He hosted Play for a Billion, a 2003 special, for the old WB network, although he admitted at the time he did it to get more publicity for his then-struggling (and now departed) ABC sitcom. And it was apparently his hosting of a pilot for Power of ...

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