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May 10, 2000; Carey's big week spurs ABC to ratings win

By Rick Kissell

 
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - It's just the way ABC Drew it up.

ABC posted easy ratings victories for the May 1-7 week, powered by a Drew Carey-heavy week that featured the star in six hours of programming -- an hour more than Regis Philbin.

According to Nielsen, ABC won its 19th straight week in total viewers with its second largest audience of the season (18.3 million viewers), trailing only Super Bowl week.

Carey's ratings-winning Sunday musical ``Geppetto'' undoubtedly reaped promotional dividends from the comedian's omnipresence on the network. He appeared on two nights of celebrity ``Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' and also yukked it up in two half-hours of his sitcom, ``The Drew Carey Show,'' and an hour of his Thursday improv show, ``Whose Line is it Anyway.''

 

May 8,2000;Drew Carey Goes Back to School

.c The Associated Press

 
CLEVELAND (AP) - Some life tips from Drew Carey: set goals, drink beer with friends and value what's in your heart and mind.

Carey, who dropped out of Kent State University, told 2,800 Cleveland State graduates Sunday that he got drunk and overslept on the last day students could drop courses without penalty.

He got D's and F's.

``But look at me now,'' Carey said. ``I'm a millionaire.''

But material goods aren't the most important things in life, according to Carey, a Cleveland native. ``Things don't make me nearly as happy as talking and having a beer with my friends. And that's something everyone can do.''

He thanked Cleveland State for awarding him an honorary doctorate.

``I've always want to walk up to women and say, `Hey, baby, trust me. I'm a doctor,''' said Carey, a comedian and the star of his own sitcom, ``The Drew Carey Show.''

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