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Drew Carey may finally do something funny tonight

July 26th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Hippolyta, COME ON DOWN!!!

Drew Carey, the jarhead, stripper-idolizing host of The Price is Right, says he’s “very, very excited” to be narrating William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in concert tonight with the Cleveland Orchestra. This could do for Carey’s career what The Jazz Singer did to Jerry Lewis - absolutely nothing.

What is it with comedians never being satisfied with their innate gift to make people laugh? Name the famous comic and you are guaranteed to find a failed dramatic role lurking somewhere in their list of credits. Remember Lucy as the bag lady in Stone Pillow? It took Woody Allen’s break with Ingmar Bergman and subsequent shift to Hitchcock before he was finally able to make a satisfactory dramatic film shorn of laugh lines. Robin Williams is one of the few exceptions to the rule inasmuch as his dramatic roles are infinitely more palpable than any of his manic antics.

Tonight marks the first time in my life that I am actually saddened not to be in Cleveland.

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