Word: careys
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...worry, guys. You can find that elsewhere! At the WB, Levin announced a block of "male comedy" sketch shows from Jeff Foxworthy and Drew Carey. On Foxworthy's Blue Collar TV, a comic marvels at women's ability to withstand hours of labor: "I give up on a poop after 20 minutes," he says. And ABC picked up Savages, a sitcom about a widower and his sons living blissfully in a pigsty. As the beer commercials tell us, the quickest way to men's hearts is through insulting stereotypes...
...network also announced several new comedies. "Drew Carey's Green Screen" is an improv comedy show in which the scenarios acted out by the comedians are illustrated by animators. It's for everybody who loved "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" but found it too taxing on the imagination. Jeff Foxworthy, meanwhile, returns to the screen in "Blue Collar TV," a standup comedy/parody show on which he will continue to prove that redneck jokes are not offensive as long as you pay an actual Southerner to make them for you. On "Shacking Up," Fran Drescher plays a mother who shocks...
...Carey remains impressively calm—dealing with the issue with an attitude of bemusement, rather than hysteria. This attitude of tolerance is best, it seems, learned at home...
...home schooling was once the domain of religious fundamentalists, today many moderate parents choose to educate their children at home through twelfth grade, and then send them to regular colleges. Carey’s family was featured in the article as part of the trend, and her mother, Maureen Carey, was described as a Quaker and a pacifist...
...don’t really know what to do about it,” Carey says. “It’s kind of a scary thought that people talk about you that way. It’d be awful no matter what, but it’s so weird to be represented as something that I’m the complete opposite...