It's not every red-hot TV celebrity who actively solicits comparisons to Roseanne Barr. But Drew Carey is not your typical rising star. After just two seasons on the air critics were hailing Carey as charming and he had become the subject of far more apropos comparisons to marginalized, cubicle-bound comic strip hero Dilbert. Carey's best-selling blue-collar celebrity memoir, Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined, released in 1997, helped cement his new identity, and People magazine included him in its list of the year's 25 Most Intriguing People.
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