What Really Happened To The Cast Of The Drew Carey Show After The Last Episode

Highlights

• Drew Carey has had a successful career after The Drew Carey Show, hosting shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway? and The Price is Right.
• Diedrich Bader, who played Oswald on the show, found success in recurring roles on Veep and American Housewife.
• Christa Miller, who portrayed Kate on the show, had recurring roles on Scrubs, Shrinking, and Cougar Town.

During its almost ten-year run as a television sitcom, The Drew Carey Show, which was created by comedian and actor Drew Carey, was ranked among the Top 30 programs on television. First released on September 13, 1995, the series centered around the office and home life of a fictionalized version of Drew Carey.

Besides the obvious humorous nature of the series, Carey also explored the shift from the retail office space to the digital online era. The series ranked its highest from 1996 to 2001, where it then began to experience a steady decline until ABC decided to burn off the final season in the summer of 2004. Since then, here’s what really happened to the cast of The Drew Carey Show after the last episode.

6 What Has Drew Carey Been Up To Since The Drew Carey Show Ended?

Net Worth: $165 million

As the name of the show suggests, Drew Carey was the main actor on The Drew Carey Show, as well as one of the three actors that appeared in all 233 episodes. When The Drew Carey series began, Carey made $60,000 per episode, and by the final season, he was earning a whopping $750,000 per episode.

When the show was canceled in 2004, he had already begun hosting the improvisational comedy series, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, from 1998 until it was canceled in 2006. But, according to Screen Rant, since 2007, he’s replaced Bob Barker as the official host of The Price is Right, which he still does today. While his TV show listing far exceeds his roles in film, here’s a short list of the movies and animation films Carey has appeared in, according to Through The Clutter:

5 What Has Diedrich Bader Been Up To Since The Drew Carey Show Ended?

Net Worth: $6 million

Diedrich Bader, whose character on the show was regrettably named Oswald Lee Harvey, played the role of a thickheaded delivery man and trainee nurse on The Drew Carey Show. He was one of the other actors in the series to star in all 233 episodes. Shortly after the show was canceled in 2004, Bader landed a recurring role for 12 episodes on another TV series entitled Center of the Universe. However, it was canceled after only 10 episodes were aired. He then had recurring roles on the political satire comedy series, Veep (2014-2019), for which he did 21 episodes. His other longstanding recurring role was in American Housewife (2016-2021), in which he appeared in 103 episodes.

Since the end of The Drew Carey Show, Diedrich Bader has also appeared in a number of feature films, such as Napoleon Dynamite starring Jon Heder, Eurotrip, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, Balls of Fury, and a brief appearance in the 2023 superhero film, Shazam! Fury of the Gods.

4 What Has Christa Miller Been Up To Since The Drew Carey Show Ended?

Net Worth: $250 million

Christa Miller played the role of Kate O’Brien on The Drew Carey Show, who was the friend-turned-love interest of Drew Carey. She appeared in 184 episodes of the series, leaving the show in the season before the last. One year before she left The Drew Carey Show, she landed the role of Jordan Sullivan on the medical sitcom, Scrubs, and made recurring appearances for 89 episodes until the show stopped airing in 2010.

After her time on The Drew Carey Show, Christa Miller also made a few appearances on shows like CSI: Miami and Undateable. One of her other recurring roles was on the sitcom Cougar Town, where she played the role of Ellie Torres for 102 episodes from 2009 to 2015. She even earned a Gracie Award for Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Comedy Series in 2014. Miller then landed another recurring role as Principal Maris on the HBO Max sitcom, Head of The Class, in 2021. However, the series was canceled in December 2022 after just one season. Her most recent recurring role has been in the 2023 Apple TV+ comedy-drama series, Shrinking, starring Jason Segel, Jessica Williams, and Harrison Ford.

3 What Has Ryan Stiles Been Up To Since The Drew Carey Show Ended?

Net Worth: $8 million

Ryan Stiles, who played the character of Drew’s witty friend, Lewis Kiniski, appeared on 224 aired episodes of The Drew Carey Show. Like Carey, Stiles also became a recurring act on the improv comedy series, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, from 1998, and has remained on the show for 20 seasons, totaling 408 episodes. As of 2023, he still plays the role of performer and executive producer on the series.

Between 2004 and 2015, Ryan Stiles also had a recurring role as Dr. Herb Melnick in Two and a Half Men starring Charlie Sheen, appearing in a total of 30 episodes. He also joined his beloved co-stars Drew Carey and Kathy Kinney in the 2011 television program, Drew Carey’s Improv-A-Ganza in 2011. He remained there as a recurring performer for 34 episodes, as well as a producer for 7 episodes. In 2019, Stiles reunited with Drew Carey, Kathy Kinney, and Diedrich Bader on the Season 4 episode of American Housewife.

2 What Has Kathy Kinney Been Up To Since The Drew Carey Show Ended?

Net Worth: $5 million

Although she’d made one-off appearances on popular sitcoms such as Seinfeld, Grace Under Fire, and Boy Meets World, it was her character as Mimi Bobeck on The Drew Carey Show that proved to be one of her biggest and longest-standing television roles. Similar to Drew Carey and Diedrich Bader, Kinney also appeared in all 233 episodes of the television series. Following the show’s cancelation, she had a short recurring role in My Name Is Earl in 2007. She has also appeared in 2 episodes of The Price is Right, following Drew Carey’s replacement of Bob Barker.

Kathy Kinney’s only other enduring role after The Drew Carey Show was in the teen drama TV series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager. There, she played the role of the Butcher Shop Lady for 33 episodes and, most recently, she made an appearance in American Housewife (2019) and Stumptown (2020), according to Best Life Online.

1 What Has Craig Ferguson Been Up To Since The Drew Carey Show Ended?

Net Worth: $30 million

Scottish-American comedian, actor, writer, and television host Craig Ferguson joined the cast of The Drew Carey Show in 1996 when the series was already in its second season. He remained with the show for 170 episodes as the character Nigel Wick but returned as a guest in Season 9. Following his departure from The Drew Carey Show, Ferguson had the longest run of his career as a writer and host on the CBS late-night talk show, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. He hosted 2,058 episodes from 2005 to 2014. Interestingly, his next big break came in 2014 as the executive producer and host of the game show, Celebrity Name Game, which lasted until 2017. Most recently, he hosted another television game show, The Hustler, from January to September 2021.

Besides hosting TV shows and appearing in series, Craig Ferguson has also starred in or voiced the roles of characters in a number of movies. According to The Numbers, these are some of his most successful box office films:

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