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Drew: Whose Show Is It Anyway?
That about sums up Drew Carey's feelings, after the sitcom star says he had a run-in with network censors regarding an episode of The Drew Carey Show making fun of airport security.
Carey is peeved at ABC (join the club) after he says the network threatened to halt production on his show unless he made changes to the episode. The installment, set to be taped Thursday and air next month, features Carey's goofball buddies Lewis (Ryan Stiles) and Oswald (Diedrich Bader) scoring jobs as airport security.
ABC, however, was purportedly concerned that the script didn't feature anyone "competent" on the airport security staff. Carey claims the censors then threatened to toss the entire episode if producers didn't make changes.
"I've never had a threat like that from the network...Everybody was kind of in shock," Carey tells the Los Angeles Times. "If you can't satirize authority institutions, what's the point?"
ABC couldn't immediately be reached for comment Wednesday. But a network source told the Times that censors were concerned it might be irresponsible to make all airport security look incompetent. (After all, where would the writers get such a bizarre idea in the first place?)
Producers for the Warner Bros. Television production ultimately agreed to change some jokes in time for the show's taping.
It's not like airport security guards haven't already endured their share of ribbing over the past few months. Security has replaced airline food humor as the gripe du jour on the stand-up comedy circuit. And just last week, Daily Show host Jon Stewart opened the Grammy Awards with a sketch poking fun at security, as he was groped by guards and stripped of his clothing.
But as anyone who watches Drew Carey can attest, presenting "competent" characters isn't exactly the show's strong point. "I think we have a pretty good track record of not being serious on the show," Carey said.
ABC, meanwhile, is having one heck of a time keeping its dirty laundry out of the press. Carey's public ranting comes just a day after Ted Koppel took to the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times, lambasting ABC executives who said his news show Nightline was not "relevant." The Disney-owned network also has had very public run-ins over the past year with Regis Philbin and Barbara Walters over Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and 20/20, respectively.
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