 Drew Carey and Bruce Helford co @-@ created The Drew Carey Show . Having worked together twice before on The Good Life and Someone Like Me , Carey joined up with Helford and told him he wanted to develop his own show . They each came up with various ideas and created The Drew Carey Show . Carey later told a group of television critics at the network launch that the series was originally going to be called The Drew F ... ing Carey Show , saying " We were going to call it The Drew F. Carey Show and see if anybody at home could figure it out ! " 
