Cynthia Watros Looks Back on "The Drew Carey Show"

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Cynthia Watros Says "The Drew Carey Show" was “A Well-Oiled Machine”
by Stephanie Sloane
Oct. 8, 2025


After a two-year run on "Titus" from 2000-02, Watros joined the cast of "The Drew Carey Show" in its eighth season as Drew’s girlfriend, Kellie Newmark, replacing Christa Miller.

“The Drew Carey Show was probably one of my best experiences,” enthuses Watros, who was there from 2002-04. “I really, really enjoyed my time there. It was a blast.”




Being the new hire on an established hit could have been daunting, but Watros says the set was anything but intimidating.

“They were a well-oiled machine,” she explains. “They’re all super-funny, they’re stands-ups, so the show was very relaxed in its taping, and it was in front of a live audience, and that’s always so amazing.”




Much of that ease came from the show’s star.

“Drew was incredibly generous,” Watros relays. “I remember my first day, I walked into my trailer and there’s a computer. And he didn’t just do it for me; he did it for everyone. There were flowers every week, and he was always inviting people over to his house. He was very gracious and sweet and caring about other people.”




Though she had appeared in back-to-back comedies, Watros says humor doesn’t come naturally to her.

“I don’t think I’m that funny,” she says. “If you were to ask my friends, they would say, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about. She’s not funny.’ I don’t know where it comes from. Even when I play characters that aren’t funny, it kind of seeps out.”




However, the pressure to land punchlines wasn’t on her.

“With Kellie, I was the straight guy out of all these really super funny people,” she points out. “Once in a while, I would get a joke, or it would just kind of come out. Maybe I’m good at letting comics bounce their jokes off of me, but I still, to this day, do not think that I’m really funny because I’m not.”

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