Drew Carey, Reason, Vegas!

Drew Carey's Green Screen Show premieres on Comedy Central on Monday night. More about Drew and his show here and here and here.

What better time than now to register for Reason's Dynamic Cities Conference/Reason After Dark in Las Vegas November 4-6?

You'll catch Drew Carey along with Christopher Hitchens, Joel Kotkin, Frank Fahrenkopf, Vin Suprynowicz, Frank Luntz, Chip Mellor, Todd Seavey, Logan Darrow Clements, Nick Gillespie, Tim Cavanaugh, Jacob Sullum, Matt Welch, Bob Poole, David Nott, and many more great speakers.

This is an interactive weekend. So Hit & Run readers and commenters… we want to meet and hear from you in person.

Read all about the program and entertainment here. Full agenda here. Register here. See you in Vegas.

Comments

[Stevo Darkly]

Hey, Drew Carey was in the "Aristocrats" movie, wasn't he?

As an old Bob Newhart fan, I was amused recently when I found this:

"The Aristocrats" as I Think Bob Newhart Would Perform It

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/9/8wells.html

(You have to be able to hear Bob Newhart in your head while you're reading it, though.)

[Gimme Back My Dog]

Anyone interested in splitting a room? For some reason, I am unable to sell any of my friends on the idea of spending the weekend listening to a panel discussion of city planning.

[s.m. koppelman]

Clever choice of location, what with Vegas being a symbol of might-makes-right capitalism and all. Contrasts perfectly with the event's doppleganger, the Salon cruise. Which is on a cruise ship, one of the most tightly restrictive environments available.

[mediageek]

Stevo, thanks for the link, that was really quite brilliant.

[mediageek]

Stevo, thanks for the link, that was really quite brilliant.

[J. Goard]

Too bad the only things that have gotten me to that utterly depressing city are Scrabble tournaments and a wedding at which I was best man. Inspiring? Jeez, nothing rattles my belief in Mises so much as watching most people misplay a stupidly simple game like Blackjack, let alone plug their coins into slots for hours on end.

[JSFan]

should we dress up like klingons? wait...wrong vegas convention 🙂

[Damian P.]

I'm one of the three or four people who watched the Green Screen Show during its short run on the WB network, and I thought it was hilarious. Is Comedy Central showing new episodes, or are they the ones left unaired when the network run was cancelled?

[Johnny]

Conservatives raise profile in liberal bastion Hollywood (ps, this article was originally run in a self described Republican paper)

(snip)
O'Keefe's former boss, Drew Carey, is another Republican supporter in the entertainment business.

"That automatically kills me for getting lots of TV shows," Carey said in a new documentary about the rising Republican tide in the entertainment industry.

That documentary, "Rated R: Republicans in Hollywood," showed a number of well-known figures who are outspokenly pro-Republican. In addition to Carey, they include comedian Ben Stein
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Last time I saw a list, Drew gives all of his political donations to Republicans, who oppose almost everything he claims to stand for. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me, Nixon would have REALLY liked Drew. No doubt Gordon Liddy, Carl Rove and Tom Delay do.

If that is Libertarianism, than I know I must not be one.

Last time I checked, republicans oppose European welfare style (that's good) but embrace a much more expensive and anti-freemarket, anti-liberty welfare. Corporate Welfare, and limited liability Corps (as most Libertarians I know also support corporations that have limited liability, making them partially, if not completely immune to the freemarket, after all, how long will it be before Republicans start appointing ex-enron executives to government positions.)

Me, I'll start with Liberty as my central point of view, which rejects Drew's support of a single party, and I'll favor someone like Ted Nugents way, which when I looked up his spending a ways back, was based not on party, like drew, but on the stance of individual candidates.

If you are in bed with Drew, then just like they used to point out back in the days of Raygun, you are in bed with all republicans.

Which likely means you are against Liberty, and in favor of such joys as detention of American Citizens without recourse to the courts and the drug war.

[kwais]

Hey,
I think I'll be in Las Vegas that weekend for a boxing tournament. How cool would that be if I could pull a twofer?

[kwais]

Johnny,
I read the stuff on Drew Carey, he seems to be Libertarian enough.

Reason Editors,
I was looking for where to hang out info, and all I saw was register your email thing. Does that mean if I register that I will be emailed instructions on where to go, and where to get a ticket? Or does it mean that I will get emailed a bunch of crap that I have to read, about what you guys talked about?

Much like our president, I don't like to read a lot.

[Larry Horse]

Joel Kotkin is a legit cat. He knows what it really means to be a liberal, and that those who claim to be liberal don't know the meaning of the word.

[NoStar]

Thank goodness it's Drew Carey.

John Kerry would have been worse.