A cruel practical joke made headlines this week when an autistic Cleveland teenager, believing he was participating in the ALS ice bucket challenge, instead had a mixture of urine, feces, spit, and cigarette butts dumped on his head. Now, comedian and amateur law enforcement agent Drew Carey is looking for answers.

To celebrate a friend's birthday, comedian Josh Androsky and 20 of his comic buddies decided it would be fun to get really drunk, do some shrooms, and go be audience members on The Price is Right. And wouldn'tcha know it — Josh was picked to be a contestant and was told to come on down.

Gwyneth Paltrow accepts responsibility for saving a woman's life on 9/11. Terrorists want to maim David Letterman. Jennifer Hudson is prefers losing weight to winning Oscars. The suicidal Housewives star's family might sue Bravo. Thursday gossip is "deeply moved."

The fallout from Nic Cage's night of drunken thrashing continues. Robert Pattinson's fear of clowns is actually quite reasonable. Charlie Sheen has terrible body odor. Some actress bitchslaps Paris Hilton on Twitter. Here's your Tuesday gossip.

A few months back, GSN gave me the opportunity to head down to Las Vegas, make ten dollars on penny slots (true story), balk at lions enclosed in a glass case of emotion for all the tourists to appreciate, and double down at the MGM Grand's free-for-me buffet so hard that I quickly grew into a larger waist size As priceless as these experiences were, the highlight of my trip to Vegas was what I was sent there for: to meet television icon Drew Carey.

Is there a lack of improvisation in your life? Do you miss the days of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Seeing Drew Carey in your primetime lineup? If you said yes to any of these, this is your lucky day.

Game show contestants are generally kinda nuts, but this girl really takes crazy to a new level. Although we usually find this kind of behavior to be annoying, she is actually rather endearing. A collection of her freak outs inside.

How can you tell that a new show has finally hit its stride? When Community brings the hysterical Rob Corddry and newly-thinner Drew Carey on for an episode and they're not even the funniest part of the show. Highlights inside!

Shots fired! Apparently, Bob Barker said some nasty things about current The Price Is Right host Drew Carey. And you know who was really bothered by this? Wendy Williams.

Price Is Right host Drew Carey lost 80 pounds by removing carbs from his diet and exercising six days a week. Good for him! Now he can beat up Bob Barker for talking shit about him. [People; pics via AP]

Gynecologist Dr. Michael Bummer (actual name) puts host Drew Carey in stitches after making a bid for sixty-nine dollars. To the delight of Drew and the audience, the good doctor's bid was the closest without going over.

Before he had his eponymous show or his job as the host of The Price Is Right, Drew Carey made jokes about his eating habits.

Today at Gawker.TV, Pee Wee Herman stopped by The View, ABC's True Beauty highlights the ugliest personalities in America, Drew Carey lived out of his car, and a look back at Tyra Banks' last week on daytime television.

Back before Drew Carey had his own sitcom or hosted The Price is Right, he rented out his home and moved from Cleveland to LA in order to get his career going. Proof that sacrifice can actually pay off professionally!

This is a plan that a studio is hatching. Also today: a new hidden camera show promises to delight, Aziz Ansari gets a hosting gig, the volcano continues to define our lives, and Cybil Shepherd would like to wax you.

This gal made it all the way to the Showcase Showdown portion of The Price is Right. Unfortunately, the possibility of winning a car is just too much for her to take.

Naomi Campbell turns 39 today. Actress Ginnifer Goodwin is turning 31. Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is 81. Real estate developer Joseph Sitt is 45. Society dermatologist Lisa Airan is turning 44. Artist Ghada Amer turns 46. Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw is 69. Alison Eastwood, the actress and daughter of Clint, is turning 37. British tabloid staple, Katie Price, is turning 31. And America's Next Top Model: Cycle 7 winner Caridee English is 24 today. Weekend birthdays after the jump.

It's been over thirty years since a contestant on The Price is Right guessed the exact price of their Showcase Showdown. So why was Drew Carey's so unenthused when it happened yesterday?

Editing a website is hard! Thankfully, like everyone else in my horrid generation, I can still rely on my parents. Not for financial support, but for story ideas.

Everything after the final notes of its familiar theme, from the playing out of a highly suspect "perfect game," to the friendly sign-off reminder to "help control the sex-worker population: Have a hooker spayed or neutered today," suggested a new era has dawned at The Price is Right. Gone is Bob Barker's well-calibrated "atmosphere of terror." In its place is new host Drew Carey's atmosphere of congeniality, where every contestant is referred to as "buddy" or "man," and where new cars are given away with a frequency that would make Oprah blush.