She played Drew’s girlfriend Lisa in the first season and part of the second, then boom, she was gone. Always liked her. Was there some problem behind the scenes? Did the producers decide she just didn’t fit in the show anymore?
There for awhile it seemed like she was going to break out - I remember seeing her often. Then … nothing. I don’t know why she left the show, but I always thought she was cute and sweet.
She may not have had the comedic talent they were looking for in the show. It was a collection of oddball comics and she was like Marilyn on the Munsters. But most likely it was just her agent telling her to take other roles, or she stopped sleeping with the producer.
Was she ever intended to be a permanent part of the show? She was just a long term recurring character, which the Drew Carey Show had a lot. She was in two seasons, but she wasn’t in every single episode.
Seems to me from her IMDB page, she’s just a TV star. She has many short duration credits. This topic comes up a lot – she’s a pretty, talented actress … in an industry glutted with pretty, talented actresses. They can’t all get a series. Drew had a series for years, and now, he’s Bob Barker’s slightly uncomfortable clone. As it was said, she wasn’t a main character, that was the whole running joke on the Drew Carey show, Drew never finds the love of his life, but keeps trying.
I wouldn’t go nerd girl. She had an eclectic look and lifestyle (multiple pets, ran off with some guy to travel the world) but geeky, nerdy, tech-savvy, no that wasn’t there – for me anyway.
The female leads on The Drew Carey show were often eclectic. Mimi was a strong woman, confident of her physical attractiveness – in bold defiance of the evidence. Kate wasn’t just mixing femininity with tom-boyishness – she was actually dangerously violent at times.