The Drew Carey Show TV Show

Lewis Kiniski- Portrayed by Ryan Stiles

Lewis Kiniski is one of the long time friends of Drew Carey. He normally appears in a double-act with Oswald on the show. He’s forty years old, tall, gangly and blonde guy. Casually, he can be called as a foul mouth and sometimes he talks like an eccentric as well. He can be called smart but underachieving guy. His IQ is said to be 163, but he works as a janitor in a DrugCo. The reason has been shown that once he accidentally released a virus among population and that’s why he was demoted to Janitor from his white collar job in Lab. Despite his high IQ, a psychiatric exam result showed him as mentally unstable and possibly criminally insane. Actually, he was posing as Drew to take his physical exam for him and gave answers which he thought suit Drew’s life and situations.

Ryan Stiles

Full Name- Ryan Lee Stiles

Birthday- April 22, 1959

Birth Place- Seattle, Washington

Life and Career- He’s an Emmy nominated American- Canadian actor and comedian, best known for his work in “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”, “The Drew Carey Show”. He’s 6′6″ and his shoe size is 15. When he was ten, his family relocated to Richmond, British Columbia. At the age of seventeen, he dropped out of high school to pursue career in comedy. He also worked in his father’s fish-processing plant while doing stand-up at Punchlines Comedy Club in Vancouver.

Since 1989, he has been the part of British Improvisational Comedy Show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” and remained as a regular until 1998. In the same year ABC network launched the American Version of “Whose Line Is It Anyways?” Ryan had always succeeded in making audiences laugh on the show. Due to this show, he got a nick name Ryan “Anything for a laugh” Stiles. In 1995, he landed into the role of Lewis Kiniski in “The Drew Carey Show”. His film credits include “Hot Shots” in 1991 and the sequel “Hot Shots Part Deux” in 1993. He has also worked as a recurring character in several episodes of “Two and a Half Men”. He has also appeared in guest roles in “Murphy Brown”, “Mad About You” and “Dharma and Greg”. Recently he has also appeared in “Reno 911!” as Sergeant Cliff, an acting coach.

He married his girl friend Patricia, after seven years long live-in relationship in 1988. They have three kids. During his free time, he stays at his home on Lake Samish outside Bellingham, WA. He has opened a small theater named Upfront Theatre, which is dedicated to “Improv comedy’.