Background
Carey was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and attended McKinley Senior High School.
Carey was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and attended McKinley Senior High School.
After graduating from high school, Carey entered the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette in 1988 to study mass communications. In 1989, he enrolled at Southern University Agricultural and Mechanical College in Baton Rouge and before graduation he worked as one of the city"s youngest radio news anchor and reporters for WXOK radio in Baton Rouge. By 1990, he was also news director and anchor at KQXL-FM and WYCT-FM. That same year, Isiah got his first break in television as a reporter and weekend public affairs talk show host at WVLA-television (National Broadcasting Company) (Baton Rouge).
In 1991, he joined WAFB (Baton Rouge) where he remained for four years as a fill in co-host of a morning news program and general assignment reporter.
Carey has worked at KARK-television, channel 4 Little Rock, Arkansas and at television stations in Memphis, Tennessee and Washington, District of Columbia (Black Entertainment Television). Carey currently works as a reporter for KRIV, channel 26, in Houston, Texas.
Honors and awards As a general assignment reporter in Arkansas, Carey often reported from remote and rural locations throughout the state. Reporting on the death of an adult chaperon at a football game at Augusta High School in 1995, Carey did several "stand-ups" to use in his story.
During one of these stand-ups, a grasshopper flew into his mouth.
Carey lost his composure and launched into a profanity-filled tirade about his hay fever, in a high-pitched Southern accent that contrasted with the deep voice and the accent he normally uses on camera. Although the bad take was never broadcast by the station, it was uploaded to YouTube in 2008 and became an internet phenomenon. The video was played on Jimmy Kimmel Live, ET and was featured on Howard Stern.
lieutenant is also listed as one of the top view videos in any one day in Germany, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Mexico and France.
In February 2009, the video was uploaded on Facebook and continues to receive thousands of hits a day, and two Carey Fanclubs have been established. The outtake was also parodied in the season 2, episode 16 of The Cleveland Show, "The Way the Cookie Crumbles".
In 2011, Carey was the subject of a "Web Redemption" on Tosh.0.