Quick-thinking comedian Joey Bishop was on stage at New York’s Copacabana when Marilyn Monroe arrived wrapped in a glamorous white ermine coat. “I told you to sit in the truck,” Joey told her, drawing ...

American talk show that had its first broadcast on ABC on April 17, 1967. It was hosted by Joey Bishop and featured Regis Philbin in his first ongoing role with national television exposure, as Bishop ...

He also starred in his own situation comedy, “The Joey Bishop Show,” between 1961 and 1965, where he played a talk-show host named Joey Barnes alongside actress Abby Dalton as his wife. Between 1967 ...

Joey Bishop, the understated funnyman who was the last survivor of Hollywood's Rat Pack and who once challenged Johnny Carson for late-night television supremacy, died Oct. 17 at his home in Newport ...