steve rowell
October 19, 2007 at 7:58 am

Va'le Joey Bishop

Source: LA Times

Joey Bishop, the deadpan comedian who was ABC’s answer to NBC’s late-night talk show king Johnny Carson in the late 1960s and was the last surviving member of Frank Sinatra’s legendary Rat Pack, has died. He was 89.

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By: Flying-A - 20th October 2007 at 06:12

His early sixties half-hour sitcom was rerun on TVLand several years ago. If you like Ratpack stuff, it was OK, if not, it wasn’t. That may explain why it had middling ratings and several format changes, but it did launch Bill Bixby’s career.

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By: J Boyle - 19th October 2007 at 18:02

Joey Bishop, the deadpan comedian who was ABC’s answer to NBC’s late-night talk show king Johnny Carson in the late 1960s ….

And the obits remind us that after his competing show was cancelled, he went onto substitute for Carson about 200 times.
Good to see there wasn’t bad blood between them.

Steve, I’m amazed that anyone from Australia would know who he was. Thanks.