Bishop starred in an eponymous television sitcom that aired on NBC from 1961-1964 and hosted his own late-night talk show from 1967-1969. Throughout the 1970s, he frequently appeared as a guest star ...

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 ...

The open season on NBC's Tonight show continued, but Johnny Carson was not perceptibly pinked. ABC had already taken a pot shot with Joey Bishop (TIME, April 28). And last week, a new ad hoc ...

LOS ANGELES -- The Rat Pack once was the coolest group of entertainers on the planet -- Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr. Oh, yeah, and a stone-faced comedian named Joey ...