Bishop got his professional start in vaudeville as part of a comedy act with his brother. Billed as Joey Gottlieb, he later joined a comedy group called “The Bishop Trio.” After the team disbanded, he ...

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On every table in the big nightclub at Las Vegas’ Sands Hotel, a card announcing the night’s entertainment carried as after thought: “Oh yes . . . and Joey Bishop.” Joey’s thin, sad face glooms out of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...