Bishop was a regular on the TV quiz show "Keep Talking" from 1958 to 1960 and then starred for four seasons as late-night talk-show host Joey Barnes in his own sitcom, "The Joey Bishop Show" (NBC, 1961-64; CBS, 1964-65). That experience and his legendary ability to improvise helped him carve out a career as a real life talk-show host as well, working as a permanent guest host for Jack Paar in the 60s before going on to sub for Johnny Carson a record 207 times. In addition, he hosted his own ABC talk-show, also called "The Joey Bishop Show" (1967-69). Among his other movies, Bishop acted in "The Naked and the Dead" (1958), "The Delta Force" (1986), as a Jewish-American hostage, and made a cameo appearance in his son Larry's "Mad Dog Time" (1996). He made his Broadway debut in 1981, stepping into "Sugar Babies", a musical hit reliving the hurly-burly days of burlesque that had spawned his career.