LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joey Bishop, the deadpan comedian, TV host and last of the super-hip team of performers known as the Rat Pack, led by Frank Sinatra, has died at age 89, his publicist said on Thursday.
Bishop, born Joseph Abraham Gottlieb on February 3, 1918, in the Bronx, died on Wednesday night at his home in Newport Beach, south of Los Angeles, following an illness of several months.
I was surprised, upon reading his biography at imdb.com, that he did not provide the voice of the Aardvark on the old Pink Panther show cartoons. That was done by John Byner. When I mentioned this discovery to MizBubs, she mocked my ignorance by asking if I knew that Orson Welles did not provide the voice of The Brain.
