Joey Faye

This multi-faceted comic appeared first in burlesque - usually as "second banana" to a star comedian (oft-times 'Phil Silvers' (qv)) - and then appeared successfully on the legitimate stage, in film, on television and in adverts. He claimed credit for two of vaudeville's more renowned pieces of business: "Floogle Street" and "Slowly I Turn," the latter later popularised more widely by Abbott & Costello (see 'Bud Abbott' (qv) and 'Lou Costello' (qv)) and also by the sometime team of 'Ben Blue' (qv) and 'Sid Fields' (qv). 'Joey Faye' (qv) continued working even while well into his 80s.::Bill Takacs <kinephile@aol.com>