Joey Faye

Joey Faye was an American comedian and actor who came to prominence as a comic in vaudeville, where he said he created two of its best known routines, Floogle Street and Slowly I Turned. Born in New York City, he made his stage debut at the Republic Theatre at 21, and in World War II he performed for Allied troops in Africa and Europe with a troupe led by Marlene Dietrich. On Broadway he was second banana to Phil Silvers in High Button Shoes and Top Banana, and his stage career, running from the late 1930s into the early 1990s, took in 17 shows, among them Room Service, The Tender Trap and a 1965 revival of Guys and Dolls. He was in the 1955 film of The Tender Trap and Neil Simon's musical Little Me. On television he was a guest from 1949 to 1984, headlined Joey Faye's Frolics, and co-starred with Mickey Deems in Mack & Myer for Hire.