15 Facts About Richard Bey

Richard Wayne Bey was born on July 22,1951 and is an American talk show host.

Richard Bey was popular in the 1990s as host of The Richard Bey Show, a daytime talk show containing ordinary people's personal stories incorporated into entertaining competitive games.

Richard Bey is an alumnus of the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Yale School of Drama.

Richard Bey was a company member of the Yale Repertory Theater and understudied the National Theatre of Great Britain on Broadway and at the Kennedy Center.

The Richard Bey Show was produced from WWOR in Secaucus, New Jersey and later syndicated across the country by All American Television.

Bey eventually took over duties of the show, and the seeds of The Richard Bey Show were set.

From 1992 and on, as The Richard Bey Show, the staples of trash TV became officially commonplace.

Sometimes the content was uncensored, and Richard Bey says "dick" in one episode, to poke fun at his name, for jokes.

Richard Bey made light of Ricki Lake, Rosie O'Donnell, Phil Donahue, and Oprah Winfrey's shows.

The production team, along with Richard Bey, set up the program to invite an unsuspecting audience to participate in a segment where Bruno appears as a guest, talking about his Black adopted son.

Richard Bey has since hosted on Sirius Satellite Radio, The Bill Press Show, and for the syndicated The Wall Street Journal: This Morning.

Richard Bey hosted for a week on WXRK 92.3 FM from February 5 to February 9,2007, from 10:00pm to midnight.

Richard Bey regularly filled in for Lynn Samuels and Alex Bennett on the Sirius Satellite Radio channel Talk Left when they went on vacation or took a day off.

In March 2008, family reasons caused Mark Riley to leave WWRL by mutual agreement to return to WLIB, and Richard Bey was teamed up with longtime broadcaster Coz Carson.

Richard Bey later decided to leave WWRL himself, citing personal reasons.