# Regis Philbin retiring from his show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079 "2011-01-18T16:34:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079/1 "2011-01-18T16:34:23Z")
[http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/mc-ap-regis-philbin-retiring,0,5868899.story](http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/mc-ap-regis-philbin-retiring,0,5868899.story) Did not watch his show, but liked him on Who Wants to be a Millionaire ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079/2 "2011-01-18T16:53:04Z")
I wonder if he is ill. I thought he’d work until he died. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079/3 "2011-01-18T20:43:16Z")
Maybe Kelly’s husband Mark will get the co-host job? I hope Regis isn’t sick and just decided to quit while he still has all his faculties about him unlike some people _coughLarryKingcough_ ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079/4 "2011-01-19T04:37:06Z")
I like Regis and Kelly they play off well together. I wonder if she’ll continue on her own with a new partner? If so who? Maybe Kelly and Kathy Lee 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079/5 "2011-01-19T13:13:33Z")
He’s 80, for crying out loud, and has logged more TV time than any other American. (Don’t recall the exact stat, I had ET on last night while I was making dinner, etc.) I remember him from a morning show he and Sarah Purcell did in LA in the '70s. Loved Sarah Purcell. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079/6 "2011-01-19T17:32:50Z")
Regis was on TV farther back than that. Joey Bishop had a late night talk show on ABC which was in competition with Carson and the Tonight Show and ran from 1967-1969. Regis was his announcer/second banana. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079/7 "2011-01-19T20:45:50Z")
David Letterman called him yesterday and Regis said he wasn’t retiring from the entertainment industry, just from his TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079/8 "2011-01-19T23:18:31Z")
My mother was in tears, see she is 78 and he is from her generation and can relate to him in the matter of the old days. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079/9 "2011-01-19T23:36:20Z")
I’ll miss him. My pick as a new co-host: Neil Patrick Harris. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079/10 "2011-01-20T01:26:25Z")
What about Anderson Cooper? ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079/11 "2011-01-20T03:10:37Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I hope Regis isn’t sick and just decided to quit while he still has all his faculties about him unlike some people _coughLarryKingcough_ Larry King was on Craig Ferguson last night, and they were hilarious together. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regis-philbin-retiring-from-his-show/568079/12 "2011-01-20T03:17:02Z")
A radio DJ from here in Ottawa apparently is going to be Kelly’s co-host for a day. It made the headlines of the Ottawa Sun yesterday!