I cannot believe that I remember watching this show on a daily basis. Richard Bey makes Maury Povich look good.

Oh man, this brings back memories- middle school, watching Bey. I totally remember the contests where he'd make people eat, like, fish in a blender for $100. I also loved that whenever a fat person came out, there'd be pig-snorting sound effects.

Wasn't it filmed in Bayonne or Camden? ::gets all warm & fuzzy just thinking about Bey being in my home state:: What ever happened to this guy?

I always liked the shows that ripped off The Dating Game. They would have two normal looking people and one monster. Usually the monster weighed like 800 pounds or something. So, of course, the audience cheered for the monster and the contestant always picked the monster. It was funny.

Bring back Richard Bey!

I remember a contest for Mr. Punyverse (the contest for the sknniest, puniest man knwon to mankind) and a contest to find women with the biggets butt.

The Channel 9 studio was in Secaucus as far as I know. I used to enjoy this show too. All that sticks out in my mind is a Kelly Bundy look-a-like contest on one ep. Howard's show was great too.
Channels 9 & 11 were syndicated trash treasures before UPN and the WB took over.

Richard Bey...Gay??

I would literally act sick to try to see Richard Bey, especially when he had strippers on. I even watched when he did a Saturday night version after the Howard Stern show went off the air. I was twelve by the way. If Ebay has old episodes on tape I would totally pay up to $100 for a couple.

I remember this show! It was hysterical and sick! I especially liked when he dressed up on costume to fit the day's topic, like "tyrannical husbands" and he dressed like Napoleon. His "relationship expert" dressed up like Eva Peron. Then the put-upon wives got to throw tomatoes at their husbands! Then there was the "Wheel of Torture" where victims got revenge against bullies. Good times, man, good times. Is Richard Bey still alive?

OMG! OMG! I totally remember watching this show when I was like in middle school. He was Jerry Springer before Jerry Springer. I remember watching the show wondering if it was for real. I would love to see some of those episodes. Wow. Somebody else remembers this show.

The only episode of Richard Bey that I remembered was the one wheer he has the cast of "Dangerous Women" on. Anyone, anyone?

The audience was crazy for the show, it was a ch. 9 show but I lOVED it, i was in junior high

Richard Bey was not gay but aparently a real ladies man (to hear him tell it.). Later on he had a talk show on WABC-am radio in NYC. He often talked about his Brazilian girlfriend and going on vacation with her. He was fired for being too liberal leaning on that very conservative station.

Wow, according to imdb.com Matt Lauer was a co-host on the RB show. I do think it's hilarious that we all remember watching this show in middle school.

Anyone remember Morton Downey Jr? I think he was on channel 9 also. His show reminded me of Richard Bey. Gosh I miss his show.

Oy gevalt. I remember Bey from his days on the local ABC affiliate in Philadelphia. He did a show called, I think, People Are Talking or something. I was just a little kid. And then he did some Morton Downey Jr-derived show that was just hideous.

He tried to be serioius in Philadelphia--I think I was even on People Are Talking one time--but he gave that up when he went national.

My favorite part of this show by far was the sound effects. I know there was one that said something like, "Take a seat, honey." At the time, I thought it was hilarious.

Bey was lightyears beyond Springer. Basically, Springer stole the whole trash premise from Bey.

Where is Bey now?

Oh my god I totally remember this show. I was in Highschool, and I would pretend to be sick just to stay home and watch the show(that was until I learned how to set my VCR up to record the episodes, which I still have on tape).
During those years(around 93-95)it was the golden age of trash talk, and Richard Bey made Jerry Springer look tame by comparison.
The guests on his show were so filthy that I wanted to bath in Chlorox after every episode.

My favorite, and most memorable ep, was 'The Last OJ Show'. This was around the time when the OJ verdict had just been read and EVERYONE had a show on about it. Anyway, there were these two African American sisters(I mean sister in the literal sense not the soul sense), and one's name was Jamilah. Jamilah thought OJ was guilty and her sister thought he was innocent and wanted to marry him...even though she was married with four children!
It was so hilarious the way they behaved on the show...and there was this other woman who was adamant about OJ's innocence that she did not even cook her children dinner because she was engrossed in the trial coverage...lol.

Richard Bey was hilarious.

I actually mey Richard Bey once and... oh god... got his autograph. Ha! About 9 years ago, I was a hostess at an upscale restaurant, he came in with a much younger woman and had dinner (the guy that waited on him claimed he was a shitty tipper). After they ate, the woman went to the ladies' room and he waited for her in the lobby, where I happened to be standing so I asked for an autograph. He was nice, a little bit tipsy and he signs autographs with the tagline from the show: Where do we find these people?? - Richard Bey

Best show. And like you guys, I used to fake sick to watch him.

Sound effects were the best, but my 2nd thought when i think of RB is that he looks like the guy who sings "Our love's in jeopardy baby...OOOOOooooooo."

Good lord, I remember this show. Wasn't there a wheel or something?

You can catch up with him here, he is on Sirius radio now

"Where do they fiiiiind these people?"

Many hours of my youth were wasted watching Miss Thunder Thighs versus Mr. Puniverse....the sound of stampeding elephants is still fresh in my mind!

He was always better than Jerry IMO....

*DEAD*

Ooooh, a thread for Richard Bey! I was just browsing through the talk show section and I saw this thread. This is sooo exciting because I used to watch him in high school and college. I don't live in Jersey, but our cable company had WGN on its roster so I got to see it. My fondest memory is of a show on promiscious (sp??) girls and they played the song, "there's some hos in this house as the "hos" walked out. Me and my mother rolled at this. Good times, man!

Thanks, crazymacy, for the link to Bey's show on Sirius Radio

Remember when the guests would get too excited and start yelling over each other and "SHUT UP" would boom over the speakers? Or "SIT DOWN!" Awesome. Bring back the Bey!

Good to know Richard's still working. I miss this show like nothing else. *HE* should be hosting Fear Factor!

This just killed me mere minutes before the New Year!!! I didn't even get to take my bubbly out of the freezer!!! His sound effect person was THE BEST!!!

WHERE DO THEY FIND THESE PEOPLE?!

yet another thing Springer stole from RB!!! LOL

I can't even believe I'm admitting this, but I actually knew someone who was on the Richard Bey show! It was a junior high classmate of mine appearing with his mom -- apparently they were on a show about bad-assed kids and the mamas that can't take it anymore. He had to do something embarrassing on the show (this was the later years, when the show somehow morphed into Double Dare), and there even may have been boot camp involved, but yeah, he was on there.

And while I'm baring my soul, I've known at least one of the maybe daddies on Maury. So, to answer the age-old question, "where do they find these people?!!", I'm guessing it's in my old neighborhood.

OMG. I thought only people from Jersey knew about the phenomenon known as Richard Bey, and how he was Springer when Springer was actually still doing 'serious' shows.

I loved the sound effects... "Sit down" "Shut up!" and my personal fav... "heyy.... that's great!" My cousin and I still use that one.

Mr Punyverse and Ms. Thunderthighs contests... ho's on parade.... ghetto beauty pagents... it was great. I think I shed a tear when I found out it was no longer on...

I live on Long Island, so we got WWOR as well. And Richard Bey brings back so many memories...total 7th grade flashback. I hadn't thought about this show in such a long time. I do seem to remember a Tranny vs. Real Woman competition with teams. If i'm remembering correctly and not embellishing with childhood fondness, in one particular relay, the women on both teams had to fill their mouths with whipped cream or creme fraiche and then run through an obstacle course haphazardly set up in a studio hallway, complete with running bowlegged through flat on the ground tires section. Although considering what everyone else is remembering, this sounds perfectly plausible. And the sound effects they used every episode? Brilliant.

I might be totally imagining this, but didn't the audience sometimes do commercials for the sponsors? Like, Bey would be standing in front of them and do a spiel for Jacoby and Myers or Champion Mortgages or 1 800 Dentist or something and then he'd signal to the audience and they'd recite whatever the catch phrase for the particular sponsor might have been. I can picture it.

Oh my...I also watched this in junior high!

My favorite memory is when Richard CAUGHT a group making up a story to get on TV and called them out and then brought out a witness. Basically, the story was that it was two women fighting over a man and one of them (her name was Quaneesha, and no I'm not making that up) had a child by the man and was using the child as leveredge to win her man.

Well Richard Bey said "You can fool Sally, you can fool Oprah, but you can't fool me."

And he brought out Quaneesha's mother who said, and I quote "Quaneesha ain't got no kid."

It was the best thing I have ever seen on TV.

Look! A clip!
Richard Bey "Best Friends Now Worst Enemies" (1995)

That was my show back in middle school. Me and my friends would call each other on 3 way and laugh our asses off. I wonder whatever happened to Mr. Puniverse???

AAUGGHHH! I was just thinking of this show this morning! So funny to see it at the top of the forum!

Dear God, those people were horrible but there are a lot of people like them in NE Jersey (I grew up there). I always remember the guys who propose to a girl who is their best friend, and the girl's always like, "Dude, I've already got a boyfriend."

I also clearly remember that there was at least one woman named Angel on every single show, and I now associate that name with trashiness.