Tony Award-winning Broadway producer, cabaret performer, and television host Jamie deRoy joins Joe Sibilia to discuss becoming the 8th woman to join the New York Friars Club, opening for Friars including Joan Rivers and Gene Baylos, former Friars Abbot Alan King's telling of the founding of the club, hanging out at Friar Sammy Davis Jr.'s house, and having Friars such as Kevin Meaney, Steve Allen, and Henny Youngman participate in her "Jamie deRoy & Friends" show. Plus, Jamie shares some of her favorite Friars jokes, and talks about discovering talent at the fabled "Bachelors' Table," meeting former Abbot Jerry Lewis in Las Vegas, co-producing Billy Crystal's Broadway musical "Mr. Saturday Night," and working the Golden Globes!
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