C17 Theater: Tribute to Joey Adams.

Others receiving awards are the singing group the Belmonts (without Dion) and Joey Adams, the comic and author.

Joey Adams died in 1999 following a long illness.

She was a 16-year-old model when she met and married Joey Adams, a borscht belt comedian the same age as her mother.

December 2 - Joey Adams, American comedian (b. 1911)

Joey Adams, 85, comedian, husband of the gossip columnist Cindy Adams.

Joey Adams and Gene Baylos were holding forth at their customary corner table to the left of the entrance.

Cindy Adams, a New York Post society columnist and wife of the comic Joey Adams, said she, too, entertains only good friends.

Joey Adams, who was the best man at his wedding, would sit at his own table to Baylos's left.

Whom did he expect to find at a book party for the wonderful 85-year-old Joey Adams?