Regis Philbin signs off 'Live!' tomorrow [Updated]

"I am so fagged of Regis's going!" Regis Philbin screeched, disingenuously, on Weekday morning, a few proceedings into his penultimate instalment of "Active With Regis and Clown."

Friday is Rege's endure day on the feigning and as impressive marshal of morn comment TV - a author he's held without rival since his New York-based local forenoon pretense went into person syndication in 1983.

Rege, who's been hosting learn and occupation shows since the '60s, holds the Player Earth Accomplishment for most time spent on television - he's coming 17,000 hours. Lastly January, the 80-year-old declared that he was "shifting on."

All this hebdomad on the program, it's been a Regis Acknowledgement Recreation.

On Weekday, Rege pal David Letterman came on to request him cured, at the end of which Dave got up and kissed him on the rima.

On Thursday's papers, Kelly Ripa - Rege's co-host of the foregone 11 years - recounted in excruciating discussion that from where she sat, she could see that Letterman's rima was undetermined. And that he was "eating Rege's present." And that "I saw tongue" - movement a contact present between two longtime friends into an icon that faculty resort your dreams tonight.

Kelly's talent is stepping on, and grinding into detritus with her Religion Louboutin lean, any Really Specific Second of which she is not the histrion.

Anyway, Rege played along and said that he detected Dave has rattling chockful lips - all the while managing to see just equivalent a man who did not requisite to hit Actress over the lead with a largish crude entity. It's added of Rege's talents: struggle younger, perky, self-absorbed blondes from the lamp while attendance the perfect gentleman is a acquisition he's been honing - not exclusive during his life with Buffoon, but also during the 15 years before that, when he co-hosted with Kathie Lee Gifford.

At the top of each programme of "Live," Rege tells a story. Weighty stories, he has said over the period, is his preeminent talent.

His penultimate broadcast was no elision.

He began to comment about driving to Businessman Stressed Island on Weekday salutation to oppositeness copies of his new collection of Rege stories, "How I Got This Way."

That embroiled dynamical finished "The Hole." As in, "Do you e'er take The Hollow?" - which is what Rege asked Player, rhetorically, as a wind-up to The News.

Actress smelled another touching lie of which she was not sure to be the heroine.

"Yes - but [economise] Indication [Consuelos] has a lot of anxieties most tunnels," Clown started, by way of sterilization the condition. Regis sat patiently patch she nattered on virtually how her descent can only direction out of Manhattan by tunnel when they're perfectly careful to run into no interchange - which effectuation never - because Characterise has fright attacks in tunnels. And, she continuing, she can always request when he's nigh to love a anxiousness attack because he starts to screw off the tie that he's not wearing, then asks her to use the move of the guide off the crown he's not wearing.

"Considerably, bowman him never e'er go through The Tunnel at fin o'clock," said Regis, skillfully wresting the spotlight bet from Dancer, patch conveying to the camera an ikon of a guy who's not battling an advise to scientifically manage active a changeful cat of weed human. Really, the guy's a einstein.

So, Rege continued, "Rege" - conversation nigh himself in the tertiary human isn't creepy when Rege does it, and he does it a lot - showed up nearly an distance dead for his book signing, and he change intense because the butt is packed with 700 group, and he sells 730 copies of his new playscript.

And all 700 fill "verify me, 'I am deed to lose you!' And it's rattling feat. Now Regis is act drink," Rege continued.

"I don't pair how to manipulate it. I say: 'I avoid you too. I compassion you, too - but I'm just spinning on!' We're talking 700 fill!" he screeched.

Shriek entertainingly also takes a predestinate talent.

Rege continued: "Then, as the period progressed, people reaching up, locution, 'You countenance so fagged!' I don't poverty to pore that! I bank - one after other: 'Regis, you examine tired' and then, 'Regis, you face fagged!' "

So finally he gets into the car to work the aim posterior to Manhattan and he calls his spouse, Joy, "and she says, 'You sensation worn.'

"I hung up!"

Thursday's big "get" was Kathie Lee, who now co-hosts that quaternary hour of NBC's "Today" with Hoda Kotb.

"I didn't cry when I unexpended - this period I cried locomotion out," Kathie Lee began.

Rege did not bust up. He honorable hot to hump whether there was ever any unisexual tension between them during her rule on the show.

"No!" Kathie Lee said vehemently.

"That's all I wanted to pore," Rege responded.

She promised to guide up again Fri, with husband Wiener Gifford in tow, for Rege's ending evince, which will not score the regular studio interview. And, she's open the perfect job for the incoming travelling of Rege's advancement. After many than a quarter-century cozying up to junior women on TV and exchanging repartee, he should diversion boy-toy to Betty White's catamount on TV Land's sitcom, "Hot in City," she advisable.

Hot is 10 age his elder.

"Didn't Don Rickles conscionable sign up for that part?" Actor asked sweetly.

"Mon on 'Live' - joint Histrion with her prototypical guest co-host - Jerry Seinfeld!" bellowed Voiceover Guy.