People Are Talking was a one-hour live broadcast covering topical news issues and one on one interviews with guests like Frank Zappa, Steven Spielberg, President Jimmy Carter, Sammy Davis Jr., Patricia Neal, Alexander Haig, Jerry Brown, Ross Perot and Martin and Charlie Sheen.

He was a company member of the Yale Repertory Theater and understudied the National Theatre of Great Britain on Broadway and at the Kennedy Center.

His film roles include Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno, Évocateur, Meet Wally Sparks and George Washington.

The Richard Bey Show (1992–1996) was produced from WWOR in Secaucus, New Jersey and later syndicated across the country by All American Television (known today as FreemantleMedia).

There would be high-line cuisine displays, and fun activities on the more family-friendly episodes, such as a pizza-making contest, when Sara Lee Kessler occasionally hosted.

The shows got more adult-oriented (meaning TV-MA/hard R), although without the fights, abundant graphic language, sexually explicit content that ended up on Bey.

Bey's show made frequent use of sound effects like "uh-duh" for an insane response, "I've been framed" for a guest proclaiming innocence and "You're busted!"

Richard also famously lost his temper in a 1994 episode involving strippers, and had a guest named Jerry Saunders who criticized his opponents.

The production team, along with Bey, set up the program to invite an unsuspecting audience to participate in a segment where Brüno (Sacha Baron Cohen) appears as a guest, talking about his Black adopted son.

A scene from the 1996 (season 9, episode 16) Married... with Children has Steve Rhodes asking his ex-wife Marcy if her new husband is at home watching Richard Bey.

After the TV show was canceled, Bey was an evening and later afternoon radio co-host along with Steve Malzberg on The Buzz, which aired on New York's WABC from 2000 to 2003.

[citation needed] He has since hosted on Sirius Satellite Radio, The Bill Press Show, and for the syndicated The Wall Street Journal: This Morning.

He regularly filled in for Lynn Samuels and Alex Bennett on the Sirius Satellite Radio channel Talk Left when they went on vacation or took a day off.

[7] In March 2008, family reasons caused Mark Riley to leave WWRL by mutual agreement[8] to return to WLIB, and Richard was teamed up with longtime broadcaster Coz Carson.