Crosby went solo as a
stand-up comedian, adopting a friendly,
blue collar, guy-next-door persona in the 1950s. Crosby refined his standup monologues by interpolating
malapropisms. He first appeared on
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in December 1964. In late-1968, he co-starred on
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show, an
NBC twelve-week series. In 1972 he was a guest star on an episode of Adam-12, "Eyewitness". In 1974, he co-hosted a Canadian variety television series,
Everything Goes. From 1974 through 1984 he was on over half a dozen
Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts including one of
George Burns and two separate ones of
Redd Foxx. From 1978 through 1981, he hosted a nationally syndicated series,
The Comedy Shop, in which a mix of up-and-coming stand-up comics and
vaudeville legends presented their material. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Crosby became a commercial pitchman for
Anheuser-Busch Natural Light beer. During this time, he also appeared as a celebrity guest on a number of
game shows, including
Celebrity Bowling, ''
Liar's Club, Tattletales, and Hollywood Squares''. From 1983 until the program's dissociation from
Jerry Lewis in 2010, Crosby co-hosted and contributed to the annual
Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon. He has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6560
Hollywood Boulevard. He appeared in two films with
Adam Sandler –
Eight Crazy Nights (2002) and
Grown Ups 2 (2013) ==Death==