RIP Chuck Barris

[LordKOTL]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/arts/chuck-barris-dead-gong-show-creator.html?_r=0

I was and still am a fan of the Gong Show. Granted, I'm not a fan of it's most notorious spinoff: The United States Government, but I digress...

RIP.

 

[JPPT1974]

Loved the Gong Show and his other shows he did. May he RIP!

 

[Dogstar]

I must have been too young for it to be interesting. The only thing I really remember about The Gong Show was the one episode where every act sang the song "Feelings".

:shrug:

 

[Tater]

I liked Gene the dancin' machine and the unknown comic with a bag over his head.

 

[number51]

He was great in Walker Texas Ranger.

 

[LordKOTL]

I must have been too young for it to be interesting. The only thing I really remember about The Gong Show was the one episode where every act sang the song "Feelings".

:shrug:

No worries.

If there was a true-to-life resurrection of the show with the same level of quirks as comedy to it...it would be a great modern counterpunch to a lot of the modern "talent" shows. Granted, that doesn't happen anymore.

And I'm *just* old enough to have seen the later versions of it and laugh like crazy about it.

Still...I would love to see 3 plain old citizen representatives randomly selected from the American populace be allowed into a session of Congress and the State of the Union, armed with mallets and gongs...but that's for the B & I forum.