Chuck Barris on The Gong Show - '77 - HQ

[modularhalfpipe]

"Jp Morgone!! Why did you gong him you 'scule"..."516.32" may have been a SAGs day's pay, but the mere fact that the numbers AREN'T rounded is what makes it so rediculous and funny

[disparatedan]

@cindyshealed As entitled - this is CHUCK BARRIS.

[jazzynet1]

We used to rush home from school to see the gong show :D

[WizardGlik]

Ed Marinara = Saucy AND Delicious!

[thechosen933]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I vaguely remember watching I love the 70s on VH1 about 7 years ago and Hal Sparks from Queer as Folk made the insinuation that as the show wore on there was greater evidence of Chuck's cocaine use...I can't seem to find anything to substantiate those claims though. Chuck may have said he worked for the CIA but I can't find where he ever did cocaine in vast amounts.

[Midnightryder7]

Didn't this guy commit suicide?...Don't remember the story of what happend

[disparatedan]

@Midnightryder7 - NO!!! Happily, he's now 81 and STILL GOING STRONG.

[jelizaghost]

@Midnightryder7 the movie confessions of a dangerous mind will answer u!!

[JGCooney]

Why $760.32? I guess they didn't do round figures on this show.

[artytoons]

@JGCooney The original strange top winner amount of $564.32 was the Screen Actors Guild pay wage amount for a day's work after taxes.

[disparatedan]

@artytoons - THANK you for that information. I'd always assumed it was just a random amount, for the sake of comedy. It never occurred that it was based on something REAL. Once again, thank you.

[artytoons]

@disparatedan The original daytime Gong Show winner check was $516.32. My error. Wikipedia mentioned the amount as the SAG pay amount for one day's worth of work around that period (1976-1980).

[disparatedan]

@JGCooney - see above!

[artytoons]

Those wonderful days when entertainment was "almost live".

[DrKnife007]

Wow, I remember watching this as a kid. I loved it then, but obviously I didn't know what the hell was going on because it is absolutely freaking hilarious now that I actually get what is going on.

[earachegraf]

cocaine's a hell of a drug....

[JohnH511]

Gary Owens was only on the nighttime show. Barris always hosted the daytime show.

[FernandoDANTE]

Man, Sam Rockwell nailed him pretty well.

[disparatedan]

@FernandoDANTE - It was uncanny...

[FernandoDANTE]

I'm starting to think he used those hats to cover his eyes from the studio lights. And the studio lights seemed to make him mad.

[bryancarreiro2994]

@FernandoDANTE it was so he couldnt see the studio audience

[Sunshine751000]

Does anyone know when I can get the entire nighttime episode from this show?

[guarachon63]

great stuff, can you make a compilation of the Unknown Comic's stuff?

[disparatedan]

@guarachon63 - sadly, no! This Gong Show segment is ALL the material I have from said show, apart from the acts themselves - and in this segment, Murray Langston's bit only lasted a few seconds!