# RIP Emile Autuori \[Chuck Barris's 'Bonded Security Agent'\]

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 22, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-emile-autuori-chuck-barriss-bonded-security-agent/782762 "2017-03-22T15:03:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-emile-autuori-chuck-barriss-bonded-security-agent/782762/1 "2017-03-22T15:03:39Z")

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[From the 1970s “Treasure Hunt.”](https://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/home/index.cfm/obituaries/view/fh_id/15302/id/4079073). Autuori was an employee of Barris who played the ‘bonded security agent’ who had placed the $25K check in one of the 30 boxes. Barris juuuuust did outlive him.

Supposedly Autuori’s only job was to respond to Barris when asked the question, “Did you place the $25K check” with “Yes, I did,” after which he would proceed to get the check out of the correct box. Barris would try to have a little fund with him occasionally to try to get him to crack a smile or otherwise break character.

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**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-emile-autuori-chuck-barriss-bonded-security-agent/782762/2 "2017-03-22T18:23:32Z")

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Minor nitpick…wasn’t it Geoff Edwards, the gameshow host, who asked him the question, not Chuck?

What a wacky gameshow…those contestants always seemed like they bussed them in from the funny farm.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-emile-autuori-chuck-barriss-bonded-security-agent/782762/3 "2017-03-22T19:41:13Z")

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> [@Mixolydian](#):
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> Minor nitpick…wasn’t it Geoff Edwards, the gameshow host, who asked him the question, not Chuck?
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> What a wacky gameshow…those contestants always seemed like they bussed them in from the funny farm.

Yup. It was Edwards.