IF you loved the Gong Show do yourself a favor and check out the movie: The Gong Show Movie (1980) - IMDb
Unknown Comic: Hey Chuck, do you like sex?
Chuck: Yes!
UC: Do you like to travel?
C: Yeah.
UC: Then take a fucking hike!
Also, JP Morgan’s brestesses.
I assure you that my interest in seeing the now-85-year-old Ms. Morgan’s boobs has greatly diminished since the original series aired.
Checking around for living Chuck Bar* people in show biz doesn’t give much. A couple of minor porn actors and Charles “Chuck” Barbee, director of photography for 70 episodes of Night Court, etc. Maybe he should hire Bull for protection.
Supposedly, Barris explained once that the network censors starting rejecting at least one act per show, more or less by rote, even after Chuck and his cronies themselves filtered out any acts that were outside of Standards and Practices’ guidelines. So they deliberately started letting threw one act per show that they knew wouldn’t get past the censor…
…and the Popsicle Twins got through. :smack:
and who can forget The…
If you haven’t seen Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on Barris’ claims of being an undercover CIA operative, where he’s played by Sam Rockwell, see it. It’s hilarious.
I can assure you in the movie she was still of contemporary age.
I second this. It’s a great (and very surreal) movie.
Chuck Bartowski? I guess technically he doesn’t count.
I, along with several college friends, spent many an afternoon (4:00 PM, IIRC) partaking in a certain substance and watching Chuck and friends. The show just got crazier the longer it was on. It must have been a hoot to be working on that set. In the unlikely event I ever use a bong again, I’ll do one in his memory.
My elementary school had a “gong show” talent contest. I sang “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”.
One of my favorite stories is that Chuck Barris was auditioning people to host the Gong Show, and rejecting each one. Finally someone said “The only way it’s going to be done your way is if you host it.” So he did.
And the rest is history. I’m sure Barris and Gene Gene the Dancing Machine are dancing up a storm somewhere.
I recall that a guy in Congress made a speech condemning the show based on the popsicle twins.
The first host was John Barbour, later of Real People. Apparently, he didn’t get the concept of the Gong Show as parody and wanted to treat it as a straight-up talent show, so Barris was asked to host it instead.