[Brazelton] Chuck Barris, Dangerous Mind, dead at 87

[DarkAudit]

Per The Hollywood Reporter.

Creator of The Gong Show, The Dating Game, and The Newlywed Game. Maybe an assassin for the CIA.

We would watch The Gong Show all the time as kids.

 

[Yoshimickster]

Man, my dad's friend was on the gong show, wild.

 

[drawn_inward]

Nice movie. He must have been an interesting dude.

 

[PatrThom]

With all the confusion between "Chuck Barry/Chuck Berry" recently, I had to keep checking to make sure who was who.
Welp, guess I don't have to any more.

We would watch The Gong Show all the time as kids.

Same! It was one of the first meme factories. Gene Gene the Dancing Machine, The Unknown Comic, Jaye P. Morgan, and on.

--Patrick

 

[sixpackshaker]

Chuck was so talented he made Buddy Hackett seem cool and funny.

 

[jwhouk]

GONG.