Back in the 70's my Dad HOWLED when he showed family pictures. It was a stack of small folded paper bags with faces drawn on them and a wrinkled one for his Grandpa. 😆😂🤣🛍
Thank you, Chuck Barris for producing The Gong Show, The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, all the laughs and doing your part to help tame mankind with your gift and talent. You were a big part of my young TV life. May GOD bless your legacy and surviving family.
He was a joy to watch. No, there will never be another like him. It’s sad, virtually all new shows suck. The old shows were infinitely better than todays crap.
Although he had a lot of comedy work under his belt before then (i.e. Laugh-In, Sonny And Cher), Murray Langston's career hit a critical mass when he appeared on the Gong Show. He needed the money and didn't want his friends to know, so he put a bag over his head, became "The Unknown Comic" and it took off resulting in over 150 subsequent appearances on the show. He is out of retirement appearing in the George Clooney flick "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" and "Levity" with Billy Bob Thornton.
Chuck Barris was a funny dude himself. We used to see his name as producer on many shows, then out of nowhere he comes out with his own show and see the man behind the curtain.
I'd gladly get rid of American Idol, the Voice, and all those other tacky and rather boring shows to bring back the Gong Show and the $1.98 Beauty Contest.
This show was pure fun, the only show I ever really felt part of, lol. It was so different, never seen anything like it before or after. It’s hard to explain.
That's Murray Langston, from Nova Scotia, Canada. He was a regular cast member on "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" and "The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show". And he was on an early episode of "Laugh In"; he did an impression of a fork.
Just noticed it said Lucedale, Mississippi Day!! Been to that town HUNDREDS of times... Miss this show SO MUCH!! My parents and I would laugh so hard every week.
This show was so popular in the 70s that my elementary school held a talent show in the gymnasium Gong Show style. The principal was the host and we had 3 teachers as judges with a gong behind them. It was a lot of fun but some of the younger kids cried when they got gonged and didn't win.
i will miss Chuck Barris til i die....watched the Gong Show religiously & he was certainly the star on it. Go with God Chuck and hit that comedy club up there.
I LOVE the unknown comic! I was a kid when the Gong Show was on -I even remember when it 1st came on as a show & Gary Owens was the host -he was more...I guess, even-keeled. But it still had been thought up, just as the Newlywed & Dating Games, by Chuckie...who then, all of a sudden, in the 2nd season or so, came out in front of the cameras & started hosting it himself. Does anyone else remember those early ones when Owens hosted it? I also remember that the GS had a daytime slot & an evening slot-usually it was on at 6:30, I remember cuz my dad would always watch the news at 6 & then right after that, the GS would start.
4 yrs old i would put a bag on my head grab my plastic bowling pin..." And.keep saying Chuckie Baby Chuckie Baby"...lol i thought that was all he said :-)
Sea Pilot I've seen it. 2x, actually. Thought it was an OK movie. Not sure if I buy the whole "I was a CIA 'hit man' " angle, though, since this film was adapted from Barris's own memoir. It's an interesting idea, though.
I actually did the Unknown Comic in high school. Every year we had a spring talent show, but my senior year a new teacher took over the drama department and, as a way of freshening things up, she decided to do a gong show instead of a talent show. At the urging of my dad, I donned the paper bag. I was only one for a few minutes, but it was a lot of fun because I spent the whole time busting on the principal and all he could do was sit there and bare it!
@@MovieMakingMan this was 2001, RU-vid and camera phones weren’t around yet. Someone may have brought a camcorder but I’ve never seen any footage. I remember saying that you could tell he’s a good lover-it’s all over his shirt. His face was so red.
Letterman stole this bit when he had his show on NBC during the late morning. He would have shows that honored certain small towns, or people. One time he had a show called,"Floyd Stiles Day" for some guy from Nebraska.
What's great is how suggestive shit just flew right over the heads of censors. They had no idea the things people said here or if they did couldn't say boo having done worse that might be brought up and probably was the very next episode.
