I used to love this show. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj3Q9l9Ivng"]YouTube - The Unknown Comic[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R28b8XXoXs&feature=related"]YouTube - Gene Gene The Dancing Machine[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ozU4KcvIZ0&feature=related"]YouTube - Gong Show - really bizarre act, trust me[/ame]
I used to love it when the guests would fight over the gong mallet, one would try to gong the act, the other would try to keep them from doing it by wrestling over the mallet.
What a crazy show. I think getting drunk and watching it could make it even better. But then again, being drunk makes a lot of things better.
I tried to leave one of the greatest hits clips here, but at the end the unknown comic throws a f bomb at Chuckie.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCLijCspiXU&feature=related"]YouTube - Chuck Barris gets gonged[/ame]
I had a friend that put in a lot of time on the Gong Show. He was a banjo picker and singer. His name was Chip Curry and the name of his band was the Silver Bullet Band. Edit: I think I got the name of the band wrong. The Silver Bullet Band was Bob Seagers. Anyway, Google produced this. This is my old friend Chip 30 something years after his appearance on the Gong Show. http://chipcurry.com/pages_cc/bio.html