From Hollywood... Almost live... It's The Gong Show! - today on the veg.
Chuck Barris makes his grand entrance:
A strange woman in a little girl outfit throws a hissy fit when she gets gonged.
Chuck gets a little pie in the face.
Miss Peggy Guy:
When I was a kid I idolized The Unknown Comic (for reasons I can't even fathom now).
Two chicks sucking on popsicles. There's no way this would ever air on TV today.
Everyone's favorite, Gene Gene The Dancing Machine:
Hey, look, guest judge David Letterman:
WTF?!
"I can't get this box off my head!"
The Dirty Sock Award.
This show just got crazier and crazier as it went along. Everyone involved was totally baked.
You can never have too much Gene Gene the Dancing Machine.
And let's close it out with a "Best of Chuckie B." clip.
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So bad it's good.The two girls with the popsicles is what finally got him canceled.
Don't forget, this is where Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee Herman) and Oingo Boingo got their start.
Poor Gene Gene... he lost his legs to diabetes. :(
There was a great rendition of Dancing in the moonlight that was done on the gong show once. It had a guy doing early beatboxing.