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RIP Chuck Barris

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cohenzone said:
You aren't alone. But if we can still remember Barris's name and who he is, we're still on the topside of the hill, or at least only descending gradually.
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I feel better now :)

"We'll be right back . . . . with MORE STUFF..!!!!"

RIP Chuck
 
RIP to a man who turned out to be a far bigger enigma than the overtones of a gong. Was he a government agent assigned to do its "wet work" over the course of years while using his innocuous disguise as a game show host? Sounds ludicrous right? The CIA denied his story with a wink. But would they have acknowledged it as truth even if it were? RIP to a man who lived in virtual exile in France the last few years of his life. Who never overcame the grief of losing his daughter or the lambasting his "The Gong Show" got from critics. RIP to a man that proves the old adage that we are more than we appear.
 
We would schedule our college classes so we could be back in the apartment to watch the Gong Show. My favorite was the Unknown Comic.
"What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino?"
"Ell-if-I-Know."

Gene, Gene the dancing machine.
 
FairView said:
We would schedule our college classes so we could be back in the apartment to watch the Gong Show. My favorite was the Unknown Comic.
"What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino?"
"Ell-if-I-Know."

Gene, Gene the dancing machine.
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C'mere Chuckie, Chuckie, Chuck, Chuck.

And the song was Count Basie's.
 
FairView said:
We would schedule our college classes so we could be back in the apartment to watch the Gong Show. My favorite was the Unknown Comic.
"What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino?"
"Ell-if-I-Know."

Gene, Gene the dancing machine.
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Unknown Comic and Gene, Gene the Dancing Machine were both amazing . . . . .!!!

I think years later, Jim Carrey might have done a send-up or imitation of the Unknown Comic, but it's hazy. Might be wrong
 
JordyG said:
RIP to a man who turned out to be a far bigger enigma than the overtones of a gong. Was he a government agent assigned to do its "wet work" over the course of years while using his innocuous disguise as a game show host? Sounds ludicrous right? The CIA denied his story with a wink. But would they have acknowledged it as truth even if it were? RIP to a man who lived in virtual exile in France the last few years of his life. Who never overcame the grief of losing his daughter or the lambasting his "The Gong Show" got from critics. RIP to a man that proves the old adage that we are more than we appear.
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I didnt read that his daughter died. I remember her introducing Barris in the opening of many episodes.
 
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ochoopsfan said:
I didnt read that his daughter died. I remember her introducing Barris in the opening of many episodes.
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Yeah sad. He blamed himself to the end. I don't know the circumstances, but I remember an interview from a few years ago where he mentioned her death and his guilt. Clearly a complex man whose public life barely peeled back a layer of his onion.
 
Chuck Berry and Chuck Barris. This is a bad week for Chucks. I hope that Charles Barkley, John "Chuckie" Gruden, and Chuck E. Cheese are alive and well.
 
VAMike23 said:
I feel better now :)

"We'll be right back . . . . with MORE STUFF..!!!!"

RIP Chuck
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That quote reminded me. In the center of Westwood Village in LA there is a great little cemetery hidden now by buildings. My son lives near there and brought us there. It's where Marylin Monroe is buried in a nondescript vault. But the cemetery allows inscriptions on the tombstones. Two that stuck in my mind are Merv Griffin whose tomb says "I will not be right back after the next commercial" and Rodney Dangerfield's which says "There goes the Neighborhood."
 
Produced the Dating Game and The Newleywed Game while still having time to be a CIA hit man!
 
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Chuck Barris just a couple of days after Chuck Berry. :(
 
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