Chuck Barris dead at 87

[brewer]

I used to love the Gong Show.

[Alex K]

Tragic how he always was in the shadow of his slightly older almost-namesake Chuck Berry.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Guess life gave him the gong.

[Crossless2.0]

*Gene Gene the Dancing Machine shuffles out, does a mournful interpretive soft-shoe, gets gonged*

[vorlon13]

https://youtu.be/cv2Jrtale1o

[TheRealJoeFish]

Tragic how he always was in the shadow of his slightly older almost-namesake Chuck Berry.

Yeah, I glazed over the headline, and was like... "wait, Chuck Berry hosted the Gong Show?!"  And then I read it more closely and realized it was a different, similarly named, almost as old fellow.

Kind of like back last January, when Bowie and Rickman died, and one could lament "it's a dangerous time to be a 69-year-old English gentleman," it looks like at the moment it's a bad time to be named Chuck B_rr___.

There is currently a NYC councilman named Charles Barron.  I wish him all the health in the world.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Tragic how he always was in the shadow of his slightly older almost-namesake Chuck Berry.

Yeah, I glazed over the headline, and was like... "wait, Chuck Berry hosted the Gong Show?!"  And then I read it more closely and realized it was a different, similarly named, almost as old fellow.

Kind of like back last January, when Bowie and Rickman died, and one could lament "it's a dangerous time to be a 69-year-old English gentleman," it looks like at the moment it's a bad time to be named Chuck B_rr___.

There is currently a NYC councilman named Charles Barron.  I wish him all the health in the world.

Meh, he's a politician.

[Rev. Rye]

You know, I can remember my parents taking me to see Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in theatres, and being fascinated enough by the Gong Show scenes to try and seek out episodes of the actual show. By a strange coincidence, that same night, two episodes were shown on the Game Show network and I watched them both. Surprisingly, they never aired those episodes again.