I loved it when I was a boy. Hilarious. Beats America's Got Talent anytime.

This was the greatest show of my time..Chuck was so funny and this show was so funny

@bjaquez6

Жыл бұрын

Yep it was. 😂

@marty64thornton

11 ай бұрын

These and the $1.99 Beauty Pagent

@KenLieck

9 ай бұрын

So far ahead of its time -- when it was airing people would spit on Chuck on the street...

@bossradio930

5 ай бұрын

@@marty64thornton $1.98 Beauty Pageant

@chrisballas3356

5 ай бұрын

​@@KenLieckI don't think that is true. If anything people were stopping him for autographs and to beg him to be on the show.

Jaye P. Morgan was the original cougar. Hell yeah!

@danbrown5746

6 ай бұрын

She was so hot

@kristykanen9315

3 ай бұрын

She was a lesbian .I was on the show, twice

@kristykanen9315

3 ай бұрын

You're not her " type "

I would love to go back to those times !!!!!

@Jason-rn4jk

Жыл бұрын

No you don’t….crack pandemic was everywhere,most of nyc was burnt out vacant buildings with prostitution and sex shops everywhere and cops were corrupt then than ever with no bodycams…

@user-io3th6lo9t

Жыл бұрын

I was a teenager in those times and they were more freewheeling than today and then Ronald Reagan came along and ruined it all the party was over then.

If there ever was a "Just Sit Back, Turn-Off Your Brain For a Few Minutes and Enjoy" kinda daytime show, it's this one .... 🙂👍🏻♥️

This is when tv was great.

Chuck barris was a funny guy someone you enjoy being around he must have been a howl to hang out with very down to earth ❤❤❤

@kathrynscottmelvin8548

Жыл бұрын

He was such a funny guy 👦 🤣 when I was there with my old boyfriend who was on the show and I was in the audience watching 👀 him 🤣

Number 0ne funniest show of all time. It spawned so many other shows

We used to watch this show all the time.. just crazy local TV hysterics.. one time there was this old lady tap dancing, singing and playing the tuba.. I can still hear my mom bust out laughing. Actually think that one is on KZread. There was this other guy whose entire act was just blowing up his face on a piece of acrylic glass he brought out. That was a quick tutorial for my own (copy-cat) blowfish antics over the decades that followed.. The best of times.. rippling through the years to present day. Awesome show!

@chrisfreeman9960

Жыл бұрын

Loved your comment: "The best of times...rippling through the decades to present time." That's so true. It's greatness and fun is still with us. Very much a part of our experience today.

LORD HAVE MERCY...I MISS THE 70s...

Crazy show, terrible acts, audience booing…….I wasn’t born at that time but I wish I could watch this show Live ! Really loved it !!!!

@GoMaXPoWerZ

Жыл бұрын

the crybabies of today could not handle it.

There are often comments on these "Gong Show" videos speculating about Chuck Barris being on drugs when he hosted the program. He wasn't. As anyone who worked for him in the sixties and seventies can attest, Barris was anti-drugs and forbid them in his production company, which also churned out "The Dating Game," "The Newlywed Game," and other shows. He threatened to fire employees who did use drugs. As Barris himself once said, he could not have run a successful, publicly-traded company had he been an addict.

One of the best shows in TV history.

@kathrynscottmelvin8548

Жыл бұрын

It sure was a great show 👍

This show is still the best thing on.

Man, I love how it's so rough around the edges... delightfully unprofessional. Reminds me of the heyday of MAD magazine, so self-depricating.

One of about 6 or 7 of the only good things about the 70's was... The Gong Show.

@alexacasafra639

Жыл бұрын

Saturday Night Fever was another gem from the 70s

@Marcel_Audubon

Жыл бұрын

6 or 7?!? ... oh, sweetie, you missed out on an incredible decade! #BeyondSad

I love this show, i haven't seen yhe gong show since i was 12yrs olf 😂😂😂😂

Long before america got talent

@thinkforyourself2109

Жыл бұрын

The Gong Show in my opinion is infinitely superior to America's Got Talent because the Gong Show is just people having fun. It didn't matter who won. No money is involved. AGT is way too serious and over-produced and the money gives it unnecessary tension.

It's funny to know that this fun stuff came on daily!!!!

@krismccoy8581

Жыл бұрын

Chuck had so much fun!!

@kevinfitzmaurice4072

5 ай бұрын

...and once a week at night.

The original 'America gots talent' !

I loved this show! Anyone remember the Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara act? It consisted of Scarlett exclaiming in her southern drawl, “why you can’t say that Rhett!” - and that was about it, just that. They were in full costume. Hilarious and weird and I loved it!

@mistergone5156

Ай бұрын

It's on KZread as "Gong Show 2."

What a time that was. The good old days.

Take America's Got (No) Talent off the air and bring this shit back on, please!!!

@KenLieck

9 ай бұрын

Did you watch it when they brought it back in 2017? There's nobody who can truly replace Chuck, but I thought British import Tommy Maitland did a great job as the new host - it's a shame he disappeared off the face of the earth afterwards...

@GonzoShitcock

9 ай бұрын

@KenLieck tried to watch...couldn't...

During "Gene Gene" I think Chuck really wanted to heave that basketball through the "Gong Show" sign 😂. You just don't see that kind of craziness on TV anymore. I loved this program so much.

@jonathansparks3386

Жыл бұрын

You can see all that craziness nowadays in American Idol auditions

Murray Langston nearly tipped the bit when he removed his unknown comic bag. I recognized his voice the first time he ever appeared on The Gong Show from the Sonny and Cher show

Chuck Barris was awesome

Good lawd. Those were the days. Oh how I wish.

Guy did good impressions. Did some that all comedians skip. So good to hear for a change. Saw comedian from New York, didn't use any foul language and after all acts were done he came out and talked to us for an hour. I offered him a few jokes I made, and he laughed, and said ,"No thanks".

The winner, Eddie Fame, was phenomenal with his impressions. This guy should have had a job in Hollywood, or at least a stand up gig in Vegas.

I heard the elevator in the casting building for the gong show was always interesting with all kinds of odd characters!

KZread is the only True Time Machine

Three 10s for Left & Right? WTF?

It seems like there was some consumption of Peruvian marching powder here.

@ericfranchi1354

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@davidpiscopo3774

Жыл бұрын

And why not!

@cornelldgreen

Жыл бұрын

You could see Chuck wiping his nose when he first came out on stage...

@kevinfitzmaurice4072

5 ай бұрын

This subject comes up a lot, but Barris was not a druggie. He forbid illegal drugs in his production company and threatened to fire employees who were on drugs. He once said he would've been unable to run a publicly-traded company had he been an addict.

Gene caught the ball 😂😂😂

Chuck Barris should get the Nobel Piece Prize!!

"Your Feet's Too Big" is a Fats Waller tune right out of Stormy Weather. Sung about Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. You know what they say about a man with big feet? He's two feet long!

The gong show mostly had terrible acts but the one-flying purple people eater that played multiple horns at the same time under the costume was my dear father figure -musician -Jim Richardson he took me to a tower record store once and showed me what the good jazz was I still remember clapping in front of the tv for him at six years old it’s a small world ❤️😘🥰

@braxton548

Жыл бұрын

DUH!!!!

That song at the end is by Fats Waller: 'your feets too big'

Aired around spring of 1978.

2:37 Hello Murray !!! I'm in NB too !!!!

2:39 The Great Almost Unbagging!

Red all over

I swear during a station break he went to snort another line!

@kevinfitzmaurice4072

5 ай бұрын

Barris was not an addict; he was anti-drugs and threatened to fire any of his employees who did drugs.

2-9-2023 Some of the acts are 'paid' to be bad. My opinion, don't hate me.

@billpomfret774

Жыл бұрын

Nah you just dont filter out the nutters and deluded......

Ted Mack's Amateur Hour on acid

Chuck seems inebriated.

@mikew7218

Жыл бұрын

I get the impression that he's coke'd up..he wipes his nose shortly after coming on stage at the introduction lol.

@guynorth3277

Жыл бұрын

No, he was just goofy and very awesome.

@Rasputin443556

Жыл бұрын

The host and celebrities got a spread between tapings, which included booze. Assume they're always liquored up here and on the Match Game; I imagine the Hollywood Squares set made it not wise to be toasted.

@amytalbert4953

Жыл бұрын

I don't think any of them were feeling any pain 🤣

@kevinfitzmaurice4072

5 ай бұрын

Barris was not a druggie. He forbid illegal drugs in his production company and threatened to fire employees who used them.

10:50 sadly this type of insanity is coming true

Geez, Chuck looks like he just got out of bed.

That was just insanity.

Chucky always drunk must have been all that STUFF

The impressionist looks like Sid Caesar ...

As far as I know, the only show introduced by a known porn actor.

@BobShay

5 ай бұрын

Who was she?

@johnspooner1403

5 ай бұрын

@@BobShay Carol Connors. She was in “Deep Throat”.

First Hank Hill

Who is the girl doing the introduction

@robertb4781

2 жыл бұрын

Carol Connors, who was an adult film actress back in the 70’s; she also was a contestant on the show before doing Chuck’s introductions in 1978

@jnadle1

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertb4781 Sometimes, it's Sivi Aberg and even his own daughter, Della.

@fafafofo2

2 жыл бұрын

​@@robertb4781 mother of Thora Birch

@thetreasurehouse1742

Жыл бұрын

@@robertb4781 Yes, when she was a contestant, she sang "Something". She was gonged by Jaye who said she had "big fat tits".

@tiger.6509

Жыл бұрын

@@robertb4781 Yep she did xxx

Left and right... and the bottom of Murray Langston's head!

PC in the 70's?

Hey, that dude stole my idea, I wore a bag over my head when I was 13 for a 8MM movie we made in the neighborhood, 1977, true story, I really did, don’t know what happened to those movies, I should have kept them, NOT my friend, I take care of my chit!!

Unknown comic good as celebrity guest. Did one of them no show, maybe, and that's how he ended up doing it?

I wish this show would come back what fun that would be. Lol

@devares2006

Жыл бұрын

ABC brought it back a few years ago.

The whole premise of using a gong on this show was racist.

@turdferguson3475

5 ай бұрын

Yawn....

@GrantFredereckZen

4 ай бұрын

Actually, a nod to Major Bowes variety show which had the Gong on Radio back in the 1930s. I don't see the racist connection...