Gene Gene the Dancing Machine & the Unknown Comic were the best

@Bob-op5tm

19 күн бұрын

So true!!!👍👍👍

What a wonderful time to be a teen. My siblings and I would go crazy when Gene came on. RIP Gene, thanks for the joy!

@davemathews7890

Жыл бұрын

We did the same, except we also threw all of the couch pillows at one another.

@stephensaltau6481

4 ай бұрын

Amen.

You can ask most people who grew up in the 70"s to name a vice president from that era, an Olympic gold medalist, an Oscar winner or even their home room teacher in high school and few could give you an answer. Ask the same person who the dancer was on the Gong Show and nearly everyone will tell you GENE GENE THE DANCING MACHINE! Without saying a single word he always brought instant joy and laughter.

@_DB.COOPER

Жыл бұрын

You must live around a bunch of dummies!

@johnchandler1687

Жыл бұрын

And my favorite: The Unknown Comic.. A great, entertaining every time, show.

@ollieox9181

4 ай бұрын

Interesting questions. I recall Gerald Ford. Don't recall who Carter's VP was. Bruce Jenner and Nadia Comaneci were the most famous Olympians - easily. Al Pacino, I think, won an Oscar. And don't recall a single homeroom teacher. Buy you're right here: Gene was d' bomb.

@Royale_with_Cheeze

4 ай бұрын

​@@ollieox9181 Walter Mondale. And Ford's VP was Nelson Rockefeller.

I WATCHED THE WHOLE SHOW JUST TO SEE MY MAN .... GENE -GENE THE DANCIN MACHINE !!!! GOD BLESS HIM

Such a simple, beautiful, zany piece of greatness. Gene Gene the Dancing Machine. That music would start, he did that slow walk out onto the stage...and the world got up and danced with him! Thanks for letting us join you, and RIP.

Its August 11, 2022, Inflation is high, gas prices are ridiculous and crime has risen to insane levels but watching Gene do his thing put a smile on my face.

@diffened

2 ай бұрын

Where are you from? Most places crime has been down and is down. Of course, if you live in a red state that's a different story, crime always high in red states.

@lancelotlink3907

2 ай бұрын

​@diffened ....California LA area which is bluer than cookie monsters balls. Johnny Wactor the actor just got murdered from a guy trying to steal his catalytic converter. So fricken sad. Crime has risen so much here. Ugh Newsom is destroying my state.

Loved this show! Things weren’t so PC. Shit was real and got crazy. Plus everyone on the set was coked out of their minds. Those were the good old days.

It's 2022 now and Jaye P Morgan is still with us. She must be the last surviving member of the show.

@juanmonge7418

Жыл бұрын

Jaime Farr was also a judge on the show.

@jimreese-ym7th

3 ай бұрын

David Letterman, too.

@charlesmyers8150

29 күн бұрын

She was funny as hell and I thought she was sexy!! 92 now and I hope she is enjoying herself. She was a great part of the funniest show on tv.

I absolutely LOVED watching The Gong Show back in the 70s! While I watched him him dance, show after show, and get every prop in the studio chucked at him each time, I never saw him get clocked as bad as he did at 1:21. LMAO RIP Gene....God loves a good dancer, and heaven surely got one last week!

OMG! I wish I could go back in time. I really miss this show, it was so wild and funny!

@alanmorris7669

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! I never thought I'd miss the 70s so much... and wish I could go back. I miss those hairstyles, the bell bottom jeans, and those Variety TV Shows like "Sonny & Cher."

After a tedious day of school I loved the anarchy and craziness of this show. You always got some batshit nutty stuff from Chuck. Total fun!!!

Great memories. Rest In Peace Chuck & Mean Gene.

THIS SHOW WAS DA BOMB BACK IN DAY!! SO MUCH FUN WATCHIN' THIS BAD BOY AFTER SCHOOL!!! They don't make em' like this anymore!!

I was a volunteer Firefighter and EMT in the town I grew up in, We used to have a Street Fair every year, the 3rd weekend of August where the main street was blocked off. We had to park the the Firetrucks in a small field just off the main street so we could get out if a call came in. Some of us slept on the trucks throughout the weekend. .We went on 3 calls that Saterday evening. Pretty exausted but when we got back around 1:30 a.m., half way through a cooler of beer (there were 4 of us) I boughta micro casette recorder that was new and had recorded "Gene, Gene the dance machine" earlier in the week to test it. I bought it out played it. There we were at 3:a.m., 4 Firefighters half drunk doing the Gene dancing machine out in a field.🤣🤣🤣🤣

@ricktaylor4real

3 ай бұрын

I can absolutely see that happening! Much better times back then, calmer, people were so much more cooler, and for all the censorship BS, comedy FOUND a way around that with something completely gone today…. CREATIVE WRITING! It allowed problem to laugh more, but you also had to be able to think to get the “hidden” innuendo, to get the JOKE! Gene Gene wasn’t hidden, but went on around him was all creatives getting the comedy through the censors. Oh the SHOCK when Jaye P Morgan flashed her rack… I bet there were some old farts in TV studio executive offices, and ad execs in private companies that all had little heart attacks that night. Crazy, if they had left it alone, or embraced it… they all would have soared to greater success. Love your story, it would have been cool for that to have been recorded… some good old, clean “American fireman drinkin beer while dancing” after saving lives, FUN!! The only think missing in that story that WOULD definitely make it more realistic to the times, would be another Gong Show “classic”…. all kinds of free flowing coke to really get the party going! Lol. 😂🤠👍🏼☮️

We need shows like this back on t.v.

I remember as a kid seeing this show in rerun on television and being blown away that such a thing existed. I was just enchanted at it. My mom was, like, "oh that's that old show from the 70s" and I was like, "HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL ME THIS EXISTED!!!"

@emintey

5 жыл бұрын

When Gene came on we'd all get up and start dancin'. It was the most hilarious show ever, and Jaye P. Morgan actually did lose her job for baring her boobs.

Gene, gene the dancing machine..🎉🎉

J.P. Morgan was allways happy,smiling and hot. We love her

I used to schedule my college classes around the Gong Show. I told Chuck Barris that at a Borders book store in Wynnewood Pa in 2007. He said to me "Those must have been some great classes" LOL.

There will never be another show like the Gong show, not in todays PC climate, For my money, the Gong show was the best all around T.V. entertainment show in history!, bar none! So many classic characters! A mix of a little bit of everything!...It Will always be no# 1 in my book!...

I want this song played when my casket is lowered into the ground and damn it, the most random stuff best be thrown down into the ground as it's lowered!

@user-br4xl2vu2t

10 ай бұрын

I was a volunteer Firefighter and EMT in the town I grew up in, We used to have a Street Fair every year, the 3rd weekend of August where the main street was blocked off. We had to park the the Firetrucks in a small field just off the main street so we could get out if a call came in. Some of us slept on the trucks throughout the weekend. .We went on 3 calls that Saterday evening. Pretty exausted but when we got back around 1:30 a.m., half way through a cooler of beer (there were 4 of us) I boughta micro casette recorder that was new and had recorded "Gene, Gene the dance machine" earlier in the week to test it. I bought it out played it. There we were at 3:a.m., 4 Firefighters half drunk doing the Gene dancing machine out in a field.🤣🤣🤣🤣

RIP ... Gene Gene, the Dancing Machine. He passed away on March 9, 2015 at the age of 83.

Thank you Chuck Barris for producing The Gong Show, The Dating Game, The Wedding Game, all the laughs and doing your part to help tame mankind with your gift and talent. You were a big part of my young TV life. May GOD bless your legacy and surviving family.

@scifigirl7004

7 жыл бұрын

1mespud It's coming back 😀

There will never be another Gene Gene.....Love it....

I used to love the gong show and the unknown comic always cracked me up

I am so thankful to be brought up in the 70s it was such a blast thanks so much Carefree fun back before the talk show culture made us analytical and quote smart the way the show was just now? Is the way I still feel in my heart always

What a great show that was! What a job! They’re getting paid to have a blast! “What a country!”

As soon as you heard that music you knew Gene was making an appearance...I loved how everyone stopped what they were doing and went crazy! 😂

@markgrove2030

Жыл бұрын

Just a guess but feel pretty sure Chuck enjoyed his smoke. GETTIN it right along with Gene, eyes pinched & laughing his butt off. Fun stuff.

@garyjackson3531

Жыл бұрын

@@markgrove2030 They were all doing handstands in big piles of cocaine! IF his book is to be believed, from The Dating Game moving forward, Barris worked as an international hit man for the CIA, on the side. Just crazy enough to be true!

This show was so much fun, and you knew things were going to get crazy when Gene came out. 📺

The Gong Show and Married With Children are the two best things that ever happened to television!!! Where, where are they now???? Oh, I almost forget. Add in another one - Fractured Flickers!!!

Gene Gene, the Dancing Machine! He saves The Gong Show every time.

Takes me back to the Student Union when I was in college. Campus had a set lunch hour and everybody piled in to watch the Gong Show.

Loved the gong show.Worked 2nd shift. Got home 11:20 got shower wife was fixing my dinner.just in time for gong show.....LOVED IT..

Stationed at Fort Ord, in Monterrey CA. in 76, and we would watch this show during lunch. Oh the sweet and very high memories.

Nothing better than the Gong Show..Todays America's Talent shows SUCK!

We will miss you Chuck & Gene

Beautiful JP reminds me so much of Kiki Dee:)

@trevmac8362

9 жыл бұрын

she looks a little like Jane Fonda also

From stagehand to superstar ... RIP Gene Gene. Keep jumpin' at the woodside.

@alanmorris7669

3 жыл бұрын

"Disco Gene, the Dancing Machine!" Unfortunately, Gene lost both of his legs to diabetes before his death. His real name was Gene Patton.

I remember watching this episode and actually saw the uncensored version once. I was endeared to Jaye P. Morgan then and still am today. It was quite the moment!...Plus I fantasized about being Gene Gene.

Who did not love this on rare Sick days from school?

The 70's. That decade was one long party.

Yeah Baby! I always looked forward to the dancing machine time. Gave us lots of laughs!!

This was shown in the UK in the mid to late 1980s and I miss the show's zaniness. RIP Gene. Best regards from the UK

@gbhxu

19 күн бұрын

They even did a British pilot hosted by Frankie Howard

@MG-iv9nw

15 күн бұрын

@@gbhxuCrumbs I remember that! I totally forgot though I guess it never caught on.

One of the best moments in all of T.V. We use to loose our minds when heard that song kick in LOL. What great times. So many miles away from shows today like 16 And Pregnant.

@mrhoffame

9 жыл бұрын

Indie Auriemma Ha Ha!! Awesome story man! This moment just made EVERYONE happy and like you said "go nuts" :)

@krissisu1111

7 жыл бұрын

I always loved when Chuck would introduce Jaye P. as "the juicy Jaye P. Morgan!!" Good times. :D

@glenmeyer405

6 жыл бұрын

mrhoffame

@bowser9960

4 жыл бұрын

So tighten it up then

@armybeef68

4 жыл бұрын

"We use to loose our minds" We USED to LOSE our minds You're welcome.

Favorite part of the show. Always made me smile.

@donaldpaluga

6 жыл бұрын

yaggy9 he got smacked in the face with a basketball and Gene kept on going!

Such a great show!! U new kids really missed some good tv 📺!! Gene Gene the Dancing 🕺 Machine!!!

The Gong Show was a free for all. The Unknown Comic and Gene, Gene. Those were the days.

Many years ago they made a Gong Show movie, and they showed the uncensored version of this scene in the film. When J.P. flashed her breasts, they froze the image. I loved that show when it was on. It really epitomized the old phrase, "So bad it was good." You knew it was silly, but that's what made it so FUN, something that we need a lot more of today.

Chuck Barris came up with the idea of the show himself. They ask a number of game show host to do the show and everyone said no, it would be a career ender. Barrie said “it will be great and I’ll do it myself.” Now it’s famous and everyone remembers it.

@gbhxu

19 күн бұрын

The show was shown in the UK. I remember episodes introduced by a guy in a tuxedo. Who was he?

This was an awesome show for its sheer lunacy. Nothing has come close since

@phibber

4 жыл бұрын

in his biography ,they talk about this show when they were searching high and low for an mc..barris said he would fill in untill one was found to relieve him. they never found any one who could make this show work. barris was extremely camera shy,so he wore hats pulled down low.

@michaelt3308

4 жыл бұрын

Put that show on today and watch libtard heads explode! Yes, please

@Sco692

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelt3308 youre a fing idiot

1:19 poor Gene gets hit in the head with a basketball! Never seen that happen! Took it in stride kept on dancin'! Such a part of my youth! This episode with JP cleared up my acne!

@axemanners6643

2 жыл бұрын

that was a real basketball too probably as they didn't have those nerfs back then i don't think.

@thomasmorelli9271

2 жыл бұрын

@@axemanners6643 I think you are correct!

I imagine that in every dressing room, “Green Room”, broom closet, at every reception desk, coat check, ticket booth, there MUST have been candy bowls filled with coke and a bundle of straws beside them. Before taping, during breaks in taping, before coming back on for taping, for the wrap after taping, it just must have been one wild non-stop disco themed and coke infused, party! This show was a classic and should have lived longer. Years later my favorite part of it is rewatching episodes and wondering just how I could have (or how ANYONE could have) missed noticing just how BLASTED Chuck was all the time, and how that was tripled by the end of the show!! 😜😅🤪👍🏼☮️

RIP Gene. He passed today.

What a fun show this was I remember it well as a teenager

@karlfisher1864

4 жыл бұрын

Gene is the Man! Karl

My favorite spy. Sad he's gone, but remembering to be happy that he was here.

Ma man Muledeer rockin' that great 70's fro!

I could watch this all day instead of the garbage that is on TV now. I miss this show.

@alanmorris7669

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. I don't even watch the crap on television today... I watch my DVDs.

Gene, Gene, Gene. What put a smile on my face the most was the knowledge that most of these people were on something other than "just life man".

The time the unknown comic did a ventriloquist act using a small paper lunch bag as the dummy

Gene is the greatest! No one can do what he does. Some woman got lucky when she found him! He just keeps on going! Karl

as a side note...the band is freakin awesome. riffin those solos...

@paulamiles9559

Жыл бұрын

2 Count Basie tunes....Jumping at the Woodside and One O'clock Jump.

@tomy5868

Жыл бұрын

@@paulamiles9559 ever hear JP Morgan sing

@paulamiles9559

Жыл бұрын

@@tomy5868 No I never did. Have you?

@tomy5868

Жыл бұрын

@@paulamiles9559 yep. Old sultry 50s torch singer. KZread her. Good

Gene Gene the dancing machine makes me feel so melo.

Every day in college.. we laugh and had a great time! long time ago...

@alanmorris7669

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! In my case, it was after getting off the bus from high school. The Gong Show came on around 4pm.

I loved the Gong Show, and growing up in the 70's. And if anyone thinks Chuck Barras wasn't tripping his ass off on some good LSD, they're crazier than he was.

@e.m.babyboi9184

9 жыл бұрын

My older brother was a Page for the studio and worked at the Gong Show set and he and Chuck had this running jab with each other. My brother would see him on set & Chuck would jokingly say to my brother "Hey Fuck You Brad Jose" & my brother would say back to Chuck "Hey Fuck You To Chuck " then they would both walk away laughing about it.

@logansmith9231

6 жыл бұрын

They had some really good coke back then...;)

@neil2661

5 жыл бұрын

​@@logansmith9231 Yeah buddy!......good quality!

@jaytf1231

4 жыл бұрын

I heard it was only Pot.

You know all that craziness came from snorting all the leftover cocaine from the set of the Star Wars Holiday Special!

Agnew VP, Spitz won numerous gold medals, and Dunaway for Network…heck, Mr Reese 6th grade 1971…and yes, Gene Gene the Dancing Machine…must admit though that my fondest memories of the Gong Show are centered around Jaye P Morgan!

The greatest show in the history of Television.

@donwayne1357

7 жыл бұрын

Yup!!

@johninjersey

7 жыл бұрын

that fly totally faked me out! i thought i had a fly on my monitor!

@Clearanceman2

6 жыл бұрын

One of them for sure. So random.

@michaelpalmere5087

6 жыл бұрын

Tony England all time best...

@jeffdonahue4146

6 жыл бұрын

Tony England

That planet looks like it would have been fun to live on

@willisix2554

4 жыл бұрын

This was "old Earth" and it was fun

Gene Gene was a good sport. On one occasion a huge painted foam rubber boulder was bounced straight off the top of his head from the side line! He flinched allright, but then just kept right on dancin'!

@alanmorris7669

3 жыл бұрын

Whoever hit Gene in his face with that basketball should've been fired on the spot.

Thank you for posting these gong show videos I watched every episode as a kid growing up this brings back a lot of great memories memories

Great show - pure lunacy. RIP Chuck......

This was a wild show. I loved it then and still do.

I never knew why they took off the air,, best game show ever

love this show

Egads! I miss Chuck Barris and the Gong Show sooo much!

Thank for the my childhood memories sitting in front of my tv and watching this they should of base the gong show around gene

Those were the days! So glad I grew up in this era. Last great decade, 70s.

This show was awesome.

Whenever I'm having a bad day, I bring up a little Gene Gene on my laptop and everything seems a little brighter.

Go gene go! love that show.

Jaye P. Morgan is 88 years old. Bless her little heart

@jimhanold9026

4 жыл бұрын

Really? Thank you for sharing this information!

@douglasharris2739

3 жыл бұрын

Yep! She could eat a man alive.

@rayjohnson2387

3 жыл бұрын

She was the main reason I watched

@rayjohnson2387

3 жыл бұрын

@@Neil-ht8fv it's a small cyber world...or it could just be the coke thing 🤣

@rayjohnson2387

3 жыл бұрын

@@Neil-ht8fv yea... I'm way to old for that other shit...if I tried to carry on like I did in the 80s...I'd be dead in less then a week lol

I couldn't wait for Gene to show up! Right in the middle of some poor bastard's act, that music might start and then it was ON! Barris, the panel and the audience, all going wild! Man was this a fun show, epitomized the 70s to a T!

How I loved growing up in the 70's!

@trevmac8362

9 жыл бұрын

Shhh keep quiet,it's out secret how great the 70's were

@annetteno1968

9 жыл бұрын

Oh, don't we know it.

@trevmac8362

9 жыл бұрын

you got it my friend

@angelosantaniello4113

3 жыл бұрын

Great time to grow up!!!

@alanmorris7669

3 жыл бұрын

I loved growing up in the 70s too. I never thought I'd miss the 70s so much... and wish I could go back. I miss those hairstyles, the bell bottom jeans, and those Variety TV Shows like "Sonny & Cher."

1:38 Jaye P Morgan completely coked out of her mind. Man, I miss the Gong Show.

1:21 hahah DAYUM. He got hit hard with that b-ball.

LOVED THIS SHOW!!!

The Gong Show was truly "Must See TV"!

Me and my brother would go nuts when Gene came onstage. Loved it.

Remember racing home from high school just to watch the Gong Show!

I didn't know how to appreciate the show back then. Now I get it.

Forget about having moves like Jagger. I'd rather have moves like Gene Gene the Dancing Machine!

R.I.P., Gene Gene the Dancing Machine

@TheFrankenstein1972

7 жыл бұрын

Christopher Todd Durnil Also RIP Chuck Barris

@scifigirl7004

7 жыл бұрын

Christopher Todd Durnil the gong show is coming back :)

@WytZox1

7 жыл бұрын

* New version on ABC prime time Thursday nights is okay but they need to bring Jaye, Arte and Jamie back as judges. That English guy hosting it tries hard but he is no Chuckie Baby! May not be as good as original but still better than most of today's prime time stuff. ☺

@Rlotpir1972

6 жыл бұрын

They were the terrific trio of judges.

@davep9850

6 жыл бұрын

That English guy hosting is Mike Meyers in costume.

How could you not smile?

Classic good times

I miss the 70's......

@maddumass

6 жыл бұрын

Kieser Sozay oh no

@SuperStormyNormy

6 жыл бұрын

Me to, a time when the ONLY thing that mattered was the party.

@LimitlessThinker

4 жыл бұрын

It was an unusual time and you could never explain it to anyone who wasn't part of that period. People really liked to party and it was a time when people were friendly. They were trying to break out of the uptight era of the previous generation. It was a time of happy rebellion.

The very first DAB in history. She dabs the gong! HA!!

RIP GENE GENE THE DANCING MACHINE

Man, we loved the Gong Show ! Mom, not so much. But me and my sisters watched it. Saw the Movie at the Drive in Theater too.

Yes, Yes!! Jaye P. Morgan!!

@duud6687

3 жыл бұрын

You'll notice that she was unbuttoning her top. Yes, she did open it up and no bra. There's an unedited vid somewhere if you look for it. Chucky got into a lot of hot water over that.

@Mike583

3 жыл бұрын

@@duud6687 You're right, I watched the uncensored version someone posted here on YT. It's been quite awhile ago,but probably won't ever see it again. I also seen a post that showed Caroll Burnett showing her boobs to one of the actors on the show. Can't remember if it was Tim, Harvey or another. She then turned around facing the studio audience & walked out towards them! ❤🙂😋👍

JPMORGAN!!!! Well tattered luv. And Gene Gene was being attacked by Chuck's hi ball! Crazy! FabBBBBBB!!! Love ya from Liverpool. She had two fried eggs! LOL! Which, as a teenager, with also two fried eggs liberated me to get them out on a regular basis, as long as the music was right!!! This is what we want!!!