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The Gong Show, All Acts In Order. Metaverse Movies - Official Channel. 155 videos 2,404 views Last updated on Jan 26, 2022. Play all.
The Gong Show gave amateur talent of all kinds the chance to show their stuff and walk away with a grand prize of $516.32 (the amount given out on the NBC daytime version). A celebrity panel ...
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- The Concept Came from A Canadian Songwriter.
- The Gong May Have Come from The Apollo Theater.
- It Wasn't A Hit with Test audiences.
- There Was A Host Before Chuck Barris.
- Weird Al Yankovic Auditioned.
- The Show Featured Some Truly Talented people.
- The $516.32 Grand Prize Wasn't as Random as It sounded.
- The Popsicle Twins Never Ran on The West Coast.
- NBC Banned Panelist Jaye P. Morgan.
- Chuck Barris Got Gonged in The Series Finale.
The idea for The Gong Show came afterTommy Hunter, "Canada's Country Gentleman," told producer Chris Bearde about a guy who had auditioned for his show. The idea clicked with Bearde, who then pitched the concept as a series to the CBC. "Hunter was telling me about these guys that juggle and throw bowling pins up and they bang them on the head and t...
Howard "Sandman" Sims—the Apollo Theater's "exterminator," who ran on stage shooting a cap gun and sounding a siren when a performer got booed—claimed in 1986 that his whole act is "where The Gong Showcame from. The idea is, if the kid is not good enough, we have to create some comic scene to get him off the stage without the audience embarrassing ...
The Gong Show had "the poorest"results out of any daytime show NBC had ever tested at the time. Madeleine David, NBC's then-director of daytime programming, put it on the air anyway because enough people at the network "cared about it and believe in it."
Chuck Barris, who also produced the show, originally hired John Barbour to act as host, but—according to Barris—Barbour "just didn't understand the concept." (Barbour would go on to create Real People and write and direct a 1992 documentary on the JFK assassination.) The ratings with Barbour weren't good, and NBC insisted that if Barris didn't host...
"I was in college," Yankovic recalled, "and a friend and I drove down to L.A. for the day, and auditioned for The Gong Show. And we did a song called 'Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung.' And the audience seemed to enjoy it, but we never got called back. So we didn't make the cut for The Gong Show." Only about 10 percentof applicants ever made it to the sh...
Steve Martin was an act and later was a guest judge. Andrea McArdle appeared and subsequently won the lead in the Broadway musical Annie. Cheryl Lynn was signed to a recording contract and recorded "Got To Be Real." Mare Winningham won when she sang "Here, There, and Everywhere," under an alias. Danny Elfman and the rest of Oingo Boingo performed. ...
While Barris referred to it as "the highly unusual amount of $516.32,” it was actually the Screen Actors Guild union scale minimumfor one day's work.
Chuck Barris would occasionally send up acts he knew the censors wouldn't allow, distracting them from barring other risqué acts he wanted to put on. The Popsicle Twins (officially known as the "Have You Got a Nickel?" act) were one of those sacrificial lambs, but NBC censors let them through. Enough East Coast viewers complained after witnessing t...
Weeks after The Popsicle Twins incident in 1978, panelist Jaye P. Morgan flashed the studio audience. It never made the broadcast, but she was barred from the show by the network. It was one of the final straws for NBC and the daytime version of the series was canceled soon after. The flashing appeared in The Gong Show Movie(1980).
Barris appeared as a contestantsinging Johnny Paycheck's "Take This Job and Shove It." He gave the camera the finger.
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This playlist features the network version of the Gong Show from 1976-1978.
