The Gong Show featured a bizarre mix of amateur talent acts and a panel of celebrity judges, often including Jaye P. Morgan and Arte Johnson, who would strike a supersized gong to end the misery. The best act won a prize of $516.32 on the daytime version of the show.
Barris, who died in 2017 at age 87, once told The Television Academy Foundation that the show started out with a different host (John Barbour), but that because he was auditioning the acts and getting to know them, he felt he would be better suited to be on the show with them.
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“I wore a tux to start out with, and soon I began to take off the tie and put on another kind of jacket or a hat. … There was a reason [the hat got lower over the eyes]. I was scared to death of the audience, so I just didn't want to see them, so I wore this hat low over my eyes.”
He also clarified that he decided to end the show in 1980.
Barris, who also created the 1978 pageant parody, The $1.98 Beauty Show, also advised other game show hosts not to go over the top as he did.
“When we auditioned for The Gong Show, the number of people who would sing 'Feelings' was remarkable,” Barris told Philadelphia magazine in 2003. “One day I decided to do a show entirely of acts that did ‘Feelings.’ I thought that was hysterical. It was about the third act into the show that they realized they were all singing ‘Feelings.’ Marvin Hamlisch bumped into me a hundred years later and said, 'I’ll never forget that show.'"
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