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I loved it when Carol Burnett appeared on the Gong Show as Eunice singing "Feelings". Hilarious sketch but a sad ending.

this show needs to be on dvd! the funniest show when i was a kid, you knew it was a train wreck, but you watched anyway!

Jaye P. Morgan was one FIIINE-looking cougar...I wasn't even aware that she was well into her forties at the time. Was surprised when I found out.

I'm someone else who has strong memories of the "Hospital" song and, like a previous poster, I thought the group was "The Lunatics", not "The Epidemics", so we better find out for sure. I'd love to see a videoclip, but is that unlikely to ever happen?

Bring back Chuck to do the 2009 Gong Show! He's still going strong and looks as good as ever -- he deserves to have his show back!

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I was too young to have watched the original, but I do remember the 1988 version. The bad acts are the main draw, and the revival had some "good bad ones." Don Bleu was goofy, and he played along with the absurdity quite well. The show lasted two seasons in syndication, if I remember correctly.

I can't give a fair review of the latest version with Dave Attell on Comedy Central. I watched just one act in which a woman farted music. So the standards have gotten even lower, huh?

Jumped the second my 6-year-old self realized that the person who sang "Feelings" or "You Light Up My Life" while awkwardly strumming an acoustic guitar was automatically the winner.

I mean, come ON. Those were the BORING acts...the ones you went to the kitchen or the bathroom during, occasionally calling out, "Are they done yet?" But they always won over the lady whistling The Star Spangled Banner while juggling torches and pedaling a unicycle.

It just wasn't right!

It jumped in 1998 when it was revived on GSN as "Extreme Gong." What the hell was that? That version was NOT The Gong Show, I don't care what anyone says. At least George Gray went on to do a better show like The Weakest Link. Long live Chuck Barris and the original Gong Show.

I think they should bring Chuck Barris in to replace Ryan on American Idol...what do you think?

One of the funniest shows EVER! I was in high school then, but my mom was an avid watcher of the show as well. Chuck Barris was a fool! I remember one segment when Gene Gene The Dancing Machine came out, and Chuck took off on his dancing slide out of camera range. When he came back he was dancing around so hard, that he was missing a shoe! He then pulled off his jacket and lost the other shoe! It was one of the funniest thing I'd ever seen. Love the bad acts, and loved the fact that an act could hit the jackpot: Cheryl Lynn, anyone? Ahhh...the 70's!

From Palmetto: [Jumped with] The Embryo Twins. Two guys in only diapers, bonnets, and bibs; inside a gigantic dry cleaning bag "amniotic sac"; with several feet of clothes dryer vent hose "umbilical cord" tossed over the top; singing Paul Anka's "You're Having My Baby".

Why isn't this showing instead of American Idol?

Weird, goofy and occaisonally hilarious! All I can say to those two redneck girls licking down those rainbow-colored popsicles...WILL YOU MARRY ME??

I wish they would bring it back. They should put it on cable so they could do anything they wanted.

NEVER JUMPED! My favorite act? When an elderly lady came out it a "sexy vampy evening gown" and bopped her hips to the orchestra. Just as she started to sing "Forget your troubles,c'mon get happy..." her FALSE TEETH FELL OUT OF HER MOUTH ONTO THE FLOOR. AAAAHHHHHH!! Hilarious! How can any program that would air this EVER jump? Hello Smithsonian!