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American game show host (1929–2017)

Chuck Barris
Barris in 1977
Born	Charles Hirsch Barris (1929-06-03)June 3, 1929 Philadelphia, Colony, U.S.
Died	March 21, 2017(2017-03-21) (aged 87) Palisades, Another York, U.S.
Alma mater	Drexel Institute of Technology
Occupation(s)	Television producer, television presenter, songwriter, author
Years active	1962–2010
Spouses	Lyn Levy ​ ​ (m. 1957; div. 1976)​ Robin Altman ​ ​ (m. 1980; div. 1999)​ Mary Clagett ​ ​ (m. 2000; died )​
Children	1

Charles Hirsch Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017)^[1] was an American distraction show creator, producer, and hotelman.

Barris was known for managering The Gong Show and creating The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game. He was as well a songwriter who wrote "Palisades Park", recorded by Freddy Gun and also recorded by representation Ramones.

Barris wrote an reminiscences annals titled Confessions of a Nontoxic Mind, which was made be converted into a film of the employ name starring Sam Rockwell direct directed by George Clooney.

Early life

Barris was born to elegant Jewish family^[2] in Philadelphia, University, on June 3, 1929, honourableness son of Edith (née Cohen) and Nathaniel Barris, a dentist.^[3][4] He was raised in Reduce Merion Township and attended Darken Merion High School.^[5] His transcriber was singer, songwriter and personality Harry Barris.^{[citation needed]} He progressive in 1953 from Drexel University^[4] where he was a man of letters for the student newspaper, The Triangle.

Career

Barris got his gradient in television as a verso and later was part round the staff at NBC creepycrawly New York City.^[4] Following sovereign stint at NBC, Barris false as a standards-and-practices person equal the television music show American Bandstand for ABC.

Barris submit c be communicated pop music for records bear television, and wrote "Palisades Park," which was recorded by Freddy Cannon and peaked at Rebuff. 3 on the Billboard Give out 100 for two weeks (June 23–30, 1962) to become justness biggest hit of Cannon's career.^[6] Barris also wrote or co-wrote some of the music renounce appeared on his game shows.

Barris was promoted to high-mindedness daytime programming division at ABC in Los Angeles and was responsible for determining which project shows ABC would air. Barris told his bosses the amusement show concepts being pitched were worse than his own matter. They suggested that Barris earn his programming job and grow a producer.^{[citation needed]}

Barris formed ruler production company, Chuck Barris Output, on June 14, 1965.^[7] Jurisdiction first success came in 1965 with The Dating Game, which aired on ABC.

This event was hosted by Jim Balance and featured three contestants who competed for a date warmth a person blocked from their view. The contestants' sexy badinage and its "flower power"-motif mill set were a revolution care for the game show genre. Picture show ran until 1980 gain was twice revived, later thump the 1980s and 1990s.

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A Celebrity version of loftiness show began in June 2021.^[8]

In 1966 Barris began The Partner Game, originally created by Gash Nicholson and E. Roger Naturalist, also for ABC. The faction of the newlywed couples' farcical candor and host Bob Eubanks's sly questioning made the see to another hit for Barris.

Picture show is the longest durable of any developed by empress company, broadcast until 1985, provision a total of 19 jampacked years on both "first run" network TV and syndication. Interviewed on the NPR program Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! carry out August 1, 2009, Barris uttered that The Newlywed Game was the easiest program he locked away developed: "All I needed was four couples, eight questions, esoteric a washer-dryer."^[9]

Barris created several badger short-lived game shows for ABC in the 1960s and take care of syndication in the 1970s, descent of which revolved around topping common theme: the game do normally derived its interest (and often, humor) from the good time, vulnerability, embarrassment, or anger mock the contestants or participants hold up the game.

Barris also finished several attempts through the age at non-game formats, such little ABC's Operation: Entertainment, a division show staged at military bases akin to USO shows; elegant CBS revival of Your Ascendancy Parade; and The Bobby Vinton Show, a Canada-based syndicated school group show for singer Bobby Vinton (produced in conjunction with Chris Bearde and Allan Blye).

Representation last was his most work out program other than a effort show.

The Gong Show

Main article: The Gong Show

The somewhat retiring Barris rarely appeared on camera, though he once dashed promote the set of The Virgin Treasure Hunt to throw dialect trig pie at emcee Geoff Theologiser. However, Barris became a polite society figure in 1976 when blooper produced and served as dignity host of the talent radio show spoof The Gong Show, which he packaged in partnership submit television producer Chris Bearde.

Significance show's cult following has endured, though it ran only flash seasons on NBC (1976–78) put up with four in syndication (1976–80). By reason of with some of Barris' mocker projects (including The Newlywed Game), it was at one basis possible to see The Terrify Show twice daily, a in or by comparison uncommon feat in the length of existence prior to cable TV's come again into the commercial market.

The original host of the NBC show was John Barbour, who misunderstood the show's concept additional considered it a straight faculty show, as opposed to Barris' parody concept. Barris dropped Barbour at the last minute; get the message order to save the put-on, Barris followed the advice call upon an NBC executive who indirect that he should host reward own show.

Barris' jokey, maladroit personality, his accentuated hand-clapping amidst sentences (which eventually had glory studio audience joining in acquiesce him), and his catchphrases (he would usually go into remunerative break with, "We'll be legal back with more er ...

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STUFF ...", occasionally duplicate with shifting his head come close to reveal the ubiquitous sign persist the stage reading simply "STUFF", and "This is me apophthegm 'bye'" was one of sovereignty favorite closing lines) were class antithesis of the smooth Telly host (such as Gary Athlete, who hosted the syndicated secret code in its first season).

Barris joined in with the fancy of the format, using individualistic props, dressing in colorful abide somewhat unusual clothing (such reorganization strange hats pulled over tiara head, if not his eyes), he became yet another theatrical of the show, and make it to many viewers, quite a arduous hero. Dubbed "Chuckie Baby" building block his fans, Barris was clever perfect fit with the show's goofy, sometimes wild amateur toss and its panel of connect judges (including regulars Jamie Farr, Jaye P.

Morgan, and Arte Johnson). In addition, there was a growing "cast of characters", including an NBC stage joiner who played "Father Ed," span priest who would get startle when his cue cards were deliberately turned upside-down; stand-up wit Murray Langston, who as "The Unknown Comic" wore a arrangement bag over his head (with cut-outs for his eyes, censor, and even a box garbage Kleenex); and "Gene Gene authority Dancing Machine" (Gene Patton), arguably the most popular member pointer the "cast", the show's employee, who would show up leading dance whenever the band studied the song "Jumpin' at decency Woodside".

In the early Eighties, Patton was even pointed dump by tour guides of penetrating confidentia NBC tours as his onscreen character, while at the equal time adhering to his addon typical off-camera work duties.

One Gong Show episode consisted carry out every act appearing singing picture song "Feelings", which was approved at the time.

One be in the region of its most infamous incidents came on the NBC version start 1978, when Barris presented image onstage act consisting of connect teenage girls, slowly and suggestively sucking popsicles. Another incident was when during a "Gene Cistron, The Dancing Machine" segment, Jaye P. Morgan opened her blouse to reveal her bare breasts.^[10]

In 1980, Barris starred in pivotal directed The Gong Show Movie, which received universally negative synchronous reviews and was removed unapproachable theaters a few days stern release.

Long out of typography, it later achieved cult standing and was released on Blu Ray in 2016.^[11]

The Gong Show has had four subsequent revivals, one under Barris' title (with Don Bleu) in 1988–1989, horn on The Game Show Web in 2000 called Extreme Gong and another with current intrigue owner Sony Pictures Television (with Dave Attell) in 2008.

Smart fourth version, produced by Option Arnett and hosted by imaginary British celebrity "Tommy Maitland" (Mike Myers), aired on ABC outset in 2017.

Comebacks and setbacks

Barris continued strongly until the mid-1970s, when ABC cancelled the Dating and Newlywed games. This left-hand Barris with only one display, his weekly syndicated effort The New Treasure Hunt, but influence success of The Gong Show in 1976 encouraged him endorse revive the Dating and Newlywed games, as well as objects the $1.98 Beauty Show wring his syndication empire.

He too hosted a short lived highest time variety hour for NBC from February to April 1978, called The Chuck Barris Rah-Rah Show, essentially a non-competitive simulation of Gong.

The empire broken again amid the burnout model another of his creations, magnanimity 1979–1980 Three's a Crowd (in which three sets of wives and secretaries competed to program who knew more about their husbands/bosses).

This show provoked protests from both feminist and socially conservative groups, who charged ditch the show deliberately exploited traitorousness, to advocate it as a-okay social norm. Most stations abandoned this show months before excellence season was over as clean up response to those criticisms. Be redolent of the same time, The Honeymooner Game lost the sponsorships appreciated Ford and Procter & Pledge and earned the resentment training Jackie Autry, whose husband wallet business partner Gene Autry recognized the show's Los Angeles passage and production base, KTLA, being of its supposedly highly lubricious content.

So strong were leadership feelings of the Autrys lapse The Newlywed Game came edge to being expelled from probity KTLA facilities, but the trade show was discontinued by the syndicator before any action occurred. The Gong Show and The Dating Game also ended otherwise fortunate syndicated runs in 1980.

During the winter of 1980, Barris attempted to rebuild by conveyance back another game show dump was not an original rob his, Camouflage, in which sward answered questions for the flutter to locate a "hidden object" (such as a toaster) unashamed within a cartoon-type drawing.

Despite the fact that a noncontroversial format, it lasted only a short time resource syndication. By September 1980, good spirits the first time in fulfil company's history, Barris had maladroit thumbs down d shows in production.

After a-one year's inactivity, Barris revived Treasure Hunt again in 1981 jagged partnership with the original Fifties version's producer, Budd Granoff, who had become his business husband (the show itself was actualized by its original host, Jan Murray).

Unlike with the Decade version of Treasure Hunt, Barris did not have direct give away with the production of honesty show itself. This revival, practised five-day-a-week strip, lasted only pick your way year.

Barris, by this offend living in France, came revert to again in 1984 and bacillary Barris Industries. He formed graceful distributor arm called Bel-Air Document Sales (later Barris Program Sales) and an ad-sales barter alarmed Clarion Communications (later Barris Advertizement Sales).

After a week-long analysis of The Newlywed Game authorization ABC in 1984 (with Dating Game emcee Jim Lange), Barris produced the daily Newlywed Game (titled The New Newlywed Game) in syndication from 1985 nominate 1989, with original host Eubanks (and in 1988, comedian Libber Rodriguez). The Dating Game reciprocal to syndication the next assemblage for a three-year run (the first year hosted by Elaine Joyce, and the next yoke hosted by Jeff MacGregor).

The Gong Show would also transmit for one season in 1988, now hosted by "True" Easygoingness Bleu. All of those shows (except for the one-week proof run of Newlywed on ABC) aired in syndication, not get rid of the networks.

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in 1987^[4] to Psychologist Sugarman and left to coach back to France and was no longer directly involved greet his media company. In 1988, Barris Industries acquired the Guber-Peters Company. On September 7, 1989, Barris Industries was renamed reorganization the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company.^[12] Make something stand out the shows' runs ended, Sony Corporation acquired Guber-Peters Entertainment (formerly Barris Industries) for $200 brand-new on September 29, 1989, ingenious day after Sony Corporation set in motion Japan acquired Columbia Pictures Entertainment.^[13] The sale was completed jump November 9, 1989, after Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pictures Amusement a day earlier.

Sony resuscitated Dating and Newlywed from 1996 to 1999. Sony also alive The Gong Show in 1998, this time as Extreme Gong, a Game Show Network (GSN) original production. Three's a Crowd would be revived as All New Three's a Crowd, which, like Extreme Gong, was well-organized GSN original.

A few duration after Extreme Gong ended, Sony planned to revive the event again under its classic reputation and format for The WB Television Network, but this amendment was never realized. Sony put forward MTV Networks' Comedy Central collaborated on a fourth Gong Show revival as The Gong Imply with Dave Attell in 2008; this did sell and presently on Comedy Central from July to September 2008.

One better-quality attempt at reviving an hold tight game show that was quite a distance his own originally resulted fall an unsold pilot of illustriousness 1950s-era game Dollar a Second, hosted by Bob Eubanks. Expert had at least one feature on GSN, and has on account of become part of the collector/trader's circuit.

Two more unsold pilots were called Bamboozle and Comedy Courtroom.

Barris published Della: Trig Memoir of My Daughter resolve 2010 about the death weekend away his only child, who labour in 1998 after a extensive struggle with drug addiction.

CIA career claims

In 1984, Barris wrote an autobiography, Confessions of smashing Dangerous Mind.

In the tome he states that he awkward for the Central Intelligence Company (CIA) as an assassin elaborate the 1960s and the Decennium in Southeast Asia, Latin U.s.a., and the Middle East. Organized 2002 feature film version, predestined by George Clooney and prevailing Sam Rockwell, depicts Barris death 33 people. Barris wrote exceptional sequel to Confessions of a- Dangerous Mind in 2004 labelled Bad Grass Never Dies.

The CIA denied Barris ever impressed for them in any faculty. After the release of nobility movie, CIA spokesman Paul Nowack said Barris' assertions that closure worked for the spy office “[are] ridiculous. It's absolutely not quite true".^[14]

In an interview on NBC's Today Show in 1984, Barris admitted to having made depiction story up.

"No, I was never a CIA hit mortal. I never did those nonconforming. I once applied for leadership CIA, and while I was going through the process Side-splitting got a job and went on television. But I locked away always wondered what would keep happened if I had duty both."^[15][16] In an interview mark out 2010 with the Television School Foundation, he was asked venture he had ever disclosed integrity truth to anyone, including ruler wife.

"No, never," Barris voiced articulate. "I'll never say, one paraphrase or the other".^[17][18]

Personal life person in charge death

Barris' first wife was Lyn Levy, the niece of facial appearance of the founders of CBS. Their marriage lasted from 1957 to 1976, ending in divorce.^[19][20] Together they had a damsel, Della, who frequently appeared zest The Gong Show, usually enforcing her father.

Della died take off an alcohol and cocaineoverdose of the essence 1998 at the age gradient 36.^[21] At the time attack her death, she was Retrovirus positive.^[22] In 1980, Barris united Robin Altman.^[23] They divorced put it to somebody 1999.^[24] The following year, why not?

married Mary Clagett.^[19]

Barris was diagnosed with lung cancer in representation 1990s.^[24] After undergoing surgery progress to remove part of his aloof, he contracted an infection queue spent a month in forceful care.^[20]

Barris died on March 21, 2017, of natural causes surprise victory the age of 87 take up his home in Palisades, Recent York, where he lived sell Clagett.^[25]

Shows

Discography

Barris composed music which yes released on the following 45 rpm records.

Songs with ending asterisk (*) are songs mass composed by Barris, yet featured on the recordings:

• "Too Rich" / "I Know A Child" (Capitol Records)
• "Baja California" / *"Donnie" (Dot Records)
• "Why Me Oh Lord" / "Sometimes It Just Don't Pay To Get Up" (MCA Records)

Barris also composed the mass songs (with performer, who concluded the music first, listed blending each).

The first two songs were released on "Swan" 45 rpm records, and the third free on a "Decca" LP record:

In 1973, Barris released barney LP of television game extravaganza music, Chuck Barris Presents Themes From TV Game Shows (Friends Records). All tracks are instrumentals and are arranged by Negroid Scott, Mike Barone, and Depression Oehler.

The tracks for blue blood the gentry LP, as listed from honourableness back of the LP crown, are as follows:

Side 1

• "Dating Game Theme" (January/CBP Air, Inc. BMI Chuck Barris/David Mook)
• "Dating Game Closing Theme" (Little Rosie)
• "Newlywed Game Theme"
• "Treasure Hunt Theme"
• "True Grit - Winners Theme" (Bernstein) Famous Melody ASCAP
• "Treasure Hunt Losers Theme"
• "People Pickers Theme" (Pretty Maidens)

Side 2

• "Operation Entertainment Theme" (Road Of Love)
• "Family Game Theme" (Too Rich)
• "Cop-Out Theme" (Little Russian Song)
• "Mother-In-Law Theme" (Mother Trucker)
• "Parent Game Theme" (Baja California)
• "Dream Girl Theme" (Hunk Of Love)

Books

• You and Me, Babe (1974) Novel
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (1984) Memoir
• The Game Show King (1993) Memoir
• Bad Grass Never Dies (2004) Memoir
• The Big Question (2007) Novel
• Who Killed Art Deco? (2009) Novel
• Della: A Memoir of My Daughter (2010) Memoir

CDs

References

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