The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.
"Charles Hirsch "Chuck" Barris" is an American game show creator, producer, and host. He is best known for hosting The Gong Show and creating The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game. He is also a songwriter, who wrote the hit "Palisades Park (Freddy Cannon song)/Palisades Park", and the author of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, his autobiography, which became Confessions of a Dangerous Mind/a film directed by George Clooney.
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You know, you create your opportunities, some of us can create opportunities, and then you have to make a decision.
Way to go, Zany.
There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
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