SO LONG CHUCK BARRIS

A fond farewell to Chuck Barris who went to the big stage in the sky at age 87. 

Barris' publicist says he died of natural causes yesterday afternoon at his home in Palisades, New York. At one point Barris was supplying television networks with nearly 30 hours of entertainment a week, mostly in five-days-a-week daytime game shows. He called himself "The King of Daytime Television" and wrote his autobiography, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," in two months. In it he claimed to have been a CIA assassin.The movie based on that book was George Clooney’s directorial debut.

What many don’t know is that Barris worked backstage at “American Bandstand” and that led to him writing the hit song “Palisades Park” which was recorded by Freddy Cannon. 

While I loved the recurring GONG SHOW BITS like Gene Gene the Dancing machine and the Unknown comic, my all time fave is THE WORMS. Enjoy!


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