Posted on 10/19/2021 11:39:56 AM PDT by dmam2011
There’s a lot happening in the world right now, so let’s get the most pressing stuff out of the way and sorted: was the late Gong Show creator/host Chuck Barris really an assassin for the CIA?
Barris claimed in his 1982 memoir Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind to have been secretly working for the intelligence organization during the sixties and seventies—around the same time he was developing kitschy and iconic television shows like The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show. Is it possible that the unassuming and at-times silly Barris could be telling the truth here—or was this all an attention-seeking hoax by an expert performer?
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I don’t think anyone thinks this is true.
Because he kept asking you To Tell The Truth?
That makes me think Bob was a CIA interrogator.
Every time the audience clapped along with Chuck, a foreign agent was liquidated.
I don’t believe that for a second.
“ We call a neighbors dog “Bob Barker”...Can you guess why???”
Because he can’t swim so when you throw him in the pool he just “bobs”?
Some reason or other I always thought Allen Ludden was the smartest guy in the room.
“The Gong Show was epic.”
One of my favs.
I can’t imagine Richard Dawson or Bert Convy being the CIA type.
I always desperately wanted the urban legend about Fred Rogers being a accomplish and deadly sniper to be true!
Barris admitted on The Today Show, back in 1984, that “No, I was never a CIA hitman. I never did those things.”
He was a very talented man being an American game show creator, producer, and host. Barris was known for hosting The Gong Show and creating The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game. He was also a songwriter who wrote “Palisades Park”, recorded by Freddy Cannon. He wrote and published eight books:
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Who Killed Art Deco?
The Game Show King
Della
Sorry I wasn’t listening I was thinking about Chuck Barris
You and Me, Babe
The Big Question
Bad Grass Never Dies
And there have been a number of books written about him. And even he admitted he didn’t work for the CIA. Face it, why would he say that if it wasn’t a joke? He would be putting himself in with people that will make him go away easily.
wy69
He may have shot a guy in front of him at a theater, but it wasn’t in the literal sense of the word.
I’ve gotta admit that some of the greatest “stupid game show answers” are from Family Feud.
Name an animal with three letters in its name: alligator
Name something you squeeze: peanut butter
Name a kind of bear: a Papa bear
Mental hospitals are chock full of ex-CIA agents. And KGB. and FBI. And Gray Aliens. Just ask them.
Yean, and Joe Biden drove 18-wheeler semi trucks, too. A legend in his own mind...
Then there was this classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35MCBT_OnZs&ab_channel=Mystic%27sClassicGames
I did too. Rogers says he wasn't...but then that's just what a sniper would say, isn't it?
He’s a “Barker”...Constantly....
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