Subj : Re: Game shows
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Mon Dec 07 2020 05:54:54

  Daryl wrote --

>  AA> I enjoyed the weird stuff
>  AA> on the Gong Show. I'd watch it after coming home from school.
> 
>   I thought it was rather "hokey".

  That was the whole point of the show.  It was a satire of game shows and
all in fun.  
  There were a few times I could tell (unless they were very good actors
too) how disappointed some contestants were when they either lost or worst,
were gonged off the stage.
   The gong, of course, goes back to Major Bowles Amateur Hour on radio
where contestants were judged by the audience and if the act was really bad
Bowles would strike a small gong on his desk to dismiss them. Barris simply had
a huge gong a panel member woul
  Joe

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