Chuck Barris
Chuck Barris
Charles Hirsch "Chuck" Barrisis 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" for Freddy Cannon and the author of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, his autobiography, which became a film directed by George Clooney...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth3 June 1929
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.
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.