Chuck Barris, the “dangerous mind” behind “The Gong Show,” a grotesque burlesque masquerading as a performance competition, possessed his own unique talent: turning cheap laughs into gold. The oddball ...

NEW YORK -- Chuck Barris, whose game show empire included "The Dating Game," ''The Newlywed Game" and that infamous factory of cheese, "The Gong Show," died at 87. Barris died of natural causes ...

Last Thursday, ABC introduced a new generation of viewers to a rebooted version of “The Gong Show” more than 40 years after Chuck Barris ’53, who received an honorary degree in 2001, debuted his ...

Remember The Gong Show? Talentless hacks interrupted in mid-performance by a huge, cruel gong, signaling to the whole world the imminent and permanent separation of the hapless artists from the ...

This has been a bad week for the initials C.B. First Chuck Berry, and then Chuck Barris shed this mortal coil. If I were Charles Barkley or Chris Berman, I would be nervous as hell. And Mr. Death, ...

NEW YORK -- Chuck Barris, whose game show empire included "The Dating Game," ''The Newlywed Game" and that infamous factory of cheese, "The Gong Show," has died. He was 87. Barris died of natural ...

The grinning, curly-haired Barris became a familiar face as creator and host of “The Gong Show,” which aired from 1976 to 1980. Patterned after the Major Bowes Amateur Hour show that was a radio hit ...

NEW YORK -- Chuck Barris, creator and host of the "Gong Show," has died at 87, a family spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. Barris also created other classic 1970s game shows "The Dating Game" and "The ...