In his second book about the program, Alex Barris tells an anecdote about what guest panelist Bennett Cerf said to challenger Jesse Owens about Adolf Hitler during a 1958 episode ; this is one of the episodes that does not survive.

Charles Hirsch " Chuck " Barris ( born June 3, 1929 ) is an American game show creator, producer, and host ; a film director ; and a presenter best known for hosting The Gong Show and creating The Dating Game.

Barris, a survivor of lung cancer, is also an author and claims to have worked for the CIA.

Barris ' jokey, bumbling personality ; his accentuated hand-clapping between sentences ( which eventually had the studio audience joining in with him ); and his catchphrases ( he would usually go into commercial break with, " We'll be right back with more er ... STUFF ...", occasionally paired with shifting his head to reveal the ubiquitous sign behind the stage reading simply " STUFF ," and " This is me saying ' bye '" was one of his favorite closing lines ) were the antithesis of the smooth TV host ( such as Gary Owens, who hosted the syndicated version in its first season ).

Ted Barris is a journalism professor and author of several books.

At home, Wanda must manage her sister-in-law ( Tammy Lauren ), who is raising two children, Holly ( Jurnee Smollett ), and Barris ( Robert Bailey, Jr .).

The Dating Game is an ABC television show that first aired on December 20, 1965 and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s.

In that article, the Dart is reunited with Mike Connors, George Barris, and Mannix stuntman Dick Ziker.

George Barris ( born January 2, 1925 ) is a designer of custom cars.

Barris is the subject of the title story in author Tom Wolfe's first collection of essays The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.

Among the exhibits is an original George Barris 1921 modified Oldsmobile Beverly Hillbillies truck donated by series creator Paul Henning who was inspired to do the show after a Boy Scout camping trip in the Ozarks.

Lizards outside cover art is by Gini Barris, who was commissioned to produce it by Peter Sinfield.

Artists such as Von Dutch ( Kenny Howard ), custom car builders such as Ed " Big Daddy " Roth and Dean Jeffries, hot rod and lowrider customizers such as the Barris Brothers ( Sam and George Barris ), along with numerous tattoo artists, automobile painters, and movies and television shows such as American Graffiti, Happy Days, The Munsters ( The Munster Koach, Drag-u-la ) and The Monkees ( The Monkeemobile ) have all helped to form what is known as Kustom Kulture.

Lambros Vassiliou, a close friend of George Barris is now the current owner.

He is one of a group of designers and artists including Ed Roth, George Barris, Norm Grabowski, Dean Jeffries, Bill Cushenberry and the great pinstripe artist Kenny Howard ( nicknamed Von Dutch ), who presided over one of the most productive and creative periods of American custom car and hot rod design.

The first roof chopper is considered to be Sam Barris ( brother of auto customizer George Barris ), who chopped and customized his brand new 1949 Mercury.

Barris also pioneered a more advanced form, where the B-pillar is removed turning it into a pillarless hardtop in the process.

* Peter, Paul & Mary's version of the song is used in the film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind during a sequence in which " Gong Show " host Chuck Barris ( Sam Rockwell ) has an on-air nervous breakdown due to his years as a CIA assassin, and visualizes the entire audience as dead bodies.

Peter Barris is an American businessman and venture capitalist.

Harry Barris, one of Paul Whiteman's " The Rhythm Boys ," along with Bing Crosby, scatted on several songs, including " Mississippi Mud ," which Barris wrote in 1927.

Other subjects included game show producer Chuck Barris, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire ?, a " Top Ten " countdown of game show hosts, memorable game show moments, women who have featured prominently on game shows, celebrities and how they impacted game shows, and an insider's guide to winning on a TV game show.

Barris also co-wrote or wrote some of the music that appeared on his game shows.

Barris first became successful during 1965 with his first game show creation, The Dating Game, on ABC.

Interviewed on the NPR program " Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me " on August 1, 2009, Barris said that the Newlywed Game was the easiest program he had developed: " All I needed was four couples, eight questions, and a washer-dryer.

Chuck Barris on The Gong Show, 1976

The somewhat shy Barris rarely appeared on camera, though he once dashed onto the set of The New Treasure Hunt to throw a pie at emcee Geoff Edwards.

The Gong Show eventually had three later revivals, one under Barris ' title ( with Don Bleu ) in 1988-89, one on The Game Show Network in 2000 called Extreme Gong and another with current format owner Sony Pictures Television ( with Dave Attell ) in 2008.

Gong Show and Dating Game also ended otherwise successful syndicated runs in 1980 because of the Three's a Crowd and Newlywed controversies, likely because stations were fearful of community and advertiser retribution on account of Barris ' reputation.

After a week-long trial of The Newlywed Game on ABC in 1984 ( with Dating Game emcee Jim Lange ), Barris produced the daily Newlywed Game ( titled The New Newlywed Game ) in syndication from 1985 to 1989, with original host Eubanks ( and in 1988, comedian Paul Rodriguez ).

After the shows ' runs ended, Sony Corporation acquired Guber-Peters Entertainment ( formerly Barris Industries ) for $ 200 million on September 29, 1989, a day after Sony Corporation of Japan acquired Columbia Pictures Entertainment.

In a 2010 interview on NBC's The Today Show, Barris said he disagreed with the " tough love " philosophy of dealing with addicted children, and that he regretted having allowed Della to leave home at age 16.

Barris composed music and released them on the following 45 rpm records.

Songs with an asterisk (*) are songs not composed by Barris, yet featured on the recordings:

Barris also composed the following songs ( with performer, who performed the music first, listed on each ).

* Chuck Barris page on MySpace

Sony then hired two producers, Peter Guber and Jon Peters, to serve as co-heads of production when Sony also acquired Guber-Peters Entertainment ( the former game show production company, Barris Industries ) for $ 200 million on September 29, 1989.

Outside of " She Loves You ", Swan's most remembered hit was Palisades Park in 1962, written by Chuck Barris, and performed by the most successful artist on the label, Freddy Cannon, who also scored hits with " Tallahassee Lassie " and " Way Down Yonder In New Orleans " before moving to Warner Brothers in 1964.

:" Dean Jeffries, who had a paint shop next to Barris did the customizing work which consisted of: painting ' 130 ' in black non-permanent paint on the front hood, doors and rear deck lid.

One unused but operational concept car that languished for years in the North Hollywood, California shop of car customizer George Barris, Ford Motor Company's " Lincoln Futura " from 1954, received a new lease on life as the Batmobile in the Batman series that debuted in 1966 on the ABC Television Network.

The song was written by Chuck Barris for singer Eddie Rambeau, who performed and released the song on a Swan label 45 rpm SP record.

Barris serves on the Northwestern University Board of Trustees, the Dartmouth Tuck School Board of Overseers.