The Gong Show

For my favorite judge, it's a tie between JP Morgan and Rip Taylor. Do you have a favorite?

Gene Gene the Dancing Machine
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• Jaye P. by far. "No one follows the fox, asshole. So fuck off!"

• Did they ever reveal who the Masked Comic was?

• I liked Gene Gene the Dancing Machine. God I miss that show. Was Chuck Barris ever NOT stoned?

  Anonymous

• I've never watched an episode of "American Idol" but never missed "The Gong Show." Yes, I'm old.

  Della

• Jaye once took one of the little score cards and propped it up in front of her mike. NBC didn't understand it or missed it. On it, she had written: I SWALLOW

• Can anybody identify the tall, thin judge? I recognize JP and Artie Johnson, but is that David Letterman?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACpNVD5GMUw

  Della

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• I like you, Della. You have spunk!

• Thanks, r9, back at 'ya. Anybody know who that other judge is on the video I posted at r7? I now don't think that's a young Letterman. He looks familiar but I can't tell who he is.

  Della

• David Letterman's IMDb page shows he was a judge on The Gong Show in 1976, so that may well be him.

• [quote]Jaye once took one of the little score cards and propped it up in front of her mike. NBC didn't understand it or missed it. On it, she had written: [quote]I SWALLOW I remember seeing her card blurred out one day and always wondered what she had written. Maybe this was the same incident, censored for later broadcast.

• Thanks r11.

  Della

• To R3: The Unknown Comic was Murray Langston, an LA-based comedian and writer who worked on shows like the Dating Game, Sonny and Cher and the Hudson Brothers Comedy Show

  http://lacomedyawards.blogspot.com/2011/02/la-comedy-awards-mega-star-recipient.html

  Mia