Eldergays, please explain

Lol please elder gays i also want to know

Please help us eldergays!

It looks like an SNL skit

Here. I found a video that shows up so the eldergays won't have to click a link. Not the same clip I posted in my op, but similar.

Fuck you, babygays, figure it out for your own damn selves...

Now, get off my lawn before I call the cops 😠

We're not necessarily baby gays, R5, just too young to remember the show and what the fuck is going on.

Hahah babygays. The coke was definitely doing it’s job

The ultimate episode was where each and every contestant sang "Feelings". Also sung by the great Lindsay Wagner in one of the Bionic Woman episodes. The winner was the gal who sang it in pig Latin.

Here's the clip from OP.

This is WILD!! lmfao

Well it was better than Mr Rogers Neighborhood

Coked up Pee Wee Herman and Jambi the Genie:

Gong show was truly surreal (and I hate that word). I wrote music for it a thousand years back. Chuckle was a freak. And before you ask “what music?” I gotta tell you my agent kept me employed and the pay was great.

Better than the musak shit recorded I used to hear 10 years hence- usually in an elevator. I avoided cringing by calculating the amount of the check I received monthly. Love you, ASCAP.

Those were weird times on the Gong crew. . I never once realized they were all high on coke. I never tried it and I’m convinced it would have been my downfall. Naïve idiot, I am.

^ Sounds like an interesting aspect to your life. Unless you've done coke it's hard to differentiate from just someone who is high energy and wound a little too tight

Never got into the Gong Show, it was just too cringy for me

That old lady puppet in R11's clip gave me flashbacks! I vaguely remember that freaky thing.

Tia WHO??

Tia is Spanish for Aunt. Esplained.

Yes, I knew this was the Gong Show the second it came on. I watched this show with my parents every single week. They loved JP Morgan! This is what I thought all heterosexual people were like. And that all black people shucked and jived. I was a lonely little gayling.

[quote]Eldergays, please explain

Let me get my glasses.

That isn't coke, it is burlesque, vaudeville, and the Borscht Belt. People who learned their craft at that time were of the "bigger, louder, faster, funnier" school of theater. None of that Actor's Studio/ university MFA crap.

It was the Jerry Springer of game shows.

In case any of you didn't know the format, it was like a talent show of the worst acts possible. I was really like 'America's Greatest No-Talent". The panel would usually gong everyone. The Unknown Comic got national attention and did Vegas.

R21 - It was really a precursor to amateur talent shows all over TV now. It should have been called "America's Got No Taste"

Barnaby from the film Hello Dolly made an appearance and was killed later the same day. It wasn't over his appearance.

If I remember, Gene was a stagehand who used to dance around when he did his job. Chuck Barris (the coked out host in the video) named him Gene Gene The Dancing Machine and put him on the air.

Match Game '7x was liquor. The Gong Show was coke.

And Hollywood Squares was Quaaludes

^^ And Geritol.

[quote]And Hollywood Squares was Quaaludes.

Oh honey, you've obviously never taken a Quaalude.

Like Match Game, Squares was also alcohol.

Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, THAT was quaaludes.

We'll explain The Gong Show after you explain iCarly.

[quote]r17 I watched this show with my parents every single week. They loved JP Morgan!

Wasn’t she finally fired for pulling her shirt open and flashing the audience?

I’m not saying Coke was involved… but you don’t see that in the workplace every day.

[quote] Oh honey, you've obviously never taken a Quaalude.

That's true. I under 60.