Chuck Barris, game-show producer and occasional murderer, realized like P.T. Barnum before him and reality shows after that there was money to be made off the marginal, even the freakish. But I doubt Barris could have predicted that the sideshow tent would be relocated to the center ring.
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Did Chuck Barris, that master of the inside, absurdist joke, understand the greatness of Oingo Boingo when the group appeared on the Gong Show in 1976? One would think. Comedian Buddy Hackett, clearly unable to process what just happened, quickly reverts to default mode, making a crude joke about purchasing a prostitute for a sexually inexperienced teenager. Directly after the show, Barris decamped to Nicaragua where he murdered several spies. One of the greatest things in the history of things.
How many prostitutes will you require, Mr. Hackett?
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