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Charles Hirsch "Chuck" Barris (born June 3, 1929) is an American game show creator, producer, and host. He is best known for hosting ''The Gong Show'' and creating ''The Dating Game'' and ''The Newlywed Game''. He is also a songwriter, who wrote the hit "Palisades Park" for Freddy Cannon and the author of ''Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'', his autobiography, which became a film directed by George Clooney. ==Early career== Barris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Drexel Institute of Technology where he was a columnist for the student newspaper, ''The Triangle''. He graduated in 1953. Barris got his start in television as a page and later staffer at NBC in New York City, and eventually worked backstage at the TV music show ''American Bandstand'' (then filmed in Philadelphia), originally as a standards-and-practices person for ABC. Barris soon became a music industry figure. He produced pop music on records and TV, but his most successful venture was writing "Palisades Park". Recorded by Freddy Cannon, it peaked at No. 3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for two weeks (June 23-30, 1962), the biggest hit of Cannon's career.〔(Palisades Park – Mr. Freddy "BOOM BOOM" Cannon ), Epinions.com. Accessed October 28, 2008.〕 Barris also wrote or co-wrote some of the music that appeared on his game shows. Barris was promoted to the daytime programming division at ABC in Los Angeles and was put in charge of deciding which game shows ABC would air. Barris told his bosses that the producer/packagers' pitches of game show concepts were worse than Barris' own ideas. They suggested that he quit his ABC programming job and become a producer. Barris formed his production company Chuck Barris Productions on June 14, 1965. Barris first became successful during 1965 with his first game show creation, ''The Dating Game'', on ABC. On this show, which was hosted by Jim Lange, three bachelors or bachelorettes competed for the favor of a contestant of the opposite sex blocked from their view. The contestants' sexy banter and its "flower power"-motif studio set were a revolution for the game show genre. The show would air for eleven of the next fifteen years and be revived twice in the 1980s and 1990s. The next year Barris began ''The Newlywed Game'', originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir, also for ABC. The combination of the newlywed couples' humorous candor and host Bob Eubanks's sly questioning made the show another hit for Barris. The show is the longest lasting of any developed by his company, running for a total of 19 full years on "first run" TV, network and syndicated. Game Show Network airs a current version with Sherri Shepherd. 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." Barris created several other short-lived game shows for ABC in the 1960s and for syndication in the 1970s, all of which revolved around a common theme: the game play normally derived its interest (and often, humor) from the excitement, vulnerability, embarrassment, or anger of the contestants or participants in the game. Barris also made several attempts through the years at non-game formats, such as ABC's ''Operation: Entertainment'', a variety show staged at military bases akin to USO shows; a CBS revival of ''Your Hit Parade;'' and ''The Bobby Vinton Show,'' a Canadian-based syndicated variety show for singer Bobby Vinton (produced in conjunction with Chris Bearde and Allan Blye). The last was his most successful program other than a game show. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chuck Barris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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