Dave Attell plans to get it on, bang a gong

The Gong Show is back. Game show maverick Chuck Barris created and hosted the original, in which “regular folks” displayed their talents while D-list celebrity judges decided whether to bang an outsized gong and end the often (intentionally) wretched performances. It became an all-too-brief pop-culture phenom — and in many ways embodied everything that was wonderful and tacky about the Jimmy Carter/Disco era. Barris, perhaps the loopiest and most subversive M.C. in the history of the medium, frequently had to deny that he hosted the show while drunk or high.