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Old 07-17-08 | 11:41 AM
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The Gong Show with Dave Attell--7/17/08

Not sure it would have been at the top of my list to redo, but I like Dave Attell, and he seems pretty well suited for this, plus it looks like a lot of 'insult' comics are the judges.

Preview at www.comedycentral.com looks pretty funny as well..

And here are the judges!

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/g...es/index.jhtml

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Old 07-17-08 | 03:09 PM
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Yeah Dave Attell is pretty talented. The promos look hilarious.
Old 07-18-08 | 07:32 AM
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog?
No further info needed, I'm there.

Well if it was on last night, I'm sure it will be repeated.

Refreshing to see a game show without a possible ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!
Old 07-18-08 | 07:55 AM
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Andy Dick you say?
Old 07-18-08 | 07:59 AM
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I think Dave Attell is funny, but last night's episode was pretty bad.

The old "Gong Show" wasn't exactly striving for quality, though, so maybe this new version actually succeeded.
Old 07-18-08 | 08:28 AM
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@ Andy's Dick when he tried to use it to give the one act a score of "1"
Old 07-18-08 | 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by DJLinus
I think Dave Attell is funny, but last night's episode was pretty bad.

The old "Gong Show" wasn't exactly striving for quality, though, so maybe this new version actually succeeded.
Yeah..the previews of coming episodes actually looked better, don't know why they led with this one, maybe it was because Andy Dick just got arrested again? And does anyone else think that Dave Navarro looks like Michael Jackson???

Maybe Attell should go back to do more Insomniacs...
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God do I love Insomniac. Ive played out my dvds so much.
Old 07-20-08 | 09:25 PM
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Maybe Attell should go back to do more Insomniacs...
Yea. There's plenty of cities to go to. But I wonder if they targeted certain cities that are considered 'less prudent'. I always kind of wondered if they had trouble getting authorization from some places. All it takes is to say one wrong thing to one wrong person. There's got to be a lot of liability issues there.

The Gong Show was alright. I hope it gets at least a couple seasons. Comedy Central seems to just toss stuff out if they don't like it right away.
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Yea. There's plenty of cities to go to. But I wonder if they targeted certain cities that are considered 'less prudent'. I always kind of wondered if they had trouble getting authorization from some places. All it takes is to say one wrong thing to one wrong person. There's got to be a lot of liability issues there.

The Gong Show was alright. I hope it gets at least a couple seasons. Comedy Central seems to just toss stuff out if they don't like it right away.

i vaguely remember him saying in an interview on o&a that the problem was as the show got popular there were too many people who were starting to play up to the camera..
Old 07-21-08 | 08:29 AM
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i vaguely remember him saying in an interview on o&a that the problem was as the show got popular there were too many people who were starting to play up to the camera..
It'd be fun if he visited more foreign cities to avoid that problem.
Old 08-01-08 | 09:15 PM
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I admit that I laughed a lot at the episode with Triumph, mainly because of Triumph.

And the Queen La Queefa act.... wow, I mean wow:

http://jezebel.com/5023055/the-gong-...ng-is-a-talent


(And rumors of Hervé Villechaize's death are apparently greatly exaggerated -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_Villechaize - that is really him, right?)
Old 08-04-08 | 07:24 PM
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Did Hervé Villechaize fake his own death like Elvis or something?

The Gong Show episode says it was him and it definitely looked like him. But there's all these old news items on his "suicide" in 1993 on the Internet.
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I think Dave Attell is great but this show isn't doing it for me. I gave it another try because Jim Norton was a judge, but I thought it was still really weak. The original show was cheesy, but interesting. This version seems like they are trying too hard.
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Dave Attell was the main draw for me for this show, I'm a big fan of him and his crew. I think this is the only talent show that I'll watch on TV these days, everything is lame compared to it. They need more acts like the beatboxing guy with manboobs.


And more Triumph, though I do look forward to JB Smooth.

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