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Chuck Barris as host of âThe Gong Show,â which he created. It became a phenomenon after its 1976 debut. Credit NBC, via Everett Collection.
A gong (Chinese: é¼; pinyin: luo; LuÃ³ indonesian Or: javanese; Gong: malay) gong is An, African east And South East asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a, flat circular metal disc which is hit with a. malletn television, a gong was the titular feature on The Gong Show, a television variety show / game show spoof broadcast in the United States in three iterations (1976â80, 1988â89, 2008). If the celebrity judges found an act to be particularly bad, they could force it to leave the stage by hitting the gong.