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Despite Chuck Barris and NBC constantly clashing over the content of The Gong Show, the network was desperate for any prime-time hit in the late 1970s. Therefore, in early 1978, the zany Barris was permitted to create and host The Chuck Barris Rah-Rah Show--an hour-long variety program that featured guest appearances by celebrities and encore performances by some of the more memorable oddball acts from The Gong Show. Few people saw it as it was scheduled on Tuesdays from 8 to 9 p.m--directly against the two most popular TV shows in America at the time: Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. It was cancelled in April after eight episodes had aired. Noel Holsten, the Orlando Sentinel-Star's TV critic, wrote, "[Barris] reeled around the stage as though he'd been gobbling hallucinogenic mushrooms and looking somewhat like a subterranean fungus." Barris accepted Holsten's bad review with cheerfulness: He read it during an episode of The Gong Show. (The Gong Show was booted off NBC in June.) Here's a brief promo for the February 28 premiere episode of the Rah-Rah Show.
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I enjoyed The Gong Show as much as anyone--but I wasn't about to miss Happy Days or Laverne and Shirley in 1978, so I never tuned in.
However, had I known the viking guy with the rubber snake was going to do an encore on the Rah-Rah Show, I would have tuned in just to see him. He had the funniest act I ever saw on The Gong Show. (Sadly, I've never been able to find a clip of him doing his stuff.) It looks like comic juggler Hillary Carlip and candle musician Dr Flame-O were on that premiere show too!
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