The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest…

I received a lot of complaints from parents who wrote and told me that their kids wouldn't go to sleep until our show was…

— Milton Berle

The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues…

— Chuck Barris

There were days when you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald. Video was out, but nobody could afford it...expect…

— William Monahan

We know Uncle George directly, so he gives us music to sample, all we gotta do is tell him directly and we can use…

— Redman

“The Hitler War was my grandfather’s war; my father’s war – his and Uncle George’s – was Korea, which may have been just as…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

“It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.”

— P. G. Wodehouse

You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George…

— Charles Dickens

“The medicine-man, having given him the once-over, had ordered him to abstain from all alcoholic liquids, and in addition to tool down the hill…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Uncle George was William's godfather, and he was intensely interested in William's upbringing. It was an interest with which William would gladly have dispensed.…

— Richmal Crompton

“And more assumptions: A married couple was returning from the funeral of Uncle George, who had lived with them for twenty years and had…

— Anthony de Mello

God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong, which rings…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your…

— Criss Jami

On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs…

— Sun Tzu

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

— Christopher Morley

We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and…

— Hugh Sidey