Patricia Douglas for President!

Or at least Ministress of Good Times.

ps my head hurts

pictures?

Yeah it was fucking awesome.

You need to do it every month.

patricia douglas is my hero.

caroline dodge deserves mad props (as the kids never say anymore). she did a tremendous job wrangling contestants, organizing the event, and making sure that we judges were suitably wasted.

and, schmader killed it. truly, the host with the most.

Fnarf is a real person?

Joe @ 5: Yes. And he has very limber nostrils.

Patricia Douglas was fucking HOT. She was a bomb going off. I have aspired to that dance my entire life, but I never saw it achieved until last night.

Joe, what exactly do you mean by "real"?

That was a complete and total blast!!! It was everything I expected and much much more!! I don't know if I could wait if it was annual, but I will definitely be there the next time you have one. Please post video so that I can relive the awesomeness!!!

My personal favorites were the Easter Bunny, the chicken-themed act, and of course the cute-as-pie-unashamed-but-still-a-little-shy, Patricia Douglas. Yay for David Schmader! Yay for the judges! Boo for unjust gongings! Perhaps as was mentioned for the next gong show, less emphasis on drinking as the primary role for the judges ;)

patricia forever. hugging her and buying her an amaretto on the rocks str probably the best things i've ever done in this life.

Fnarf, nice suit. One can only surmise that your act was part and parcel of ruining many a competitor's liver/next day ala drinking game.

though waiting for some of the "talented contestants" to be GONGed was often painful, it was more than redeemed by the opportunity to shout loudly, marvel at Fnarf's dapper suit and expansive nostrils, and to stand in awe of Patricia Douglas's transcendental dance moves.

I went to bed last night, though, still disappointed and upset that we never got to see the end of the weird bird lady in yellow lycra tights finish her act. Something about her dance (albeit totally perverse and bizarre) appealed to me on the deepest of levels. I was completely captivated (and repulsed) by her. But in a good way. Wow. She was incredible.

Loved the show, loved the whole thing. I thought the Easter Bunny got robbed big time, but that's okay.

I also liked the weird jug band in all their Amish glory suddenly break out in the "Milkshake" song, which of course, totally saved their act in the best way.

I think either yearly or quarterly is a good idea.

Do it again please! It was super dooper fun! Patricia was fabulous! The jug band sucked until they broke out into the Milkshake song (can you imagine if they also rocked, My Humps?!) My favorite was the Lizard Queens (MOTHER!) and I was sort of partial to the dude in the purple disco cowboy hat.



Do it again please!

Fnarf put coins in his nose. Wow. Did he light his farts? No question, this sets the Stranger apart from the Weekly.

Because I like to share, he's a link to a video of the tricicle/tightrope/kazoo/balloon animal/cymbols guy. I did not get him deep throating the balloon though.

Paste this into quicktime:

http://easylink.ovsmedia.com/onlinevideoservice/hickeyface/CIMG3480.MOV

You can thank me later.

#17 - I got video of the deep throat! I'm editing as fast as I can.... coming soon, I swear

@ Kelly O:

"I got video of the deep throat! I'm editing as fast as I can.... coming soon, I swear"

That's your new MySpace headline, yah? Yah.

Yes, Fnarf is real, and not only is he a fucking know-it-all, he's also disgusting.

please, powers that be, make this happen monthly. charge a few bucks if that's what it'll take. i've been looking for a good new place to scream obscenities in public. department stores and churches lose their luster after a while.

"Fnarf put coins in his nose. Wow. Did he light his farts? No question, this sets the Stranger apart from the Weekly."

The Weekly has frat boys, the Stranger has geeks.

1) Agreed on the general enthusiasm I've encountered today on this becoming a regular event. Until we run out of talented/talentless neighbors willing to get up there and entertain us drunks, we deserve the gong for not parlaying any momentum from last night's gong show into the coolest night of the month for the rest of '07.

2) Am I alone in my "Why the balls didn't the Easter Bunny win" outrage? All due respect to the winners, they were tits, too, but EB had the entire place in stitches from beginning to end.

3) I took Fnarf's picture and confirm his existence.

Re: the robbing of the Easter Bunny: It's hard to believe, but a certain judge who runs a certain performance center which won a certain alternative newsweekly's genius award this year gave the amazing bunny a mere 5 points.

This judge also cut short the lady chicken act, who I hereby invite back to the next Gong Show, whenever it may be. I NEED to see how that act ends...

Schmader: I'm so with you. Chicken Lady segued from Chinese opera into burlesque into comdey into non-shitty performance art into sci-fi into: ? WE'LL NEVER FUCKING KNOW.

She is on the cover of next week's Stranger, isn't she?

Yah - the sunglasses at night were good, and surly is always funny, but that guy was drinking the haterade! Next time you get the judges drunk, before the show, don't do it with Mad Dog 2020. That shit always makes me an angry drunk, too.

Is Fnarf toothless? That would explain a lot.

I have teeth but they are short and dark. And my lips are long and curl over them like blankets.

Highlights of the night for me:

watching my super shy, mouse-like friend squeeze her eyes shut, clench her fists and roar out profanities to strangers.

quizzing bucketloads of folks if they knew who originally started the gong show. (only two strangers knew.)

hearing someone shout out at the chicken-bloody-tampon performance act to go back to cornish.

and someone looking over at me to declare that i looked really familiar and then ask if we were related. heh.

#29- I really regret heckling chicken girl! She turned from terrible to amazing (although I thought my heckle was clever indeed).

So there I was, on stage, having a great time singing a nice scottish song. All the while I can hear some incessant noise from the judges listening to themselves talk while I'm singing. Whatever, I do the hopvine open mic alot, but those jerks don't have mics. So I'm winding through and get the gong ON THE LAST F@$#ING LINE OF THE SONG!

I felt good blinding the judges/audience/etc with my pale white ass. I told David S. that was gonna happen if they gonged me, and he agreed that it was the right choice.

I didn't feel bitter much then until a bunch of "less impressive" acts lasted just as long and didn't get the gong.

It's funny, I was defending the judges to my friends all day, saying they were kinda seattle celebs. My opinion has now changed and I will sum the experience up like this:

I was robbed you F#$^ing hacks! Most of the audience agreed with me on that point. So kiss my lemony-fresh red haired celtic ass!

Great event tho, see you next time!

#31, i liked your song and tried to fight off the gonger. i also totally agree that chicken lady was unjustly gonged (lane!) and the easter bunny deserved the 10 i gave him, and more.

bunny was robbed, for sure.

P.S. In case you haven’t already heard, Fnarf wore a suit and put quarters up his nose. It was entrancing.

fwiw: everything by or about fnarf or his nose is entrancing!?!

so say we fnarf acolytes, devotee's and faithful spawn!!