I’ll let my bias be known right off the bat, I’m a Dave Attell fan. I had high hopes for this new reincarnation of the famed “Gong Show.” While I had high hopes, I also feared it would have really weird acts and would fail. I was pleasantly surprised.

The show reminds me of Oddville, a show on MTV in the 90’s, which had odd acts perform their weirdness. It turned out to be a pretty good episode. The show has three judges, in the premieres case, JB Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm & ‘Till Death), Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction), and Andy Dick (A lot of crap).

The first act was a metal-ish punk-ish band, with a lead singer that looked like a anorexic Iggy Pop. They got gonged, and Andy Dick made a gay joke. The second act was a “magician” that had a rather bloody act. Everyone seemed to like it.

The acts continued, some weird, some strange, but at least mostly all of them were original. The judges were OK. JB Smoove was making horrible jokes throughout, and did not say one thing that was funny. Dave Navarro was his usually hippy, rock, laid back self. Andy Dick was ridiculous as always. It was pretty funny. He even tripped Dave Attell up with his outrageousness at one point. (It was kind of like Dick-in-a-box, but more like Dick-in-a-score-card)

The downside is Dave Attell doesn’t get much time to tell jokes. He was hilarious though with his comments to the judges and jokes about the acts. I just wish he had more time. Overall, it was an entertaining show. I seriously expected to be disappointed (Due to the acts & judges, not Dave Attell.) Those are the obvious variables however. If they can get decent judges, and decent acts, they have a decent shot.