Chuck Barris Asks 'Who Killed Art Deco?' In New Book

Game show producer and host Chuck Barris stopped by the studio to talk about his new novel Who Killed Art Deco?.

Who Killed Art Deco? is a "three-in-one literary satire, lampooning simultaneously the murder mystery, the private-eye novel, and the family drama. Outrageous, yes, but readers would expect nothing less from the man whose memoir claimed he was a CIA assassin and whose previous novel posited a ruthless (yet oddly plausible) game show. The wealthy murdered man, Arthur Deco, Jr.; the prime suspect, Art’s spurned gay lover; and the private eye, Jimmy Netts, are drawn with broad strokes, like characters in one of Woody Allen’s New Yorker essays, and they are all very funny," according to Booklist.

A Pennsylvania native, Barris was the first host of The Gong Show during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The show went off air in 1989, but was revived in 2008 with host Dave Attell. Among the TV game shows he created, the most famous are The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game

Who Killed Art Deco? is avaiable in stores now.