Cast
- Sam Rockwell as Chuck Barris, a successful game show host and producer who lives a double life as a CIA assassin
- Drew Barrymore as Penny Pacino; she first meets Chuck in the 1960s and remains his girlfriend for years
- George Clooney as Jim Byrd, a CIA agent who recruits Chuck
- Julia Roberts as Patricia Watson, a gorgeous and seductive agent
- Rutger Hauer as Keeler, a German-American spy and World War II veteran who befriends Chuck
- Jerry Weintraub as Larry Goldberg, the President of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
- Robert John Burke as Instructor Jenks, an eccentric FCC instructor
- Michael Ensign as Simon Oliver, a British CIA supervisor who is the first of Patricia's murders
- Maggie Gyllenhaal as Debbie, a stagehand who works with Barris on the set for American Bandstand, and who eventually sleeps with him
- Michael Cera as young Chuck Barris
- Rachelle Lefevre as Tuvia
- Kristen Wilson as Loretta
- Daniel Zacapa as Renda
- Emilio Rivera as Benitez
- Carlos Carrasco as Brazioni
- Richard Kind as Casting executive
- Brad Pitt and Matt Damon (cameos) as The Dating Game bachelors, Brad and Matt
- Akiva Goldsman (uncredited) as Playboy party guest
Barris, Dick Clark, Jim Lange, Murray Langston (The Unknown Comic), Jaye P. Morgan, and Gene Patton (Gene Gene the Dancing Machine) are featured in the film through interviews central to the storyline through self-referencing events.
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