Charles Pierce was probably best known for his Bette Davis impersonation.
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@scotthix22978 ай бұрын
I worked with Charles back in the day. Wonderful man and mentor. The first time I tried to do my makeup I asked him what he thought…he quipped, “It’s fine , darling, next time try doing it with your eyes open.” Bette saw a few minutes of his show and said “He gets me.”
@withonelook19852 жыл бұрын
The thing about a Bette Davis impression is that it doesn't matter what your voice sounds like (as in a Liza or Streisand) but its the timing and inflection. Charles has it is spades.
@brandonoconnor1079 Жыл бұрын
My husband is a drag queen and it’s truly an art form. His drag persona is a mixture of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis.
@anastasiabeaverhausen82207 жыл бұрын
Such a genius. Tears of laughter and incontinence. Hysterical.
@charlotteferren1192 Жыл бұрын
She's so GREAT!!!😀🙂❤❣
@SymphonyBrahms4 жыл бұрын
"But 'cha are, Blanche! But 'cha are!"
@Head-or-Dead5 жыл бұрын
Charles is excellent - even Bette Davis herself liked him. She called him "supremely talented."
@michaelbiagi88753 жыл бұрын
Actually I dont think Bette ever gave that comment about Charles Pierce. Can you quote your source?
@geminidreamatl263 жыл бұрын
Bette actually said she didnt think he did her right. Was she Helen Keller??
@nickmorrell35592 жыл бұрын
I thought she hated impressions of her ...supremely talented but no sense of humour ...especially about herself .
@threedeemelodies Жыл бұрын
@@nickmorrell3559 she considered impressions a sign of having “made it”
@rodrigoca32883 жыл бұрын
I'll never forget my films and I will never let you forget my films
@michaelbiagi88755 жыл бұрын
Charles truly was a 'genius'...and, the man who could make me laugh harder, and longer, than any other comedian I had the pleasure to work with. I learned more from this man about 'timing', and, how to provide an accompaniment that would help him "ride the waves of laughter' he could generate. I miss him --every day.
@billpar3 жыл бұрын
ive watched this 20 times and never get tired of it and you are an amazing pianist Michael
@PlatinumRoseLady4 жыл бұрын
What an INCREDIBLE performance! Such a talent!
@TIMCATPRODUCTIONS5 жыл бұрын
We've watched this full show a million times!!...Hysterical!!...Such a talent!
@bonniefox20274 жыл бұрын
Hey! Saw Charles in SF. FANTASTIC!! He did Bette and Joan. Superb!!! Especially since BD IS my favorite actress. With Joan: she was my morbid curiosity. She was excellent in Mildred Pierce. Best to everyone...and STAY SAFE!
@bobanderson30096 жыл бұрын
Simply the best!
@JorgeAl3 жыл бұрын
So amazing! So great! I saw the video without knowing him, before two nights in my tab and now I watch it every night! So hilarious and so great impersonating ...Bette and Mae West impersonations are amazing! 👏👏👏
@Vejur900010 ай бұрын
There will never be another Charles Pierce. His performance here, is commanding as an actor. He was just that great as an actor, and just that funny. His vocal outbursts as Betty, are comic genuis.
@tomgabbutt3066 Жыл бұрын
.....LIT! Genius timing. I've never seen this performer before, but he's amazing :)
@goldenboi7783 жыл бұрын
He was a DIVA
@Brentstarga3 жыл бұрын
This is absolute PERFECTION!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@piustwelfth10 ай бұрын
His Bette Davis is uncanny. The best ever.
@nickmorrell35592 жыл бұрын
Doesn't sound like Bette. But has her mannerisms ..I love the dead ringer fringe
@Shylah08Ай бұрын
I thought the hair looked more like Bette's in a stolen life haha
@thierrydevant76903 жыл бұрын
Fabulous
@Dan-tk5zs7 жыл бұрын
What-are-you-talking-about??? Fantastic...
@linchen0082 жыл бұрын
"The one female impersonater was a woooomaaan!!" I totally lost it 😂😂🤣.
@felixlizarraga10332 жыл бұрын
"Debbie Reynolds!"
@craigbonney14117 жыл бұрын
GENIUS!!!!
@nicholas_flannery3 ай бұрын
"Ive never been... so relaxed" FLOOOORED
@robertturner4022 жыл бұрын
I love Bette Davis, 😍😍 and this guy is So Awesome and Amazing!!! I love this.
@themaxcollectiveАй бұрын
SO well-written
@kyletpreston4421 Жыл бұрын
I loved his impersonation of Bette Davis !!!
@1marywells Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing Charles Pierce in San Francisco....at the Gilded Cage...sometime in the late 60's....I was only 17.....was very impressed with his wit n talent.....R.I.P....Charles..
@dwightpowell66737 ай бұрын
You an ole'Queen like Charles was huh?
@1remnantz4 ай бұрын
I saw him there also..forgot the name of the location..you brought that all back...I remember him on a red velvet swing over the crowd.. To a rather straight seeming woman in the audience.."Is your husband gay? She was affronted "GAY!" "YES. You know. Happy, Carefree" I still remember that from many years ago. A time when people didn't toss that word about .
@eddieharrison38015 ай бұрын
OMG I love Charles as B.D and J. C
@eddievaldes97732 жыл бұрын
So freaking brilliant! Classic!
@markharris91022 жыл бұрын
OK, the bird/toilet paper story was one of the funniest I'v heard in awhile. lol
@joeg2964 Жыл бұрын
I can’t stop laughing.
@ev48752 жыл бұрын
So fucking fabulous
@KellyCannon-gk5nx3 ай бұрын
I'll truly never make fun of or belittle great actresses like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, either one of them being deceased, or anyone whom once was in this world being deceased. Seriously, oh yeah. I also hope Bette Davis and Joan Crawford friends forever again in Heaven. But I have to admit Charles Pierce's impression of Bette Davis commenting about Joan Crawford's death in this video's hilarious. "Joan Crawford. Dead you know. And she'll never let us forget it." Lol. He sounds exactly like Bette Davis. It's a riot.
@MensAsses333 жыл бұрын
Made me laugh, thank you
@RT-vw6yw2 жыл бұрын
Saw him for the first time in a Designing Women episode!
@markanthonyfuentes40525 жыл бұрын
First female Impersonator to book Dorothy Chandler Pavillion and sold out shows. Real Bette Davis once of Charles Peirce 'Supremely Talented'
@The-Battle-Brother5 жыл бұрын
Mark Anthony Fuentes Did Davis really see this show? Link to any information about her reaction??
@markanthonyfuentes40525 жыл бұрын
@@The-Battle-Brother I remember reading it in a book. I remember because it was the first time I had heard someone being referred to as 'supremely talented'.
@The-Battle-Brother5 жыл бұрын
@@markanthonyfuentes4052 OK, thanks. That's good to know. I've wondered what Davis would have thought of this performance. Pierce is very good.
@nickmorrell35592 жыл бұрын
And for that alone he should be remembered as a drag trailblazer ...
@dwightpowell66737 ай бұрын
@@nickmorrell3559RuPaul is the real trailblazer of Drag.
@franktorres27185 ай бұрын
AMAZING 👑
@geminidreamatl26 Жыл бұрын
whats sad is Bette herself didnt like Charles impersonation of her! WTF????
@dennismichael58912 жыл бұрын
Wow....Excellent
@ryanbrailey-tucker49352 жыл бұрын
His BEST impersination!
@larryransbottom9782 Жыл бұрын
Got to see him in New York Great Talent
@stevendaniel8126 Жыл бұрын
Magnificent !!!!
@shon74253 жыл бұрын
Betty Davis. But I love the Mae West
@peterward3965 Жыл бұрын
Bloody brilliant , that's entertainment
@jamescarr36589 ай бұрын
Perfect
@italopellegrino61222 жыл бұрын
Good performance
@dana31335 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@TheBumlord Жыл бұрын
"Would you like some eggs" - oeuf!
@giamariewoods3 жыл бұрын
3:13
@heru-deshet3592 жыл бұрын
Always thought Bette Davis was a dude. This guy is amazing!
@ev48752 жыл бұрын
Can someone explain the Hindu reference?
@johnthompson9323 жыл бұрын
Love you baby
@ev48752 жыл бұрын
So good. Anyone know what the reference to RELY meant? Long ago
@Blue_Lunacy2 жыл бұрын
I am told that it's female sanitary product.
@michg89692 жыл бұрын
"Raleigh" the brand of cigarettes.
@felixlizarraga10332 жыл бұрын
It was a brand of tampons. It hasn't been made in a long time, so nowadays it's kind of an obscure reference. I had to look it up myself.
@orawal4 ай бұрын
5:34 the hindu avon lady wud tinkle on ur lawn... Someone explain that joke plz
@JoseighBlogs2 ай бұрын
'Tinkle' like 'ring' is another onomatopoeia doorbell sound. 'Buzz' is another one. But, also 'tinkle' means having a piss or pissing (tinkle on the lawn = having a pee on the lawn).
@ndog20053 жыл бұрын
KZbin, Horrible, with it's constant 'loading';
@JorgeAl3 жыл бұрын
The music in the beginning is from what movie?
@CliffnDonChappellDuncan3 жыл бұрын
Now, Voyager
@JorgeAl3 жыл бұрын
Cliff-n-Don Chappell-Duncan thanx! I ve seen this movie many years ago...
@karolinesmail4892 жыл бұрын
Now voyager it was also used in the joan Crawford movie Mildred Pierce the great MAX STEINER
@JorgeAl2 жыл бұрын
Karoline Smail thank you!
@nickmorrell35592 жыл бұрын
It's always now voyager ..
@lotharwaltner40584 ай бұрын
👏👏👏👏🤣🤣
@trilby5546 Жыл бұрын
Could he play in Tennessee?⭐️👍
@dwightpowell66737 ай бұрын
He's dead ole' girl...he won't be playing anywhere....he didn't do anything during the height of the AIDS crisis...no benefit performances.
@eddievaldes97732 жыл бұрын
I still don’t get the Hindu Avon lady bit. Can someone give me a thorough run down?
@eduardmccarthy9623 Жыл бұрын
6:06
@jacknorman6637 жыл бұрын
Pure genius. Too bad he weren't still look icing. He would have been brilliant in Feud. At least he has the pelvic slouch down. Surandon was incapable of imitating Bette's physicalit.
@tudorhistoryguy Жыл бұрын
Can anybody explain the Rely joke at 4:16?
@pravingurung9316 Жыл бұрын
She says earlier she relies on the kindness of strangers when she is handed the cigarette. Rely is supposed to sound like- real lie. The joke is supposed to be the fact that the guy who gave her the cigarette is obviously part of the act… and he is not a stranger. So it is a lie, a real lie.
@franklinajohnson Жыл бұрын
The line is from "A Streetcar Named Desire"
@tudorhistoryguy Жыл бұрын
@@pravingurung9316 ok thanks. I knew about the Streetcar line but I was so lost on the rest of it 😂
@en1909s9iahАй бұрын
Raleigh was also a brand of cigarettes
@robertchalker221110 ай бұрын
Hahaha
@SRX20046 ай бұрын
Laughing my ass off.
@Garkenrat11 ай бұрын
Omg that Shelley Winters joke made me pee! All the fat jokes about her though, was she ever really THAT big?
@Ephemeral20233 ай бұрын
On Roseanne show
@LazlosPlane3 жыл бұрын
A tad over the top, no? Even for homosexuals?
@kongandgooshow3 жыл бұрын
What does "even for homosexuals" mean? Sounds like a bigoted homophobic statement.
@CliffnDonChappellDuncan3 жыл бұрын
It's camp
@LazlosPlane3 жыл бұрын
@@CliffnDonChappellDuncan Even "camp" can be over-done.
@CliffnDonChappellDuncan3 жыл бұрын
@@LazlosPlane Camp means over the top! Have a nice day!
@LazlosPlane3 жыл бұрын
@@CliffnDonChappellDuncan Wow, you really need this, don't you? How pathetic.