Carol Channing as Marlene Dietrich & Cecilia Sisson 

This is OUT OF THIS WORLD! The lady was a comic GENIUS. I had no idea she could do impressions. This take off on Marlene is FABULOUS.

I never knew Carol Channing was such a wicked impersonator!

How we miss performers of this caliber! There just aren't any anymore. For those who are used to The Voice and AGT, THIS IS WHAT REAL TALENT LOOKS LIKE.

This shows Channing in such a different light. She was brilliant on stage and could have done so many other characters than Dolly. Though she gave the best Dolly, ever. This is so great!

It causes a nostalgic pang to to see how few people know about Channing or Dietrich and are equipped even to get the joke. Dietrich was apparently highly offended by Channing's number and swept out of the balcony under an audience spotlight while Channing was performing the routine in Vegas. But Channing, like Kahn a decade later, had immense respect for Dietrich, and their bitting satire was a tribute to the aesthetic effect dietrich's luminous cinamatic image had on popular American culture.

Good comedy never fades away. The talent,the wit,the amount of work that went into this piece.

I remember the Cecilia routine from long ago and found it to be hilarious and still find it's my favorite. Carol had so much talent as a comedian. Thanks for the memory.

Brilliant performer, a true living legend, the last of the great Broadway stars. You could tell from this clip why she was so celebrated as a musical comedy performer.

I had the LP for years and saw her do this show 3 times-- incredible

Rest In Peace Carol. I love your Cecilia Cisson.

RIP Carol, you are a genius with a big heart

What a natural and effortless entertainer. Brilliant and unique performer.

I always truly lose myself in laughter when she is on the ground and crawls back into the spotlight. What a brilliant star. The REAL DEAL

One of the funniest entertainers ... EVER! God bless Ms. Channing.

Marlene has definitely left the building, but this is great.

Oh, she is hilarious, adorable!!!

Carol Channing has died at age 97 R.I.P 1921-2019

Thank you, Segamai. Not many people have viewed this, to Latrina's great disappointment. It's truly a classic and I'm rather proud to have preserved it. Thanks again!

And the great Ms Channing is still with us (as of 2014) aged 93.

I cant stop laughing this woman is fabulous.. I saw a documentary on her recently on her 93 rd b/day... a fan ran up to her and said congratulations Miss Channing on your 93rd b/day... Carol said .. words to the effect... "oh please don't congraulate me on that, I don't know how it happened, I had nothing to do with it ... I don't know where the hell all the years went, and quite frankly I don't like being old worth a damn... and just kept walking

Here because What's My Line? is still promoting plays and performers of the past! What a great show. What a great talent this woman is. The sketches and lines are thin, yet she fleshes out her performances like nobody's business.

O... M... G... When she started doing Cecilia Sisson I dissolved into tears of laughter 😂😂😂😂🤣

Channing is hilarious!

Oh my goodness she is wonderful.

Second time I have come across carol. And iam loving this artist. As a Marlene fan, I can appreciate, laugh at this wonderful performance

This is truely priceless. After seenig this you realize how great an inpersonater. She has got Dietrich 'down' to perfection. I have always been fasinated by Marlene Dietrichand have all of her movies. Too bad Marlene was such a bad sport about Carol's inpersonation of her and walked out on Carol's performance.

I met Marlena Dietrich years ago before a stage performance and had an in-depth conversation with her. She was in her sixties and still breathtakingly beautiful. Her energy was huge. She was a seductive powerhouse. And Channing's version is incanningly accurate. Dietrich's grandson was in my year at Carnegie Mellon University. I recall he wasn't particularly enamoured with his famous grandmother. Deitrich was fairly tall, had beautiful legs, large hands and an immortal face, with the chiseled, Germanic features of a goddess. And she was elegantly dressed in a red Chanel afternon suit and later in the evening, a huge white fox coat and her famaous transparent, beaded gown and blonde tresses. An unforgettable experience. She was a totally convincing master of illusion.

Lucille Ball did a great impression of Carol.

How did she do that so perfectly with those S - sounds 😂😭

Comedic genius!

Thank you for posting this! I've often thought about this hilarious special. Never thought I'd see it again.

She cracked herself up!

Omg. I was in TEARS

*I’d forgotten about the Cecilia Sisson skit!* 😂 *Thank you for uploading this!* ❤️

this was amazing... great parody, travestie, slapstick....chapeau Carol!

i remember her on variety tv shows when i was 4 or 5...1970

Genius, this is true comedy why don't have this anymore, comedy become something tacky and absurd In actuality

Brilliant

This is from a production Carol Channing did with her friend Pearl Bailey in 1969 the entire production is now available somewhere on RU-vid as I have watched it...Enjoyed this excerpt though thanks for posting!

She is 93 now 92 here amazing !

Cccecccilia Ssssissson issss hilarioussssss! ... Priccccelesssss! ... The absssssolute bessssst! Many thankssssss for posssssssting thisssssssss!

Oh my gosh. XD

segamai Your reaction, "I was in TEARS!": the best, MOST ELOQUENT TRIBUTE of all....Those four words pack a punch. Carol would love it!!😊😊😊

too funny

Carol became her own worst cliche. We forget how talented, wickedly funny and physically beautiful she was before she decided ( or her manager/ex-husband decided) she should only be "Carol Channing" the caricature no matter what.

great legs great talent

Yes she is younger I can't think why I put that unless I looked at the posted date sorry yes you are right of course she's definatly younger

The level of talent that used to be required to become a famous performer can be seen here. Times have changed. And imagine if an angry lesbian had seen her like this and said “if I can’t have you, no one can”.

Who else was with her in the show..? It was carol and another singer.

Does anyone know what TV special this was from and what year it was filmed? Curious. :)

Could someone tell me what it means for her to blow after she says Sophia Loren's name? I'm from Brazil, it's not common here... lol

I know something a little different about the wonderful women of comedy. I didn't know until to day that she had an African American Grand Dad.

Dietrich was not amused, which is a bit disappointing. My cousin, who was an actress in her youth, went to see Marlene at the Fountainebleu because her husband was playing lead trumpet for the show and she thought she'd give the old girl some support. Needless to say, the moment Marlene hit the stage, my cousin realized "the old girl" didn't need any help from her or anyone else. I saw her at her lowest point, when she had the beginnings of a dowager's hump and was a bit stiff while moving around, but at one point she just leaned up again the side of the stage, her arm raised above her head, and her face was magically transformed into what it had been 40 years earlier. Real stars don't get there and stay there by way of the casting couch or just sheer luck.

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