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.”
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.
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.
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.
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!
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! 👏👏👏
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..
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 .
@@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'.
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.
'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).
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.
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.
