The most hilarious thing about this is the fact Carol Channing decided to dress up like a sea captain and no one batted an eye.

@justrosy5

4 жыл бұрын

Not hilarious at all! -> Progress

@heyokaempath5802

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!! Omg I loved them all. TV isnt the same

@lasuvidaboy

4 жыл бұрын

I saw her at LAX 20-years ago w/a similar outfit minus the hat.

@Wildstar40

4 жыл бұрын

Channing used to dress like this often so people back then were used to it.

@sweetmarie72ply

4 жыл бұрын

Jef Willemsen She could have been a female Popeye! 😂

So good to see Lucy laugh so hard at Carol's antics. They should have teamed up for a comedy series, because their chemistry was absolutely spot on.

@justwaiting5744

4 жыл бұрын

Desi produced and directed a pilot for an unproduced series meant to star Carol. This was sometime after he and Lucy divorced.

@TheVerbalVolley

4 жыл бұрын

@@justwaiting5744 I never knew that. Thanks for the 411. Oh, how I wish that they would have teamed up in a series. It would have been hysterical. She could even have been Lucy's ditzy sister in "Life with Lucy". The other actors on that show were terrible, with the exception of Gale Gordon. They all shouted their lines, rather than just speaking them. Also, they should have hired Larry Gelbart for the show, and not people from "I Love Lucy", "The Lucy Show" and "Here's Lucy". But Lucy was nothing if not faithful to those that worked with her previously. That was a huge mistake, as Gelbart was part of the incredible program, "MASH", and could have brought some great new vitality and fresh ideas to the program.

@AllenMQuinn

4 жыл бұрын

I'm shocked Carol Channing never made an appearance on a Lucy show. Would have been amazing

@TheVerbalVolley

4 жыл бұрын

@@AllenMQuinn Absolutely, Allen. And can you imagine the chemistry these two would have had together on a television series? It absolutely boggles the mind to even consider it!

@stevarino1989

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like the last couple years of Miss Ball's life weren't very happy for her, considering that in 1986, her TV career ended with the short-lived Life With Lucy getting cancelled, and 2 weeks later, Desi passed away and she was just absolutely heartbroken. Plus earlier in 1988 she had a stroke. But here, she actually seems happy because she's working with Betty White AND Carol Channing! Sad that 7 months after this episode was taped, Lucy was gone :( I also agree with you about Life With Lucy. God, she deserved so much better. The network change didn't help either. Everybody knew her for being the Queen of Monday Nights on CBS for 23 years, but they put her on Saturday nights on ABC.

“You can be un-anything!”

@CharlieQuartz

4 жыл бұрын

She’s right. We can be underwhelmed just as well as derwhelmed.

@SavingHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Lol!

@CS-yr5jr

4 жыл бұрын

Lol I laughed so hard at that. “un-anything” is nothing Carol!

How did the universe not implode with all that talent in one room?

Well let’s not argue about it 😂

"Well, let's not argue about it." I love her so much.

Carol Channing is the person who is absolutely hilarious, but she doesn’t even know it and she’s fine with it.

@delennamachoo

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, she knew it. That was her schtick. Lucy didn’t suffer fools.

@patriciaelliott1383

3 жыл бұрын

@@delennamachoo WORD!

@jameshamilton8245

Жыл бұрын

I think acting clueless was part of her personal act. And it allowed her to get away with some borderline provacative topics. Remember she originated the role of Lorelie Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on Broadway and she was also chosen by George Burns and Gracie Allen to replace Gracie in the act when Gracie became too ill to perform.

I died when Carol grabbed Lucy's head lol

@petemcintire4339

8 ай бұрын

Oh dear! I hope you had a nice service.

@ah7910

5 ай бұрын

Pete, don’t give up the day job. @@petemcintire4339

I once interview Carol Channing and I told her that we met before ... when my mother was giving birth to me ... and Carol was giving birth to her son on the same floor in the hospital ... she said "I recognize you from the nursery." and as she left I asked her if I was the cutest baby and she said just as quickly as her first response - "you were the smallest." Wit overload !!!

@horaciocapanelli-soto4710

2 жыл бұрын

😂

Just the nonverbal chemistry between Lucy and Carol alone is hilarious.

I ran into Carol Channing on second ave and around 71st street, she was walking all alone. I told her how much i loved her work , etc. And she was so friendly and thankful . A real normal funny gal!

when carol channing makes up a word, it is at that moment, officially a real word!!

Carol Channing is a GREAT ENTERTAINER

Lucy’s laugh was everything.

Good lord the thumbnail looks like Lucy is stabbing her in the stomach lol

@Userhandleidk

3 жыл бұрын

This almost made me spit out my cereal

I love that Carol Channing has no qualms about grabbing and turning someone with the legendary stature of Lucille Ball.

@deanleonard3113

2 жыл бұрын

And Lucy is totally tickled by it.

Carol: "Un-Monogamous" Lucy should have replied : "DESI" LOLZZZ

@jazzyjaz9108

4 жыл бұрын

Awwwww lol

@themaggattack

4 жыл бұрын

Oof!

@katbowl9971

4 жыл бұрын

Love that!

@rickdack9374

3 жыл бұрын

That is precisely what I was thinking but that it would have been way too behind the scenes for that are up for people to understand. People today would get it but not back then plus it might have been edited out since Desi still have been alive then

@stevemoore9509

3 жыл бұрын

Very good answer if she said it.

Lucy & Carol, what a great comedy team! Who knew?

Anyone else actually kind of go "she does have a point."

@deanleonard3113

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I did. :)

I long for the days you could turn on the afternoon TV and see Betty White, Lucille Ball, and Carol Channing stopping by to be part of it.

Betty White is the only one still alive in Sept of 2019 .

@DePirre

4 жыл бұрын

Make that november 2019 🧡

@Trayxxxx

4 жыл бұрын

@@DePirre Make that December 2019

@michaelcloud2976

4 жыл бұрын

Make that July 2020, 98 years old!

@mckavitt13

3 жыл бұрын

Lee Mclaury Male that August 2020!

@sarahmarshall9758

3 жыл бұрын

Make that September 2020

Carol is HILARIOUS! I miss that lady!

3 of tv's most brilliant commediennes! Lucy looks frail but still has her incredible wit, great to see her laughing and clearly enjoying herself here.

I loved Lucille Ball!❤️ She looked so much like my Grandmother. I had a tour of Jamestown, NY where Lucille was from. So amazing!

I wish someone would post more of this week. It looked like it was a lot of fun.

I used to play Password online years ago. It was so much fun. I miss it.

Lucy still had that same bright Lucy smile! I love seeing her happy with her legendary buddies! This generation could sure take a cue from the class and charisma of the legends or this period here. R.I.P. Lucy, and Carol. As for Betty, so glad she's still with us, and dang, how I wish time stood still for everyone!

@jenniejoyz

2 жыл бұрын

Betty...not anymore. 😔

@TechySpeaking

2 жыл бұрын

Oof.

When Carol said "Unmonogamous" I swear I thought Lucy was going to say "DESI".

OMG, Carol. She's so mischievous and she made sure Lucy was on board. XD

My three favourite ladies. Thanks so much 💖

Lucy's face when she waited to say "cheating" 🤣😂

Love Carol Channing!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lucy made the cover of TIME in October of 1952. The heading read = "Lucille Ball: Rx for comedy - a clown with Glamour"

Betty: "If they buzz a legend one more time."

That was fun!

These legends are just too amazing. I can't stand them. They are so awesome.

@stevarino1989

4 жыл бұрын

Betty White, Lucille Ball and Carol Channing. Doesn't get any better than that lol. There was even another from 1986 with her, Betty and Estelle Getty! I wish she could've guest starred on the Golden Girls. She almost did but turned it down. She had previously worked with Bea Arthur in Mame.

@roboppi6368

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevarino1989 I mean just imagine being within near vicinity of all three at the same time???!!! 🤯🤯🤯

So nice Lucy had a few laughs before her death. She died not long after this was filmed. I think within a few months.

@stevarino1989

3 жыл бұрын

Yup April 26th 1989. :( Her final public appearance was just a few weeks before her death, at the 1989 Academy Awards, as she presented an award with Bob Hope. And she seemed to be in really good spirits there too, but I did read that behind the scenes she wasn't feeling great, physically.

Brilliant!

I love this so much.

I loved when she turned Lucy around 😂😂

Lucy was obviously not well when this was taped. 5-months later she was admitted to Cedar-Sinai Hospital in LA for an aortic transplant which was successful. I remember the reports of her getting better and seeing a large 'Get Well Lucy' banner hung on the Hard Rock Cafe across from the hospital. She unexpectedly died from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm not related to her surgery. Her heavy smoking apparently was the contributing factor with the ruptured aneurysm.

I saw this! Legendary ICONS!!!

Lucy was always the first to appreciate natural humor in people because she worked so hard at her own comedy.

😂😂 I love this!

One of the best game shows on TV - along with Hollywood Squares. Too bad there isn't anything like this on TV anymore.

Carol forcibly grabbing Lucy and then having absolutely nothing to say is such a power move

Carol channing 🌟

“Giggling, Flat and Fickle” The answer is Joy Scroggs

@kcindc5539

3 жыл бұрын

Well played, my man. - love, Bender Over

Words wind up in the dictionary once people start using them, which basically means that if you can form a word with morphological accuracy, it's a word. Carol was the smarter one here.

was Carol Channing something, or was she something LOL

@asadmarji5023

3 жыл бұрын

Betty White is the only one still alive in Sept of 2019 .

The dude who does the password. His voice! Love it!

5 legends

Only 5 months before Lucille passed away.

I once read in I LOVED LUCY that in her later years Lucy had a physical therapist who was a foreigner and knew nothing about the sometimes crabby Mrs. Morton much less Lucille Ball as zany Lucy Ricardo. Author of the book, who was a guest of Lucy's played a few episodes of the beloved sitcom to the man who flat-out said "That cannot POSSIBLY be the same woman" -

Lucy and Carol have a connection to the past. Desilu wanted to put her into a weekly series, but the pilot episode was not picked up by the network. Here is a quote from a source: "...Due to her success on Broadway in Hello Dolly! and her co-starring role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Channing attracted the attention of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who were interested in starring her in a sitcom. Directed and produced by Arnaz and written by Bob Carroll Jr. and Madelyn Davis (who co-wrote I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show), The Carol Channing Show starred Channing as Carol Hunnicut, a small-town girl trying and failing to make it in New York City show business. Character actors Richard Deacon and Jane Dulo were in the supporting cast. The pilot was filmed in front of a live audience (with a laugh track added) at Desilu in 1966 but did not sell as a series..."

Lucille Ball is such a class act!! She is humble and thankful for her audiences. Miss her and Joan.

She is so right "un" goes on so many words.

Carol was a wonderful loony bird

Three of the funniest women in comedy on one stage.

Very fetching hat and hair on Carol. Betty looks great. Love Lucy.

Five late greats in entertainment, all dearly missed

Lucy is sorely missed.

Bert was such a cool guy & left us too soon.

Great fun. 🇬🇧

I think Lucy had a few spoonfuls of Vitameatavegamin before the show.

@John-Adams

4 жыл бұрын

She was losing her mind to dementia. This was also her last televised appearance.

@luismalveiro8136

4 жыл бұрын

She also had had a stroke a few months before

@delennamachoo

3 жыл бұрын

John Adams Where did you read that? I can’t find anything on dementia. There’s always been conflicting information about whether she had a stroke or a heart attack the year before, but she was taking meds for chest pain that they’ve suggested contributed to the massive aortic dissection she ultimately had a few months after this. The meds were known the weaken the heart and blood vessels. More likely, she’s just weak here.

@delennamachoo

3 жыл бұрын

There’s actually another video from this episode where Lucy is struggling, and Carol specifically says “but it’s not her brain”, and Bert says he “I know that.”

@kalevala29

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think she was well. She died the next year.

Good ole days..

I would love to see the entire episode of this! Is there a way?

Always nice change to see a video where all the ladies are bigger stars and more influential than the men.

I love Lucy Carol and Betty

Adorable

obvious clues only Dick Martin might have gotten the word on : finger,fate

"''finger of fate' would have done it." Wonderful :)

Holy shit this is comedy gold

The KZread thumbnail for this video really makes it look like Lucille Ball is kicking Carol Channing hard in the kootch.

Poor Carol Channing...if only she lived to see 2020 she would have learned the word for not being monogamous, polyamorous.

@raziele92

Жыл бұрын

Why would she have had to wait until 2020? Those concepts have been around for millenia.

@flamethrow868

10 ай бұрын

It's Polygamous, polyamourous is different.

@terrapax8554

19 күн бұрын

Promiscuous used to be considered the opposite of monogamous

Lucille Ball was showing signs of her age. Compare this episode with the episodes she played in the 1960s. She was very well known for her competitiveness.

@stevarino1989

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, sadly she was gone 5 months later :( Pretty sure she was still recovering from her stroke earlier in 1988 too. She was also a heavy smoker for most of her life and at this point she had quit but still, her voice sounded like a bullfrog from all those years of smoking.

@delennamachoo

3 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t just her age. She was having a lot of health issues.She had an aortic valve replacement and a dissecting aortic aneurysm just months after this.

When you get a good close up of Lucy you can see her age but she was still sharp and beautiful!!

"Picky" would have been a great clue in conjunction with the other "Fickle" clues.

@girlwalkerII

3 жыл бұрын

that's me with me choosing a mate, boyfriend, companion now in my life...ha ha ha

carol channing is very funny just think 5 months after this air lucy went to heaven

@justrosy5

4 жыл бұрын

:'(

@springstud

4 жыл бұрын

@@justrosy5 what does that mean

@RockinDaBoombox

4 жыл бұрын

It’s a sad face

I was 7 months old.

Lucille Ball obviously had a stroke, which is obvious by her delayed reactions and timing. Carol Channing had to physically touch Lucy and turn her to where she was facing Carol. Lucy’s health was deteriorating and according to what I read regarding the final months of her life, she was constantly rude and inconsiderate to others around her. Her daughter Lucie finally admitted her mother had chest pains. In the weeks following her final public appearance with Bob Hope at the 1989 Academy Awards, Lucille Ball was admitted to the hospital. She passed away shortly thereafter on April 26th, 1989.

Indecisive

Ha you tell em off, Carol Channing lol

Carol Channing was so darling with Lucy!!!

1:54 hilarious

I love Betty she is awesome!!

Amazing Lucille didn’t answer “Desi Arnaz”! 😂

Channing is excellent

To look at her here no one could guess Lucy would die within months...😢

undecided would have been a good one to use

Why does the person giving the password sound like a smoker whispering?? 😂😂😂😂

This show is Me years old .. christ im old

I still ❤️ Lucy

Carol: Well, what's the word for un-monogamous? Me (if I were host): The password you're trying to have her guess!

@blujay1608

3 жыл бұрын

In other news, was 'flat' describing Olive Oyl's 2-D shape, or was that a reference to her chest??

Betty❤

Lucy's choppers.

😊

Deary, marry the mole!

@xxwhispersxx2856

4 жыл бұрын

I just started singing that, thank you very much.

@margicates553

4 жыл бұрын

😍😍😍

In this clip - Lucy has approximately 5 months to live :(

I recently found out carol was half black but passing as white. Thats why the wigs and light makeup to change her skin tone and keeps most of her skin covered.