There are few things I love more in this world than Wendy Williams and Carol Channing. If that makes me the gayest person on the planet, then I’m perfectly okay with that. Needless to say, my mind has officially been blown, because the two of them appeared in the same room for The Wendy Williams Show.
In this particular clip from their interview, Carol discusses her black ancestry with Wendy, and she’s deemed an “honorary black person” for the day. Be sure to pay particular attention to Ms. Channing’s top-of-the-head ponytail. it doesn’t do anything extraordinary in the video, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is extraordinary on its own.
– Dewitt
To watch the clip from the show, follow the JUMP:
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I love Carol Channing. <3
I love Carol Channing. Hubby and I were fortunate enough to see her in a production of “Hello, Dolly” in Seattle 10 or 12 years ago. I think that’s the first time we found out that her father was African-American.
Bless her heart that she’s still going strong at her age. I’d love to see her and Betty White do something together. Maybe a geriatric version of “Thelma and Louise”… 🙂
I’m just having flashbacks to RuPaul’s Drag Race during the Snatch Game episode. Classic!
Mmmmm…hello, but it is an insult ot state that Miss Channing is an honorary “black person.” Anyone who’s read her autobiography knows that she is half African American (her father was Black), and that her race and ethnicityn were forced into the closet by te Hollywood studioo system.
Yeah that really doesn’t make any sense. The woman is half black. You can’t just make someone an honorary “black” or “white” or “chinese” because it doesn’t change their genetic make up…
To garner the level of success that she achieved over the years she actually had to lie about her race and had it. This was due in part to her own self-hatred. So it actually seems like the last award that she would want.
A coworker of mine just made a general comment that he was part Scottish. (the coworker had lighter skin and green eyes) Well a white coworker heard this and she started screaming at him that he was not white and that he was lying…
Just goes to show you that the concept of race can be tricky sometimes…
I love Carol and Wendy too!! This was a great interview.
My aunt ( Father older sister ) is very lite skin with straight ( lite brown ) hair 4 me as a kid I never thought much about skin color however when I used go down 2 the hospital where my aunt was head lab technician many people would say she your aunt ? I would always just answer yes she my aunt . As I got older I began 2 realize what they saying I do believe that she rather like the fact that people could not tell. I have often been told the story that one day my aunt got on the a bus that my grandfather was riding ( her father ) on my aunt walked right past him as if she did not know him and I am told that it hurt him very bad .. I have come 2 realizes that back than if U where a lite skin African American who could pass for white ( and get away with it ) most of them did some out of vanity” but most did it as a means 2 survive as my aunt would later on say U did what U had 2 do …..
Family…always…