The great Joyce Grenfell. They don't make comedy like that anymore RIP Miss Grenfell you might not be with us anymore but your comedy lives on.

"Is there a tolerable chance of you finding yourself in close proximity to a kettle?" is the most English way of asking for a cup of tea ever. This is so beautifully observed.

One never grows out of Joyce Grenfell. She's every bit as funny now as she was then, and her comedy was never barbed but always gentle. I miss her.

A seriously undervalued treasure. Would love to have seen her live. Very clever lady.

An absolute joy and sadly forgotten by most.

I remember this series so very well, she was a brilliant exponent of a witty genteel style of comedy that has gone now. Many thanks for posting

I absolutely loved, loved, loved her as Sargent Ruby Gates in the St. Trinian movies. The movies themselves were hilarious !

Joyce a true Engish gem, my favourite was the school teacher "George Don't do that"

She was so precious. A shame there are no comedians like that anymore. She played the quintessential English Lady so well.

6:24 “Well now, which do I like best: Men or women? ... I think it rather depends ‘What for?’” I’m stealing that line!

A very clever lady who deserves better airtime than she ever got.

What an amazing closing line. I really can’t imagine Joyce being cruel. Wonderful. Great comedy, Pete Hutley, Newcastle, Australia.

What an amazing woman she was. I remember her years ago on tv. Thank you

Oh,thank you for showing this. Joyce Grenfell was of a generation.........so understatedly funny. English to the core. Some of her characters were evident everywhere you looked in 1950's & 1960's England

What a delight to stumble across this. She's wonderful!

honestly wish there were more comedians like this

Where have the humans gone who had such immense fortitude and humor

How did she remember all that script? Never an er or um or stumble. A brilliant observer of life and a thoroughly nice human being. Pity we've lost her. RIP Joyce.

Many, many years ago she was on the phone to her boyfriend Ken. Her Father called down asking for his toffees - he was bed ridden. The upshot was that the date was cancelled yet again. She said, "I can't leave him tonight Ken, well he's old and has no one to look after him. That that was the end. And by her face alone the audience knew this was going to be her life. God bless, in a marvellously understated way she presented the predicament of so many daughters who are faced with this every day. God bless to all those self-sacrificing women and Ms Grenfell for telling their story. She is sheer genius,.

Oh gosh my father (RIP) introduced me to this wonderful woman. Thanks for posting!

Just brilliant

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as chaos. ~ Joyce Grenfell, British actor

😂 Sheer delight from opening to finale! Such clarity of diction puts many of today''s speakers to shame with their mumbling! Lovely, lovely lady, in the best sense of the word.

Instantly drawn in, I always loved her.

Thank you so much for this. I had forgotten (to my shame) just how great she was. Her monologues are indeed a National Treasure. Cheers.

A beautiful and brilliant woman indeed

joyce grenfell is a genuis. A monolgue is one of the most diffilcult and she is the best. Than you for downloading. You have give much pleasure. God rest her soul, she will not be forgotton.

A great funny lady who made me laugh taking the wazz out of the so-called upper classes...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 bless you lady x

What would life be, without a little J G. Thank you so much. Martin

Pure genius

'Live dangerously: Ga ga! :🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 She has such Joy in her English Euncistion..

What a class act!

She was so funny. I always liked her. So very sharp.

There's a certain lady of Upper Class birth whose acquaintance I consider an honour and a pleasure that lives in a large manor house here in East Kent between Dover and Deal who could happily be the subject of Mrs Grenfell's performance. I only see her once every few years, but when I visit her in my working capacity she regales me with tales of her youth and family with tea in fine china and the company of portraits of her mighty ancestors. One day she will be gone but as I live, dear Joyce will remind me that such wonderful and noble people lived, and whose lives are to be celebrated and enjoyed.

I always enjoyed watching Joyce Grenfell, loved her books too. Thanks for the memory, this was wonderful.

A true, 'National Treasure'.

I just love 7.15, the way she says "I'm very fond of her." That always makes me smile. I think you can see the lineage from Joyce to Victoria Wood to Catherine Tate. The styles change with the times of course, but I can definitely see it.

Joyce Grenfell played a good part in Genevieve and later in The Yellow Royce. Both films featured motor and are true classics. The Yellow Rolls Royce was the last film to be directed by Anthony Asquith and is well worth a look.

This is what I grew up with-how life has changed!

such a great woman!!!

‘She had a squirrel alley Edwin”. Lol! Just a wonderful lady who did not take her celebrity too seriously like many of today’s “celebrities.

Unique, beautiful. Thank you so much .

She is entirely herself while impresonating the kind of person she knows only too well. Magic. Joyce doesn't do 'vitriol'. She just does exaggerated parody. Quite an act!

Superb! (As always.) Thank you so very much for posting this!

Wonderful stuff!

Priceless!...xxx....TY for posting!

A gem

That beautiful yellow dress and gold shoes., Love Joyce setting the scene of her sketch 'Eng. Lit' the book lined study with a pair of crossed (h)Oars over the door!

Brilliant comedian, she led the way for people today 👏👏👏👏👏

Wonderful woman! Only this country could produce such a one-off as she. Loved everything she did.

Love Joyce Grenfell

I loved her as "Shirl's Girl Friend" and "Me and my friend's are mad on dancin'".

Thank you SO much Willzdc~! *mwah*~! it is my favourite too~!

That's a piece she wrote called 'Lally Tullett' and i think it's her very best monologue ever.

The craft of acting at its zenith.

Another great monologue!

A dress with pockets. Perfection!

she's a genius and so funny, I dnno how she remembers all that!

She was so lovely 💝 Can't help hearing "no Sammy no"......

Wonderful

She's my favourite joyce G renfell character

Makes me smile

There's a certain JC monologue that I loved, but which I can never find now. I'm sure I've asked this before on youtube, but no luck yet so I will try again... She played a lady who was being interviewed about her husband, and it becomes clear to us (the audience) that he has been serially unfaithful to her. Its not clear that she knows this herself - until the very end of the sketch. It really sticks in my mind, as it was funny but also very moving. I'd love to see/hear it again...

Wasn't she perfect casting to play Julie Andrews' mother in "The Americanization of Emily"? Glorious talent!!!!!

love xxx

She. is. genius. end of.

Love you Joyce

A dress with pockets! 😮❤

Yes that sounds like the one. Its really disappointing that it is never on any of the compilations or on here. It makes me think theBBC clip must have been deleted or something. :( I'm sure I'm not the only person who'd love to see/hear it again.

A delightfully attractive woman.

Hi Quityertalking~! All i know is it about a birthday for the aged dowager. It starts with something like "you'd never know to see me now, but i was once young and fair, with hair as red as the fox, they said" and it ends with something like "And now, the Dowager Duchess said, I am far too old to care, but she was pale as any ghost, when she walked up the stair.."~! :-) Perhaps my dad was wrong and it was not even Joyce Grenfell, i am not sure~!

It is called "Life Story" and I have a text copy and I think also an audio copy. The intro says "The character is the wife of a musician: she is of middle European origin, with an accent".

What a super talented lady... And she was the niece of Lady Aster... From the Woolworth family... What a brilliant observer of people and she transports you into her world... Fantastic :0)x

Pockets in her dresses as well? My god. She truly was an icon

We were all once shrews dancing round dinosaurs. Fortunately we were too small to be of any importance. Not much has changed then

@bs3bloke ... Oops, sorry my info was wrong there... But what a fantastic woman Joyce was... I have just watched a tribute to Alistair Sim.. and she acted with the marvelous man in the St Trinians films... A total star, regal, funny and very very watchable.... ;0)x

Someone has posted it here on KZfaq It is called Ballad

5:46 is the best thing ever

i have tried by ALL means to get a song/poem/monologue i beleive was Joyce Grenfell abut a Dowager Duchess that my dad used to play me. Anyone know it?~!

From a day when Actresses didn't need to be stunning wiv 38C cups, all they needed was Talent.

Miss Grenfell's gentle humour is much missed in today's world of unkindness and insenstivity.

why never a dame? tragic!

Is the Professor's Wife any relation to Rick from the Young Ones?

Thank you Quityertalkin - i wish i could reach through cyberspace and kiss yoU~!

Anyone know where the second "Eng Lit" sketch is ? This is the first apparently and the third involves the campus editor of a leftist student newspaper.

she would have made a great governor of a prison

a second cuss of Ruth Darper, touch of genetics reflecting nature of 1st rate enhance goosed rearing from Ruthy...score another one for Draper Nurturing Ancestry

Like Gordon Brown she lost an eye and had a very good artificial eye. Miranda Hart must have studied her.

We're no longer allowed to be cleverly English nor Englishly clever.

"One of the things ...... are"? 0:43-0:44 Eng Lit must have cringed when it heard that.

Ha ha

A great talent, poorly presented. I have read her autobiographies and she just luuuuvvved those dresses which were done by a London designer and were not cheap. And yet neither the cut nor the colour do her any favours. Fortunately she is such a great actress you stop seeing what she's wrapped in.

Bob newhart is better I think but then again different types of comedy.