Well said.

now that is the only way to treat people...like people. Why try any other way? People are people. Perhaps too many people forget that these days. And see where we are now. Full of people.

Those people are so wonderful!

Awww how lovely!

Yes, I've known women (and a few gents too - not necessarily in the class/blood sense, but in character) like her.. They might not know the right words or hesitate to engage for fear of using the wrong/old terms, but they are earnestly trying to shake off those less equitable parts of society/empire, etc.

That last line “I just want to do it all right” hits you like a velvet covered jab to the jaw.

A wonderful, intelligent and very talented lady. I remember when she was on a musical panel show, (named ??) with Robin Day. She could name a tune from just one note on a piano.

@@patmeakin9610name that tune ?!😂

​@@patmeakin9610The programme was called Face the Music on BBC 2 with Joseph Cooper in the chair and Robin Ray (not Day) was another regular panellist. I think Richard Baker was also a regular. An enjoyable programme with people who knew their music, including, of course, Joyce Grenfell. She was so clever at making you totally believe in the character she was playing. Very astute, never big-headed, always charming.

YES!!

I used to set this sketch as an assignment for my creative writing students. "Tell me about the person in the other seat".

@@farahmendlesohn9158 That's really clever and creative. A long time ago I went to a workshop for people already studying scriptwriting. We were told to bring along a short scene we'd already written. The tutor gave us each a random picture postcard and gave us twenty minutes to rewrite our scene in the location on the card and use it to affect the dialogue. My scene had been set in a domestic kitchen. My postcard was of a marina full of boats. It really made me think more dynamically and made the scene much better.

​@@zacmumblethunder7466 what a wonderful idea for an exercise, although I don't know if I could meet the challenge in only 20 minutes! Thanks for sharing

Northern English working class areas always used to be very tolerant. "It's a grim life and we're all in it together" type of thing. But that was then......

I was lucky enough to see her doing her monologues several times, and always loved her ! Her books are glorious too. I think I'll read them again. A real heroine for me!

@@susancerezo401 And for me!!!

I liked Maureen's version as well. It was similar enough to honour the original but different enough to give it new life. In her version Mrs Comstock seemed more fragile, almost like the narrowness around her had beaten her down. That's the sign of great writing though. Two people can perform the same text and create two different characters.

@@zacmumblethunder7466 I just realised the name Comstock is also used in a Victoria Wood routine about going abroad, where there is a woman on the same journey whose luggage is covered in the name 'Betty Comstock' and who has never been abroad before and was waiting for her luggage at the handdryer in the ladies. Apparently it is intended to be the same character from this sketch, and is Victoria's tribute to Joyce, as a meeting with Joyce when Victoria was a teen is what set Victoria down the path to the amazing entertainer she became.

@@MrDannyDetail That's brilliant. So nice to know that one of my comedy favourites was influenced by another. Thanks.

I always wanted to know what the owners of the little red car in "A Terrible Worrier" thought when they came back to and found someone had posted a dead rabbit through the window.

I'm sure she did it alright.

Her mother was American, her father English. The accent is hers.

Mother American, father English.

You could see all the different characters in her work just from tiny details. Like a cardigan or a scarf. No one to compare with her now.

7 words that conjure up a whole bygone age. She was being very modern calling them "front rooms". Northern women always had "Parlours" and were used for listening to the Queen on Christmas day afternoon and funerals and woe betide anyone who dared venture into them at any other time.

a fast one ~

NoNotALaughingMatter it's the final 7 minutes of the flight

At the start she says that the person next to her has been working all through the flight. She also mentions that she's had a meal on the plane - "My first proper flight. With food."