Maureen Lipman has said comedy is hard because you can't make jokes about being foreign. | Jeremy Vine On 5

7.3K views · 106 reactions | Hull actor Maureen Lipman returns home to help celebrate with the city's Jewish Community as it marks 250 years of Jews living in Hull. | BBC East Yorkshire | Facebook

One of the greatest ever British comedy sketches. Can't stop laughing 😂👇 | British Comedy Classics

The British Telecom "’ology" advert was a short television commercial from the 1980s that starred actress Maureen Lipman. In it, she played a grandmother called Beattie who encouraged her grandson after he failed most of his exams but passed in sociology. Her witty and warm delivery made the advert instantly memorable and it became one of the most famous British ads of its time. The character of Beattie was not originally written as a grandmother. Early drafts described her as a generic older re