Jeeves & Wooster
Sep 22nd, 2009 by Bethany
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Since I derive great pleasure from it and I don’t remember bringing it up here before, I thought I’d mention “Jeeves & Wooster.” It’s a comedic British TV series based on a set of novels written by P.G. Wodehouse back in the 1930s. As far as I know, it’s where the idea of calling butlers “Jeeves” comes from. Both the shows and the books are delightful.’
Colin and I discovered the show a few year back, but yesterday for the first time I acquired one of Wodehouse’s books, The Code of the Woosters. In the show, the main character, Bertie Wooster, is played brilliantly by a 20-year-old Hugh Laurie of current “House” fame (he’s British, by the way–I’m always impressed at his ability to change his accent). Anyway, Wooster is a uselessly rich young man who goes around visiting friends and relations and getting himself into all sorts of hilarious trouble, while his wonderful manservant, Jeeves (played by the equally brilliant Stephen Fry), manages to gracefully extract him from it and pull together a happy ending. And all this with silly, witty banter intertwined for the entertainment of all. If you like dry-ish comedy, I recommend you check it out. Oh, and Hugh Laurie singing “Minnie the Moocher” here is pleasantry itself. Hee-de-he-de-he-de-he, sir.
Ooooo! We love Jeeves & Wooster! I’m going to add Wodehouse to my “hafta read” list now.