Episode set in New York City.
Scene: Classic Diner
Jeeves, Bertie and Bickie place their lunch orders.
Waitress: Do you wanna shake with that?
Jeeves: No I would prefer to sit here quietly, thank you.
Stephen Fry on PG Wodehouse:
Particular to Wodehouse are the transferred epithets: "I lit a rather pleased cigarette", or, "I pronged a moody forkful of eggs and b". Characteristic, too, are the sublimely hyperbolic similes: "Roderick Spode. Big chap with a small moustache and the sort of eye that can open an oyster at sixty paces", or, "The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass".[.......]
If you are immune to such writing, you are fit, to use one of Wodehouse's favourite Shakespearean quotations, only for treasons, stratagems and spoils. You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. Like Jeeves, Wodehouse stands alone, and analysis is useless.Want to read more? Here is the article: Fry on Wodehouse
Hm. It's time I dusted off my Jeeves Omnibus...
10 comments:
heeeeeehehehe...that sounds funny
God I agree with Fry there. They way Wodehous puts things is just too exquisite. As for Jeeves & Wooster on ITV3 yeah I know and even though I have own all of them on DVD I still watch them when they are on tv too. I would have mentioned that they are on but didn't realise you can get that channel. I have Sky so it's part of the package. Btw have you read any of the Blandings stories? I actually originally started with those and some of them are very funny. :o)
Hehe, yes. When we all lived at home I used to read J&W and some of the others aloud at the table after dinner.
We often sat there sniggering with appreciation halfway through a priceless Wodehouse phrase.
I have Freeview now :) I get that and Poirot!
Blandings - of course! Lord Emsworth. Pig Hhhhhooooeeeeeyyy in moonlight and all that!
Also Adrian Mulliner telling his improbable stories, Stanley Featherstonehaugh (pronounced "fanshaw") Uckridge with his doomed business plans, Uncle Fred the Earl of Ickenham getting up to mischief. I am least familiar with Psmith.
Can never get enough, and just as well. There are so many Plum books in the bookshops I can't deal with the choice!
I adore Jeeves & Wooster.
Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie were both brilliant in those roles. I too start to giggle as soon as their faces appear.
I appreciate it and I have no clue about it. *smile* I did want to point out the obvious to you though - you certainly look a lot like the honorable Lady Agnew of Lochnaw.
Thanks for cruising by.
Hope you have a great weekend.
Anne - thank you for stopping by. They were the best ever and I doubt anyone will attempt to surpass that in future.
Enigma - good to see you on this side of Blogland.
That is the second time someone has pointed out my resemblance to Lady A! *baffled*
But thank you :)
Right back at ya.
Blandings Forever! As a lad I always fancied the Hon. Galahad as a sort of role-model. Racy and a bit of a bounder to the ghastly aunts, but a splendid fellow at heart. But I think I turned out more like his nephew, the clueless Freddie Threepwood. Such is life.
Psmith is worth sticking with.
Fry & Laurie are wonderful. I also vaguely remember a 1960's version with Ian Carmichael. Not as good. Do I get brownie-points for that piece of information?
Odd to think the Gov seriously thought of prosecuting Plum for treason after the war. Really!
You get a point for bringing up the 60s version.
I saw some once and it was just a typical stilted BBC screenplay.
Jeeves was insipid and Bertie was overaged! He was the age his aunts Dahlia or Agatha ought to have been.
This is why I said Fry & Laurie make a Jeeves & Wooster non pareil.
at first I mis-read jeeves for jesus
Nabeel - oh sure, Jesus and Wooster, that would so work...like oil and water.
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