An older audience will remember Ian Carmichael (Wooster) and Dennis Price (Jeeves) from the 1960s BBC TV series - sadly only a couple of episodes remain the rest of the tapes having been wiped for reuse - a bit like painting over the Sistine Chapel ceiling if you ask me!

@@jeffreycrawley1216 So similar yet so different

@@jeffreycrawley1216 Agreed, they were a well matched pair.

@@jeffreycrawley1216 They look too old, far too much. Wooster when he first met Jeeves was about 24 and Jeeves was described as "darkish, respectable" man by him. No mention of Jeeves' age, but he used to be engaged with a young lady who was around Bertie's age range.

@@thichinhphan4010 According to P G Wodehouse who ought, after all, to know: "Jeeves-first heard of at the age presumably of about thirty-five in 1916" (letter PGW to Robert Hall 1961) As a lot of the American stories are set in the Speakeasy era - say mid 1920s - that would put Jeeves at about 55. Meanwhile the definitive reference work Wodehouse in Woostershire says Wooster was roughly 10 younger than his valet. But, then again, it IS escapist fiction and Jeeves would have been about 85 (in real terms) by the last of the books.

The books are fabulous.

Or reading Blandings….better still, listen to Martin Jarvis reading it on Audible.

Read some of the Jeeves and Wooster books. I have nearly wet my pants from laughing. 😂🎉🎉

The thought occurred to me... Lol

Fry was made to play Jeeves. It's as if the character was precisely written for him!!! (though I know it's not, of course).

Fry was made to play Jeeves. It's as if the character was precisely written for him!!! (though I know it's not, of course).

Absolutely ..priceless bufoonery...

We who have a sense of humor outnumber the loonies by 10:1. Or is it 3:1 because they can't type? Hmmm... Karl

@@karlfisher1864 The treacle scene was masterful , worthy of Chaplin .

Trolls. Don't worry about them.

The way to handle it Robert is not a flying fuck that 71 idiots disliked it

He was in my day! 😂😂 Made A levels almost a pleasure. I'm a huge Wodehouse fan, Try and Laurie have it bang to rights.

Aunt Agatha makes Dahlia seem like a sweet flower

Spot on, Auntie D !!! 🤣

She's a game old bird :)

That's "toodle-oo", I think.

@@peterfreeman6677 pedant!, 😂😂😂😂😂

I don’t think Aunt Agatha would like the Red Dawn. That’s why I like Dahlia better.

Tooddle-oo!

Pitt and Jolie of early years?

Have you read The Blandings series? This is just the beginning of his genius.

I tried reading the books a few years ago, unfortunately I couldn't get into them, love the show though

@@mysticloverfairy1 I listen to the audio books on YT to help me get through boring tasks.

@@feralkat9370same here! I like to listen while cleaning the house. Makes the time fly.

I grew up with the originals - made me afraid to watch these, but they are rather well done. A few quibbles here and there, but dashed entertaining...

I read the books 20 years ago and have only in the last year have I listened to the audiobooks and watched the televised versions. I prefer the audiobooks read by Cecil.

@@DeirdreMcNamara I never saw these, but they make the books come alive to me, because I read the books when I was a tween, so I think I was a bit too young to quite understand what some of the references were. lol!

@lauramjstewart. You are clinically insane.

Has anyone told you, you're not safe to be out?

I played that line 3 times ha ha. 🤣

Radagast That is because she has an excellent cook named Anatole and the threat of preventing him from feeding at her festive board if he does not do what she says and Bertie goes Ah ah all right Comrade Dahlia...

I immediately concluded her horse was going to win. One should NEVER bet on the favorite. The odds offered are bound to be too scanty.

Wodehouse, not Woodhouse.

You're right, Lorenzo. In the books Jeeves is quite a bit older than Bertie, at least in his forties to Bertie's twenties. Fry is still very good but Laurie is extraordinary as Wooster.

@@bobbyhanly3466 Hear hear !!! His "Very good, Sir" is priceless ! 😘

I always saw Jeeves as a contemporary in age, but not brains to Bertie, and Stephen Frye was born for that part.

PG Wodehouse!!! I want to sit next to him at the heavenly dinner table with Laurie and Fry opposite us Linda Henrietta Muller

Oh yes, Jeeves' response was a gem.

Hilarious

And The Three Stooges as well. That scene is classic. Always make me laugh out loud.

Exactly..

Or you can get the complete series on Amazon for £10

Mysterious Squirrel And don't overlook Mr. Wodehouse, the founder of the feast.

Very funny !😁

Don DiFonso lolol

Don DiFonso, yes, yes, yes!!

*bourgeois. French is difficult 👍🏼

Ah yes, the odious Spode! Based on Enoch Powell, a British National Socialist. What was his outfit? Oh yeah, the Black Shorts. A parody of Mussolini's Black Shirts. In Ireland they had the Blue Shirts. Now in Zug we have the Green Shirts.

@@ergbudster3333 Enoch Powell was not known in those days and was never a National Socialist or any kind of socialist, Spode was based on Oswald Mosley.

The man is positively revolting

@@ergbudster3333 Not Enoch Powell, who was not A nat socialist, but highly prophetic. And superficial reactions to that comment will not be accepted. What's a "Zug?" Half a train?

@@Iain1962 Exactly. Mosley emulated the German Nat Socialist and was joined in that by the Cliveden set.

I was amazed that Wooster actually protested towards the end!

Oh Applesauce Sarah R :-D

Indeed she is, Sarah R. Patricia Lawrence (RIP) was the actress. Pip--pip!

I wasn't even inebriated and I laughed so much I ended up choking and my dogs came to see what all that noise was about! I don't usualy find that sort of comedy that funny, but done by Wooster/Laurie, it was priceless! I don't remember when was the last time I laughed so much, even as I'm binge-watching Jeeves & Wooster AND Fry & Laurie AND QI in parallel!

Great bit of physical comedy

@@MekinakSibiMekinacic I wet myself & had to run to the loo in a fit of laughter. lol

Toodle-loo

Jeeves and Wooster movie here => twitter.com/5bc9f77792b31cf40/status/824453947880460289

Absolutely!!!

Thank you!

Pure comic genius!

Thank...fun...that was you........ *thud.*

We'd all be sozzled inside of ten minutes.

Stephen L. Smith Eulalie

Spode's great shame. I don't know why. At least, he isn't wearing the product. We assume.

@@fawng8017 hello fellow book reader!

Eulalie!

And then there’s Celia …

Extricate not extrapolate, but yes, an interesting idea)))

@@user-de3xr8le6b Oops/ Thankyou for the correction. :)

Welcome)))

The word you needed was “ extricate”, not extrapolate. Totally different meanings!

@judeirwin2222 Correct, though it's often useful to read the previous comments before posting one's own.

"Oh Applesauce Jeeves" :-D :-D lol

Jeeves, his "chum"? The worst possible insult to a gentleman! Karl

He's bright enough, just too good natured and a bit naive when it comes to Aunts and Madeleine Bassetts!

...and not to mention Jeeves...who will make sure he doesn't hook up with any crackpot desperate female as long as Jeeves can hold onto a job with free semi vacays in NY, country homes (no cooking!) Cap d'Antibes (luxury - no cooking or housework, laundry service, etc.) and Cuba...at the time an appealing resort... Don't turn your back on the "proles" chaps!

Assuming he hired Jeeves on chiefly his own initiative, what man could do better?

Indeed. I see Wooster as a bright but sensitive boy who lost his mother at an early age and was then passed from aunt to sunt, barely tolerated by some, Aunt Agatha for one...sending his self confidence into the compost heap and setting him up for Jeeves wiles. No way will Jeeves be "chucked out" by a wife till Jeeves himself is settled in domestic bliss. Where else will he find such an obliging boss!

Spode is a brand of fine china; when Bertie called him "Lord Spode cup", I chortled.

I’m sure you can easily find some Spode shorts.

I love that he has a secret life as a designer of ladies' underwear!

Have you heard his hilarious speech about the superiority of "the British knee"?

he wouldn't have gotten the joke..

He WAS the joke !

Rather you than me.

Hedgehog's Right of Passage considering how long ago this was made, you might need a spade.

@@vamboroolz1612 Things are gloomy and your comment made me laugh. Cheers.

😂😂😂😂

Unfortunately, I think I'm now too old for the lady here shown.

......and the second Bingo Little, it's all rather confusing really.

Those who know, know. Those who don't, don't care.

In the contract, They had to make the episodes a very specific length of time to within a few seconds, which is why they combined a few rather sparse stories together, and otherwise fill them in with piano singalongs, slightly overwrought scenes, and other assorted stuff.

Spot on, more so nowadays.