I want to give him a hug and a kiss for all the joy he has given me and my friends and family throughout several lifetimes. May the new generations continue to find joy in his writings, and may the TikTok way of life be short lived.
It's interesting that Wodehouse pronounced the year 1902 as "nineteen--two". I wasn't aware that people did that. I've always said "nineteen-oh-two", but then I wasn't around to know how people said it at the time.
The song 'Headmaster Ritual' by The Smiths, which about draconian old-school teachers terrorising pupils in mid-century Manchester, has the line "Sir leads the troops, jealous of youth/Same old jokes since nineteen-two", which is clearly deliberate - suggests it was indeed a thing.
Watching Hugh Laurie (aka Dr. House) in his 1990-93 Jeeves and Wooster series on YT, I wanted to glimpse the author and so found this. Not all great wordsmiths have seen their creations, an antique of bygone days as he admits in this clip, yet live on so long. Laurie and his Jeeves are sparkling, inane, a diversion into another time, kept in its best place, history.
Having read most of the novels before discovering the series, Hugh instantly seemed as divinely destined to play Bertie as Leo McKern had apparently been bred for Horace Rumpole's magnificent leap from print to TV immortality. Stephen was younger and more handsome than the Jeeves born in my brain, but it only took a couple of episodes to dissipate the dissonance. The lads crafted a classic even a Yank can treasure. This and Blackadder also made me appreciate the genius(es) who subsequently sensed a latent Dr. House lurking beneath Hugh's previously-deployed musical and light comedy gifts. Never saw that one coming, but certainly glad they did.
I must admit, Bertie on the Somme, didn't have the usual laughs expected. Not enough singing in the baths and Wodehouse never introduced a cow creamer storyline, which I think was a mistake.
I've only just learned about woodhouse from a Christopher Hitchens lecture. Is Woodhouse a subversive political author or something? All I've known of him is the general idea of Bernie and Jeeves.
I would've thought the class of youthful, largely independent, men-about-town depicted by Bertie Wooster continued into the 1930's. Even in the 1950's, it was possible to hear remanences of his cocky, swaggering language and attitudes. Though I think many of his caste became junior commissioned officers in WW1 and suffered the highest attrition rate. Hugh Lawrie's `Lieutenant George' in "Blackadder Goes Forth" is almost Bertie Wooster in uniform. Then 20 years later, another generation of his caste were being annihilated in WW2. I suspect a good many of those were fighter pilots...
P. G. Wodehouse was descended from Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet, M.P. for Norfolk from 1737 to 1768. Members of the senior branch of the family became a baron in 1797 and an earl in 1866. The writer was from a junior branch of the family, admittedly, but it gives you an idea of the sort of family he came from.
I only learned about Woodhouse 2 weeks ago, from a Christopher Hitchens talk. Could you please tell me what I am missing? Are Bernie and Jeeves some sort of subversive political writing?
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I want to give him a hug and a kiss for all the joy he has given me and my friends and family throughout several lifetimes. May the new generations continue to find joy in his writings, and may the TikTok way of life be short lived.
absolutely!
'Rather clarifying, if that's the word I want, Jeeves'. 'Yes, Sir'.
It's interesting that Wodehouse pronounced the year 1902 as "nineteen--two". I wasn't aware that people did that. I've always said "nineteen-oh-two", but then I wasn't around to know how people said it at the time.
The song 'Headmaster Ritual' by The Smiths, which about draconian old-school teachers terrorising pupils in mid-century Manchester, has the line "Sir leads the troops, jealous of youth/Same old jokes since nineteen-two", which is clearly deliberate - suggests it was indeed a thing.
@@rogerdavidson6236 Thank you for that reference. I will listen to that song later.
Watching Hugh Laurie (aka Dr. House) in his 1990-93 Jeeves and Wooster series on YT, I wanted to glimpse the author and so found this. Not all great wordsmiths have seen their creations, an antique of bygone days as he admits in this clip, yet live on so long. Laurie and his Jeeves are sparkling, inane, a diversion into another time, kept in its best place, history.
He's why we need to keep white culture alive.
Well said
@David M.Jackson quite!
Miss me with your scruffy Dr. House?
@@richardmiranda640 No white culture, no Chinese culture, no Japanese culture, no Indian culture, just black culture? That's ignorance. No thanks.
Thank you so much for posting this. Wodehouse is my favorite writer. He is charming!
Brilliant writer.
Thank you very much!
Total legend.
Having read most of the novels before discovering the series, Hugh instantly seemed as divinely destined to play Bertie as Leo McKern had apparently been bred for Horace Rumpole's magnificent leap from print to TV immortality. Stephen was younger and more handsome than the Jeeves born in my brain, but it only took a couple of episodes to dissipate the dissonance. The lads crafted a classic even a Yank can treasure. This and Blackadder also made me appreciate the genius(es) who subsequently sensed a latent Dr. House lurking beneath Hugh's previously-deployed musical and light comedy gifts. Never saw that one coming, but certainly glad they did.
'Up to 1914'. Yes, well, 1914 put a different complexion on things, for sure.
I must admit, Bertie on the Somme, didn't have the usual laughs expected.
Not enough singing in the baths and Wodehouse never introduced a cow creamer storyline, which I think was a mistake.
I've only just learned about woodhouse from a Christopher Hitchens lecture. Is Woodhouse a subversive political author or something? All I've known of him is the general idea of Bernie and Jeeves.
Just couldn't get the staff after that, curious.
@@niemand262 Why don't you read it and make up your own mind about that?
@@sunnyjim1355 by it, do you mean almost 100 novels?
I would've thought the class of youthful, largely independent, men-about-town depicted by Bertie Wooster continued into the 1930's. Even in the 1950's, it was possible to hear remanences of his cocky, swaggering language and attitudes. Though I think many of his caste became junior commissioned officers in WW1 and suffered the highest attrition rate. Hugh Lawrie's `Lieutenant George' in "Blackadder Goes Forth" is almost Bertie Wooster in uniform. Then 20 years later, another generation of his caste were being annihilated in WW2. I suspect a good many of those were fighter pilots...
... and all for a country
being handed on a plate
to dinghy people .....
He obviously moved in different circles than most folks.
P. G. Wodehouse was descended from Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet, M.P. for Norfolk from 1737 to 1768.
Members of the senior branch of the family became a baron in 1797 and an earl in 1866. The writer was from a junior branch of the family, admittedly, but it gives you an idea of the sort of family he came from.
How about a bit more description to accompany this?
And there was me thinking he based them on Hitler and Goebbels.
I only learned about Woodhouse 2 weeks ago, from a Christopher Hitchens talk. Could you please tell me what I am missing? Are Bernie and Jeeves some sort of subversive political writing?
@@niemand262 No. Sphinx the Minx is talking nonsense. Don't worry about it. Just enjoy Wodehouse.
@@sarahvegangarden4822 Well and succinctly advised.