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tv: Jeeves and Wooster

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tv - Jeeves and Wooster

Has anyone else out there seen any of these episodes? I doubt they made it over to the US.

Its very very rare anything on t.v entertains me, but I got a loan of about six episodes on dvd from my sis and I dont think I've laughed so much in a long time.

The humour is very intelligent and alot the gags are quite very subtle. The stories develop beautifully with some sort of crazy calamity at the end.

Would highly recommend it, if you not seen it before.
 
I would love to see this. I've read some P.G. Wodehouse (the satirist from whose works Jeeves & Wooster are taken) and for the early part of the last century, this was some excellent comedy.
 
yes, a superb series of productions of a superb series of novels :D

wodehouse is effortlessly funny. the writing is something to revel in, and it translates to the small screen beautifully.

however, it really is fry & laurie that make the series so amazing... they are the definitive jeeves and wooster; so capable, so perfectly suited. wooster's suitably air-headed but damnedly-good-intentioned; jeeves is perfectly restrained, sarcastic and utterly manipulative. these two - such a great comedic match anyway - really own these roles imho.

such a fantastic ambience is created; the land of lord chuffnal ('what ho, chuffy!') and milly ('ooh bertie - you weally must twy to forget the fountains of young love') is beautifully represented with an adequately warm glow of near-sepia nostalgia.

interestingly, hugh laurie is becoming something of a star in the US as the lead in a series called 'house'.
 
^ agreed - they were such a great choice for the part. i've been a huge fan of them both - together and seperately - through 'a bit...', 'friday live', 'saturday live', 'blackadder', etc.

i'm intrigued as to how hugh laurie scored the house role...

alasdair
 
well - he was in africa filming the remake of Flight of the Phoenix, and got sent a copy of the script. he did a demo take in the bathroom of some shitty hotel in Nairobi & the casting director saw him and thought - wow, he's really captured the role.

the guy didn't even realise Laurie was british!
 
i'm drifiting slightly here...

i had no idea. that's great. i initially did not enjoy the show - too many melodramatic aphorisms and, it's silly i know, but i did not like the character's accent.

however, i warmed to it and now i really enjoy it. having grown up with hugh laurie on british tv in such different roles, it's still a bit odd.

alasdair
 
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