Wodehouse should be on the school curriculum. There is no easier way to encourage a partiality for reading than through humour.
@GiggityGig3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely agreed.
@dezboss11 жыл бұрын
Very well put. Hugh Laurie once said that reading his books once saved his life when he was going through a serious depression.
@ritawing10643 жыл бұрын
Not the only one to find this.
@williamvananderoye78399 жыл бұрын
Tribute to the grandmaster of British humor: my eternal respect, Mr. Wodehouse. You made the world a lot more tolerable.
@gibbogle11 жыл бұрын
Frye and Laurie are great, I enjoy them enormously. They really capture the spirit of Wodehouse.
@jacktribble52533 жыл бұрын
I discovered Wodehouse through the "Jeeves and Wooster" TV series and I have been reading his work for nearly thirty years now.
@VisiblyJacked3 жыл бұрын
Inspiring to see how PG Wodehouse actually was. I learned two things: he had a smiling, charming manner; and he followed an exercise regimen. That's how you stay happy and productive until 90!
@peterjongsma27544 жыл бұрын
Sparkling prose. No filth. Love him.
@swarnalatamohanbabu5419 жыл бұрын
Mr.Parsons, I have read all the novels of Wodehouse.The humour ,the language-there is no one to beat him. My favourite was Blandings Castle stories. Though I never visited England I could well imagine how Rural England is after I read his novels.Go ahead and get all his stories. Happy reading! MOHAN BABU
@geniusmchaggis9 жыл бұрын
you put it well mohan. i LOVE the blandings and "the empress" and the seemingly dimwitted lord emsworth. he knew what his nephew was really like. he got fooled but he KNEW the mind of that nephew. he had a few smarts. and i stress a "few" so delicious pg is. his bio is odd. he lived a charmed sweet life. as he deserved. he was an angel in human form.
@fabclark1235 жыл бұрын
You must visit one day Mr Babu.
@adityanambyar74 жыл бұрын
Thank you for being right by my side during the worst and best times, Mr Wodehouse. Like your unforgettable characters you've spread sweetness and light with such ease and aplomb that some of it has rubbed off on me. While you may maintain that your books are not true to life, I maintain that there is something profound in your worldview and I find it absolutely essential to share your view to be able to take things as they come, in life. I wish you were alive and writing.
@ritawing10643 жыл бұрын
Amen to that!
@GiggityGig3 жыл бұрын
Truth be told, Wodehouse's humourous novels are better than any antidepressants at warding off despair.
@paulredhead86032 жыл бұрын
Beautiful comment, Sir.
@joannesmith9486Ай бұрын
.. But, he left us with so much to be thankful for… and it all lives on!! ❤😂😊
@michaeleaton60557 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Cecil reading Wodehouse is beyond compare - he is Wooster. If you get the audiobooks, make sure that it is him !
@KN-bx9nt2 жыл бұрын
The only one to listen to, just hilarious! No other narrator is quite as funny
@j.dunlop82952 жыл бұрын
A writer's, writer of prose wordsmithing, like few others, truly known for turning a phrase! Sarcasm without end!
@abhirajjoshi11 жыл бұрын
Your life is incomplete, if you haven't read P G Wodehouse.
@jtpinnyc12 жыл бұрын
I would love to see these interviews with Wodehouse in their entirety.
@sir_humpy2 жыл бұрын
To put it into perspective, Wodehouse is of the generation between Lord Grantham of Downtown Abbey and his daughters, so he got a glimpse as a young adult of the aristocratic victorian and edwardian life before it began to come apart at the seams in and after the Great War.
@ericbutler828411 жыл бұрын
Nice to see and hear the old friend.
@paulredhead86032 жыл бұрын
Quite simply, a genius. His world was such a lovely place.
@harshalbhanarkar4 жыл бұрын
He is the best humour writer for me!
@Chahlie2 жыл бұрын
Nobody has ever made me laugh so much, although Voltaire is a close second :)
@deepachand96893 жыл бұрын
I have always felt that the early writers of I love lucy Bob Carrol Jr and Madeline Pugh must have been avid fans of P.G Wodehouse because their humor is rather like seeing a Wodehouse novel ,one has to forget about logic and just enjoy the series of comedy of errors they spin ,its quite a coincidence that Wodehouse lived in New York from 1950 till his death And his novels based on Hollywood are my favourite ,as he describes a leading lady "the queen of stormy emotions" ,the rest of the cast and crew take refuge when she is on the rampage !
@jtpinnyc2 жыл бұрын
If you read some of Carl Hiassen's early novels they also leave you feeling that he's been a fan of Wodehouse. The subject material and style are different, but he has the same facility with language and a keen knack to squeeze every last bit of humor from a sentence.
@anuradhainamdar89674 жыл бұрын
Yes,Sir Wodehouse humorous novels are simply marvellous, you can't but laugh that the ingenuity of characters and plots. "Something fresh", Uncle Fred" " Blandings Castle " are all very funny. The Jeeves and Wooster books are indispenzable for a y serious buff of farce. Mr. Mulliners books are inreppresebly masterful.
@tonykeith76 Жыл бұрын
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
@tomatenpaprika63232 жыл бұрын
My hero
@conradclipper5 жыл бұрын
"Butter for lunch, which rather shook me to my foundations" this makes me laugh a lot.
@bobbywimsy67415 жыл бұрын
tapeghosts Donald Trump, sane and rational for one day, would shake my foundations. Better a shaky Merkel than a jumpy LaTrumpa!
@user-ii3lg9xb9c4 жыл бұрын
Обожаю его!
@dorianphilotheates37692 жыл бұрын
With each passing year, it’s getting increasingly difficult to believe not only that people like that once actually existed, but that they were in fact not all that uncommon...
@jtpinnyc10 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know where I can find the full versions of all of these interviews? I could seriously listen to P.G. Wodehouse talk all day. To be honest I think I could have sat watching him type with a pipe in his mouth for 10 hours straight.
@DManThe122 жыл бұрын
Did you ever find these?
@jtpinnyc2 жыл бұрын
@@DManThe12 I didn't, unfortunately. They must exist somewhere!
@lawrencedoliveiro91043 жыл бұрын
Just been reading “PSmith, Journalist” which, being set among organized criminal gangs in New York, was a little bit edgier than I was expecting from him. Quite entertaining, all the same -- if you overlook the fact that some racial stereotypes have not aged well ...
@orlando0989 жыл бұрын
As a long-time Wodehouse fan I thoroughly disagree with Nick Lucas. I always thought Fry and Laurie did a great job bringing the humour and feel of the novels to life. He seems to think they should have played the parts with more seriousness, but seems not to have noticed the books are light comedy (Wodehouse compared his style of novel writing to the musical comedies of his day and said they were the opposite of novels that go into serious real life problems).
@geniusmchaggis9 жыл бұрын
i dont know.....i think hugh laurie was a little buffoonish. wooster in the novels is actually well educated and very well spoken in his way. hes slangy. 1920s british upper crusty slangy. he could pass for classy when necessary. just barely. but he wasnt the village idiot like laurie portrays him. i see him as a handsome rich fella (ie not laurie) educated but with the mind of a 23 year old. perpetually.
@orlando0989 жыл бұрын
genius mchaggis Hm, I'd say a lot of that describes how Hugh is in the TV show quite well really, he's good looking and definitely well spoken (and upper crust slangy) and quite classy (despite the lapses of taste that Jeeves disapproves of - that are also there in the books), though I guess he is slightly on the buffoonish side compared to the books, but a certain amount of silliness is definitely there in the books too. And I'd say while the Bertie of the books has had a supposedly "good" education (at the right schools etc) he's not exactly an intellectual. A lot of his "culture" he seems to have picked up in sayings from Jeeves. But I guess it's a question of taste. I found Hugh's version entertaining, but for you he went too far in the buffoonery.
@geniusmchaggis9 жыл бұрын
orlando098 i cant put my finger on it! my picture of wooster is not quite laurie. and i LOVE hugh laurie. he does a good job really. hes entertaining no doubt. maybe its in the somewhat overblown facial expressions. i see jeeves differently than fry too. i see him as more refined in appearance. fry has a galootish look that doesnt quite fit for me. it must be a visual thing.
@geniusmchaggis9 жыл бұрын
orlando098 my god do i LOVE PGW!!!!
@styxcreek9 жыл бұрын
I've only just discovered Wodehouse and I'm hooked. It seems he was prolific. Is it all worth reading ?
@geniusmchaggis9 жыл бұрын
YESSSS. he has a prime period tho. so 99% is sweeeeet.
@fabulousmyriad2679 жыл бұрын
When I first delved into Wodehouse, I had my favourite story arcs: Jeeves and Wooster and the Mr Mulliner short stories. Later I branched out into the other arcs and you will find some firm favourites. What makes Wodehouse stand out were the ingenious farcial elements & the relative innocence of his characters. He himself admitted that his stories were like "a kind of musical comedy completely ignoring real life altogether". I can read my favourite or least favourite stories and always find a line or paragraph that will leave me giggling. God bless that man!
@geniusmchaggis9 жыл бұрын
Tafami i started with "summer lightning" and "heavy weather" the prime period for blandings castle. im glad i started there. right in the thick of the cream. i love all his work but havent read his later (latest?) im afraid to. it might not be as good as his golden period.
@seren487254 жыл бұрын
YES.
@rajus.58193 жыл бұрын
An author's very early books and those written at the end of his career are not as good as those written when he was in "mid season form". PGW's best books are those which were first published in the years 1924 to 1964, roughly.
@Berniewahlbrinck3 жыл бұрын
The speaker sounds like Terry Wogan! Is it him?
@calicojack67113 жыл бұрын
It most certainly is!
@jk-be9od8 жыл бұрын
What a lovely guy
@jkovert11 жыл бұрын
Watch Around the World in 80 Days. Some of it's goofy, but Phineas Fogg (Brosnan) and his valet (Eric Idle) are fab. Idle wouldnt work as Jeeves, but Brosnan, definitely as Bertie.
@MLJohnsonian11 жыл бұрын
Hear, Hear jtpinnyc. So would I!
@dezboss11 жыл бұрын
Brosnan? Sorry, just can't see it. Love him as Bond, another of my favourite fictional Englishmen but Bertie? Nope.
@woodyroberts57013 жыл бұрын
Was for the other kind of bbc on this video ffs
@frereanaktom9910 жыл бұрын
"Stephen Frye & Hugh Laurie should never have been allowed to get within 50' ............" nick lucas comment below. for reasons best known [to the bank? someone's ego? i don't know] hollywood and the bbc have a sorry history of "remakes." bbc tv shows second rate plays and light entertainment rather than daring to show anything of real quality that was shot in b/w
@jkovert11 жыл бұрын
Hugh sucked. Piers Brosnan makes a much better Bertie.
@Grundsau4711 жыл бұрын
Stephen Frye & Hugh Laurie should never have been allowed to get within 50' of even a NOVEL of Wodehouse's, yet alone been permitted to attempt to play Jeeves and/or Wooster for any price! The 2 of them saw fit to camp & generally prance&swish their way thru the series & imagined that no-one would catch them in the act; they had not one iota of respect or regard for the characters they attempted to portray...
@stefanwalker38105 жыл бұрын
Tosh tosh. YOU Hacklebernie Grundsau should not be allowed within 50’ of a keyboard with such a lack of taste in how PG Woodhouse novels should be played out! Fry & laurie kept up the gold standard all the way through all the series they acted in and I wouldn’t have it done any other way!!
@A3Creation215 жыл бұрын
I think Fry and Laurie did considerable justice to the novels. It's impossible to fully capture the true essence of Wodehouse's writing anyway. How the master wordsmith plays with the words....it's not possible to play that out on television . Fry and Laurie had realised this and they had turned down the offer to play Jeeves and Wooster initially but when they realised that somebody else would get the role to play the characters they took the job after some trepidation
@styxcreek9 жыл бұрын
I've only just discovered Wodehouse and I'm hooked. It seems he was prolific. Is it all worth reading ?
@orlando0989 жыл бұрын
He wrote around 100 books, so yes (he was prolific)... I think you can't go much wrong with Jeeves and Wooster and the Blandings Castle ones, and then dip into some of the others too. They're not all equally good, and sometimes some of the plots start seeming a bit similar, but they're always entertaining as far as I remember. (My main Wodehouse reading phase was quite a while ago).
@styxcreek9 жыл бұрын
i can't get enough Wodehouse ! he has ruined all other authors for me. thank goodness he wrote so much.
@jtpinnyc2 жыл бұрын
I think his earlier work isn't quite as good as his later work - it wasn't really until the 1930's that he fully got into the swing of his style. I like some of his pre-1930 stuff but the really hysterical stuff is after that.