And I recognize the manor. From “Jeeves and Wooster.” There, it’s “Totleigh Towers.”
Hell, I even recognize the layout of the building. After some research, it’s “Highclere Castle” in Hampshire.
Also, I was first introduced to Michelle Dockery from the SkyOne version of Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather, the only Discworld film I found satisfactorily close to the source material. Can I say she’s so pretty? She’s so pretty.
As I watch this series again, I’m reminded by just how perfect Spode is as a character.
It reminds me about how Sasha Baron Cohen has recently tried to make fun of dictators. I haven’t seen the film, but one way or another… Spode is still my favourite parody of a dictator, including an odd preoccupation with root vegetables.
Brrrrrussel Sprouts!
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Roderick Spode Quite possibly my favourite character on “Jeeves and Wooster” as the amateur British dictator. |
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Bertie Wooster, in “The Inimitable Jeevess” by PG Wodehouse Seriously though, their bromance is adorable. Bertie, travelling to the south of France, has a bright yellow cummerbund (kind of a sash) that he got and has been wanting to wear, but he’s been hiding it from Jeeves because he knows exactly how Jeeves feels about such fashions. That he insists on wearing it, despite Jeeves’ tut-tutting, turns them into an old fighting married couple. It is so lovely and hilarious. |
I’ve been meaning to read these for a long time. I loved the show, and appreciate that the two comments on the cover of the book are indeed from Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
You don’t analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. - Stephen Fry
The funniest writer ever to put words to paper. - Hugh Laurie.
Woo woo.
I just can’t believe it’s almost 20 Francs.
Jeeves and Wooster sing “Puttin’ on the Ritz”
“It seems to be a reasonably straightforward syncapated five four time signature.”
Lovely start to a wonderful British series: “Jeeves and Wooster” based on the books by P.G. Wodehouse.
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie star as the titular characters in the 1920s, an English hopeless-rich gentleman wastrel and his supremely intelligent and cultured manservant Jeeves. Jeeves seems to know just about everything, and protects Bertie Wooster from scheming aunts and his own idiocy.
The series was made in the early 1990s, but is timeless in its quality.
Hugh Laurie is famous today for “House M.D.” but if you really admire the man, go back into his British roots where he was a household name as far back as 20 years ago.
Quite different from Dr. House, he played heartwarmingly dithering idiots in “Blackadder,” and in the excellent rendition of P.G. Wodehouse’s books in “Jeeves and Wooster”
