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From: sham@cs.arizona.edu (Shamim Zvonko Mohamed)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
Summary: Berlin Broadcasts
Date: 22 Jan 93 02:42:09 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

In article <1993Jan21.203537.29848@walter.bellcore.com> yatin@wildthing.bellcore.com writes:
>I seem to recall that there was some flap over Wodehouse's alleged involvement
>in Nazi propaganda during WWII.  Anyone out there have ``further and better
>particulars"?

"A spot of bother," you mean?

All bullshit. He did make broadcasts from Berlin, but they were not propaganda
in any sense of the word. There is an excellent book called "Wodehouse at War"
that includes the complete texts to all the broadcasts, as well as commentary.
(Unfortunately it's at home, and I can't remember the name of the author. The
book is a hardcover with a plain red dust-jacket.)

-s
--
"Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale.  He will continue to release
future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own.  He
has made a world for us to live in and delight in."           -- Evelyn Waugh
Shamim Mohamed (shamim@cs.arizona.edu)
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From: kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian)
Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:09:20 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University


In article <1993Jan25.132314@axion.bt.co.uk>, 
ntitley@axion.bt.co.uk (Nigel Titley) writes:

|> More trivia, what was Aunt Dahlia's first name?

Give up. Always known her as Dahlia Travers. :-( 

Incidentally, did you know that Dahlia has a younger sister Katherine making
her Aunt Katherine to Bertie and that Bertie has yet another Aunt Emily who
finds mention in a couple of stories? 

-kannan
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From: apte@glacier.Stanford.EDU (Pushkar Apte)
Subject: Hello out there!
Originator: apte@glacier.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, California
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 20:01:50 GMT



This posting is partly out of the sheer joy of seeing a prompt on my 
usually obnoxious .newsrc asking whether I wanted to subscribe to 
alt.fan.wodehouse.  Do I?  You gotta be kidding!!!

But since I'm on the net, let me post one of my 
numerous favorite P.G. Quotations:

Jeeves on Bertie:

"He has a heart of gold, but (he's) mentally neglible."

The Pride of the Woosters (I think)

Pushkar
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From: amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur)
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Subject: Jeeves' Peeves
Date: 22 Jan 93 11:06:18
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shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
>One of the most hilarious moments in a Jeeves/Bertie book is when someone
>recites a parody of a romantic poem, in which the setting sun is compared
>in appearance to an overly rare slice of roast beef.

Speaking of hilarious moments in a Jeeves/Wooster book, how about when Jeeves
takes a dislike to something that Bertie is very fond of. As far as I remember,
every Jeeves book has one of these - an ugly scarf, a flashy sweater, a pipe...

Does anyone remember the dialogues that occur or descriptions of the taboo 
items ?

Usually the book begins with Jeeves showing his disapproval and Bertie laughing
it off, and ends with Jeeves either using subtle blackmail or Bertie himself
realizing the error of his ways and abandoning it.


Toodle-doo,


Alok.
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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Re: First!
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:02:06 GMT


In article <1993Jan21.153903.46604@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> 
> The following gems were both uttered by the same character in the same
> story: name the character and the story:

Bingo Little in "The Inimitable Jeeves".

> (a)	So you put the whole binge up to Jeeves and see if he can't
> 	scare up a happy ending somehow.  Tell him my future is in his
> 	hands, and that, if the wedding bells ring out, he can rely on
> 	me, even unto half my kingdom.  Well, call it ten quid.

Ch. 1: Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum

> 	"What! I'm hanged if I do!"
> 	"And you call yourself a pal of mine!"
> 	"Yes, I know; but there are limits."
> 	"Bertie," said *****, reproachfully, "I saved your life once."
> 	"When?"
> (b)	"Didn't I?  It must have been some other fellow then..."

Ch. 2: No Wedding Bells for Bingo

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
From: watkins@wpi.WPI.EDU (Daniel Joseph Watkins)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre
Date: 23 Jan 1993 04:16:19 GMT
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In article <Jan21.062413.87684@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
>
>[This group is long overdue!]
>|> Both Fry and Laurie play their
>|> parts to the hilt, Hugh Laurie especially. 
Hear, Hear!
>
>Still here're my grades.  
>
>Bertie = B+
>Jeeves = A-

Being a fan of both Steven Fry and Hugh Laurie from their work on Blackadder
I must agree with the original poster: top notch!

Dan.

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From: kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian)
Subject: Re: Wonderful language of Wodehouse
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:09:06 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University


In article <1993Jan24.210440.8047@ennews.eas.asu.edu>, 
rao@parikalpik.eas.asu.edu (Subbarao Kambhampati) writes:

|> Talking about his language, here are two gems (quoting from memory)
|> that always crack me up when I think of them...

How about this? [ Context : Bertie is engaged to Florence Craye who is trying
to improve his mind by making him wade through a book titled, "Types of Ethical
Theory." Bertie finds it an over-rated pastime. ]

"... when I opened it at random I struck a page beginning :

The postulate or common understanding involved in speech is certainly
co-extensive, in the obligation it carries, with the social organism of which
language is the instrument, and the ends of which it is an effort to subserve.

All perfectly true, no doubt; but not the sort of thing to spring on a lad with
a morning head."

|> I myself started wodehouse with a very non-standard book--not a Jeeves
|> one, not a Psmith one, and not even a Blandings castle one -- but one
|> called "Luck of Bodkins" (does anyone else remember this?). 

Yes, I own a copy. Monty Bodkin also appears in "Heavy Weather" (where he is 
Lord Emsworth's secretary; as before, he needs to hold on to a job for a whole
year before Gertrude's pater will give the nod for the nuptials; Galahad
Threepwood is threatening _not_ to publish his memoirs in this case), and in
"Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin" 

As for the emerging Blandings vs Brinkley factions, let me just roll up my
sleeves and .. er .. say nothing! I am loath to take sides on this issue.

"Leave it to Psmith" is my favorite Blandings story; the Emsworth-Psmith-McTodd
encounter is priceless as is the flower-pot motif and to read about the
exploits of both Emsworth and Psmith in the same book is quite a treat. 

-kannan 

ps - For sheer enterprise, I think Ukridge stands untouched. Recall "Ukridge's
Dog College," "The Accident Syndicate," and Battling Billson,
that prize-pugilist whose self-appointed manager Ukridge becomes, only to find
that he (Battling Billson, that is) has suddenly gone and "got religion,"
embracing the brotherhood of man, as it were, and refusing to fight. Ukridge,
really, might well have said, "I say, laddie! I take umbrage!"  

To all Ukridge fans, if you get both of these right, I will be quite impressed:

(1) Who narrates the Ukridge stories ? (easy)
(2) Who is Battling Billson's girl-friend? (The one who insists that he hang up
his gloves thereby blowing up Ukridge's get-rich-quick schemes.)  
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From: reidc@syscen.com (Reid Carson/Development)
Subject: Re: Older Wodehouse for Television
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:12:21 GMT
Organization: Systems Center, Inc., Reston, VA, USA

In article 1083@quirm.terminus.ericsson.se,  andy@terminus.ericsson.se (Andy Davies) writes:
> In article 3196@tymix.Tymnet.COM, filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit) writes:
> >There was some Wodehouse on TV about 15 years ago.  I don't remember
> >which stories they did, although I could look it up.  They did not
> >involve Wooster, but another recurring British Layabout.
> 
> Was it Secheveral (sp) Mullinar ?  
> Hence "Sir who did you say you were ?"

  This would be the series called "Wodehouse Playhouse", based on many of
the Master's short stories, including, though not limited to, the Mulliner
stories, which were told (in the stories) by Mr. Mulliner in the Angler's
Rest about his many relatives.

  They starred John Alderton and Pauline Collins, though I believe the last
batch only had Alderton - I have a vague recollection that they got divorced
around this time.  The first stories were introduced by P. G. himself.

  If there are any Wodehouse fans who haven't seen the series (I've seen
them all several times) I highly recommend them.  All are at least
entertaining, and several are quite hilarious.  (Of course, I'm a big
fan of Collins and Alderton.)

---
Reid W. Carson - reidc@syscen.com - What I tell you three times is true.
From: ptyaxel@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Seymour Axelrod)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Featherstonehaugh
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:16:00 GMT
Organization: SUNY at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

My old copy, long since mislaid, of the Concise Oxford Dictionary (one of the 
descendants, edited by the sainted H.W. Fowler, of the original OED) gave
"Fanshaw" as the pronunciation of "Featherstonehaugh".  Times change, no
doubt, and we [sometimes] change with them.  So Philip Whitman's and Rao 
Akella's sources are both correct. 
--Ax 
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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Re: Jeeves' Peeves
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:22:34 GMT


In article <1993Jan22.201638.8856@cs.cornell.edu>, aleta@cs.cornell.edu (Aleta Ricciardi) writes:
> 
> In article <1993Jan22.173939.4872@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
> 
> |> >every Jeeves book has one of these - an ugly scarf, a flashy sweater, a pipe...
> |> 
> |> purple socks, a banjolele...
> 
> bertie's mustache, his spiffy white mess jacket with the brass buttons,
> his plus-fours, 

..his "pretty brightish scarlet" cummerbund ("The Inimitable Jeeves: Aunt
Agatha Speaks Her Mind");

..his Old Etonian spats ("The Inimitable Jeeves: The Delayed Exit of Claude
and Eustace");

..his large china vase with crimson dragons, birds, dogs, snakes, "and a thing
that looked like a leopard" ("Very Good, Jeeves!: The Inferiority Complex of
Old Sippy");

..his Monte Carlo cruise ("Very Good, Jeeves!: Jeeves and the Yule-tide
Spirit");

..and of course, red-haired young ladies like Miss Roberta Wickham ("Very
Good, Jeeves!: Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit");

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>

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From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
Subject: Re: Jeeves' Peeves
Organization: Dept. of Chem, Columbia U, New York
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:39:39 GMT
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In article <AMATHUR.93Jan22110618@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu> amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes:
>shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
>>One of the most hilarious moments in a Jeeves/Bertie book is when someone
>>recites a parody of a romantic poem, in which the setting sun is compared
>>in appearance to an overly rare slice of roast beef.
>
>Speaking of hilarious moments in a Jeeves/Wooster book, how about when Jeeves
>takes a dislike to something that Bertie is very fond of. As far as I remember,
>every Jeeves book has one of these - an ugly scarf, a flashy sweater, a pipe...

purple socks, a banjolele...

Does anyone know:  is a banjolele the same as a banjo?  Which reminds me of 
the joke:  "What is the definition of a gentleman?"  Ans:  "Someone who knows
how to play the banjo, but doesn't."    :-)    :-)    :-)    :-)    :-)

	-P.
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From: kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian)
Subject: Re: Golf?  Spats?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:13:53 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University


In article <C1ADAs.J6o@acsu.buffalo.edu>, 
ptyaxel@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Seymour Axelrod) writes:

|> Why has no one mentioned the golf stories?  or the Young Men in Spats?  Surely 
|> the airheads there are as inspired creations as Jeeves and Wooster, or Mr 
|> Mulliner's relations, or Psmith.  (Thanks to Bapa Rao for reminding me of the 
|> greatest first line in English verse:  "Across the pale parabola of joy ..." 
|> [Ralston McTodd]).

Poetry apart, Psmith's versatility and love for precision has always inspired
me. 

"... In fact, what sort of work ...?" [Miss Clarkson at the Employment Bureau]
"Employment."
"What sort of employment do you require?"
"Broadly speaking," said Psmith, "any reasonably salaried position that has
nothing to do with fish."

[also priceless, are the Emsworth-Psmith encounter and the chrysanthemum motif]

|> Is it my imagination, or is the Indian subcontinent in fact way ahead of the 
|> rest of the world in appreciation of Wodehouse?

No. No imagination there. 

-kannan
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From: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
Subject: Re: war camp stories
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:35:18 GMT

	Arne Halvoren writes:

	  And now for an expert question:
>
>    I have heard somewhere that PG after the war made something comic about
>    british prisoner of war, kind of life in german prisoner camps thing,
>    but that he this time completly missed his readers, and that he got
>    a lot of flames for this.
>
>    Anything in this??, and is the stories if they exist to be get, to day
>    we may have fun, me, I am born after the war.


One hesitates to answer as an expert but as I remember this episode
PGW was caught up in the German tour of France in 1940. Apparently,
the dear boy didn't take all those reports of impending breakthroughs
seriously (of course, neither did the British and French armies
either, but that's another group). So he was picked up by the Nazis
and agreed to do some radio broadcasts for them. These weren't of the
Lord Haw-Haw throw down your guns fellows variety but they were viewed
with some distaste by the British high command. I think that PGW was
eventually repatriated (he may have been a US citizen by then) and
after the war some spoil-sports thought he should have been tried for
treason. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed. I have some details on
this at home and will provide more info if anyone wants. This
episode is often used as proof of the essential distance that PGW had
from contemporary events.

Keith Morgan



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From: twood@windward.it.uswc.uswest.com (Tim Woodward)
Subject: Re: Gussy Finknottle
Organization: U S WEST Information Technologies
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:10:18 GMT

>A note about the casting of the current PBS TV series...
>
>Between the first series and second, both Madalyn Basset and Gussie
>Fink-Nottle were recast.  My mother didn't approve of the change,
>saying that the "new" Miss Basset comes off like the "dumb blonde"
>in old movies, though the new Gussie is more "sensible" than the  
>old one.
>
  I noticed that the second Gussie was the same actor who was Stiggles
  in the first season episode where they were all betting on the
  various competitions at the country fair.
From: miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: First!
Date: 25 Jan 93 12:36:52 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <C1DurJ.8Kt@news2.cis.umn.edu>, rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella) writes:
> 
> In article <1993Jan21.153903.46604@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>> 
>> The following gems were both uttered by the same character in the same
>> story: name the character and the story:
> 
> Bingo Little in "The Inimitable Jeeves".
> 
>> (a)	So you put the whole binge up to Jeeves and see if he can't
>> 	scare up a happy ending somehow.  Tell him my future is in his
>> 	hands, and that, if the wedding bells ring out, he can rely on
>> 	me, even unto half my kingdom.  Well, call it ten quid.
> 
> Ch. 1: Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum
> 
>> 	"What! I'm hanged if I do!"
>> 	"And you call yourself a pal of mine!"
>> 	"Yes, I know; but there are limits."
>> 	"Bertie," said *****, reproachfully, "I saved your life once."
>> 	"When?"
>> (b)	"Didn't I?  It must have been some other fellow then..."
> 
> Ch. 2: No Wedding Bells for Bingo
> 
> -- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
> 

I think you're probably right on target here; trouble is it's hard to
refer to specific stories since there have been several different
packages.  In the 1967 Herbert Jenkins incarnation, _The World of
Jeeves_, (a) and (b) are both in Chapter 1, entitled "Jeeves in the
Springtime."

What this field needs is a standard way of referring to stories.
Usborne's _The Penguin Wodehouse Companion_ (itself published earlier
under a different title, also by Penguin) might be a good foundation,
since it traces the publication history.

-Ken
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From: udaya@portia.rice.edu (Udaya Sathuvalli 207Cox x3626)
Subject: Re: Question
Organization: Rice University
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:44:49 GMT

In article <1k1n23INN7gi@shaggyman.cis.ohio-state.edu>, rao@cis.ohio-state.edu (roshan m rao) writes:
|> I was wondering how many sisters, Lord Emsworth has to make his life miserable.
|> My list:
|>     Julia, Constance, Dora, Hermione.
|> 
|> Anyone care to add more aunts ?

I suppose you mean sisters. 

In total, Lord Emsworth has ten sisters.
They are:
Lady Ann Warblington (Something fresh)
Lady Constance Keeble/ Schoonmaker (in stories after Something Fresh)
Lady Hermione Wedge
Lady Charlotte 
Lady Julia Fish
Lady Dora Garland
Lady Georgiana, Marchioness of Alcester
Lady Jane (deceased)
Lady Florence Moresby
Lady Diana Phipps (the only one of the ten sisters not given
		   to chewing broken bottles)

I have used the following without permission:

Garrison, Daniel H., "Who's who in Wodehouse", Revised Edition, 
International Polygonics Ltd., New York, 1989.


Also, I remember that Richard Usborne has a paragraph
about the Threepwood sisters in  his notes to
"Sunset at Blandings"
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From: debaser@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Andy Ewing)
Subject: Masterpiece Theater
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:51:42 GMT

Just curious to see what everyone thinks about the
way the stories are handled by Masterpiece Theater.
or by who ever produced them.  Wodehouse's stories are
complicated and I could see were a writer, director, or
producer would want to tone them down a little. 
Masterpiece Theater took the plot from "The Mating Season"
and a couple other stories and mashed them together. It was
well done, but in the process some very funny moments and
plot progressions were left out.
Having read Wodehouse, I was disappointed by
the plots.  But I give the show a big righto.  Good 
atmosphere and detail. The acting is very good and enjoyable
to watch.  



Andy Ewing
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From: sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar)
Subject: The Dark Side of Wodehouse :-)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:40:59 GMT

On unusual Wodehouse books...  while the school stories (The White Feather,
The Head of Kay's, The Gold Bat, Mike at Wrykin (I think there's one more))
fall into a different class, they make enjoyable reading.

However, there has been one Wodehouse book that has no humour
whatsoever, and stands apart from all the others that I've read -
"The Coming of Bill" (a pre-quel (if such a word exists) to
"Bill the Conquerer"). Does anyone know about the background
behind this book?

He also wrote "Louder.. and Funnier," which (in my opinion)
may have been louder, but wasn't funnier. Are there any
others in this class?

Sachin

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From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: Wodehouse query
Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:24:57 GMT

shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
>One of the most hilarious moments in a Jeeves/Bertie book is when someone
>recites a parody of a romantic poem, in which the setting sun is compared
>in appearance to an overly rare slice of roast beef.

"Like a patient etherised upon a table" ?

( :-) for the old h. i.)
-- 
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The boneless fish close quaking lies...the stars in icicles arise!
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From: balajiv@boston ( )
Subject: Re: Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre
Organization: Fujitsu America Inc.
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:16:23 GMT

i'm glad to see this newsgroup at last.

Chris Meadows (cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: 
: Well, what I'm writing this post for is to mention the superb adap-
: tations of Wodehouse's Jeeves stories that are currently being shown
: on Masterpiece Theatre.  Starring Steven Fry as Jeeves, and Hugh

unfortunately, i do not share your enthusiasm for this series. i found
it boring, badly acted out and not funny at all. perhaps when i read
jeeves and bertie stories i conjure up an image of these two guys,
their expressions, their actions, etc., and they are certainly more
rib-tickling than this disappointing series. this is not to say my
perception is better, but only to say that the books are so much more
hilarious.

: Laurie as Bertie Wooster, this is one of the most comically irre-
: sistable shows I have ever seen.  Both Fry and Laurie play their
: parts to the hilt, Hugh Laurie especially.  He is so incredibly
: apt at expressions, especially those of horror when he inadvertantly
: encounters the dreaded Aunt Agatha.  And he plays the piano and 
: sings exactly the way I would have imagined Bertie Wooster to do so.
: 
: --
: Chris Meadows  | Robotech/RIFTS/Palladium fanfic author/editor                  
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