The Divine Comedy of P.G. Wodehouse
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- PG Wodehouse is my favourite comic author, and I was delighted when the Spectator invited me to have a conversation about his books with Charles Moore, sometime Editor of the magazine. It was a warm, light-hearted conversation, which I like to think would have pleased the great writer himself. I hope you enjoy it too. And if you are a Wodehouse fan yourself, you might take a look at my own attempt to write a Jeeves story. It’s up on Substack and the title is “The Great Bus Mystery”.
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I adore P.G.Wodehouse! ❤ They never fail to cheer me up.
Fill your mind with P.G.Wodehouse, it will overcome intrusive negativity and unwanted shadows.
And your vocabulary and syntax will improve : )
P.G.Wodehouse ,a comic genius second to none!
Thank you. P.G. Wodehouse was in my parents' library in their flat in Buenos Aires. Whenever I was home from boarding school I would read them. His books still crowd my shelves today, and together with Mark Twain's writings, they are my favourites.
P. G. Wodehouse is an amazing author. I feel so lucky to have discovered him. Hopefully this video will encourage people to pick up one of his novels.
I discovered PG.Wodehouse long before ,having the financial means, and being a voracious reading I bought lots of his books and enjoyed them in 2006.
Wodehouse is a blessing. I've read 60 of his books thus far and intend to read all 99. I love the man. None better.
What's your favourite so far?
Wodehouse is the best of the best. Alway cheery and the language is bliss.
For me the very, very, very… BEST on RUclips is Trickynicky Marts. I have become addicted to his elegance, flair and sheer intelligence. Hours in the company of a delightful and cleverly self deprecating Bertie.
I've read about 40 PG Wodehouse books.
I can picture him laughing to himself when he wrote them as he makes up the situations and creates his metaphors.
Piccadilly Jim is my favourite, you think you might lose the plot of it when you read it because of its twists and turns and the false identity of the character, but his narratives are beautifully written to keep you in check.
A brilliant writer😊
Love P.G.Wodehouse!
A pleasure to listen to two enthusiasts discussing Wodehouse. I cannot, however, agree with Prof. Dawkins' recommendation of Stephen Fry's rendition of the stories. The actor with the ability, subtlety, intelligence and understanding to do real justice to Wodehouse's work is the sublime Jonathan Cecil. Listen to Fry and you hear Fry; listen to Cecil and you hear Wodehouse.
You are correct -- several excellent narrators have tackled Wodehouse (Fry, Jarvis, Lithgow, Davidson, etc.) and they all have their merits, but Cecil (for Wodehouse's work specifically) was the greatest.
Dawkins is referring to Jeeves being played by Fry in the TV show of the early 1990s. I agree with you that Fry is a more or less terrible reader compared to Cecil.
I adore Wodehouse and still re-read his novels and listen on Audible.
Love learning more about PGW!!
Fry and I are also fans of Georgette Heyer’s novels which some have described as a perfect blend of PGW and Jane Austen.
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That was so wonderful
I love Wodehouse, and am most relieved to hear the clarification about the Nazi allegation. Because of that, I always felt a slight guilt about enjoying him so much. Also now a bit ashamed I had not delved the allegation myself.
I discovered PG Wodehouse thanks to my roommate who was British. We used to read the novels to each other at night and laughed so hard that the upstairs neighbours would knock on the floor!
Who is conducting the interview? I don’t think we got an introduction.
She's called Lara Prendergast, an executive editor at The Spectator
John Alderton as Smallwood Bessemer in the Tangled Hearts episode of Wodehouse Playhouse (1975, or thereabouts) is laugh-out-loud funny. He outdoes Jerry Lewis at that kind of broad Jerry Lewis comedy. And when Esme (Sue Nicholls) takes after him with a golf club -- pure gold!
Beautiful, Gentlemen 👌🏽
Also, the best reader for the Blandings books was Nigel Lambert. His evocation of the Duke of Dunstable is fabulous.
Stephen Fry is good but supreme narrator of Wodehouse is Jonathan Cecil
I was about to say that. He's extraordinary.
I agree - Fry is an excellent writer and wit and many other things, but the greatest Wodehouse narrator is Cecil
I have never read a character that is so suited to an actor quite like Jeeves is suited to Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry is so-so on Jeeves/Wooster. You need to go with Jonathan Cecil for the best audiobooks.
To all lovers of PG Wodehouse, please listen to the audiobooks narrated by Jonathan Cecil, truly sublime.
Indeed.
I get a kick out of how Bertie will use a rather fancy word then digressively say, "if that is the word I want."
I don't exactly disagree with Mr. Dawkins viz the Jeeves and Wooster TV series, but I do enjoy them. Furthermore, they inspired me to read PGW's novels. It is true, however, that the scripts are a mash-up of scenes from Plum's stories. Found that out the hard way, after I began my reading. God bless you all. Peace.
پروفسور سلام اندیشه های شما تو ایران میان قشر روشنفکر نفوذ داره ولی زیرنویس فارسی در ترجمه خودکار وجود نداره و ما از ترجمه دیگر کانالهای atheist مطالب رو استخراج میکنیم که اغلب کلیپ ها برای مصاحبه های 8 تا ۶ سال پیش شماست و از برنامه های جدید شما زیرنویس فارسی در ترجمه خودکار وجود نداره میشه رسیدگی کنید برای مخاطبان فارسی ممنون پروفسور تا ما از علم شما بهره مند بشیم
I love Plum, I liked the TV versions of Jeeves and Wooster, it's almost impossible to put the books on the screen because the comedy is not always in the dialogue but in the writing.
I think Clive Exton did an admirable job of transposing the stories for TV, and Fry and Laurie were great as Jeeves and Bertie. (Exton also wrote many of the TV Poirot episodes)
I can't say the same for the attempt at doing the Blandings Stories those were awful.
They forget to mention the Golf omnibus.
Who was the young woman who was doing the interview? She has the most beautiful husky voice.
I love the blandings story’s.
You want some comedy, and wit, get that Penn Gillette guy, maybe even Lewis Black.
Don't stand up at all. I think you don't understand Wodehouse. Lewis Black's impression of George W. Bush demonstrating how little he cared about the U.S> people was great but most of the time he's just ranting about things that absolutely make sense if you learn a little.
PG Wodehouse is one of the greatest - and most perceptive - writers of any era. But as for far-right fanzine The Spectator … very disappointed that Richard has anything to do with it.
I'll have to check out this paper The Spectator. Sounds based!!
I know Roger Ebert, another erudite man of “The Left,” was also an avid reader of The Spectator
The Spectator is not far right, don't be silly. Unless you are far left of course....Then everything seems to be far right.
@@CaptainCuttle-mi5rt they’ve supported 14 years of industrial-scale corruption, incompetence and idiocy from a Conservative Party that’s run the UK into the ground (and put the son of a KGB agent into the House of Lords) - hence “far-right fanzine”.
What would your opinion be of someone who read both the Spectator and New Statesman ?.......Open minded ?
Emergency! The greatest knowledge is atheism is a logical fallacy that assumes God is the religious idea of the creator of the creation to conclude wrongly no creator exists because a particular idea of God doesn’t exist.
What does that have to do with Wodehouse.
The only logical fallacy here is yours. Atheism does not conclude that "no creator exists", it is the conclusion that there is insufficient evidence for the existence of a creator.
Nonsense
My "Creator"s are my Mother and Father. Plain and simple
The universe is a thought-form projected from the mind of God.