Jeeves & Wooster - We All Wear A Green Carnation
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2007
- There's something queer about the Drones Club boys...
The song is "We All Wear A Green Carnation" from 'Bitter Sweet,' an operetta by Noel Coward. 
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"I say! It's about time someone invented something better than the foxtrot!" the best J&W moment ever! Mating newt dance anyone?
Green carnations were a subtle 'signature' of homosexuals in late Victorian London. Wilde popularised the wearing of them. Noel Coward, though himself a homosexual, was actually lampooning rather than saluting the dandies of the 1890s with this number.
LYRICS:
Blasé boys are we
Exquisitely free
From the dreary and quite absurd
Moral views of the common herd
We like porphyry bowls
Chandeliers and stoles
We're most spirited, carefully filleted souls
Pretty boys, witty boys, too, too, too
Lazy to fight stagnation
Haughty boys, naughty boys, all we do
Is to pursue sensation
The portals of society are always open'd wide
The world our eccentricity condones
A lot of quaint variety we're certain to provide
We dress in very decorative tones
Faded boys, jaded boys, wormankind's
Gift to a bulldog nation
In order to distinguish us from less
enlightened minds
We all wear a green carnation
Pretty boys, witty boys, you may sneer
At our disintegration
Haughty boys, naughty boys, dear, dear, dear
Swooning with affectation
Our figures sleek and willowy
Our lips incarnadine
May worry the majority a bit
But matrons rich and billowy
Invite us out to dine
And revel in our phosphorescent wit
Faded boys, jaded boys, come what may
Art is our inspiration
And as we are the reason for the
nineties being gay
We all wear a green carnation
Theres a whole verse of lyrics missing I'm not sure where it is.
Neither am I.
Pretty boys, witty boys yearning for
Permanent adulation
Haughty boys, naughty boys
Every pore, bursting with self-inflation
We feel we’re rather Grecian
As our manners indicate
Our sense of moral values isn’t strong
For ultimate completion we shall
really have to wait
Until the day of judgment comes along
Until the day of judgment comes along
Faded boys, jaded boys
Each one craves
Some sort of soul salvation
But when we rise, reluctantly, but gracefully, from our graves
We all wear a green carnation
This 1929 song's double-entendre on the word gay is a remarkably early use of gay in its current meaning. From the '20's to the '60's it spread as a code word, understood only by people in the life. Here you see almost the birth of the term, brought to you by the incomparable Noel Coward.
EccentricaGallumbits as a member of the club it’s based upon, I can assure you it’s not a double entendre but a celebration of the absolute rebelliousness of the club in contrast to the other established gentleman’s clubs who only accept the top of the top, we are those who are the worst pupils a small amount away from expulsion or blackmailing our way into completion, I am proud to be a part of it
Love the Finknottle newt clip by "sensation" :D And the "morals" when pelting the policeman.
So cute. I love green carnations, and Wilde references, and Jeeves and Wooster, so quite a wonderful video!
I....love....you....so goddamn much. I almost died of the squee. And then I just quivered for a while. The end! The END! So spectacular!
It's at the end of "The Delayed Arrival," which is series 4, episode 4. Jeeves also dresses as a woman (and proceeds to flirt with D'arcy Cheesewright). It's classic!
It's about time someone came up with something better than the foxtrot!
That was a lovely song choice for the vid! :D
Oh, I know I'm female and living in the wrong era and not fictional, but I want to be a member of the Drones! It looks like such fun! I'm sure I have the required silliness, and what fun to hang out with Bertie and Gussie and Barmy and the rest! Sigh.
does anyone else think that Jeeves looked pretty as a girl?
yesssssss. But especially in the scene of that episode when he had his wig off. Guh!
Eggs, Beans, & Crumpets.
I wanted a green carnation to wear for my graduation, sadly it was not to be, but I can dream,eh? ;) 'Specially as what Wilde might call "that curious love of the green" gave me my dissertation subject
Now I am so curious about your dissertation subject which may be about Green! :) Pray Tell.
Found this video again, I think it's a gem! But I desperately want to download this song somewhere.
This is from a cast recording of Noel Coward's "Bitter Sweet" by the New Sadlers Wells Opera with Valerie Masterson. The cd is listed on Amazon. Don't know if you can download it anywhere, but that's the info you can use to search for it.
There is lots of great music in "Bitter Sweet," but the absolute best song is "If Love Were All." It's a real heartbreaker. There are two nice RUclips vids - one by Felicity Lott (a classic version) and another by the great Carmen McCrae (with her unique jazz take on it). It is said that it is Coward's most self-revealing song.
i got a gay vibe from bertie's twin cousins (also members of drones) in the first episode... they are sort of impish, fruity little truman capotes and one of them comments on how Jeeves is good-looking...just saying!
@oneil317 No idea, but it's from the musical "Bittersweet."
It is from Neil Coward's operetta "Bitter Sweet"
@nita2605 I agree absolutely.
They are doing the male newt mating dance. They just saw Gussie show Bertie what a male newt does during mating season. Oofy and Barmy, being the intellectuals they are, decided that Gussie was showing Bertie a cool new dance.
ahh! i see. well personally i wasnt aware of this, seeing as i dont have a maid (french or otherwise).
i see cheeseballhaggis has answered the ques as to which episde it was in
whihc was the episode where bertie dresses as fench maid - see 4.00
thanks old boy
whats with the moniker
themusicdr ‘‘tis but a charm old boy
Someone saying they "got a gay vibe" from Claude and Eustace is the understatement of the century. Eustace was *leering* at Jeeves the entire time they were in the apartment!
Oh, Drones boys. You're so cute the way you get engaged all the time.
One of my favorite things about the series is the Drones. They're... the type of friends I wish I had.
Excellent vid; thanks for sharing!
@oneil317
by Noel Coward
OMG, I was always wondering what does the English gentleman in their clubs. ROFL ^^^^^
@cheeseballhaggis
I say! It's about time someone came up with something better than the foxtrot!
This'll turn a few heads at Quag's, what?
Whhat is Gregory House doing there
sorry i dont understand?
While he is certaily dressed as a maid, I would dispute him being dressed as a french maid.
In the book "Sunset at Blandings" there is a reference to a publication called something like "The Real Drones Club"
Anyone read it? I assume the author was a mamber. Personally, I prefer the Pellican Club. Large, stupid birds with big mouths...
Actually, I am a heterosexual female, but it's nice to know that you discriminate against gay people. I know that the Drones are (probably) not gay, but that time period and those characters are quite humorous in my opinion. Sorry if it bothered you.
"But the mischief behind it is a suggestion that Bertie and the Drones were Wildean gays.
No, I'm afraid not."
Ah yes, but the humour lies therein. Of course (most of) the Drones weren't gay.
Sorry about the typo (I'll not point out yours... oops). If you'll direct your attention to the info near the upper right corner of your screen, you'll see that, though I didn't waste the amount of effort you did in creating the umlaut, I did spell the name correctly.
I apologize for failing to live up to your high standard of levels of "camp, effete sodomites." The issue here is that the Drones were not meant to be literally homosexual.
Settle down. It's a video on RUclips. Seriously.
'Heterosexual Haggis'? Now, that is a corker! I shall have to remember that!
keep dreaming for what? Gorgeous men not to be straight? Gay men dont have to dream - there are more than enough gay men who are totally gorgeous Let's not assume straight men have a monopoly on attractiveness!
A few decimetres to long of being french.