July 24, 2023 - Bertie Wooster: Am I wrong in thinking that all little girls are hard-bitten thugs of the worst description? Jeeves: Your definition is sadly near the truth, sir.

January 25, 2025 - Charlotte Deverill: Is it about tennis, perhaps? Dame Daphne Winkworth: I don't care for jokes about tennis. Harriet Deverill: No, its subject is about tennis... The old ladies begin to argue about the joke. Bertie: Jeeves, that is brilliant! Why didn't I think of that? Jeeves: I couldn't say, sir.

November 19, 2023 - When I re-opened them [...] I beheld ... instinct told me was small, serviceable, and made of India-rubber. "I coshed the officer, sir," said Jeeves respectfully....

October 22, 2025 - Jeeves: No, sir, but he would consequently sustain a severe shock were you to inform him that you and Miss Byng were betrothed and anxious to be united in matrimonial bliss. Stiffy: He'd hit the ceiling! Jeeves: Exactly, miss. A very colourful piece of imagery. If you were then to assure your uncle that there was no truth in Mr. Wooster's statement, adding that you were in actual fact betrothed to Mr.

December 6, 2025 - He is perhaps best known as the author of the ‘Jeeves’ stories which later became a British TV comedy series starring Stephen Fry as Jeeves, the Valet and Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, the employer. Jeeves extricates Wooster from every societal misadventure that the rich young man blunders into. Bertie: “There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, ‘Do trousers matter?'” Jeeves: “The mood will pass, sir.” ― The Code of the Woosters –

Mr. Wooster I'd like you to meet my husband, Mr. Worple. Bertie: Husband? Huh! What rot! [repeated word, at the end of virtually every line spoken by Jeeves throughout the series] Jeeves: ...Sir.

March 16, 2026 - Wooster: A bally swindler! Jeeves: That would perhaps be a more precise description, sir.

April 22, 2026 - Wooster? He's not at home, sir. I'm Jeeves. [pause] What do you mean 'you think not?' [pause] Oh! [He hangs up.] Bertie: Who was it? Barmy: Jeeves! Used later on a Brick Joke. In an earlier episode, Bertie had pretended to be a writer of romance novels under the pseudonym "Rosie M.

June 17, 2021 - Here’s how P.G. Wodehouse frames this exact joke: “There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea-boots.” · See what he did there?

He hints that the matter is urgent, and sends his regards." "Yes, that is how I read it. But why football boots?" "Perhaps Mr. Glossop wishes to play football, sir.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! tags: bertie-wooster, football, humor, jeeves, jeeves-and-wooster, message, telegram

June 26, 2009 - Of course, until recently, this was a gentleman’s alarm clock, judging by the usage of “sir.” Yet now there is a female version available, also voiced by Stephen Fry as Jeeves, and it does all the same things as the gentleman’s clock, yet instead it uses “madam” instead of “sir.” To quote from Voco, “The Voco Alarm will lure a lady from her secret recesses with the sound of gentle birdsong.

December 14, 2011 - Jeeves: I have forgotten, sir. But it was opprobrious. Accidental Proposal: The Jeeves books are made of Accidental Engagements. Add to that the fact that it takes Bertie a long time to finally realize he's happier as a bachelor. Aesop Amnesia: Wooster has yet to learn Jeeves is ALWAYS right concerning his wardrobe, despite nearly every story ending with his recognizing Jeeves was right.

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July 8, 2019 - While those are more or less faithful, while modernized, Jeeves and Wooster stories, Wake Up, Sir! is bawdier and boozier than the Wodehouse stories, and centered around Jewish identity, writing, and sex.

"'Has he brought it yet,' sir?" "Just that." "I should reach the conclusion that the lady was expecting a male acquaintance to have arrived or to be arriving shortly bearing some unidentified object.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen · tags: humor, jeeves, jeeves-and-wooster, library, questions

June 4, 2024 - "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit" has a plot "as full of curves as a scenic railway". It includes some of Wodehouse's funniest scenes ever.

Mr. Wooster I'd like you to meet my husband, Mr. Worple. Bertie: Husband? Huh! What rot! Bertie: Well, I shall see you at Phillipi. [repeated word, at the end of virtually every line spoken by Jeeves throughout the series] Jeeves: ...Sir.

September 27, 2022 - The story presents a rare instance ... actual joke, which he does while pretending to be a broker's man. Claiming that Bertie is financially dependent on Aunt Dahlia and that she would send Bertie to Canada if she discovered his debts, Jeeves says, "Should she learn of my official status, I do not like to envisage the outcome, though if I may venture on a pleasantry, it would be a case of outgo rather than outcome for Mr. Wooster"...

It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor - and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves ... “How does he look, Jeeves?" "Sir?" "What does Mr Bassington-Bassington look like?"

"Bertie!" cried the Wickham, contorted with anguish and apprehension and what not. "Yes, I shall." "Then you'll simply ruin the whole thing." "I don't care. We Woosters have our pride." "Perhaps the young gentleman will not notice that you have a face like a fish, sir," suggested Jeeves.