Posted on 09/04/2009 7:01:03 AM PDT by Reaganesque
If the producer didn't know anything about Laurie's past, that makes him the dumbest producer in Hollyweird. Laurie is not exactly an unknown. The question then is: how many more Hollyweird producers are thoroughly blank about the world outside their little bubble?
Funny.
Get some of the Blackadder dvds starring Rowan Atkinson. Laurie co-stars in the last two series. His role as the royal prince is the best part of the second series.
My goodness, he cleans up nicely. He doesn’t look anywhere near so, uh, depraved and miserable as he does on TV, and he’s 15 years younger than I thought he was!
You are absolutely right. I have enjoyed Wodehouse since grade school, and when I finally saw the Jeeves and Wooster TV shows, Hugh Laurie was Bertie Wooster exactly as I had pictured him.
In my opinion, though, Stephen Fry was not quite as good in the role of Jeeves. Fry and Laurie were a great team, but Fry as Jeeves always seemed to be smirking a bit, which Jeeves would never have been seen to do.
Blackadder was funny. I liked Red Dwarf as well.
This was great ... and I love House!!
Hilarious! He was also great in the Black Adder series.
I never saw Hugh Laurie’s version of Bertie Wooster. Does the production have MY favorite Wodhouse character, Roderick Spode (and his “Black Shorts”).
Yes, Fry did do a good job portraying Jeeves; he was not quite as I had pictured the character when reading, is all.
You make a good point that Jeeves might have been smirking at Bertie without his being aware. Indeed, it would have been nearly impossible not to. I still maintain that Jeeves would never have been seen to smirk, but I suppose the camera wouldn’t count as a real observer.
One of my favorite exchanges is in “Episode of the Dog McIntosh”, when Bertie has predicted violence toward the Blumenfield child should he tell Bertie that Bertie has a face like a fish. Jeeves says (with a perfectly straight face, I am sure), “Perhaps the young gentleman will not notice that you have a face like a fish, sir,” to which Bertie replies, “Ah! There’s that, of course.” Cracks me up every time.
I have the complete set of Jeeves and Wooster. Roderick Spode is featured in several of the programs (along with his Black Shorts. British Knees!!)
Does anyone know if the Mr Mulliner programs that were broadcast 25-30 years ago on PBS are available? Those were the stories that got me involved in my love affair with PG Wodehouse.
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