Jeeves and Wooster - Puttin' On The Ritz

[KaptinScuzgob]

lord of the rings: replace frodo and sam with wooster & jeeves

how much hilarity ensues?

[BFBCFTW]

@KaptinScuzgob "I say Jeeves, I don't suppose you could take this bally ring to Mordor for me?"

"I'm sorry Sir, the code forbids me to intervene in matters of a mystical nature..."

[KatyHallow]

Don't worry, Hugh Laurie, I have a hard time keeping up with Irving Berlin too.

[TheRifleFlid33]

Jeeves' look from 0:37 - 0:39 Is like.... Wow, he really dosen't know what he's doing... silly silly man!

[ShmelevJr]

1 person failed to obtain the correct rhythmic pattern.

[PianoWizzy]

OMG. Jeeves' eyebrows. I'm in love. 0:33

[fRench1Girl]

Everytime I watch this video, I have the song running in my head all day long. The problem is I always lose the rythm and I have to come back here!

[MsSoundguy]

It's so wonderful to see these two together again. I always think about this series whenever one of them is mentioned. It was so much fun to watch J&W then, and it's wonderful watching clips now. Thank you.

[MissGrapeNehi]

No dislikes, I see. Very good, sir.

[KumagoroNugget]

With due expediency... putting on the regency...

[TheNinthDoctor]

Love this!

[silvermediastudio]

The brilliance of this bit goes far beyond the outstanding acting and wordplay. Here are two Brits, in a high-rise NYC penthouse, one from aristocracy, one who wedged himself into aristocracy, wrestling around a bit of music written during the height of the American (Colonial!) Great Depression, with allusions to poor black Harlemites and rhythmic patterns never before heard in popular music. The complexity of this study in social classes and contrasting yet converging culture is astounding.

[Lytton333]

@silvermediastudio And it's a jolly fun tune too dontchyaknow..

[vladimirlensky]

When I rehearsed this song, I had the same problem as that of Bertie. Even with the line "And umbrellas in their mitts." :)

Love Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry! And I think it's the greatest TV show and adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse' works.

[weirdlightsaber44]

I was singing this in a shop and then I bought Hugh Laurie's new CD. And I've never seen this show ever. Weird or what? O.O

[ScathingSarcasm]

Oh Jeeves... I would have my way with you. ;D

[bambibamboule]

With cheddar and stilton

Putting up the Hilton...

[missemmafromcanada]

@bambibamboule Whatever fad is in

Puttin' on the Radison...

[PianoWizzy]

God that song must be a pain to play. XD

[Shangas]

@PianoWizzy I play it. If you're not used to it, it can certainly trip you up. It can be even harder to sing it if you've never done that before. But it's a fun song to play. It's got a great bounce in it.

[jeffrey44]

Oh my God. It's House.

[MissTwiggy28]

Pleeeaaase i want a Jeeves so bad.! And he HAS to be Stephen, no-one else. Ever.

[666deadman1988]

I WANT A JEEVES!

[ned2350]

Jeeves knows everything!

[Automission42]

With due expediency, putting on the regency !

[britcrit09]

Love Jeeves' face at 0:36

[khaaaaansumating]

"This Irving Berlin fellow seems to have come up with a bit of a cropper."

[Ryoukawaii]

You and me both, Bertie.

[werfox666]

puttin' on the ritz.. looks at paper in discust.. aww <3 hugh's facial expressions

[Allyb1305]

Just brilliant!

[MaMaX5]

Both of them are marvelous and extremely talented actors (just look at their other works) Their roles in J&W are not the easiest one. Hugh keep the good charisma up while being absolute silly idiot, and Fry still being funny with almost no expression and only using few words to accomplish charisma, is not easy. Of course good directing and good story is putting it all together, but nobody could have the same supportive chemistry between them as Laurie and Fry have. Pure English quality!

[gospodinPipi]

objectively, Stephen Fry did played harder role in Jeeves & Wooster, but Hugh Laurie was also awsome

[togolynn]

@gospodinPipi But I always felt that Stephen didn't *quite* pull it off :). I mean, he was wonderful as Jeeves, obviously, but Hugh Laurie's Bertie was absolutely PERFECT. Well, that's my opinion anyway :)

[Orlabobz]

oh....Stephen's facial expressions are simply the best!! just look at him at 0.35 brilliant.

[guitarnashelter]

spending every dime,for a wonderful time! hugh did this part as if he was born to do it,and the same for fry, as grady put it in the shining...you have always been jeeves and wooster

[homao]

Doing this for drama ...working this in somehow

[polomintsaj]

Jeevs & Wooster is pure genius, try reading the books by PG Wodehouse, trust me you won't be able to put them down!

[darthvader22]

0 people missed the dislike button, nice.

[2504marcus]

classic, i think i will now spend an hour or two with my j and w dvds. watched them all so many times over and never get bored.

[KruegerLot]

If I was a character on the show I'd teach Bertie (Laurie) how to sing the song with glee. I know every word to every part of the song.

[FlippinBooks]

"Well, it more or LESS gets away with it, Jeeves." LOL!

Even though this was never in any of the stories, there's something so perfectly Wodehousian about Bertie and Jeeves discussing how they could improve an Irving Berlin song.

[Me7roiD]

@FlippinBooks Which is what made the series so great. A brilliant screenplay and splendid actors... Wodehouse would have loved it, all the more so considering how he didn't want to "sell out" his characters and let them be performed by actors. Fry & Laurie are brilliant, but the same goes for Clive Exton.

[principalbass]

It's not in 5/4, though....

[eringobragh91]

"With due expediency, sir?" Hahahaha :D

[EcirpWehttam]

i thought this was set in the mid thirties but as says the song is new it must be 1929...!

[elpanch0]

@EcirpWehttam i was thinking that the time is mixed up too, because in series 1 episode 1 bertie sings minnie the moocher, which is from 1931

i'm really confused nao

[nomie0999]

The perfect pair! Great clip!!

[kitticrase2]

It seems to be a reasonably straightforward syncapated five four time signature

xD

[joechuckyourtube]

@kitticrase2 syncopated is the spelling.

[kitticrase2]

@joechuckyourtube Thank you (I really can't spell)

[whitefalcon113]

lol.. Syncopated* ;)

[MrsDavidTennant26]

@kitticrase2 If you were to accent the words "if" "where" and "fashion" I think you'll find the correct rhythmic pattern will emerge

[RasMajnouni]

@kitticrase2 That intelligence of Jeeves could have made it big in business,art,music,sciences but then we wouldn't have a damn good ripping yarn.

[j0andc0]

"If you were to accent the words if, where and fashion, i think youll find the correct rhythmic pattern would emerge."

LOOL! Brilliant stuff.

[zomgthesoftness]

Wow, and to think (almost) 20 years later, he's cranky Dr. House!

[SmallFaerie]

Haha, I was looking for this clip just a week ago and couldn't find it. I was on the verge of trying to upload it myself and then you come along very timely and do it instead :) Thank you!!

Hugh Laurie really cracks me up as Wooster :D