@MegaDratsab It's interesting when you consider that Woodehouse purposely set his stories in a time where the war wasn't happening (WWI or WWII) - it's been a while since I read them, but I think they were purposely not mentioned.
This is too funny! Strangely invigorating! Gee, I miss PG Wodehouse stories. Also wish Hugh would take time off from House and do some absolutely barmy British stuff with Fry again. Sigh...
Although I prefer Fry & Laurie's version of Jeeves and Wooster, I would like to be able to see the earlier version with Ian Carmichael. Do you know if it is available? I have had a look but didn't see any sign of it.
@1938gwen Have you heard the gypsy jazz gents Django Reinhardt & Spephane Grapelli's version with Freddy Taylor on vocals? I find it extremely... Invigorating sir. It's my favorite version of Nagasaki by lightyears! Perhaps you'll like it too.
I read all the PG Wodehouse stories back in the 90s. It brings to mind the golden age between wars when Britain was worry free and people like Bertie could be forever children... Don't read too much into it. It's a fairy tale for FUCKS sake. Enjoy the stories for what they are.
I love Jeeves moving backwards and forwards in the background, and he's so sweet when he gives that little shake of his head. Love both Jeeves and Wooster.
Cute, cute clip! I just loved Jeeves' head-shaking - one can just hear him thinking, 'what am I gonna do with you, kid?'. ;) The astoundingly talented Hugh Laurie does a wonderful job playiing Bertie, really letting us see how the character is 'so much sunshine to the square inch'.
Not like that atall atall over here. Still looking for a girl to 'Wicky Wacky Woo' with! As for chewing 'tobaccy' well ...
Hugh Laurie. What can I say? The perfect Bertie Wooster for ever. Why is he slumming it in the US? Come on England! Don't you recognise a national treasure when you see one? Come to think of it you treated PG Wodehouse in much the same way.
@olearysgrave There was a reason for that; he lived in occupied France, where all his expenses were found by the Gestapo for the duration of WW2. He seems to have been "a-political", but he made some ambiguous radio broadcasts at the request of the Nazis, yet refused to use his position to aid the allies in any way. In fact what he wanted was to be kept nicely and left alone - which doesn't go down well when a country has spent six years half-starved and bombed, fighting for it's survival;
I've never seen anyone as multi-talented as Hugh Laurie. Love to watch him singing, playing the piano and guitar, acting in comedies and dramas alike. He's got an amazing range of singing styles too: English music hall, Blues, jazz, rock. When you add that he's a writer, well...damn. I'm in awe. And jealous too, lol.
Stephen Fry has Jeeves so perfectly spot on, precisely how Wodehouse writes him. The look he gives Bertie suggests that it is only staunch feudal propriety which is preventing him from substituting the words "Wooster you're an utter fool." (Although he'd say it with fondness of course.)
Yknow, maybe I'm totally naive but I always just figured that this song's from an era when people loved to write very light, silly "nonsense" type songs. I just figured the writing process went something like "huh, Nagasaki, that's an awesome word! Let's write a song about it!" Yknow, similar to "San Domingo... rhymes with... hmmmm... aha! Oh By Jingo!" ;) It always struck me as more of a silly wordplay song than anything else. Most songs, even nowadays, are about getting girls, no?
aw thanks :D sheet music from the early part of the century is equally silly, esp those written btwn c1905 and c1920, largely bc they were originally from music-hall comedies. Theres one about Mary Queen of Scots that's hilarious, and another about a French girl called "And She'd Sing Oo-La-La-Wee-Wee." Given these & others, it's kind of hard to take Nagasaki seriously. Orientalism is def lurking about there somewhere, but they seem to be experimenting with words and sound more than concepts.
Remember, the Interbellum Era was one of trying to forget the horrors of the Great War, trying to avoid the effects of the Depression, and trying to ignore creeping Totalitarianism (e.g., Fascism, Socialism, etc.).
The point of most British Music Hall tunes (and Tin Pan Alley tunes) was to shock and delight, and to capitalise on ever-widening distribution networks for sheet music and 78s.
To apply modern standards to the period is to betray a bewildering naivete, if not an outright ignorance.
The producers of this series nicely integrated period music hall tunes into the episodes. I cannot think of more than a few instances of real-life tunes being mentioned in Wodehouse's novels and short stories. (There were a number of invented titles, however.)
To even bother with discussions of the (marginal, at best) Capitalist/Western-centric/exploitative/racist aspects of this tune, in light of what's passed for music, post-WWII, is to misdirect one's considerable talent for over-reaction.
i love how while i normal person would have been rolling their eyes jeeves just wanders around the kitchen obviously trying to be patient, jeeves undercurrents of emotion are great compared to berties sort of gentle little kid cheerfulness
Love it, I need to get my Jeeves and Wooster DVDs back.
(Not meaning to start another argument but just getting my tuppence'orth in. Surely this song is simply about the sex trade in general. Just because it happens to be a sex trade which isn't in your country doesn't make it racist...surely!?)
Years (centuries, really) before it was known as a site of the second use of atomic weapons, Nagasaki was best known as the most outward-tolerant part of Japan---they even allowed Dutch foreigners to live close by on an island! It was where Edo-period merchants got 'hold of eye-glass lenses, Western ("Dutch") books, and the odd illegal gun.
All a long-winded way of saying that up until the 'Forties, Nagasaki was exactly the sort of place a Western sailor might have been to and known about.
you might want to read 'In Defence of PG Wodehouse' by George Orwell. He was a boyish, naive product of the Edwardian Era. One of the very few such creatures who survived the Great War.
I book my HOLIDAYS in Britain, thank you very much.
Jeeves was disgusted by a lot of things in the books and the TV series, I don't think Wodehouse ever intended to portray him as the perfect human being or for his reaction to Bertie singing Nagasaki to be mimicked by any Canadians, clever or stupid.
T/Canadian, you do realise that the song "Nagasaki" is nearly 90 years old, right? Things were very different back then. I wouldn't be complaining. And I think it's a wonderful song.
If you **don't realize that a song written just under a century ago is about "going where those Yellow People are to get some sex for hire from those folks without Good Christian Values" is racist.
You're either:
a. stupid.
b. racist.
c. a sex trade aficionado (nothing wrong with sex or sex for hire, just the freaks who go to foreign lands to do it on the cheap for near-slavery conditions or out of fear of getting caught.)
a: I don't give a monkeys for 'good christian values'
b: I don't give a monkeys about the song. Written by a North American was'nt it? The charachter of Bertie was enamoured by modern (then) American things, Jazz and 'pop'culture. But he was an innocent. And PG Wodehouse was an innocent. You are not!
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racist, without a regard for the feelings of anyone, but a puerile desire to engage in racist little ditties & a terror of being called out on it
"oh its a FICTIONAL CLASSIC about an INNOCENT" Yeah, from a culture that STILL BURNS CHURCHES & calls a black Presidential candidate a 'muslim terrorist'
nice culture you emulate
pull your head out & take a look at what you "innocently enjoy" as an 'innocent"
You're not innocent, you're a racist who simply snivels about people noticing
I thought Jeeves doesn't like any of the music, not just this song. And what have the Canadians ever done to get rid of racism? Ever fight a war? Destroy slave empires? Write any convincing material on the subject? Ever deal with it? Your country is as homogeneous as 2% milk.
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apparently, you suffer from 'tragically uninformed' disease.
What you don't know about Canada's multiculturalism & that the US 'underground railroad' was TO CANADA ... says more about the sad nationalism inherent in the American educational system.
The British Empire outlawed slavery decades before the US bothered to care. Slaves ran North, to Canada, because American 'slaver catchers' sneaked over & brought them back from the Northern States.
What do you know about what this scene means? You evidently have very little understanding of P.G.Wodehouse, or culture in general. Racism doesn't even come into it. It's people like you that help to spread REAL racism by obsessing over every little possible insensitive remark. Pathetic, pretentious, posturing fool.
I absolutely agree; well said. People need to get over this "victim" stance and stop looking for things that "offend" them. Indeed the right to be offensive is a right vigourously to be defended. For an even better version of this song, look into the 1933 recording made by Henry Red Allen & Coleman Hawkins.
I suppose thats your opinion when anybody tries giving you some sense.
I hope you are aware, that you are viewing the world through a very heavy and jaded lens, a lens which was created only recently. You now attempt to use this lens to disrupt and entire history of happenings.
You really shouldnt call everyone who disagrees with you a racist or sexist. Spewing out words like that with illogical reasoning (how does disagreeing with your arguments imply racist or sexist sentiments?) undermines the actual, serious implications of the accusations, as well as the terrible and irrational intent and mindset of real racists.
Now this is really quite amusing! Your calling me ignorant without knowing anything at all about me just about brought a smile on my face. Firstly, I rather like having my opinions under close scrutiny because it often prompts debate, which I am rather fond of because it promotes freedom of speech. To paraphrase the opinions of François Voltaire: I might not agree with what youre saying, but Ill fight to death for your right to say it.
Secondly, racism is never cute! Dont ever say that!
Without really understandning why I would need to calm down -- I rather thought myself to be fairly calm and collected (but please correct me if I'm wrong) -- I applaud you! Finally a voice of reason ... and I rather think I will take your advice to heart! =)
Darling, please stop putting words in my mouth. I never said I was amusing, nor did I profess any love for the song "Nagasaki". I do, however, massively enjoy "Jeeves and Wooster", and Hugh Laurie's and Stephen Fry's performances are hilarious. I assume you think so too, or else you probably wouldn't have watched the clip in the first place.
And, while I fear I may be repeating myself; racism is never - never - cute. Please don't say that, even in jest.
"let me reiterate: the other dimwits can go play this little ditty their Asian friends & see how 'funny' & 'charming' they think it is."
Speaking AS an ASIAN, I must say that I'm not the least bit offended by this song. No, I'm not Japanese, but no, I'm not upset, disgusted or angered by this song. In fact I'd be pretty damn happy if I could play it as good as Bertie there can. I think it's cute, but not offensive. Just ignorant. "Nagasaki" reflected white views of Japan in the 20s.
Well, I have an Asian in my house, my wife of ten years, and she finds this song amusing. She likes the melody very much, and, well, the lyrics are just purely cartoonish. They don't represent much except some Tin Pan Alley wit. It's like a 1920s Sunday funny cartoon, and, if something so innocuous offends you, then you must be a truly fragile little creature who's unsuited for much of the cruelties of life.
Besides, Harry Warren was a hell of a song writer.
Point one: this song was written in the 20s, when things were different. Do you think shows set in that era should be altered to be historically innaccurate because you're not smart enough to accept things that happened before your time?
Secondly, people like you totally devalue the word racism by using it constantly, thusly watering it down for when REAL racism is shown.
Hot ginger and dynamite There's nothing but that at night. Back in Nagasaki where the fellers chew tobaccy And the women wicky wacky woo. The way they can entertain Would hurry a hurricane.
In Fujiyama you get a mommer And your troubles increase. In some pagoda she orders soda The earth shakes milk shakes ten cents a piece. They kissee and huggee nice By jingo it's worth the price.
Hugh was always a wonderfully talented pianist and singer, but Stephen's nuances make him all the more adorable! It's impossible to choose one over the other, so why try... They're both *gorgeous*, especially in this video!
I almost spat my drink at the way Stephen glides past the doorway at 0:27, especially when he walks backwards. The head-shaking is a classic too. Aww, you gotta love Jeeves, how could anyone have argued against Stephen playing him? He's perfect
with good reason. he's singing about off-shore sex tourism.
there's nothing wrong with sex... or selling it... but its just a demeaning song about 'those folks who don't know better' than to have 'good old Western values'.
God, this was hilarious!
McGrottomaster 1 month ago
Its funny now that WWII is over. Poor Nagasaki.
MegaDratsab 3 months ago
@MegaDratsab It's interesting when you consider that Woodehouse purposely set his stories in a time where the war wasn't happening (WWI or WWII) - it's been a while since I read them, but I think they were purposely not mentioned.
Zelli52 2 months ago
lol at jeeves just casually walking past the door XD idk y that cracked me up so much XD
thereddragon95 4 months ago
This is too funny! Strangely invigorating! Gee, I miss PG Wodehouse stories. Also wish Hugh would take time off from House and do some absolutely barmy British stuff with Fry again. Sigh...
fansinatra 5 months ago 4
"extremely invigorating" lolol
schnisha95 7 months ago
Although I prefer Fry & Laurie's version of Jeeves and Wooster, I would like to be able to see the earlier version with Ian Carmichael. Do you know if it is available? I have had a look but didn't see any sign of it.
1938gwen 8 months ago
@1938gwen Have you heard the gypsy jazz gents Django Reinhardt & Spephane Grapelli's version with Freddy Taylor on vocals? I find it extremely... Invigorating sir. It's my favorite version of Nagasaki by lightyears! Perhaps you'll like it too.
LassieRF 7 months ago
Sunny Disposish all, it's a comedy remember we're meant to laugh! The books are hilarious too check'em out!
enigmaticveil 9 months ago
@666deadman1988 No, just no. Nobody else could do Jeeves and Wooster but Fry and Laurie;)
MissTwiggy28 10 months ago 7
I think Mitchell and Webb could do a great 'Jeeves and Wooster'.
666deadman1988 10 months ago
Most disturbing.
CatAtomic99 11 months ago
@CatAtomic99
How?
felixjazzage 11 months ago
extreamly...(think)... invigurating sir. <3 the little head tip to the side thing :) you just have to love hugh and stephen!!!!
werfox666 1 year ago 5
4 people don't understand English humour
TheArtemZ 1 year ago 6
@TheArtemZ English humor is the best. Either laugh or fuck off. And if you don't fuck off, then put up, or shut up. Stop complaining. It's FUNNY.
The best kind of humor in the world.
Shangas 10 months ago 5
That's dissapointing... I thought he was gonna sing it real fast, this version's got nothin on cab calloway or whoever sang it for django
busessuck1 1 year ago
Nagasaki now sadly famous for something a little bit different.
Slapbass13 1 year ago 8
hahahaha, i love jeeves shaking his head at 1:19 :D i adore jeeves & wooster!!
amnesiacsmuzak 1 year ago 2
It is just fun!
All of the books by Wodehouse are whimsical, they don't actually amount to anything. They are not trying to 'say' anything.
They are just fun to read, and are so beautifully written.
So, to use a modern expression the Wodehouse would have deplored, get over yourself.
avril2 1 year ago 6
How is this racist? He's singing a goofy song about life in an exotic port town.
yorktown99 1 year ago 5
poor old jeeves " extremely invigorating sir!!"
2504marcus 1 year ago
@2504marcus If I remember right, he adds something like: "it makes one want to take a walk in the park."
jamesaugusta 1 year ago 3
Not to say that Niven didnt do a good Bertie Wooster but, the old films kinda destroyed the Wodehouse stories...
Surfbat45 1 year ago
I read all the PG Wodehouse stories back in the 90s. It brings to mind the golden age between wars when Britain was worry free and people like Bertie could be forever children... Don't read too much into it. It's a fairy tale for FUCKS sake. Enjoy the stories for what they are.
Surfbat45 1 year ago 7
comedy perfection.
2504marcus 1 year ago
I love Jeeves moving backwards and forwards in the background, and he's so sweet when he gives that little shake of his head. Love both Jeeves and Wooster.
sparkeythehamster 1 year ago 4
I have the sheet music for Nagasaki. If anyone wants it just send me a message with your email address :-)
crazypianolady 1 year ago 3
@crazypianolady
'd love it.
SmokeyTheWarrior 1 year ago
I wish he'd done the whole song. I've heard a couple of other recordings of this tune and this little piece was the most fun of the bunch. :D
CatAtomic99 1 year ago
i love woosters eye when he try to read the teks :D
phantomnanden 1 year ago
Cute, cute clip! I just loved Jeeves' head-shaking - one can just hear him thinking, 'what am I gonna do with you, kid?'. ;) The astoundingly talented Hugh Laurie does a wonderful job playiing Bertie, really letting us see how the character is 'so much sunshine to the square inch'.
oceandawn26 1 year ago
@oceandawn26 Kid!!??Jeeves does not use "Kid"
holmsatlarge 1 year ago
Haha, I wish I could sight-read like Bertie. XD
Goodness, these two are hilarious. One of the best comedy duos around.
eringobragh91 1 year ago 17
love Jeeves's looks while Bertie is singing))
ejeevika 2 years ago 13
Me too haha :] @ 0:28
SmartiesLikesTurtles 2 years ago 3
I wonder if the "earth shakes, milk shakes, ten cents a piece," was a reference to the 1923 Tokyo earthquake?
I know the song was written for tin pan alley in the 20s.
royko22 2 years ago 2
a bit strange to hear this song after 1945...
spiderlime 2 years ago
they kissie and huggie nice
xD
kitticrase2 2 years ago 8
Most invigorating, Sir.
avril2 2 years ago 5
Anyone else familiar with the Ian Carmichael(Bertie) Dennis Price(Jeeves) older version?
holmsiantype 2 years ago
"Extremely, invigorating, sir." lol. Great scene.
j0andc0 2 years ago
Not like that atall atall over here. Still looking for a girl to 'Wicky Wacky Woo' with! As for chewing 'tobaccy' well ...
Hugh Laurie. What can I say? The perfect Bertie Wooster for ever. Why is he slumming it in the US? Come on England! Don't you recognise a national treasure when you see one? Come to think of it you treated PG Wodehouse in much the same way.
olearysgrave 2 years ago 12
@olearysgrave There was a reason for that; he lived in occupied France, where all his expenses were found by the Gestapo for the duration of WW2. He seems to have been "a-political", but he made some ambiguous radio broadcasts at the request of the Nazis, yet refused to use his position to aid the allies in any way. In fact what he wanted was to be kept nicely and left alone - which doesn't go down well when a country has spent six years half-starved and bombed, fighting for it's survival;
TheBelovedButterfly 1 year ago
Does anyone know where I could get this sheet music from for Nagasaki? I just love it :)
crazypianolady 2 years ago
you better act you age
or wind up in a cage
back in nagasaki
men chew tobbaci a
and women were wacky woo
1:09-1:12 was jeeves singing lol .
60sto80s2 2 years ago
I've never seen anyone as multi-talented as Hugh Laurie. Love to watch him singing, playing the piano and guitar, acting in comedies and dramas alike. He's got an amazing range of singing styles too: English music hall, Blues, jazz, rock. When you add that he's a writer, well...damn. I'm in awe. And jealous too, lol.
LivyToo 2 years ago 9
Rowing blue, too.
avril2 2 years ago
Stephen Fry has Jeeves so perfectly spot on, precisely how Wodehouse writes him. The look he gives Bertie suggests that it is only staunch feudal propriety which is preventing him from substituting the words "Wooster you're an utter fool." (Although he'd say it with fondness of course.)
I LOVE this!
VenusInRetrograde 2 years ago 9
Jeeves (Stephen) looks so cute!
=]...yep i'm attracted to him!
JennylovesMJ 2 years ago 7
you missed the best part!! Wooster says,"Makes you wanna go for a run in the park!" And , with a classic "look," Jeeves repies,"I quite agree, sir."
Gosh it's so English, so Hilarious! ARGH! POst that next 5 seconds!
PTCello 2 years ago 9
Oh my gosh! Look at 1:20 - Jeeves walking by, shaking his head in dismay. Best part ever.
saytheremeg 2 years ago 3
This truncated version is from the song "Nagasaki" by Harry Warren.He literally wrote dozens of hits, but few know his name.
From "42nd Street" to "I only Have Eyes For You" to "That's Amore"!
Get to know this great American song writer. You'll be amazed at his output.
ipmoic 2 years ago 2
HOW did they get that to look like 1952 Technicolor?
robcat2075 2 years ago
Yknow, maybe I'm totally naive but I always just figured that this song's from an era when people loved to write very light, silly "nonsense" type songs. I just figured the writing process went something like "huh, Nagasaki, that's an awesome word! Let's write a song about it!" Yknow, similar to "San Domingo... rhymes with... hmmmm... aha! Oh By Jingo!" ;) It always struck me as more of a silly wordplay song than anything else. Most songs, even nowadays, are about getting girls, no?
Callithyia 2 years ago 5
You've written the only intelligent comment on either side of this silly debate. Thank you.
LivyToo 2 years ago
aw thanks :D sheet music from the early part of the century is equally silly, esp those written btwn c1905 and c1920, largely bc they were originally from music-hall comedies. Theres one about Mary Queen of Scots that's hilarious, and another about a French girl called "And She'd Sing Oo-La-La-Wee-Wee." Given these & others, it's kind of hard to take Nagasaki seriously. Orientalism is def lurking about there somewhere, but they seem to be experimenting with words and sound more than concepts.
Callithyia 2 years ago 3
Remember, the Interbellum Era was one of trying to forget the horrors of the Great War, trying to avoid the effects of the Depression, and trying to ignore creeping Totalitarianism (e.g., Fascism, Socialism, etc.).
The point of most British Music Hall tunes (and Tin Pan Alley tunes) was to shock and delight, and to capitalise on ever-widening distribution networks for sheet music and 78s.
To apply modern standards to the period is to betray a bewildering naivete, if not an outright ignorance.
peregrinusnoctis 2 years ago 5
The producers of this series nicely integrated period music hall tunes into the episodes. I cannot think of more than a few instances of real-life tunes being mentioned in Wodehouse's novels and short stories. (There were a number of invented titles, however.)
To even bother with discussions of the (marginal, at best) Capitalist/Western-centric/exploitative/racist aspects of this tune, in light of what's passed for music, post-WWII, is to misdirect one's considerable talent for over-reaction.
peregrinusnoctis 2 years ago 3
Not bad song. Funny!!!
Modetator 2 years ago
Thank u=) my english is awful. But I wanted to say exactly the same=))
norfnorfnorf 2 years ago
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I believe Jeeves was trying to say nicely "I'm one more note away from shoving that piano in your mouth.sir."
Ebrithil89 2 years ago
I absolutely adore this scene. So funny, especially Jeeves shaking his head in exasperation.
LadyAryun 2 years ago 74
@LadyAryun yea, Hugh Laurie as Bertie is great. Much better than the old 1930s version with David Niven
Surfbat45 1 year ago
@Surfbat45
Ian Carmichael and Dennis Price were very good too.
avril2 1 year ago
@avril2 They were very good, but their performances don't seem to be available.
1938gwen 1 year ago
I had this song stuck in my head for days.
Love Hugh Laurie's jazzy style when he sings this! Very catchy. Very sweet.
wolfxbloed 2 years ago 9
i love how while i normal person would have been rolling their eyes jeeves just wanders around the kitchen obviously trying to be patient, jeeves undercurrents of emotion are great compared to berties sort of gentle little kid cheerfulness
iamajimmy 2 years ago 6
So true.
ignorantpom 3 years ago
grow up its just a song
Bluequotations 3 years ago 2
extremely invigorative! ))
SchrodingerCatAlive 3 years ago
I wish I could play the piano as brilliant as Berty does! :)))
SchrodingerCatAlive 3 years ago 10
It isnt about the sex trade at all, it is not even really about Japan, it is about Americans perceptions of the exotic and 'olden times'.
countesslilla 3 years ago 7
Love it, I need to get my Jeeves and Wooster DVDs back.
(Not meaning to start another argument but just getting my tuppence'orth in. Surely this song is simply about the sex trade in general. Just because it happens to be a sex trade which isn't in your country doesn't make it racist...surely!?)
Penardun 3 years ago 4
wicky wacky woo - ;p
GonnaRideForever 3 years ago 5
I say, if you don't like it, Don't watch it.
giffiggles 3 years ago 3
Hugh has a really smoothing and sexy voice. Sing, Hugh, sing! You should sing more!
pumkinoa 3 years ago 2
Years (centuries, really) before it was known as a site of the second use of atomic weapons, Nagasaki was best known as the most outward-tolerant part of Japan---they even allowed Dutch foreigners to live close by on an island! It was where Edo-period merchants got 'hold of eye-glass lenses, Western ("Dutch") books, and the odd illegal gun.
All a long-winded way of saying that up until the 'Forties, Nagasaki was exactly the sort of place a Western sailor might have been to and known about.
mturynP 3 years ago
Back in Nagasaki where the fellows chew tobacci and the women wicky wacky woo!
stfudonnie 3 years ago 11
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That's so fucking *inappropriate*...
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
Why?
VauxhallViva1975 3 years ago
Why?
VauxhallViva1975 3 years ago
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its about sex tourism with demeaning descriptions of 'those little yellow people' ...
its just... ew.
imagine if white folks wrote something like that about blacks?
"hey, you wanna go down where those brown people are? they do crass things & their women do that good ol' 'wackie woo'... "
yuck. that's just a cute OLD racist song.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
get over it! it's P. G Wodehouse
Paperclip2000 3 years ago
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I think you might wish to read the original...
Its amazing what liberties are taken by media when converting books... many readers notice those differences.
Its Dixon & Warren who wrote the song in 1928, not Wodehouse.
The point of the *video* is that Jeeves was disgusted.
You aren't.
Of course, it would be a *shame* to believe that cultural sensitivity could *improve* over 80 years.
nah. who wants THAT? So, tell us, where do you book YOUR vacations?
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
Get over yourself!. I live PG Wodehouse.
you might want to read 'In Defence of PG Wodehouse' by George Orwell. He was a boyish, naive product of the Edwardian Era. One of the very few such creatures who survived the Great War.
I book my HOLIDAYS in Britain, thank you very much.
Paperclip2000 3 years ago 3
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you're an idiot.
You might wish to learn the difference between Wodehouse & a tv show.
You might want to try travelling more. it broadens the mind.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
Jeeves was disgusted by a lot of things in the books and the TV series, I don't think Wodehouse ever intended to portray him as the perfect human being or for his reaction to Bertie singing Nagasaki to be mimicked by any Canadians, clever or stupid.
JacquesBrel11 3 years ago 4
This may sound stupid, but what do the Canadians have to do with this?
outkastedchoir787 3 years ago 3
User I was arguing with is called ThisCanadian
JacquesBrel11 3 years ago
Oh I see, well he does sound like an ass.
outkastedchoir787 3 years ago 3
Jeeves was never disgusted, he wouldn't have allowed that.
He did, however, strongly disapprove of the lowering of standards. A quite different thing altogether.
Quite rightly.
Pip pip
stillavril 2 years ago 3
T/Canadian, you do realise that the song "Nagasaki" is nearly 90 years old, right? Things were very different back then. I wouldn't be complaining. And I think it's a wonderful song.
Shangas 2 years ago 4
"Extremely invigorating..." Hahahaha! X-D
bankorama 3 years ago 5
hahah they're both so cute
thetaijutsumaster 3 years ago 7
Oh JEEVES!........
singinginachurch 3 years ago 9
Stephen is DEVASTATING in that outfit! *sigh*
phemyda94 3 years ago 22
oh yes, OH YES !!! I think he is insanely cute when he does Jeeves
girl43 3 years ago 13
"You have to act your own age"
The message is lost on Bertie.
youvebeenthunderstru 3 years ago 24
Agreed!
singinginachurch 3 years ago 5
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apparently, the Period racism inherent in this song about off-shore sex trade workers is lost on many of the Modern adaptation's audience.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
why don't you stop spamming up this lovely video with your self righteous priggery and go obssess over race and racism somewhere else.
Paperclip2000 3 years ago
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racist...
you're a racist. admit it, & you might have a chance to do something about it.
complaining that OTHER people NOTICE your racism, is simply pathetic.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
How am I racist?
I'm waiting....
Paperclip2000 3 years ago
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I explained it several times.
Lemme try for the last time, LoserBoy.
If you **don't realize that a song written just under a century ago is about "going where those Yellow People are to get some sex for hire from those folks without Good Christian Values" is racist.
You're either:
a. stupid.
b. racist.
c. a sex trade aficionado (nothing wrong with sex or sex for hire, just the freaks who go to foreign lands to do it on the cheap for near-slavery conditions or out of fear of getting caught.)
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
a: I don't give a monkeys for 'good christian values'
b: I don't give a monkeys about the song. Written by a North American was'nt it? The charachter of Bertie was enamoured by modern (then) American things, Jazz and 'pop'culture. But he was an innocent. And PG Wodehouse was an innocent. You are not!
C: don't be so disgusting!
Paperclip2000 3 years ago 2
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racist, without a regard for the feelings of anyone, but a puerile desire to engage in racist little ditties & a terror of being called out on it
"oh its a FICTIONAL CLASSIC about an INNOCENT" Yeah, from a culture that STILL BURNS CHURCHES & calls a black Presidential candidate a 'muslim terrorist'
nice culture you emulate
pull your head out & take a look at what you "innocently enjoy" as an 'innocent"
You're not innocent, you're a racist who simply snivels about people noticing
we see YOU
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
freak! Some old Candian man obsessed with the sex trade posting anonymously on the internet does not scare me! As if!
p.s I don't care about North America. It (mostly) sucks balls.
Paperclip2000 3 years ago
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PS your parents engaged in sex (unless you're a test-tube baby)
get over it.
People engage in the sextrade.
get over it.
People notice you're a racist for 'justifying' your racist enjoyments.
get over it or STOP WORSHIPPING THE SEXIST LITTLE DITTY AS A 'CLASSIC' engaged in by a 'an innocent fictional character'.
THE FREAKING POINT OF THE SCENE IS THAT JEEVES IS DISGUSTED BY THE RACIST SONG.
apparently, YOU aren't.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
What a tirade! I love the works of PG wodehouse. I love Hugh Grant and Stephen Fry. I love English things. Thats it!
I don't care about the flipping 'sex trade'. You seem more than a little obsessed with it!
I think you need to see someone.
Paperclip2000 3 years ago
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ah, you're sexist too.
Well, this WOMAN doesn't talk to sexist, racist fuckups like you.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
Well this GIRL does not wish to engage with old pervs like you.
Paperclip2000 3 years ago 2
You really are an idiot aren't you ThisCanadian?
You probably also think the show should be burned and taken off you tube for having an episode with black minstrels.
God forbid a show be historically accurate.
Christ, have you ever noticed that in life, no one likes being around you?
Well I'll tell you why, it's because all you do is spew forth self righteous nonsense.
trisiti 3 years ago 8
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racist.
There are ignorant racists, then there are willful ones... then the ones who think if it looks old & cute ... it can't *really* be racism.
which one are you?
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
wow such arguments! i agree with trisiti and paperclip2000.
1 this was set when?come on it is historical. know your history
2 it's just a show and the characters are not racist and probably neither was the song's writer
3 i rather hope you are not one of those people who scream when the "n" word is used but is alright with rap songs that are racist against whites
4 come on! u gotta love this clip! look at jeeves' face!
PS i am not a racist.
kstarquasar1 3 years ago 10
For gods sake, shut your hole.
It's not racist, it's from the book, at a time where this was not considered racist!
Stop looking back on the entire history with your jaded liberal glasses. Life is not how it is now, and especially not as how you see it.
trisiti 3 years ago 8
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"shut your hole"
I suppose that's your opinion when ANYBODY voices dissent or object to your racist opinions.
enjoy your racism... its a lovely trait to pass to your family & community...
have you thought of putting more bleach in your sheets, might get that gasoline smell & blood out better.
The point of the scene is that Jeeves knows Bertie is a fuckwit singing a racist song...
apparently, you're as clued in as a character written decades ago.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
I thought Jeeves doesn't like any of the music, not just this song. And what have the Canadians ever done to get rid of racism? Ever fight a war? Destroy slave empires? Write any convincing material on the subject? Ever deal with it? Your country is as homogeneous as 2% milk.
PhilintheBlank1 3 years ago
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apparently, you suffer from 'tragically uninformed' disease.
What you don't know about Canada's multiculturalism & that the US 'underground railroad' was TO CANADA ... says more about the sad nationalism inherent in the American educational system.
The British Empire outlawed slavery decades before the US bothered to care. Slaves ran North, to Canada, because American 'slaver catchers' sneaked over & brought them back from the Northern States.
do your homework. you embarrass yourself.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
What do you know about what this scene means? You evidently have very little understanding of P.G.Wodehouse, or culture in general. Racism doesn't even come into it. It's people like you that help to spread REAL racism by obsessing over every little possible insensitive remark. Pathetic, pretentious, posturing fool.
countvoncount13 2 years ago 156
Thankyou! =)
Mokurentate 2 years ago 3
I absolutely agree; well said. People need to get over this "victim" stance and stop looking for things that "offend" them. Indeed the right to be offensive is a right vigourously to be defended. For an even better version of this song, look into the 1933 recording made by Henry Red Allen & Coleman Hawkins.
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2504marcus 1 year ago
"Bitch bitch bitch..."
I suppose thats your opinion when anybody tries giving you some sense.
I hope you are aware, that you are viewing the world through a very heavy and jaded lens, a lens which was created only recently. You now attempt to use this lens to disrupt and entire history of happenings.
The Greeks? Fuck them, they were racist.
Romans? Same,
Germans? Scrap everything, Wagner too.
French?
Goes on forever.
Stop crying over nonsense.
trisiti 3 years ago 3
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enjoy your racism, apparently... LOGIC & compassion have no part of your existence.
you'd better hope there aren't any asians in your RETIREMENT HOME CARE
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
To ThisCanadian,
You really shouldnt call everyone who disagrees with you a racist or sexist. Spewing out words like that with illogical reasoning (how does disagreeing with your arguments imply racist or sexist sentiments?) undermines the actual, serious implications of the accusations, as well as the terrible and irrational intent and mindset of real racists.
Catheria 3 years ago 4
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ah, you don't like people putting a magnifying glass on you, so it must be untrue?
funny. it can be CUTE racism & still be racism. sorry you're too ignorant to notice.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
Now this is really quite amusing! Your calling me ignorant without knowing anything at all about me just about brought a smile on my face. Firstly, I rather like having my opinions under close scrutiny because it often prompts debate, which I am rather fond of because it promotes freedom of speech. To paraphrase the opinions of François Voltaire: I might not agree with what youre saying, but Ill fight to death for your right to say it.
Secondly, racism is never cute! Dont ever say that!
Catheria 3 years ago
Just calm down and enjoy Hugh singing.
femaledrhouse 3 years ago 12
Without really understandning why I would need to calm down -- I rather thought myself to be fairly calm and collected (but please correct me if I'm wrong) -- I applaud you! Finally a voice of reason ... and I rather think I will take your advice to heart! =)
Catheria 3 years ago
I meant everyone needed to calm down and just enjoy the music! :D
femaledrhouse 3 years ago 4
I know that -- which is why I did... (Enjoy the music.) =)
Catheria 3 years ago 3
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THIS is cute racism & you're really hopped up to DEFEND LIKING IT.
so there. who is amusing?
NOT YOU.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
Darling, please stop putting words in my mouth. I never said I was amusing, nor did I profess any love for the song "Nagasaki". I do, however, massively enjoy "Jeeves and Wooster", and Hugh Laurie's and Stephen Fry's performances are hilarious. I assume you think so too, or else you probably wouldn't have watched the clip in the first place.
And, while I fear I may be repeating myself; racism is never - never - cute. Please don't say that, even in jest.
Catheria 3 years ago 8
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then we're in agreement.
I was calling it 'cute racism because the other f*ckwits seemed to think singing about sex was charming.
let me reiterate: the other dimwits can go play this little ditty their Asian friends & see how 'funny' & 'charming' they think it is.
I found the video because our radio station was looking for the audio to make a political point by playing it.
That people were enraptured by its 'charm' made me sick that people can be so stupidly racist & not even know it.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
Play nice
suzimae 3 years ago 4
This song is from the 20's. If you intended to make a political point by playing it, I can only say that it mustn't have been a very topical point.
PheatherP 3 years ago 7
"let me reiterate: the other dimwits can go play this little ditty their Asian friends & see how 'funny' & 'charming' they think it is."
Speaking AS an ASIAN, I must say that I'm not the least bit offended by this song. No, I'm not Japanese, but no, I'm not upset, disgusted or angered by this song. In fact I'd be pretty damn happy if I could play it as good as Bertie there can. I think it's cute, but not offensive. Just ignorant. "Nagasaki" reflected white views of Japan in the 20s.
Shangas 2 years ago 12
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Hoo, rou rwant some wrice rwith that? -_-
ignorantpom 3 years ago
"you'd better hope there aren't any asians in your RETIREMENT HOME CARE "
Why? They steal from non-racists too you know.
As for the rest of what you say, Pure blithering rot.
trisiti 3 years ago
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PSST:
so you think Asians are THIEVES, do you?
ah, the racism oozes from every pore off you.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago
@ThisCanadian
Well, I have an Asian in my house, my wife of ten years, and she finds this song amusing. She likes the melody very much, and, well, the lyrics are just purely cartoonish. They don't represent much except some Tin Pan Alley wit. It's like a 1920s Sunday funny cartoon, and, if something so innocuous offends you, then you must be a truly fragile little creature who's unsuited for much of the cruelties of life.
Besides, Harry Warren was a hell of a song writer.
felixjazzage 11 months ago 9
Point one: this song was written in the 20s, when things were different. Do you think shows set in that era should be altered to be historically innaccurate because you're not smart enough to accept things that happened before your time?
Secondly, people like you totally devalue the word racism by using it constantly, thusly watering it down for when REAL racism is shown.
You clearly need a real problem in your life.
Oreztar 2 years ago 2
Hot ginger and dynamite There's nothing but that at night. Back in Nagasaki where the fellers chew tobaccy And the women wicky wacky woo. The way they can entertain Would hurry a hurricane.
In Fujiyama you get a mommer And your troubles increase. In some pagoda she orders soda The earth shakes milk shakes ten cents a piece. They kissee and huggee nice By jingo it's worth the price.
jahangiro 2 years ago
Hugh was always a wonderfully talented pianist and singer, but Stephen's nuances make him all the more adorable! It's impossible to choose one over the other, so why try... They're both *gorgeous*, especially in this video!
honeyeyedpixie 4 years ago 22
I almost spat my drink at the way Stephen glides past the doorway at 0:27, especially when he walks backwards. The head-shaking is a classic too. Aww, you gotta love Jeeves, how could anyone have argued against Stephen playing him? He's perfect
filmreelgoblin2006 4 years ago 29
I agree! It's just that in the books Jeeves is older.
Soreto 4 years ago 3
I know but it's a shame that people get so hung up on details, isn't it?
Damnn, this song is stuck in my head now. Just like Oh By Jingo was yesterday.
filmreelgoblin2006 4 years ago 6
Amen. When I first saw Jeeves shake his head in exasperation, I almost fell in the floor. It's classic.
ael5292 3 years ago 9
They should use this as an advert for Youtube Youtube - hmm. Bingo says it's ok - i'll just go a bit further and see...Ha ha!!
HEV29 4 years ago
The best song in all of the Jeeves and Woosters' series. Brilliant lyrics.
VyseSuliman 4 years ago
Ooh! One of my all-time favourites. This and Minnie the Moocher.
I love Laurie's version much better than the full fast tempo one but that's a given. :D
madmax0r 4 years ago 2
Love this song. So nice to see a real cutie playing the piano!! x
stickym12 4 years ago
and he can make noises with his mouth that sound precisely like a trumpet (or trombone tc... i'm not great with sounds of instruments)
Russell642 4 years ago 3
I played this so much until my sister, not a HL fan could sing it in her sleep. Luuuv it! Thanks.
crypowell 4 years ago
Now this lyric is stuck in my head!!!!
KAT65 4 years ago
Hugh Laurie plays guitar, keyboards, sings, acts and writes! He is a total renaissance man.
KAT65 4 years ago 3
Stephen Fry is so handsome *swoons*
BellaBlack87 5 years ago 5
he's so charming... can't resist!
blackcat355 4 years ago 3
I Love Hugh he has such a beautiful voice !!
kathy12041990 5 years ago
I agree .. classic English voice from the '20s and '30s
burnt62 4 years ago
Ive yet to see him sing a song not involving the words "oh by jingo"
emaorjsa 5 years ago
There is nothing more appealing to me than a man who can play the piano and sing well. oh and he's a cutie, too, i guess that helps :P
darkblue1987 5 years ago 4
and electric guitar
and acoustic guitar
and slide guitar
and harmonica
and possibly a stick with a rubberband tied to it
jerrysaries328 4 years ago 5
LOL!
Shangas 2 years ago
he has a great voice...
svirginiak 5 years ago
^ i know. he's great! thanks for uploading :D
darkblue1987 5 years ago
I love listening to Hugh sing. He is so awesome.
Rachy91 5 years ago 2
I agree ! ..Total English talent !!!
burnt62 5 years ago
Bertie's such a cutie and Jeeves is so wonderfully dissapproving of his choice of music. :)
gaffsie 5 years ago 7
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with good reason. he's singing about off-shore sex tourism.
there's nothing wrong with sex... or selling it... but its just a demeaning song about 'those folks who don't know better' than to have 'good old Western values'.
ThisCanadian 3 years ago