I stand corrected (it’s been a couple of years since I read the book).
So Stephen Fry is gay? No, serious question. A lot of straight guys come off as gay just like a lot of gay guys come off as straight. And I haven’t read any of his bios.
Well, as long as Hugh Laurie is straight (he is isn’t he???). Oh those blue eyes!
(Damn, why can’t he really be in Princeton.)
Just to confirm that Stephen is gay
Just to confirm that Hugh is straight but unavailable.
"In my case, when I was born I remember looking back up at my mother and saying, ‘That’s the last time I’m going up one of those!’
Yeah I guess you can’t get much gayer than that.
Shame about Hugh Laurie…I suppose I could go out to LA and seduce him while his wife is 6000 miles away 
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(And for the record I think he does a very respectable American accent, not the flat, nasel Midwestern accent most British resort to.)
I thought his ability to correct Bertie’s music was meant to indicate that his vast knowledge encompasses virtually every field. Rather like the Professor on Gilligan’s Island.
I heartily second the recommendation to watch and, if possible, to buy the DVDs. The setting and general characterizations were done beautifully. I only have a couple of reservations. In a couple of spots the producers took plot liberties that I think were beyond all reason. In one spot, B & J escape pursuers by jumping off an ocean liner in the middle of the Atlantic, and the presumably row home to England. At the end of the episode, this was “justified” by the presenter, at the end, as a typical, nonsensical Wodehouse plot resolution, when nothing could have been further from the truth. Wodehouse always slaved over his plots and they almost always made perfect sense at the end, with no untied ends. My other complaint is that over several years, several separate sets of episodes were produced, and few if any of the same supporting actors were brought back to play the recurring characters. IMO this hurt continuity and gave me the impression the producers didn’t care all that much.
Which turned out to be two of my three reservations!
And, I believe these were shown on Masterpiece Theatre during the host transition, so the early ones were presented by Alistair Cooke and the later ones by Russell Baker. I don’t know which one tried that lame justification, but my money’s on Baker.
I just started watching this series via Netflix, and it’s hilarious! I plan to buy the whole series for my mom for Mother’s Day or her birthday, as she gets a kick out of them too.
Just the first few minutes of the first ep., with Wooster gagging after a night of debauchery and unable to speak until Jeeves pours him a remedy, left me in fits of laughter.
Can’t wait to watch all the rest.
I thought the early shows were perfect, but by the end (any of the episodes that take place in America) they were getting rather bad. I own them all, but I’d recommend renting instead of buying.
I read the books ages ago and always thought the songs were made up. I was suprised to find one of the songs in my mom’s sheet music.
Perhaps having sex with a woman and going to prison were just research for his later portrayal of Oscar Wilde? 
Just as a note, Wodehouse ended up living in America after World War II and many of the Wooster stories actually were set in New York. So the show wasn’t taking any liberties with regard to that. However, I did find the fake American accents of the British actors to be quite bad.