# Humor/satire of the 1950s and 1960s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comedian-jokes\ **Created:** [October 28, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humor-satire-of-the-1950s-and-1960s/1009348 "2024-10-28T13:33:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 60
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humor-satire-of-the-1950s-and-1960s/1009348/60 "2024-10-29T22:22:37Z")
Regarding the length of Wodehouse’s writing career, I’ll remind people of this thread I started more than 20 years ago (!) that establishes that he wrote about Jeeves and Wooster over a span of 58 years and Lord Emsworth over 60! > [@Who is the longest "lived" fictional character](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-longest-lived-fictional-character/234587): > > I’ve just gotten back into P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, and I noticed with some surprise that the first Jeeves story appeared in 1916 and the last was written (or at least begun) in 1974, for a “lifespan” of 58 years. I think this is a record. Does anyone know of another fictional character who was written about by the original author over a longer period? I think we can rule out most, if not all, of the juvenile series like Tom Swift, Nancy Drew, etc., since I believe they wer… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humor-satire-of-the-1950s-and-1960s/1009348)._