Where to start with PG Wodehouse?

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There are so many! Do they have to be read in order within series and which are funnier? Any time I pick one at random it always ends up being the one about the cow-shaped creamer! 😂

I love the Blandings ones. Uncle Fred in the Springtime and Summer Lightening are good but I haven’t read them for ages. I like the Psmith ones too - especially the first (Mike and psmith??) when they are at school. The ones set in America are my least favourite- I like the butlers and the old country houses with pigs and aunts etc too much.

I started with The code of the Woosters so thats my favourite

Wodehouse Defies superlatives

Or this:

What ho!" I said.
"What ho!" said Motty.
"What ho! What ho!"
"What ho! What ho! What ho!"
After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

😀

May I put in a word for the Mr Mulliner stories?

One of them begins:

The conversation in the bar-parlour of the Anglers’ Rest had drifted round to the subject of the Arts: and somebody asked if that film-serial, “The Vicissitudes of Vera,” which they were showing down at the Bijou Dream, was worth seeing.
“It’s very good,” said Miss Postlethwaite, our courteous and efficient barmaid, who is a prominent first-nighter. “It’s about a mad professor who gets a girl into his toils and tries to turn her into a lobster.”
“Tries to turn her into a lobster?” echoed we, surprised.
“Yes, sir. Into a lobster. It seems he collected thousands and thousands of lobsters and mashed them up and boiled down the juice from their glands and was just going to inject it into Vera Dalrymple’s spinal column when Jack Frobisher broke into the house and stopped him.”
“Why did he do that?”
“Because he didn’t want the girl he loved to be turned into a lobster.”
“What we mean,” said we, “is why did the professor want to turn the girl into a lobster?”
“He had a grudge against her.”
This seemed plausible, and we thought it over for a while.

Makes me laugh every time I read it.

I did have the impression that every single Jeeves story features a silver cow-creamer.

I love them all!

Characters I love: Spode, Bingo, Anatole, Aunts Dahlia and Agatha,

The audio versions with Michael Horden as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Wooster are fab too. I think it works better on radio than on tv.

This! Used to use it occasionally at work and was always chuffed when someone recognised it and smiled.