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200px Hugh Laurie (left) and Stephen Fry portray Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves

Jeeves and Wooster are the protagonists of a series of humorous stories and novels by P. G. Wodehouse. The series was never so called, but many of the stories and novels made reference to one name or the other. The pair comprised the wealthy, foppish Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Reginald Jeeves; like all of Wodehouse's male domestic servants, Jeeves is always known by his surname. Together they have become one of the best-known comic duo s in modern English literature. The stories and novels employ the same basic premise: Bertie or one of his friends becomes entangled in an unlikely and seemingly inextricable scenario, and is at his wits' end until Jeeves steps in to save the day.

Jeeves actually came before Wooster in Wodehouse's mind: he had long considered the idea of a butler who could solve every problem (who later became a valet). He created a character named Reggie Pepper , who was in all respects very much like Bertie but without Jeeves, and who featured in several stories; Wodehouse soon decided to rewrite all the Pepper stories, switching Reggie's character to Bertie Wooster and combining him with a genius of a valet. In his autobiographical Bring on the Girls! (written with Guy Bolton), Wodehouse suggests that Jeeves was based on an actual butler of his called Robinson, and recounts a story where Robinson extricated Wodehouse from a real-life predicament. Curiously enough, Jeeves made only a short appearance in the first Jeeves and Wooster short story (Extricating Young Gussie, 1917).

The Jeeves and Wooster canon was written over a huge period of time, between that 1917 debut and Wodehouse's final novel (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) in 1974. It consists of a dozen novels or collections of short stories, all but one story told in first-person from Bertie's point of view. However these are not written by him: they are merely accounts he made. The only writing he did was for his Aunt Dahlia's Milady's Boudoir. All exist in a timeless world based on an idealized version of England before World War II, and take place in three main locations: London, where Bertie has a flat and is a member of the raucous Drones Club; at various stately homes in the English countryside (most commonly Totleigh Towers); or in New York City and a few other locations in the U.S.

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