Bertie Wooster

about Blanding's Castle? Well, I'm just saying...

Bertie Wooster? Yeah.

Jeeves? No.

No. No.

excellent now it's all down to the questions Your first call-it question in the category of Birds of a Feather.

Before starring as a Sherlock Holmesian title character, what British actor played the dim-witted aristocrat Bertie Wooster opposite Stephen Fry's Jeeves?

Oh.

Oh.

It all comes down to the gauntlet.

Back to the top question.

Number one, before starring as a Sherlock Holmesian title character, what British actor played the dim-witted aristocrat Bertie Wooster opposite Stephen Fry's Jeeves? Let's see.

Jonathan, Adam, and Joe, what'd you say?

Hmm.

It's Bertie Wooster against the apocalypse.

No, no, that was Hardwick's first character.

Yeah, sorry.

Mr. Fred Stone? Not absolutely.

As a matter of fact, my name is Wooster, Bertie Wooster.

She seemed disappointed.

The fine old name of Wooster appeared to mean nothing in her life.

Isn't Rock Metzler home? she said.

Where is he? She had me with the first shot.

It certainly did seem as if she had lost a bit of the zest with which she had started out to explore Broadway.

She looked as if she had been thinking a good deal about rather unpleasant things.

He could be described as a dilettante detective, an amateur who only solves crimes occasionally as a hobby.

He went to Oxford, plays cricket, drives a 1924 Daimler, loves good food and wine, and in appearance is somewhat like P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster with a foolish face.

But unlike Bertie, a sharp brain when it comes to solving crimes.

In the detective novels of the 1920s and '30s, the reader is taken into the exclusive genteel world of house parties, country weekends, tennis, country walks, dutiful servants, and dinner parties where all is rational, balanced, symmetrical, and therefore more devastatingly shocked and rocked when a crime intrudes.

Simon describes him as a parody of a less talented younger brother.

He's Bertie Wooster.

There was a slight element of-

Yeah

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

But there's one way in which he most certainly is not Bertie Wooster.

Yeah.