Looking for a source

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Hello all -- lurker and newish Wodehouse fan checking in, with a request for a cite.

I'm trying to find the original source for where Stephen Fry said, "A sort of Jooster. 'Why take two Wodehouse characters into the shower when you can just Jooster and go?'" (Thanks to innocentsmith for providing the quote.) Any leads would be helpful.

(This is in relation to someone asking Hugh Laurie about House/Wilson on "Inside the Actor's Studio" last night. I'm hoping to make a point to a friend who was somewhat appalled by the question even coming up at all. XD)

Thanks!

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Splendid to meet you OLD HORSE!

[finmagik.livejournal.com]

Well, but some characterws have already been in the shower together, you have to share a shower in boarding school. Still welcome, I'm the resident bag lady. Have fun, read slash, enjoy the lovely fan art. And ignore me, I'm a pest.

Re: Splendid to meet you OLD HORSE!

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks!

[notatracer.livejournal.com]

I do have the entire quote, but not the source at the moment. However, both he and Hugh wrote Wodehouse articles so I'm thinking that it came from that. Of, course, I can find Hugh's but not Stephen's. Hopefully someone will have it.

Also - If she's appalled over H/W, you should show her any number of the A Bit Of Fry & Laurie sketches in which they mention sleeping together. Or, The Crystal Cube because, well, *points to icon*. ^_____^


I'm certainly not adroit, efficient, neat, quiet on my feet and respectful like Jeeves. On the other hand, I do tend to remember quotations and regurgitate facts like him. I attempt the sunniness of disposition of Bertie Wooster, but can't achieve thesame altruism and sweetness of nature. A mongrel hybrid of both, I suppose. A sort of Jooster. Why take two Wodehouse characters into the shower, when you can simply Jooster And Go?

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

I did point her to the sketch where Stephen is being interrogated by Hugh and goes into rapturous praises of his beauty. ^_^

[notatracer.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Censored Sketch with...

Stephen: And then the sketch ends with us going to bed together…
Hugh: …violently.
Stephen: Extremely violently. Now, this raises problems.
Hugh: Not for me.
Stephen: Me neither…


Or, perhaps, even the whole love and soul mates talk they consistently do in interviews about each other.
The point is, as Derien said, Hugh would be the last person to be offended by someone asking about one of his characters being in a gay relationship.

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Indeed. And I'm given to understand that his response was essentially, "I'm game, if Robert Sean Leonard is."

I think my friend is mostly dismayed by the intrusion of slash into a discussion of Acting. :)

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Ooh, likewise. XD

(Project Runway addict from hell here. If I had more dubious!Tim Gunn images to pull from, there'd be a lot more than just that one.)

[fryphile.livejournal.com]

This is where I first read about the ancient and reverred practice of Joostering.

http://www.hatsharpening.com/j&w/quotes.php

[weaselwoman13.livejournal.com]

Your icon is illegal in several states for its obscene sultriness.

[fryphile.livejournal.com]

Obscene Sultriness is my porn name.

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Ahh, superb. Thank you!

[derien.livejournal.com]

Hm, yeah, I'd second the vote of showing her some "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" eps. Or just letting her know that Hugh Laurie has a Looong history of playing around with queer implications. He wouldn't be offended by the reporter asking that question. Didn't he bring it up himself a couple of days ago in a different interview?

Hm, yeah, I'm note sure what the show was (it was abreviated as 'NOTA' - peak_in_darien, what is that?), but here's the quote:

Interviewer: "So it's been said that the show isn't going to go into any particular pairing, because they want to keep the interest of all the viewers. True?"

Hugh Laurie: "Right now? The most plausible is probably House and Wilson..."

Interviewer: "..."

Hugh Laurie: "We'll probably have to make out or something."

Robert Sean Leonard: "I wouldn't mind."

[derien.livejournal.com]

*slaps herself in the head for dorkyness* Nota wasn't an abreviation for a show! Nota was an abreviation for notatracer! I'm such an idiot. I hadn't read far enough.

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha ... excellent. ^_^ I've already cited a F&L sketch or two, but that interview bit is superb.

[magegirl8.livejournal.com]

The interview can be found at the hat sharpening shop of http://www.hatsharpening.com/j&w/.
The interview can be found at the quotes section, which is found within the television section. The url of said quotes section is http://www.hatsharpening.com/j&w/quotes.php.

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Thanks!