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But their byplay remains rather airless, except for Okonedo, Mackey and Thomas Bateman as Poirot’s hapless, vaguely Wodehousian pal.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

This delightful series applies a Wodehousian sensibility to the exploits of a group of young barristers specializing in tax law, as narrated by their history professor mentor, an individual whose gender is never identified.

From Slate • May 22, 2020

Via Skype from England, where the band is touring with the Kaiser Chiefs, Willgoose told me that the goal of the Wodehousian names and getups is to “maintain an air of mystery.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 24, 2015

“If I include a Wodehousian joke in my writing, am I alienated” from Indian realities?

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2011

The Atlantic has described the book as "a Wodehousian excursion that is lighter than air and twice as much fun as laughing gas."

From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max