Right ho, Jeeves

While the Barsetshire novels are more domestic and romantic than Jeeves and Wooster's bachelor adventures (barring the occasional dreaded engagement), both funny series gently skewer British culture and society while offering offbeat but charming characters indulging in comic misadventures. -- Melissa Gray

These humorous series are lighthearted and upbeat. There's seldom anything worse to worry about than unwanted engagements, annoyed neighbors, and misadventures which the protagonists get out of almost as easily as they get into them. -- Melissa Gray -- Krista Biggs

The droll, England-based Jeeves and Wooster series, starring an upper-class gentleman, and the witty, Paris-based Paul West novels, featuring a middle-class British businessman, follow the humorous misadventures of young, heedless bachelors teetering on the edge of social disaster. -- Mike Nilsson

Though Arthur Less' adventures are a fair bit more bittersweet and complex than the breezy and gentle exploits of Jeeves and Wooster, both of these amusing series find farcical humor in the relationships between people. -- Stephen Ashley

Chronicling the misadventures of a daft English toff (Bertie Wooster) and a hapless RAF pilot (Bartholomew Bandy), these humorous tales poke fun at social mores and romance. Both series are long on wit, though Jeeves and Wooster is more upbeat. -- Mike Nilsson

While the Patrick Melrose novels are darkly amusing and the Jeeves and Wooster novels are farcical and upbeat, both series are concerned with the uniquely comic behavior of the British upper class. Each stars an unexpectedly likeable protagonist. -- Mike Nilsson

Where the Man at the Helm novels focus on 1970s village life and the Jeeves and Wooster series focuses on the upper class in the 1920s and 1930s, these very English comedies feature eccentric characters, dry wit, and preposterous social mishaps. -- Mike Nilsson

These series have the appeal factors funny and wordplay-filled, and they have the genres "humorous stories" and "gentle reads"; and the subjects "misadventures," "butlers," and "jeeves (fictitious character)."

These series have the appeal factors funny, and they have the genres "humorous stories" and "gentle reads"; and the subjects "misadventures" and "single men."

Douglas Adams, a fervent admirer of P.G. Wodehouse, created similarly witty, irreverent, and elegantly written humorous fiction, though he employed this style in thoughtful and absurd science fiction. Both authors were adept at satirizing society through vivid analogies and clever witticisms. -- Derek Keyser

Satirical humor is the hallmark of both P.G. Wodehouse and Martin Amis. Their comedic forays combine wordplay, slapstick, and serious observations about social class, modern life, and in Amis's case, the deterioration of contemporary culture. Though Amis can veer into the grotesque, he and Wodehouse are equally stylish and witty. -- Mike Nilsson

British writers P.G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis used comedy to explore their respective generations' rigid social stratification; Wodehouse skewered the aristocracy while Kingsley Amis attacked the world of the effete intellectual. Both effectively combined satire, slapstick, and wit to make their point through wordplay and, at times, sheer silliness. -- Mike Nilsson

These humor writers are known for the scathing wit and elegant prose they employ to satirize British social class and cultural mores. Though Stephen Fry is more modern in the sense that he addresses sexual orientation and drug addiction, both he and P.G. Wodehouse are charmingly irreverent and outright silly. -- Mike Nilsson

These authors' works have the appeal factors offbeat and well-crafted dialogue, and they have the genres "humorous stories" and "gentle reads"; and the subjects "misadventures," "butlers," and "jeeves (fictitious character)."

These authors' works have the appeal factors funny and offbeat, and they have the genre "humorous stories"; and the subjects "misadventures," "upper class," and "rich people."

These authors' works have the appeal factors funny, offbeat, and well-crafted dialogue, and they have the genres "humorous stories" and "gentle reads"; and the subject "misadventures."

These authors' works have the appeal factors offbeat and well-crafted dialogue, and they have the genre "humorous stories"; the subjects "misadventures," "upper class," and "rich people"; and characters that are "exaggerated characters."

These authors' works have the appeal factors funny, offbeat, and well-crafted dialogue, and they have the genre "humorous stories"; and the subjects "misadventures" and "single men."

These authors' works have the appeal factors offbeat, and they have the genre "humorous stories"; and the subject "misadventures."

These authors' works have the appeal factors funny, upbeat, and well-crafted dialogue, and they have the subjects "misadventures," "rich people," and "wealth."

These authors' works have the appeal factors funny, upbeat, and well-crafted dialogue, and they have the genre "humorous stories"; and the subject "misadventures."