"To create one imperishable comic character is no small achievement. Robert McCrum holds that Wodehouse created five..."

FRIVOLOUS, EMPTY, AND PERFECTLY DELIGHTFUL

"To create one imperishable comic character is no small achievement. Robert McCrum holds that Wodehouse created five: Psmith, Lord Emsworth, Aunt Agatha, Bertie Wooster, and Jeeves. I would add as a sixth the irrepressible Galahad Threepwood, the younger brother of Lord Emsworth, an old boy who, during a relentlessly roguish youth, 'apparently never went to bed before he was fifty.'"