Anybody here know who Gussie Fink-Nottle is?

Question

How about Barmy Phoengie-Phipps?

Hint: Jeeves rules.

Once again, I was looking for people who actually know and care what I am talking about. Don't really need any cut&paste jobs from wikipedia or whatever.

Answer 1

Jeeves and Wooster!!!
Jeeves and Wooster!!!

I confess, I have only read three of the P.G. Wodehouse novels, but I was a huge fan of the BBC series starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. Watching those movies, I learned it is possible to laugh so hard you physically HURT. But what fun.

Answer 2

Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle is a fictional character who appears in several of P. G. Wodehouse's novels. A lifelong friend of Bertie Wooster, he is "a teetotal bachelor with a face like a fish", wears horn-rimmed spectacles, and devotes his life to the study of newts; his odd behavior is reminiscent of a person with Asperger syndrome.

Gussie met Bertie at Malvern House Preparatory School, where they were schoolmates; growing up, he took up residence in a remote part of Lincolnshire to pursue his beloved newt studies. When, in Right Ho, Jeeves, he first sees Madeline Bassett, he falls immediately in love with her; however, too shy to tell her himself, he convinces Bertie to break the news for him. Madeline misunderstands Bertie, thinking that he loves her and is trying to tell her indirectly, and when, later in the book, she becomes engaged to Gussie, she promises to marry Bertie if ever Gussie leaves her. Consequently, Bertie spends a great deal of time keeping Gussie engaged to Madeline. Interestingly, in the TV series, both Gussie and Madeline have lisps.
See Wikipedia,

I assume the latter is a Wodehouse creation as well!