• By Jeeves premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round in Scarborough on 4th September 1995. It opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on 2nd July 1996 and moved to the Lyric on 3rd October of that year.
• The show has been presented in several US cities and had a limited run at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway from 28th October 2001.
• A specially filmed video of the Pittsburg (and Broadway) production was filmed by Really Useful Films and is available on video and DVD
• Bertie Wooster is identified as the third and final incarnation of a character in early Wodehouse stories, which started with Reggie Pepper in 1911.
  
• Wooster appeared in seven stories which appeared in magazines between 1911 and 1915, four of which were then included in a collection, My Man Jeeves, published in 1919. Two of these four were subsequently rewritten as Bertie/Jeeves stories, one being included in Carry On, Jeeves in 1925 and the other in A Few Quick Ones in 1959.
  
• Jeeves first appeared in 1915, speaking just two innocuous sentences in the story Extricating Young Gussie, included in The Man With Two Left Feet (1917). His master in that story was Bertie Mannering-Phipps, and the story saw the introduction of Bertie's Fearsome Aunt Agatha. With occasional exceptions, such as when he resigned because of Bertie Wooster's banjo playing, or when he was 'lent' to Lord Rowcester while Bertie was at college, learning how to look after himself in the event of a revolution, Jeeves remained loyal to Bertie Wooster thereafter.

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